Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the sixth edition of the annual Junior
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest, which is the world's largest song contest for children.[2] It was held at the
"Spyros Kyprianou" Athletic Centre in Lemesos, Cyprus and hosted by Alex Michael and Sophia 2008
Paraskeva. It was won by the Georgian trio Bzikebi, with the song "Bzz..". This is the first song to win Fun In The Sun
any Eurovision Song Contest in an imaginary language. Ukraine took 2nd place and Lithuania
finished 3rd.[3] Bzikebi also became the first group act to win Junior Eurovision.

The theme of the event was "Fun in the Sun",[4] despite the fact that there were thunderstorms in
Lemesos the day of the contest. The stage, which was designed by George Papadopoulos,[5] was
nominated for the prestigious international "Live Design Excellence Awards".[6] The design is an
abstract composition and consists of a round stage representing the island of Cyprus, real water along
the front of the stage, two jetties, the waves breaking and moving away from the island and five
sailing boats with oars. During the competitive performances, a beach ball with the design of the
performer's national flag would be floating in the on-stage pond while they were performing.

For the contest, various changes to the rules were made. One was that adults could assist children to Dates
write the songs submitted to their national broadcaster; previously only children could write the Final 22 November 2008
songs, with no assistance from adults. Another change was only six people could be on stage during a
performance, instead of eight. The most significant change, however, was only half of the vote was Host
decided by the tele-voters. Before the 2008 contest tele-voters completely decided the whole result. Venue Spyros Kyprianou Athletic
The other half of the result was decided by a jury of adults and children.[7][8] Centre, Limassol, Cyprus
Presenter(s) Alex Michael
Sophia Paraskeva
Contents Directed by Klitos Klitou
Location Executive Svante Stockselius
Bidding phase and host selection supervisor
Venue Executive Munro Forbes
Format producer

Voting Host Cyprus Broadcasting

broadcaster Corporation (CyBC)
Participating countries
Opening act Dance act featuring Yiorgos
Final
Ioannides and Mariam
International broadcasts and voting Venizelou.
 Voting and spokespersons Interval act Dima Bilan, Evridiki & Dimitris
Commentators Korgialas
Participating countries Reprise act All participants performing "Hand
Non-participating countries in Hand"
Score sheet Website junioreurovision.tv/event
12 points /lemesos-2008 (https://junioreuro
Official album vision.tv/event/lemesos-2008)

See also Participants

References Number of 15
entries
External links
Debuting None
countries
Location Returning None
countries
Non- Portugal
Bidding phase and host selection
returning Sweden
Stockholm On 27 May 2007, the Eurovision Steering Group decided to award countries
CyBC of Cyprus the rights to host the 2008 contest, over bids from Participation map
Kyiv
TV4 of Sweden and NTU of Ukraine, the latter of which would later
host the 2009 edition.

Limassol
Venue
Locations of the bidding
countries. The eliminated
countries are marked in red. The
The Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Center[9] (Greek: Αθλητικό Κέντρο
chosen host country is marked in
"Σπύρος Κυπριανού"), also known as Palais des sports, is the biggest
blue. and the most imposing multi dynamic indoor athletic arena in
Cyprus. It is named after the late president of Cyprus Spyros
Kyprianou. This project was conducted by the Cyprus Sports
Organisation and was constructed north of the city of Limassol near Kato Polemidia and by the side
of Limassol - Troodos road. Construction of the project began in late 2002 and was completed at the
end of 2005 at a total cost of approximately CY£8.5 million. Participating countries
Countries that participated in the past but not in

Format 2008

Vote
Voting Citizens of each participating
 On 10 September 2008, the hosts were announced as Alex Michael system country vote by telephone and
and Sophia Paraskeva; both presenters with Cypriot SMS message, which counts for
backgrounds.[10] 50%. Each country's 10
favourites are awarded 1 to 8, 10
On 13 October 2008, the draw of the running order took place live
and 12 points based on the
on CyBC 1. This involved drawing the first and last countries and
performers, and then drawing countries into various 'pots' to decide number of votes. Results 1–5
when they would perform.[11] The full running order was announced are automatically displayed on-
Spyros Kyprianou Athletic
on 14 October 2008.[12] The stage was constructed between 30 screen, then each country
Center, in Limassol. Venue of the announces 6–8, 10 and 12
October 2008 and 14 November 2008.
2008 Junior Eurovision Song
points. A jury in each country
Contest.
Voting also has a 50% say in the
outcome.[1]

