Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008
| Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 | |
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| Fun In The Sun | |
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| Dates | |
| Final | 22 November 2008 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Centre, Limassol, Cyprus |
| Presenter(s) | Alex Michael Sophia Paraskeva |
| Directed by | Klitos Klitou |
| Executive supervisor | Svante Stockselius |
| Executive producer | Munro Forbes |
| Host broadcaster | Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) |
| Opening act | Dance act featuring Yiorgos Ioannides and Mariam Venizelou. |
| Interval act | Dima Bilan, Evridiki & Dimitris Korgialas, all JESC 2008 participants singing "Hand in Hand" |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 15 |
| Debuting countries | None |
| Returning countries | None |
| Withdrawing countries |
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Participation map
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| Vote | |
| Voting system | Citizens of each participating country vote by telephone and SMS message, which counts for 50%. Each country's 10 favourites are awarded 1 to 8, 10 and 12 points based on the number of votes. Results 1–5 are automatically displayed on-screen, then each country announces 6–8, 10 and 12 points. A jury in each country also has a 50% say in the outcome.[1] |
| Nul points | All countries get 12 points from start |
| Winning song |  Georgia"Bzz.." |
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the sixth Junior 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 Paraskeva. It was won by the Georgian trio Bzikebi, with the song "Bzz..". This is the first song to win 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.
For the contest, various changes to the rules were made. One was that adults could assist children to write the songs submitted to their national broadcaster; previously only children could write the 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 decided by the tele-voters. Before the 2008 contest tele-voters completely decided the whole result. The other half of the result was decided by a jury of adults and children.[7][8]
Contents
1 Location
2 Format
3 Voting
4 Participating countries
5 Final
6 International broadcasts and voting
6.1 Voting and spokespersons
6.2 Commentators
6.2.1 Participating countries
6.2.2 Non-participating countries
7 Score sheet
7.1 12 points
8 Official album
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Location
Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Center, in Limassol. Venue of the 2008 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
The Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Center[9] (Greek: Αθλητικό Κέντρο "Σπύρος Κυπριανού"), also known as Palais des sports, is the biggest 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.
Format
On 27 May 2007, the Eurovision Steering Group decided to award CyBC of Cyprus to host the 2008 contest, over TV4 of Sweden and NTU of Ukraine.
On 10 September 2008, the hosts were announced as Alex Michael and Sophia Paraskeva; both presenters with Cypriot backgrounds.[10]
On 13 October 2008, the draw of the running order took place live on CyBC 1. This involved drawing the first and last countries and performers, and then drawing countries into various 'pots' to decide when they would perform.[11] The full running order was announced on 14 October 2008.[12] The stage was constructed between 30 October 2008 and 14 November 2008.
Voting
As in all previous Eurovision Song Contests each country gave their top 10 countries songs points from 1 point for their 10th favourite song up until 8 points for their 3rd favourite song. Then 10 and 12 points were given for the second favorite and favorite respectively. But, the difference between this contest and other past contests is this is the first Eurovision Song Contest that implements a jury vote 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 & 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]
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
Each country decided their votes through a 50% jury and 50% tele-voting system which decided their top ten songs. Ukraine calculated their vote using a jury. Ukrainian broadcaster NTU opted not to broadcast the contest live, but to air it deferred on Sunday, November 23 as Saturday, November 22 is Holodomor Remembrance Day in the country.[21]
| Draw | Country | Artist | Song | Language | Place | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 |  Romania | Mădălina and Andrada | "Salvaţi 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
Armenia – Mary Sahakyan
Belarus – Anjelica Misevich
Russia – Sarina
Greece – Stefani Trepekli
Georgia – Ana Davitaia
Belgium – Chloé Ditlefsen
Bulgaria – Marina Baltadzi
Serbia – Anđelija Erić
Malta – Francesca Zarb
Netherlands – Famke Rauch
Ukraine – Marietta
Lithuania – Lina Joy (Represented Lithuania in 2007)
Macedonia – Marija Zafirovska
Cyprus – Christina Christofi
Commentators
Participating countries
Armenia – Gohar Gasparyan (Armenia 1)
Belarus – Denis Kuryan (Belarus 1)
Belgium – Kristien Maes and Ben Roelants (VRT)
Bulgaria – Elena Rosberg and Georgi Kushvaliev (BNT 1)
Cyprus – Kyriakos Pastides (CyBC)
Georgia – Temo Kvirkvelia (GPB)
Greece – Renia Tsitsibikou and George Amyras (ERT)
Lithuania – Darius Užkuraitis (LRT)
Macedonia – Ivona Bogoevska (MTV 1)
Malta – Valerie Vella (TVM)
Netherlands – Sipke Jan Bousema (AVRO)
Romania – Ioana Isopecu and Alexandru Nagy (TVR)
Russia – Olga Shelest (RTR)
Serbia – Duška Vučinić-Lučić (RTS 2)
Ukraine – Timur Miroshnychenko (NTU)
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 Ictmai 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 | |||||||||||||||||
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 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | ||
 | 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 | ||
| 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 receive 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 |
| 1 | Lithuania | Serbia |
| Russia | Belarus | |
| Cyprus | Greece | |
| Serbia | Macedonia |
- All countries were given 12 points at the start of voting. This was so no country got nul points.
