Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 was the eighth edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Minsk, Belarus on 20 November 2010.
The contest was won by Vladimir Arzumanyan of Armenia with the song "Mama". This gave Armenia its first win at Junior Eurovision and its first win in any Eurovision contest, even though Sweden had been the betting favourite.

Final
Each country gave votes. Half of the votes were cast by a jury, while the other half came from the public who voted via telephone and text messages. The voters decided their top ten songs using the points 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1.

 Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Points 01  Lithuanian Bartas "Oki Doki" — 6 67 02  Romanian, English Ștefan Roșcovan  "Ali Baba" —854 03  Dutch, English Anna & Senna "My Family" —952 04  Serbian Sonja Škorić "Čarobna noć" (Чаробна ноћ) Magical night 3 113 05  Ukrainian Yulia Gurska "Miy litak" (Мій літак) My plane 14 28 06  Swedish Josefine Ridell "Allt jag vill ha" All I want Official English title: 'Reaching For The Stars'. 11 48 07  Russian, English Sasha Lazin & Liza Drozd "Boy and Girl" — 2 119 08  Latvian Šarlote Lēnmane & Sea Stones "Viva la Dance" (Dejo tā) Long live dance (Dance like that)1051 09  Dutch, English Jill & Lauren "Get Up!" —761 10  Armenian Vladimir Arzumanyan "Mama" (Մամա) Mother 1 120 11  English, Maltese Nicole Azzopardi "Knock Knock!….Boom! Boom!" —1335 12  Russian Daniil Kozlov "Muzyki svet" (Музыки свет) Light of music585 13  Imaginary Mariam Kakhelishvili "Mari Dari" —4109 14  Macedonian Anja Veterova "Eooo, Eooo" —1238

The rules stated that the participants must sing in one of their national languages, however they were permitted to have a few lines in a different language, as seen in some entries.
This was the first time since 2000 that the Maltese language is used in a Eurovision event since "Desire" by Claudette Pace, the Maltese entry for the 2000 contest.

Returning artists

 Artist Country Previous year(s) Sea Stones (aka C-Stones Junior)  2004

Score sheet

 Results Total Score               Contestants Lithuania 67   2  2  4  4  4  6  6  5  4    6  10  2 Moldova 54  1     1    2  5  2  6  7  10  2  6  Netherlands 52  2     7  1  3   3  10  5    1  8  Serbia 113  6  12  10   7  8  7   10  7  3  8  10  1  12 Ukraine 28            4      1  2    4  5 Sweden 48  3    4  2  3   2  4   8  2  1  4   3 Russia 119  10  7  8  8  8  10   8  4   12  12  12  7  1 Latvia 51  8  8  6    5  1     1    5   5  Belgium 61  5  3  12  5   6  1       4  3  2  8 Armenia 120  7  10  5  6 12  12  12  5  12   6  8  3  10 Malta 35    4  1  3            6   5   4 Belarus 85  4  6  3    6    10  12    10  3   12  7 Georgia 109  12   5  7  10  10  7   8   7  3  8  7  7   6 Macedonia 38    1    12  2  5  3  1  2          All countries automatically receive 12 points

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

 N.  Recipient nation  Voting nation 4  Armenia  Ukraine, Sweden, Russia, Belgium 3  Russia  Armenia, Malta, Belarus 2Serbia  Moldova, MacedoniaBelarus  Latvia, Georgia 1Belgium  NetherlandsGeorgia  LithuaniaMacedonia  Serbia
All countries were given 12 points at the start of voting. This is so no country gets zero points.
As a joke, the Executive Supervisor of the contest, Svante Stockselius, was given 12 points before the voting. This probably because he was scheduled to resign at the end of the year.

International broadcasts

Commentators
  - Kristien Maes & Tom De Cock (VRT)
  - Olga Shelest (Russia 1)
  - Gohar Gasparyan (ARMTV)
  - Timur Miroshnichenko (Pershiy)
  - Valters Frīdenbergs (Latvijas Televīzija)
  - Duška Vučinić-Lučić (RTS 2)
  - Sipke Jan Bousema
  - Eileen Montesin

 Spokespersons 

 - Bernadras Garbaciauskas
 - Paula Paraschiv
 - Bram
 - Maja Mazic
 - Elizabeth Arfush
 - Robin Ridell
 - Philip Mazurov
 - Ralfs Eliands
 - Laura Omloop
 - Nadia Sargsyan
 - Francesca Zarb
 - Anastasiya Butyugina
 - Giorgi Toradze
 - Sara Marakovska

References

Other websites

Junior Eurovision Official Website
Junior Eurovision pages at BTRC website 
Junior Eurovision pages at ESCKaz
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010  on the official website of the Republic of Belarus

Category:2010 in music
Category:History of Belarus
Category:Junior Eurovision Song Contest by year
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