Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 8

The Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 8 was the eigth edition of the Junior EuroMusic Song Contest. This edition took place in Gdańks, Poland.

Armenia won this edition. It was their first victory in a EuroMusic-event. Russia finished at the second place followed by Sweden.

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.

Belarus, Poland, Russia and Ukraine announced that they would like to organise the contest. However the interests of the Ukraine, they dind't send an official bid to the EBU.

Host city

The EBU announced that Poland was chosen as host country. It was the first time that Poland hosted this contest. Gdańks, however, hosted already the fourth edition of the dance contest.

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. There was a change in the rules for this edition. The song has to be for more than 50% in 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/357777/junior-euromusic-song-contest-08--gdaks

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

Debuting countries

 * Australia.jpg Australia - The Australian broadcaster already showed interests to participate since the third edition. They officially confirmed to debut in this edition.

Returning countries

 * Malta.jpg Malta - The Maltese broadcaster announced after their witdrawal from the seventh edition that they were hoping for a return in the near future. When the EBU published the official list of participating countries, it was clear that Malta would return.

Withdrawing countries

 * Croatia.jpg Croatia - This country wasn't named at the official list of participating countries.
 * Israel.jpg Israel - The withdrawal of Israel was unexpected. They just returned the previous edition. The Israeli broadcaster gave no specific reason of their decision.