As in all previous Eurovision Song Contests each country gave their top 10 countries songs points Nul points All countries get 12 points from
from 1 point for their 10th favourite song up until 8 points for their 3rd favourite song. Then 10 and start
12 points were given for the second favorite and favorite respectively. But, the difference between this Winning Georgia
contest and other past contests is this is the first Eurovision Song Contest that implements a jury vote song "Bzz.."
that counts for half of each countries vote.[13]

Participating countries
Fifteen countries took part in the 2008 Junior Eurovision Song Contest: Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Macedonia, Georgia, Greece,
Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine.[14] Portugal, which had taken part twice since 2006 announced that it was no
longer interested in the contest and withdrew along with Sweden, a founding country in 2003, which left because of other broadcasting plans
during the time of the event.[15][16] Portugal would return in 2017 after winning the adult contest for the first time that same year.[17]

On the other hand, Israel and Bosnia and Herzegovina announced their intention to participate, but decided both to withdraw before the contest.
Welsh language broadcaster S4C considered the possibility of participation, but in the end it was decided they would not to participate in the
competition, because their debut was rejected because Wales isn't a sovereign state. Only the BBC has the exclusive right to represent the United
Kingdom.[18] Wales later debuted in the 2018 contest.

Azerbaijan announced its intention to take part also, but withdrew from the contest in early October. According to İctimai Televiziya və Radio
Yayımları Şirkəti, the network was unable to select and prepare children for such a high scale event without proper help from other governmental
structures and bodies. The broadcaster also confirmed payment of a fine to the EBU due to its late withdrawal.[19] Poland had also considered
participation but decided that it would not take part this year.[20] The 2008 contest was the first Junior Eurovision Song Contest to have no
debuting countries.

Final
For the first time, each country decided their votes through a 50% jury and 50% televoting system which decided their top ten songs. The only
country that did not use this system was Ukraine who calculated their vote using a jury. Ukrainian broadcaster NTU opted not to broadcast the
contest live, but to air it deferred on Sunday 23 November as Saturday 22 November was Holodomor Remembrance Day in the country.[21]

Draw Country Artist Song Language Place Points

01 Romania Mădălina and Andrada "Salvați planeta!" Romanian 9 58

02 Armenia Monica "Im Ergi Hnchyune" (Իմ Երգի Հնչյունե) Armenian 8 59

03 Belarus Dasha, Alina & Karyna "Serdtse Belarusi" (Сердце Беларуси) Russian, Belarusian[22] 6 86

04 Russia Mihail Puntov "Spit angel" (Спит ангел) Russian 7 73

05 Greece Niki Yiannouchu "Kapoia nychta" (Καποια νύχτα) Greek 14 19

06 Georgia Bzikebi "Bzz.." Imaginary 1 154

07 Belgium Oliver "Shut Up" Dutch 11 45

08 Bulgaria Krastyana Krasteva "Edna mechta" (Една мечта) Bulgarian 15 15

09 Serbia Maja Mazić "Uvek kad u nebo pogledam" (Увек кaд у небо погледaм) Serbian 12 37

10 Malta Daniel Testa "Junior Swing" English 4 100

11 Netherlands Marissa "1 dag" Dutch 13 27

12 Ukraine Viktoria Petryk "Matrosy" (Матроси) Ukrainian 2 135

13 Lithuania Eglė Jurgaitytė "Laiminga diena" Lithuanian 3 103

14 Macedonia Bobi Andonov "Prati mi SMS" (Прати ми СМС) Macedonian 5 93

15 Cyprus Elena Mannouri and Charis Savva "Gioupi gia!" (Γιούπι για!) Greek 10 46

International broadcasts and voting

Voting and spokespersons

Romania – Iulia Ciobanu (Co-host of the Romanian national final in Georgia – Ana Davitaia
2007 and 2008) Belgium – Chloé Ditlefsen
Armenia – Mary Sahakyan Bulgaria – Marina Baltadzi
Belarus – Anjelica Misevich Serbia – Anđelija Erić
Russia – Sarina Malta – Francesca Zarb
Greece – Stefani Trepekli Netherlands – Famke Rauch
 Ukraine – Marietta Macedonia – Marija Zafirovska
Lithuania – Lina Joy (Lithuanian representative in 2007) Cyprus – Christina Christofi

