My Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018

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## Format

### Number of participants

Since the seventh edition the EBU announced to put a maximum at the number of participants. In the seventh and eighth edition, eighteen countries were able to participate.

Because the introduction of the semi finals, there is no maximum of participating countries. However, since the seventeenth edition the EBU announced that they would put a new maximum of countries. This meant that 41 countries were able to sign for a participation. This means that each semi final would have 20 countries, plus the host nation (who qualify automatically). Until now, they never reached this limit.

### Running order

There are specific rules about how a country gets his running order.

The host country will have a random number. The rest of the countries will be split in to groups (first- and second half). This will happen fully random. Later on, a team will create a running order to make the show as interesting as possible.

### Song

Each country sends one song to the contest. There are no rules about the language of the song, but the song can't be longer than five minutes.

### Voting rules

After that all the participating countries have sang their song, each single country awards a set of points. The country who gets the most amount of points wins the contest. If two or more countries receive the same number of points, the country that received from the most countries points, will be ranked higher. If that is also the same, then the country who have the highest rank of a country, will be ranked higher.

## Semi final allocation draw

* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Georgia
* Romania
* Russia
* Ukraine
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* FYR Macedonia
* ~~Serbia~~
* Slovenia
* Hungary
* Israel
* Malta
* Slovakia
* Turkey
* Estonia
* Norway

### Grand Final

https://www.scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/357531/my-junior-eurovision-song-contest-2018

### Active EBU members

* Monaco: On *Eurovoix* reported that part of the Monégasque state budget has been reserved for participation in the contest. However, the plans seem to have been delayed because Monaco's new television channel, Monte-Carlo Riviera TV, is scheduled to launch around instead of initially outlined period of late Monaco took.

### Non-EBU members

* Kosovo: On RTK Director-General Shkumbin Ahmetxhekaj stated the Kosovan broadcaster is aiming to apply for EBU membership at the end of the year and confirmed that should RTK gain EBU membership, Kosovo would be able to participate.

### Broadcasts

All participating broadcasters may choose to have on-site or remote commentators providing an insight about the show and voting information to their local audience. While they must broadcast at least the semi-final they are voting in and the final, most broadcasters air all three shows with different programming plans. Similarly, some non-participating broadcasters may still want to air the contest.

The following are the broadcasters that have confirmed in whole or in part their broadcasting plans and/or their commentators:

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
 Mashenka | All shows
 Serbia | All shows
 United States | All shows