Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010
Dates
Final	20 November 2010
Host
Venue	Minsk Arena, Minsk, Belarus
Presenter(s)	Denis Kourian, Leila Ismailova
Directed by	Daniel Elenek
Executive supervisor	Svante Stockselius
Host broadcaster	Belarusian Television and Radio Company (BTRC)
Participants
Number of entries	14
Debuting countries	Moldova
Returning countries	Latvia Lithuania
Non-returning countries	Cyprus Romania
Vote
Voting system	Citizens of each participating country vote by telephone and SMS message, which counts for 50%. Each country's 10 favourites are awarded 1 to 8, 10 and 12 points based on the number of votes. Results 1-5 are automatically displayed on-screen, then each country announces 6-8, 10 and 12 points. A jury in each country also has a 50% say in the outcome.
Winning song	Armenia "Mama"
2009 ← Junior Eurovision Song Contest → 2011

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 was the eighth time this exciting singing competition for young people took place. It was held in Minsk, Belarus, on 20 November 2010.

This year, the contest was won by Vladimir Arzumanyan from Armenia with his song "Mama". This was Armenia's very first win at Junior Eurovision, and their first win in any Eurovision contest! Even though Sweden was expected to win, Armenia surprised everyone.

The Grand Final
Returning Performers
Scoreboard Details
- Who Got 12 Points?
International TV Coverage
Show Commentators
Announcing the Points
Images for kids
See also

The Grand Final

In the final, each country gave points to their favorite songs. The votes were split: half came from a special jury (a group of experts), and the other half came from the public. People could vote for their favorite songs by calling or sending text messages.

Voters picked their top ten songs. The best song got 12 points, the second best got 10 points, and then 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 point for the others.

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English translation	Place	Points
01	Lithuania	Lithuanian	Bartas	"Oki Doki"	—	6	67
02	Moldova	Romanian, English	Ștefan Roșcovan	"Ali Baba"	—	8	54
03	The Netherlands	Dutch, English	Anna & Senna	"My Family"	—	9	52
04	Serbia	Serbian	Sonja Škorić	"Čarobna noć" (Чаробна ноћ)	Magical night	3	113
05	Ukraine	Ukrainian	Yulia Gurska	"Miy litak" (Мій літак)	My plane	14	28
06	Sweden	Swedish	Josefine Ridell	"Allt jag vill ha"	All I want	11	48
07	Russia	Russian, English	Sasha Lazin & Liza Drozd	"Boy and Girl"	—	2	119
08	Latvia	Latvian	Šarlote Lēnmane & Sea Stones	"Viva la Dance" (Dejo tā)	Long live dance (Dance like that)	10	51
09	Belgium	Dutch, English	Jill & Lauren	"Get Up!"	—	7	61
10	Armenia	Armenian	Vladimir Arzumanyan	"Mama" (Մամա)	Mother	1	120
11	Malta	English, Maltese	Nicole Azzopardi	"Knock Knock!….Boom! Boom!"	—	13	35
12	Belarus	Russian	Daniil Kozlov	"Muzyki svet" (Музыки свет)	Light of music	5	85
13	Georgia	Imaginary	Mariam Kakhelishvili	"Mari Dari"	—	4	109
14	Macedonia	Macedonian	Anja Veterova	"Eooo, Eooo"	—	12	38

The rules said that participants had to sing in one of their country's main languages. However, they were allowed to include a few lines in a different language, which some entries did.
This was the first time since the year 2000 that the Maltese language was used in a Eurovision event. The last time was with the song "Desire" by Claudette Pace in the 2000 contest.

Returning Performers

Some artists had performed in Junior Eurovision before!

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Sea Stones (also known as C-Stones Junior)	Latvia	2004

Scoreboard Details

This table shows how each country voted and the total points they received.

		Total Score
		Results
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

Who Got 12 Points?

Here's a quick look at which countries received the top score of 12 points:

N.	Recipient nation	Voting nation
4	Armenia	Ukraine, Sweden, Russia, Belgium
3	Russia	Armenia, Malta, Belarus
2	Serbia	Moldova, Macedonia
2	Belarus	Latvia, Georgia
1	Belgium	Netherlands
	Georgia	Lithuania
	Macedonia	Serbia

To make sure no country ended up with zero points, every country was given 12 points right at the start of the voting.
As a fun little joke, the head of the contest, Svante Stockselius, also received 12 points before the voting began. He was planning to leave his job at the end of the year.