Commentators

Participating countries
Armenia – Gohar Gasparyan (Armenia 1) Macedonia – Ivona Bogoevska (MTV 1)
Belarus – Denis Kurian (Belarus 1) Malta – Valerie Vella (TVM)
Belgium – Kristien Maes and Ben Roelants (VRT) Netherlands – Sipke Jan Bousema (AVRO)
Bulgaria – Elena Rosberg and Georgi Kushvaliev (BNT 1) Romania – Ioana Isopescu and Alexandru Nagy (TVR)
Cyprus – Kyriakos Pastides (CyBC) Russia – Olga Shelest (RTR)
Georgia – Temo Kvirkvelia (GPB) Serbia – Duška Vučinić-Lučić (RTS2)
Greece – Renia Tsitsibikou and George Amyras (ERT) Ukraine – Timur Miroshnychenko (NTU)
Lithuania – Darius Užkuraitis (LRT)

Non-participating countries

A live broadcast of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was available worldwide via satellite through European streams such as TVRi, ERT World,
ARMTV, RTS Sat and MKTV Sat. The official Eurovision Song Contest website also provided a live stream without commentary via the peer to peer
medium Octoshape.

Australia: Australia broadcast the contest on 13 May 2009, as a lead up to the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.[23]
Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan was originally going to participate but withdrew on 15 October 2008. The contest was broadcast on İctimai TV.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosnia and Herzegovina were also set to participate but later withdrew. They broadcast the contest on BHRT.

Score sheet
Bzikebi, Georgia's participants
 Results

Netherlands
Voting procedure used:

Macedonia
50% jury and televote

Lithuania
Romania
Total score

Armenia

Bulgaria
Belgium
Georgia

Ukraine
Belarus

Greece

Cyprus
Russia

Serbia
100% jury vote

Malta
Romania 58 4 2 2 2 2 2 1 5 3 2 4 1 8 8
Armenia 59 3 5 6 6 8 6 7 3 3
Belarus 86 5 5 10 4 10 6 7 7 4 5 3 5 3
Russia 73 10 12 3 5 2 2 6 1 7 8 1 4
Greece 19 7
Georgia 154 6 12 8 12 10 12 12 10 8 12 12 12 4 12
Contestants

Belgium 45 2 2 1 1 4 3 2 10 2 4 2
Bulgaria 15 3
Serbia 37 1 1 3 6 1 1 12
Malta 100 7 7 4 5 7 7 7 8 1 6 10 7 6 6
Netherlands 27 3 5 1 5 1
Ukraine 135 12 8 10 8 8 12 3 10 6 12 7 10 7 10
Lithuania 103 8 6 7 1 10 8 3 12 10 8 6 10 2
Macedonia 93 10 6 7 4 5 3 4 5 8 5 5 8 6 5
Cyprus 46 4 3 12 1 4 4 4 2
The table is ordered by appearance. All countries automatically received 12 points.
Georgia and Macedonia awarded their points last due to technical problems

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

 N. Contestant Voting nation
8 Georgia Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Lithuania, Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine
3 Ukraine Georgia, Malta, Romania
Lithuania Serbia
Russia Belarus
1
Cyprus Greece
Serbia Macedonia

All countries were given 12 points at the start of voting. This was so no country got nul points.

Official album
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008, is a compilation album put together by the European Junior Eurovision Song
Broadcasting Union, and was released by Universal Music Group on 10 October 2008. The album features all Contest 2008
the songs from the 2008 contest, along with karaoke versions.[24]

Compilation album by Junior

Eurovision Song Contest
Released 10 October 2008
Genre Pop
Length 41:39 (CD 1)
41:39 (CD 2)
Label Universal
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
chronology
 Junior 07 Junior Junior
Eurovision Eurovision Eurovision
Song Song Song
Contest Contest Contest
(2007) 2008 2009 -
(2008) KYIV -
Ukraine -
All The
Songs
From The
Show
(2009)

See also
Eurovision Song Contest 2008
Eurovision Dance Contest 2008
Eurovision Young Musicians 2008

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External links
Official website (http://www.junioreurovision.tv/)
ESCKaz JESC pages (http://jesc.esckaz.com/)

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