When audiences tune into Junior Eurovision 2020 on Sunday 29 November, they may be struck by a keen sense of communal resilience. That’s because Germany’s Susan will open the show with “Stronger With You”.
Some might consider the entry a surprise opener, but it was, of course, the result of chance. Germany drew the first position during Monday’s Opening Ceremony.
France drew position number 12, and will close the show with Valentina and “J’imagine”.
In the interests of fairness, a number also had to be drawn for Poland’s homegirl Ala Tracz. The “I’ll Be Standing” songstress will perform sixth.
Junior Eurovision 2020 Running Order
The running order fate of the remaining contestants was decided by producers, whose job it is to create the most interesting show possible — aka, spacing out ballads and dance numbers so there’s never a sense of monotony.
- Germany
- Kazakhstan
- The Netherlands
- Serbia
- Belarus
- Poland
- Georgia
- Malta
- Russia
- Spain
- Ukraine
- France
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Does the running order matter at JESC?
If you believe in statistics then yes, it does.
In the 17-year history of Junior Eurovision, only two songs from the first half have managed to win the contest — Croatia 2003 and Georgia 2008. That’s around 12.5% of all winners.
If you are lucky enough to draw the second half then the closing slot has a very strong chance of victory. It has four wins: Belarus 2005, Russia 2006, Georgia 2016 and Poland 2018. In the 2010s, Malta (twice), Russia, Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine all won from slots in the last five.
What do you think of the running order? Who has an advantage and who doesn’t? Let us know below.
In recent allocation draws for JESC, lots are drawn to determine which half of the show a country will perform in, including which among the non-host countries will open and close the show. Only then and after the host country’s performance order has been picked at random will producers determine the running order. 🙂
As someone with Russia at my #1 spot, I’m very happy with the draw. Basically, I wanted Sofia to be performing after Georgia, Kazakhstan and Belarus in the running order. She’ll be the last “big vocalist” to perform and should do well with the juries as a result.
Petition for the following countries to return to Junior Eurovision in 2021:
• Albania
• Armenia
• Bulgaria
• Ireland
• Italy
• North Macedonia
• Norway (TV2)
• Portugal
I want Australia back. Desperately 🙁
becca didn’t mention them but I believe Australia and Wales both said they intended to return in 2021. I don’t think any of the countries that withdrew said anything ruling out a return next year.
It all depends. 🙂
I think most of the ones you mentioned said they’re coming back next year, save for maybe Bulgaria and Norway.
Okay. Those were my guesses. I know Armenia and other countries I mentioned will come back and possibly countries I didn’t mention like Wales and Australia. We’ll see.
The running order will have such a small relevance in a final on only 12 songs, especially considering how many votes will be cast earlier online.
Technically, a lot more online votes will be for Spain than Poland.
https://www.escplus.es/eurovision-junior-2020-se-podra-ver-en-todo-el-mundo-a-traves-de-tve-internacional/
Technically the spanish tv is not doing promo and more than half of the spanish people doesn’t even know who is Solea,who is Melani or even when Jesc will take place. Meanwhile the polish tv is since few weeks ago doing a lot of promotion in TV saying lets give a third victory to Poland,our beloved country,let’s share the polish music around the world,vote for Poland the 29 of November,and showing the steps to vote for themselfs. If you ask me it seems more like lets show Poland is better than the rest of Europe,let’s vote to winas a nation… Read more »
For your information, Soleá belongs to a popular flamenco family while Valentina Tronel is a member of the popular group Kids United.
I’m happy with Malta’s place at least and I do believe it could do really good in jury (maybe Kazakhstan 2019???) but I feel bad for Germany because I love the song (my 3rd) but probably now bottom 3 (except if juries save them)
Btw Malta is my favorite pls don’t hate on me lol
Maltas song is great. top 5 for me
Spain or France FTW please.
Yes please ….that would be awesome. I would like to have Kazakhstan as the winner too (because then their chance to get into the adult ESC will rise).
They put Kazakhstan 2nd. Pretty obvious the ebu doesn’t want them to win.
The first JESC winner ever performed second. Doesn’t mean anything.
Someone has to. And i dont want to be mean since this is about kids but we all know the producers always put a specific category of songs on the 2nd spot..
Btw anahit & mary got 2nd place in 2016 while performing 2nd
and also there are just 12 countries participating, so the running order is not so important.
Yeah, let’s not look too deeply into it. A lot of songs have finished at least top-five that performed second. Heck, I checked 2009, and the songs that finished joint-second were the ones performed second and third!
France was already a favourite, this will increase their chances to win even more. Poland will be top 2 online voting with Spain, Germany is DEAD. It is a weak song and position 1.
Germany: Junior Eurovision 2021 participation confirmed
err… what? ;P
Well, RIP Germany. With a weak song and opening the show, it doesn’t look so good for them. The online voting will probably help them tho. Poland is fine, they are going to win the online voting anyway. France is lucky. Last is always good. Then again, Serbia performed last last year and that didn’t help them much.
Exited to see the rest of running order!
We don’t know how the jury is going to like everything. They aren’t so easily influenced by running order. Plus, given that there are only twelve songs, Germany is probably going to score with a fair few juries by default.
How will they balance out the jury and online voting? Can a country get 200+ points from the public, if theoretically speaking a country can get max. 132 points from the juries (if everyone of the other countries give 12 points, which is, of course, unlikely)?
Points from the voting will be based on the percentage of votes that a song received from the public.
For example:
If 200 = Total amount of points from public and 15% is percentage of votes received by a song then…
(200) times (0.15) = 30 out of 200 available points from the public.
Then add that on top of the jury points the song previously received to get its overall final result.
Edit: misplaced comment.
About the same amount of points to be handed out by the national juries, around 696 points if my math is correct.
Germany: Junior Eurovision 2021 participation confirmed