Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 17

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The **Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 17** was the seventeenth edition of the Junior EuroMusic Song Contest. Armenia hosted this edition in Yerevan. It was the first time that Armenia hosted this contest.

Malta won this edition with 249 points. They both won the jury votes and the televoting results. Albania and Greece and completed the top three.

16 countries took part in this edition, one less than last edition. Romania decided to debut in this edition. Azerbaijan and Israel decided to withdraw from the competition. However the German broadcaster announced to take part, they were not at the official list of participating countries.

## Location

Different as in the adult version, the previous winners isn't automatically the next hosting country. Instead there was a selection to select a host country. For this edition, the EBU internnaly selected the Armenian broadcastser to host.

Armenia selected Yerevan as host city. The venue was the Karen Demirchyan Complex. It hold a capacity of 7.200 people.

## Format

### Number of participants

For the first edition, the EBU announced that they invited some countries to participate in the contest. For the next edition, countries could sign in, with a maximum of 15 countries from the second edition until the thirteenth edition. This was increased to 18 countries in the fourteenth edition.

### Running order

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

From the first edition until the thirteenth, the countries were divided in to groups (first- and second half). This happened fully random. Afterwords, a team will create a running order. Since the fourteenth edition, only the first, last place and the spot of the host country have been drawn.

### Song

Each country sends one song to the contest. There was a change in the rules for this edition. The song has to be for more than 50% in official languages of the country. The song also 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 professional jury of each country awards a set of 12, 10, 8-1 points to 10 songs. Viewers around the world vote for 3 songs, and their votes are distributed proportionally. The votes of the jury and the audience make up 50% of all votes.

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 who received the most points from the online voting will be ranked higher. In case that is the same, the country that received points from the most nations, will be ranked higher. If that is also the same, then the country with most of the 12 points will finish at a higher place, when the countries received from the same amount of countries this highest mark, the nation with the most of 10 points, ... will be ranked higher.

## Voting

https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/565550/junior-euromusic-song-contest-17---yerevan

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

 3
 2
 1
 Spain | Greece

## Other Countries

### Debuting countries

* Romania - When the EBU published the official list of participating countries, it was clear that Romania would take part in this edition.

### Withdrawing countries

* Azerbaijan - Because Armenia hosted the contest, the Azerbaijani broadcaster announced to withdraw from the competition.
* Israel - Due some financial problems the country wasn't able to take part in this edition.