- When Cyprus got 12 points from Greece the audience was absolutely crazy about it, even though Cyprus were nowhere near winning the contest and Greece and Cyprus regularly gives each other 12 points.
Official album
| Junior Eurovision Song Contest: Lemesos 2008 | ||||
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Compilation album by Junior Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
| Released | 10 October 2008 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length |
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| Label | Universal | |||
Junior Eurovision Song Contest chronology | ||||
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Junior Eurovision Song Contest: Lemesos 2008, is a compilation album put together by the European Broadcasting Union, and was released by Universal Music Group on 10 October 2008. The album features all the songs from the 2008 contest, along with karaoke versions.[24]
| CD 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Artist | Length |
| 1. | "Salvaţi planeta!" | Mădălina & Andrada(Romania) | 2:43 |
| 2. | "Im Ergi Hnchyune" | Monica (Armenia) | 2:50 |
| 3. | "Serdtse Belarusi" | Dasha, Alina & Karyna (Belarus) | 2:51 |
| 4. | "Spit angel" | Mihail Puntov (Russia) | 2:55 |
| 5. | "Kapoia nychta" | Niki Yiannouchu (Greece) | 2:45 |
| 6. | "Bzz.." | Bzikebi (Georgia) | 2:49 |
| 7. | "Shut Up" | Oliver (Belgium) | 2:48 |
| 8. | "Edna mechta" | Krastyana Krasteva (Bulgaria) | 2:43 |
| 9. | "Uvek kad u nebo pogledam" | Maja Mazić (Serbia) | 2:37 |
| 10. | "Junior Swing" | Daniel Testa (Malta) | 2:50 |
| 11. | "1 dag" | Marissa (Netherlands) | 2:47 |
| 12. | "Matrosy" | Viktoria Petryk (Ukraine) | 2:47 |
| 13. | "Laiminga diena" | Eglė Jurgaitytė (Lithuania) | 2:44 |
| 14. | "Prati mi SMS" | Bobi Andonov (Macedonia) | 2:43 |
| 15. | "Gioupi gia!" | Elena Mannouri & Charis Savva (Cyprus) | 2:47 |
| Total length: | 41:39 | ||
| CD 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Artist | Length |
| 1. | "Salvaţi planeta!" (Karaoke version) | Mădălina & Andrada(Romania) | 2:43 |
| 2. | "Im Ergi Hnchyune" (Karaoke version) | Monica (Armenia) | 2:50 |
| 3. | "Serdtse Belarusi" (Karaoke version) | Dasha, Alina & Karyna (Belarus) | 2:51 |
| 4. | "Spit angel" (Karaoke version) | Mihail Puntov (Russia) | 2:55 |
| 5. | "Kapoia nychta" (Karaoke version) | Niki Yiannouchu (Greece) | 2:45 |
| 6. | "Bzz.." (Karaoke version) | Bzikebi (Georgia) | 2:49 |
| 7. | "Shut Up" (Karaoke version) | Oliver (Belgium) | 2:48 |
| 8. | "Edna mechta" (Karaoke version) | Krastyana Krasteva (Bulgaria) | 2:43 |
| 9. | "Uvek kad u nebo pogledam" (Karaoke version) | Maja Mazić (Serbia) | 2:37 |
| 10. | "Junior Swing" (Karaoke version) | Daniel Testa (Malta) | 2:50 |
| 11. | "1 dag" (Karaoke version) | Marissa (Netherlands) | 2:47 |
| 12. | "Matrosy" (Karaoke version) | Viktoria Petryk (Ukraine) | 2:47 |
| 13. | "Laiminga diena" (Karaoke version) | Eglė Jurgaitytė (Lithuania) | 2:44 |
| 14. | "Prati mi SMS" (Karaoke version) | Bobi Andonov (Macedonia) | 2:43 |
| 15. | "Gioupi gia!" (Karaoke version) | Elena Mannouri & Charis Savva (Cyprus) | 2:47 |
| Total length: | 41:39 | ||
See also
- Eurovision Song Contest 2008
- Eurovision Dance Contest 2008
- Eurovision Young Musicians 2008
References
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External links
- Official website
- ESCKaz JESC pages
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