Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020

Ukraine will participate in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020, which is to be held in Warsaw, Poland, with the song "Vidkryvai" performed by Oleksandr Balabanov. Their entrant was selected through a national selection, organised by the Ukrainian broadcaster UA:PBC.[1][2]

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020
Country Ukraine
National selection
Selection processNational final
Selection date(s)8 September 2020[lower-alpha 1]
Selected entrantOleksandr Balabanov
Selected song"Vidkryvai"
Selected songwriter(s)Mykhailo Klymenko
Oleksandr Balabanov
Finals performance
Final result7th, 106 points
Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
◄2019 • 2020

Background
Main article: Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2020 contest, Ukraine had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest fourteen times since its debut in 2006.[3] Ukraine have never missed a contest since their debut appearance,[4] having won the contest once in 2012 with the song "Nebo", performed by Anastasiya Petryk.[5] The Ukrainian capital Kyiv has hosted the contest twice, at the Palace of Sports in 2009,[6] and the Palace "Ukraine" in 2013.[7] In the 2019 contest, Sophia Ivanko represented her country in Gliwice, Poland with the song the "Spirit of Music". She placed 15th out of 19 entries with 59 points.[8]

Before Junior Eurovision

UA:PBC announced that they would be participating at the contest in June 2020.[9]

National final

UA:PBC launched their selection process on 5 August 2020, accepting submissions until 25 August 2020. All applications that complied with the rules were uploaded on YouTube and the candidate that had received the most likes on the platform advanced automatically to the next stage of the program. The final shortlist was announced on 28 August 2020 with an online vote due to open a week later on 5 September 2020 to decide the winning entry alongside a professional jury.

Competing entries

The submissions accepted by UA:PBC were revealed online and users had until 27 August 2020 to vote for their favourite entries by giving a like. The entry with the most likes directly advanced to the national final. A selection panel then reviewed the remaining submissions and selected ten entries to compete in the national final: eight original songs and two cover songs.[10] On 18 August 2020, Maksym Tkachuk was disqualified from the competition as it was discovered that he had performed in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea after its annexation as part of a competition allegedly organised by the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry, breaching the Section 3.4. on the national selection's rules.[11] On 28 August 2020, the eleven selected competing acts were announced on Instagram.[12]

  Entry received the most YouTube likes   Qualified for the final   Disqualified

Final

The eleven competing entries will be published online on 5 September 2020 and the winner will be selected through the combination of both public online vote and the votes of jury members made up of music professionals.[13] Eight jury members each awarded one vote to their favourite entry and each member had an equal stake in the final result. For the online vote, users will be able to vote for their favourite entries from 5 September 2020 to 8 September 2020 via UA:PBC's official website junior.eurovision.ua, and the results had a weighting equal to the votes of a single jury member.[14]

Originally, the winner was to be revealed on 12 September 2020. However, UA:PBC confirmed through its official Instagram account that Oleksandr Balabanov will represent Ukraine at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020. He received 5 points in total from the jurors, with Daniela Shapochnikova winning the online voting.[15]

Final – 12 September 2020
Artist Song Jury Online voting[16] Total Place
Percentage Points
Anhelina Terennykova "The Vibe" 0 3.12% 0 0 4
Daniela Shapochnikova "Tvoye maybutnye" (Твоє Майбутнє) 0 39.98% 1 1 3
Darin Osman "Hello"[17] 0 2.01% 0 0 4
Ellen[lower-alpha 4] "Never Get Free" 2 16.61% 0 2 2
Nikita Achkasov "Hello"[17] 0 2.85% 0 0 4
Oleksandr Balabanov "Vidkryvai" (Відкривай) 5 12.60% 0 5 1
Polina Babiy "SuperBit" 0 1.9% 0 0 4
RREALINA[lower-alpha 5] "My Spirit" 0 3.60% 0 0 4
Sofiya Shkidchenko "Ok" 0 0.65% 0 0 4
Yar Politov "Ya b tudy" (Я б туди) 1 14.27% 0 1 3
Yuliya Karimi "People" 0 2.42% 0 0 4

The jury members were as follows:[19]

Artist and song information
Oleksandr Balabanov
Born (2006-07-05) 5 July 2006
Donetsk, Ukraine
Occupation(s)Singer
InstrumentsVocals
"Vidkryvai (Open Up)"
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 entry
Country
Artist(s)
Oleksandr Balabanov
Languages
Composer(s)
  • Mykhailo Klymenko
  • Oleksandr Balabanov
Lyricist(s)
  • Mykhailo Klymenko
  • Oleksandr Balabanov
Entry chronology
◄ "The Spirit of Music" (2019)   

Oleksandr Balabanov

Oleksandr Balabanov (Ukrainian: Олександр Балабанов; born 5 July 2006)[20] is a Ukrainian singer. He represented Ukraine at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song "Vidkryvai".[21]

Vidkryvai (Open Up)

"Vidkryvai (Open Up)" (Ukrainian: Відкривай)[2] is a song by Ukrainian singer Oleksandr Balabanov. It represented Ukraine at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020.

At Junior Eurovision

After the opening ceremony, which took place on 23 November 2020, it was announced that Ukraine will perform eleventh on 29 November 2020, following Spain and preceding France.[22]

Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition will be used, where the results will be determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting.[23] Every country has a national jury that consists of three music industry professionals and two kids aged between 10 and 15 who are citizens of the country they represent. The rankings of those jurors are combined to make an overall top ten.[24]

The online voting consists of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 27 November 2020 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances is shown on junioreurovision.tv before the viewers can vote. After this, voters also have the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting will end on Sunday 29 November at 16:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting will take place during the live show and begin right after the last performance and will be open for 15 minutes. International viewers will be able vote for a maximum of three songs.[25] They will also be able to vote for their own country's song. These votes will then be turned into points which will be determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 20% of the votes, it received 20% of the available points.

Points awarded to Ukraine
Jury
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
  • Ukraine received 54 points from Online voting.

Points awarded by Ukraine
12 points Georgia
10 points France
8 points Spain
7 points Kazakhstan
6 points Belarus
5 points Netherlands
4 points Malta
3 points Russia
2 points Germany
1 point Serbia

Split voting results
Split voting results from Ukraine
Draw Country Juror 1 Juror 2 Juror 3 Juror 4 Juror 5 Average Rank Points
01  Germany 11 11 10 6 5 9 2
02  Kazakhstan 1 4 7 4 6 4 7
03  Netherlands 8 2 4 3 8 6 5
04  Serbia 9 9 8 9 10 10 1
05  Belarus 3 5 6 2 7 5 6
06  Poland 10 6 11 11 9 11
07  Georgia 5 1 3 1 4 1 12
08  Malta 7 10 9 5 3 7 4
09  Russia 6 7 5 10 11 8 3
10  Spain 2 8 2 7 1 3 8
11  Ukraine
12  France 4 3 1 8 2 2 10

See also

Notes
  1. While the results had originally been scheduled to be announced on 12 September, UA:PBC announced that "Vidkryvai" had won the selection on 8 September.[1]
  2. While the original song is in English, the song was performed in Ukrainian.
  3. While the original song is in English, the song was performed in Ukrainian.
  4. Her application was under her real name Olena Usenko, however she used the artistic name Ellen in the final stage of the national selection.
  5. Her application was under her real name Angelina McFarlane, however she used the artistic name RREALINA in the final stage of the national selection.

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