Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 2

The Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 2 was the second edition of the Junior EuroMusic Song Contest. The EBU choosed Malta as host country with the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta.

Croatia won this edition with 109 points. It was their first victory in a EuoMusic event. Greece finished at the second place and Russia ended third.

Location
Different as in the adult version, the previous winners isn't automatically the next hosting country. All participating countries were able to send a bid for host this edition.

Russia, who won the previous edition, announced that they where currently not interested in organising this edition. Croatia said aswel that they where not planning to host the second edition.

Stockholm, Valletta and Zurich were presented as candidate host citties. However The Hague, in The Netherlands, was interested aswel, they where not able to find a suitable venue.

Host city

The EBU announced that Valletta was choosen as host city. This was the first time that Valletta hosted a EuroMusic event. Malta, however, has already organized the EuroMusic Song Contest 16, but this took place in Ta'Qali.

Number of participants
For the first edition, the EBU announced that they invited some countries to participate in the contest. The maximum of countries is 15.

Running order
There are specific rules about how a country gets his running order.

The countries will be split in to groups (first- and second half). This will happen fully random. After, a team will create a running order.

Song
Each country sends one song to the contest. The song has to be in one of the official languages of the country. The song also can't be longer than five minutes.

Voting rules
After that all the participating countries have sang their song, each single country awards a set of points. The country who gets the most amount of points wins the contest. If two or more countries receive the same number of points, the country that received from the mst countries points, will be ranked higher. If that is also the same, then the country who have the highest rank of a country, will be ranked higher.

Voting
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/352881/junior-euromusic-song-contest-02--valletta

12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

Debuting countries

 * Poland.jpg Poland - The Polish boadcaster announced that they would debut in this second edition. The main reason was their success in the adult contest, where they won the 24th edition.