Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008

The **Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008** was the sixth edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. It took place at the "Spyros Kyprianou" Athletic Centre in Lemesos, Cyprus on 22 November 2008, Cypriot broadcaster CyBC was the host broadcaster for the event. The motto for the contest was  _"Fun In The Sun"_.

## Results

|Draw|Country|Artist|Song|Language|Place|Points|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|01||Mădălina and Andrada|"Salvaţi planeta!"|Romanian|9|58|
|02||Monica|"Im Ergi Hnchyune" <small>()</small>|Armenian|8|59|
|03||Dasha, Alina & Karyna|"Serdtse Belarusi" <small>()</small>|Russian, Belarusian|6|86|
|04||Mihail Puntov|"Spit angel" <small>()</small>|Russian|7|73|
|05||Niki Yiannouchu|"Kapoia nychta" <small>()</small>|Greek|14|19|
|06||Bzikebi|"Bzz.."|Imaginary|1|154|
|07||Oliver|"Shut Up"|Dutch|11|45|
|08||Krastyana Krasteva|"Edna mechta" <small>()</small>|Bulgarian|15|15|
|09||Maja Mazić|"Uvek kad u nebo pogledam" <small>()</small>|Serbian|12|37|
|10||Daniel Testa|"Junior Swing"|English|4|100|
|11||Marissa|"1 dag"|Dutch|13|27|
|12||Viktoria Petryk|"Matrosy" <small>()</small>|Ukrainian|2|135|
|13||Eglė Jurgaitytė|"Laiminga diena"|Lithuanian|3|103|
|14||Bobi Andonov|"Prati mi SMS" <small>()</small>|Macedonian|5|93|
|15||Elena Mannouri and Charis Savva|"Gioupi gia!" <small>()</small>|Greek|10|46|

## Score sheet

|colspan="16"|Results|||||||||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan="2" rowspan="2"||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Romania|58||4|2|2|2|2|2|1|5|3|2|4|1|8|8|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Armenia|59|3||5|6|6|8|6|7|||3|3||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Belarus|86|5|5||10|4||10|6|7|7|4|5|3|5|3|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Russia|73||10|**12**||3|5||2|2|6|1|7|8|1|4|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Greece|19|||||||||||||||7|
|style="text-align:left; background:#FFDEAD;"|**Georgia**|**154**|6|**12**|8|**12**|10||**12**|**12**|10|8|**12**|**12**|**12**|4|**12**|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Belgium|45|2|2|1|1||4|||3|2|10|2|4|2||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Bulgaria|15||||||||||||||3||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Serbia|37|1|1||3||6|1|||||1||**12**||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Malta|100|7|7|4|5|7|7|7|8|1||6|10|7|6|6|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Netherlands|27|||3||||5|||1|||5||1|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Ukraine|135|**12**|8|10|8|8|**12**|3|10|6|**12**|7||10|7|10|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Lithuania|103|8||6|7|1|10|8|3|**12**|10|8|6||10|2|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Macedonia|93|10|6|7|4|5|3|4|5|8|5|5|8|6||5|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Cyprus|46|4|3|||**12**|1||4|4|4|||2|||
|colspan="18"|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||
|rowspan="4"|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.

### Commentators

- – Gohar Gasparyan (Armenia 1)
- – Denis Kuryan (Belarus 1)
- – André Vermeulen (VRT), Maureen Louys and Jean-Louis Lahaye (RTBF)
- – Elena Rosberg and Georgi Kushvaliev (BNT 1)
- – Kyriakos Pastides (CyBC)
- – Temo Kvirkvelia (GPB)
- – Renia Tsitsibikou and George Amyras (ERT)
- – Darius Užkuraitis (LRT)
- – Ivona Bogoevska (MTV 1)
- – Valerie Vella (TVM)
- – Sipke Jan Bousema (AVRO)
- – Ioana Isopecu and Alexandru Nagy (TVR)
- – Olga Shelest
- – Duška Vučinić-Lučić (RTS 2)
- – Timur Miroshnychenko (NTU)

## Infobox (song contest)

- **name**: Junior Eurovision Song Contest
- **year**: 2008
- **theme**: _Fun In The Sun_
- **final**: 22 November 2008
- **presenters**: Alex Michael
Sophia Paraskeva
- **director**: Klitos Klitou
- **exsupervisor**: Svante Stockselius
- **exproducer**: Munro Forbes
- **host**: Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC)
- **venue**: Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Center, Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Centre, Limassol, Cyprus
- **winner**:
"Bzz.."
- **vote**: 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.
- **entries**: 15
- **debut**: None
- **return**: None
- **null**: All countries get 12 points from start
- **interval**: Dima Bilan, Evridiki & Dimitris Korgialas, all JESC 2008 participants singing "Hand in Hand"
- **opening**: Dance act featuring Yiorgos Ioannides and Mariam Venizelou.
- **green**: Y
- **yellow**: Y