Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013

11th Junior Eurovision Song Contest
motto	Be Creative
date	November 30, 2013
Host country	Ukraine
venue	Ukrajina Palace , Kiev
Broadcasting television station	NTU
Moderation	Zlata Ohnewitsch & Timur Miroschnytschenko
Opening act	Dance formation "Flamingo"
Pause filler	Zlata Ognevich : Gravity and other songs, Emmelie de Forest : Only Teardops , Anastassija Petryk: Nebo and The winner , All participants: Be Creative
participating countries	12
winner	Malta
First time participation	San Marino
Returning participants	Malta North Macedonia
Withdrawn participants	Albania Belgium Israel
Voting rule	Each country distributes 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points to the ten best titles by voting. The vote takes place 50 percent each by jury and televoting.
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The 11th Junior Eurovision Song Contest took place on November 30, 2013 in the Ukrajina Palace in the Ukrainian capital Kiev .

Attendees

Participants in 2013

Countries that have participated in the past but not in 2013

Kiev hosted the event for the second time after 2009 . In the previous year, 2012 , Anastassija Petryk had won with Nebo (German "sky"), which, unlike the adult competition, was not a reason for the event. Ukraine and other states had to apply to host the event. Nevertheless, this was the second time since 2011 that the competition took place in the country of the previous year's winner. As in 2012, only 12 countries took part, which was another negative record.

For a long time it was not certain whether the competition could take place at all, as far fewer than twelve countries had originally registered. The EBU postponed the deadline several times and saw no other option than direct talks with former participants. This enabled Malta and Macedonia to return.

There were also Azerbaijan and Moldova, who wanted to cancel at first, but then wanted to continue participating. Most recently, an exception regulation made it possible for San Marino to participate for the first time, which is not only allowed to nominate residents of San Marino, but also Italian artists. Cyprus announced its participation first and even appointed a representative. Ultimately, however, CyBC was unable to participate. So in the end there were only twelve participants.

Set of rules

This year, some rule changes were made to kick off the second decade of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Songs can now be 3:00 minutes long, previously 2:45 minutes was the maximum length.

In addition, the starting order was no longer determined by the producers, but drawn by the participants themselves on the Monday before the show.

There was also the innovation that the points announcers were on stage in the hall and not in a studio of the respective broadcaster. This was changed due to the high cost of the twelve satellite links.

space	Start number	country	language	Interpreter	song	translation	Points
01.	11	Malta	English	Gaia Cauchi	The Start M: Gaia Cauchi, Elton Zarb, Gillian Attard; T: Gaia Cauchi, Matt Muxu	The beginning	130
02.	06th	Ukraine	Ukrainian , English	Sofija Tarasova	We Are One M: Sofija Tarasowa, Michael Nekrasov; T: Sofija Tarasowa, Yevgeny Matyushenko	We are one	121
03.	07th	Belarus	Russian	Ilya Volkov	Poy so mnoy (Пой со мной) M: Ilya Volkov, Valery Shmat; T: Ilya Volkov	Sing with me	108
04th	12	Russia	Russian	Dajana Kirillova	Metschtai (Мечтай) M / T: Dajana Kirillova	Dreams!	106
05.	09	Georgia	Georgian , English	Smile Shop	Give Me Your Smile M: Giorgi Kukhianidze; T: Giorgi Kukhianidze & "Smile Shop"	Give me your smile	91
06th	03	Armenia	Armenian , English	Monika Awanesjan	Choco Fabric M / T: Monika Awanesjan, Emma Asatrjan	Chocolate factory	69
07th	02	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijani , English	Rustam Karimov	Me And My Guitar M: Dmitry Saratsky; T: Murad Arif	Me and my guitar	66
08th.	10	Netherlands	Dutch , English	Mylène & Rosanne	Double Me M / T: Mylène Waalewijn, Rosanne Waalewijn, Tjeerd P. Oosterhuis	Double me	59
09.	01	Sweden	Swedish	Eliias	Det är dit vi ska M / T: Elias Elffors Elfström	This is where we are going	46
10.	04th	San Marino	Italian	Michele Perniola	OoO Sole intorno a me M: Antonio Carozza, Massimiliano Messieri; T: Michele Perniola, Piero Romitelli, Antonio Carozza	OoO sun around me	42
11.	08th	Moldova	Romanian , English	Rafael Bobeica	Cum să fim M / T: Eugen Doibani	How to be	41
12.	05	North Macedonia	Macedonian	Barbara Popović	Ohrid i muzika (Охрид и музика) M / T: Barbara Popović	Ohrid and music	19th

