Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the seventh edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and took place in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was scheduled for 21 November.
13 countries were confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to compete in the Contest.
The contest was won by Ralf Mackenbach for the Netherlands with the song "Click Clack". At the age of 14, he is the oldest person to win the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in its 7 year History. Luara Hayrapetyan achieved Armenia another second place. Ekaterina Ryabova also took second place for Russia.

Final
Each country decided their votes through a 50% jury and 50% televoting system which decided their top ten songs using the points 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1.
Sweden have only 100% jury.
 Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Points 01  Swedish Mimmi Sandén "Du" You 6 68 02  Russian Ekaterina Ryabova "Malenkiy prints" (Маленький принц) The little prince 2 116 03  Armenian Luara Hayrapetyan "Barcelona" (Բարսելոնա) - 2 116 04  Romanian Ioana Anuța "Ai puterea în mâna ta" You got the power in hand 13 19 05  Serbian Ništa Lično "Onaj pravi" (Онаj прави) The right one 10 34 06  Georgian Group Princesses "Lurji prinveli" (ლურჯი ფრინველი) The blue bird 6 68 07  Dutch, English  Ralf Mackenbach "Click Clack" - 1 121 08  Greek Rafaella Kosta "Thalassa, ilios, aeras, fotia"(Θάλασσα, ήλιος, αέρας, φωτιά) Sea, sun, air, fire 11 32 09  English Francesca & Mikaela "Double Trouble" - 8 55 10  Ukrainian Andranik Alexanyan "Try topoli, try surmy" (Три тополі, три сурми) Three poplars, three trumpets 5 89 11  Dutch Laura Omloop "Zo verliefd (Yodelo)" So in love 4 113 12  Russian Yuriy Demidovich "Volshebniy krolik" (Волшебный кролик) The magic rabbit 9 48 13  Macedonian Sara Markovska "Za ljubovta" (За љубовта) For love 12 31

The rules says that the participants must sing in one of their national languages, however they are permitted to have a few lines in a different language - as seen in the winning entry.

Score sheet
 Results Total Score              Contestants Sweden 68   4  5  2  5  3  6  2  5  4  7  5  8 Russia 116  6   10  8  10  7  7  10  7  12  8  12  7 Armenia 116  10  12   6  7  12  10  12  6  10  10  8  1 Romania 19  1           1    2        3 Serbia 34  2  1  3  3   2    3    3    1  4 Georgia 68  3  5  6  7  1   4  7  10  6  5  2  Netherlands 121  12  8  8  12  8  8   8  8  8  12  7  10 Cyprus 32  7  3  2  1    1     1    2  3  Malta 55    2  4  4  4  4  8  4   1  6  4  2 Ukraine 89  4  7  12  10  2  10  5  5  4   3  10  5 Belgium 113  8  10  7  5  12  6  12  6  12  5   6  12 Belarus 48    6  1    3  5  3  1    7  4   6 Macedonia 31  5        6    2    3  2  1    All countries automatically receive 12 points

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

 N.  Recipient nation  Voting nation 4    Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Serbia 3   Belgium, Romania, Sweden   Cyprus, Georgia, Russia 2    Belarus, Ukraine 1    Armenia
 All countries were given 12 points at the start of voting. This is so no country gets nul points.

International broadcasts
   İctimai TV. (21 noyabr - Uşaq avroviziyası 2009)
   BHRT.
  SBS1 
 Worldwide  A live broadcast of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was available worldwide via satellite through European streams such as TVRi, RIK Sat, RTS Sat and MKTV Sat. The official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website also provided a live stream without commentary via the peer to peer medium Octoshape.

Commentators
  - Gohar Gasparyan, Tigran Danirlyan
  - Sipke Jan Bousema
  - Pavlo Shylko (DJ Pasha)
  - André Vermeulen (VRT), Maureen Louys and Jean-Louis Lahaye (RTBF)
  - Olga Shelest

 Spokespersons 
 - Elise Mattison
 - Philip Masurov
 - Razmik Arghajanyan
 - Iulia Ciobanu
 - Nevena Bozovic
 - Ana Davitaia
 - Marissa
 - Yorgos Ioannides
 - Daniel Testa
 - Marietta
 - Oliver
 - Arina Aleshkevich
 - Jovana Krstevska

References

 Other websites 
Junior Eurovision Official Website
ESCKaz Junior Eurovision pages
TIME Magazine, "Junior Eurovision: Schoolyard Crushes with Glitter," November 23, 2009 

Category:2009 in Europe
Category:2009 in music
Category:Junior Eurovision Song Contest by year
Category:21st century in Kyiv
Category:November 2009 events
Category:Entertainment in Ukraine