Returning performers

country	Interpreter	Previous year of participation
Belarus	Ilya Volkov	2012 ( accompanist of Egor Zheshko)

Distribution of points

KJ = Kid's Jury

		Result
		Pt.	KJ	SE	AZ	AT THE	SM	MK	UA	BY	MD	GE	NL	MT	RU
country	Sweden	46	1		4th	3	5	1	2	5	6th	1	4th		2
	Azerbaijan	66	4th	7th			2	2	10		3	10	3	6th	7th
	Armenia	69	3	4th			4th	4th	5	2	4th	12	6th	8th	5
	San Marino	42	5	2	2	4th			1	3	2	3	2	2	4th
	Macedonia	19th		1	1	2				1			1	1
	Ukraine	121	8th	10	10	8th	12	8th		12	7th	7th	7th	12	8th
	Belarus	108	10	5	6th	6th	6th	7th	8th		10	8th	8th	10	12
	Moldova	41		3	3	1	3	3	3	4th		4th		4th	1
	Georgia	91	7th		8th	7th	10	10	6th	7th	8th		5	5	6th
	Netherlands	59	2	6th	5	5	1	5	4th	6th	1	2		7th	3
	Malta	130	12	8th	7th	10	7th	12	12	10	12	6th	12		10
	Russia	106	6th	12	12	12	8th	6th	7th	8th	5	5	10	3
	Each country automatically receives 12 points.

Statistics of the twelve-point allocation

number	country	received from
5	Malta	Kid′s jury, North Macedonia , Moldova , Netherlands , Ukraine
3	Russia	Armenia , Azerbaijan , Sweden
	Ukraine	Malta , San Marino , Belarus
1	Armenia	Georgia
	Belarus	Russia

• All countries received 12 points at the beginning, which is why no country could achieve 0 points. Vladislav Yakovlev, the new supervisor of the JESC, awarded these ratings.

Withdrawn countries

•  Albania - Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) canceled the JESC 2013 on September 25, 2013 due to financial problems and last place in Amsterdam in the previous year's competition.
•  Belgium - The Flemish TV broadcaster Vlaamse Radio en Televisieomroep (VRT) decided not to participate in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest . Since Belgium's preliminary decision for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was so successful in Belgium itself, the focus was on continuing to organize this show for children internally.
•  Israel - On October 21st, ESC + announced that the IBA will not attend in Kiev.

Other countries

•  Bulgaria - Bulgarian National Television (BNT) announced that it will not be returning in 2013. However, they plan to return to the competition in the near future.
•  Finland - The Finnish television broadcaster Yleisradio (YLE) had shown increasing interest in the competition, so the country wanted to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012 , but withdrew its participation due to inconsistencies in the regulations. Now it was announced that nothing had changed and that there were still many reasons to show against participating. Nevertheless, the broadcaster does not rule out future participation.
•  Latvia - The Latvian broadcaster Latvijas Televīzija (LTV) will also not take part in 2013 after finishing last in the 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest . However, they plan to return to competition in the near future.
•  Lithuania - Audrius Girzadas from Lithuanian Television (LRT) announced that due to higher hotel costs and additional costs (including the rule that point announcers have to be on site) they cannot participate.
•  Portugal - Due to the realization of the children's festival "Little Singers Gala" in Figueira da Foz, the Portuguese broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) will not return either.
•  Spain - Yago Fandiño, TVE's children's program manager, said on September 7, 2013 that he was in dialogue with the EBU regarding a return to the competition. He said that after the EBU reformed the competition, he was now reviewing initiatives in a format aimed at young audiences. If expectations were met, the country would likely return, says Fandiño. In the end, it was decided not to participate, at least for 2013.
•  Cyprus - The Cypriot broadcaster CyBC had been assured of extensive financial support from the EBU and the Ukrainian broadcaster NTU and decided not to participate despite the contribution that had already been determined. Cyprus was thus the previously unknown possibly participating thirteenth country. In October it had already been announced that it would not be able to participate in the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://oikotimes.com/2013/09/25/exclusive-jesc-2013-fyrom-returns-albania-out/
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ http://www.esc-plus.com/p/junior-eurovision-israel-withdraws-the-competition/
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/JuniorESCPress
6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ http://esckaz.com/jesc/2013/
8. ↑ http://escportugal2.blogspot.pt/2013/07/exclusivo-portugal-rtp-nao-participa-no.html
9. ↑ http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/rtve-responde/rtve-responde-07-09-13/2014304/
10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.