| Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021 | ||||
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| Country |  Serbia | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Internal selection | |||
| Selection date(s) |
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| Selected entrant | Jovana and Dunja | |||
| Selected song | "Oči Deteta (Children's Eyes)" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) | Ana Frlin | |||
| Finals performance | ||||
| Final result | 13th, 86 points | |||
| Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Serbia participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021, held in Paris, France. [1]
Prior to the 2021 contest, Serbia had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twelve times since its debut in 2006, [2] and once as Serbia and Montenegro in 2005, [3] prior to the Montenegrin independence referendum in 2006 which culminated into the dissolution of Serbia and Montenegro, [4] As of 2020, Serbia's best results are two third places, achieved in 2007 and 2010. In the 2020 contest, Serbia placed 11th with Petar Aničić and the song "Heartbeat". [5]
On 5 October 2021, RTS announced that Jovana Radonjić and Dunja Živković would represent Serbia in the contest with the song "Oči deteta (Children's Eyes)". [6] [7] The song was presented on 28 October 2021.
After the opening ceremony, which took place on 13 December 2021, it was announced that Serbia would perform seventeenth on 19 December 2021, following Spain and preceding North Macedonia. [8]
At the end of the contest, Serbia received 86 points, placing 13th out of 19 participating countries.
The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten. [9]
The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 17 December 2021 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on Sunday 17 December at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for three songs. [10] They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 20% of the votes, it received 20% of the available points.
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| Draw | Country | Juror A | Juror B | Juror C | Juror D | Juror E | Average Rank | Points Awarded |
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| 01 |  Germany | 3 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 6 | 5 |
| 02 |  Georgia | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 03 |  Poland | 16 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 |
| 04 |  Malta | 15 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 17 | |
| 05 |  Italy | 7 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 11 | |
| 06 |  Bulgaria | 10 | 10 | 18 | 6 | 16 | 12 | |
| 07 |  Russia | 9 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 4 |
| 08 |  Ireland | 13 | 11 | 16 | 14 | 17 | 16 | |
| 09 |  Armenia | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 10 |  Kazakhstan | 12 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 2 |
| 11 |  Albania | 8 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 14 | |
| 12 |  Ukraine | 11 | 17 | 11 | 17 | 12 | 15 | |
| 13 |  France | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| 14 |  Azerbaijan | 2 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| 15 |  Netherlands | 4 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 1 |
| 16 |  Spain | 14 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 13 | |
| 17 | Serbia | |||||||
| 18 |  North Macedonia | 18 | 15 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| 19 |  Portugal | 17 | 18 | 14 | 18 | 18 | 18 |
The participation of Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest first began in Bucharest, Romania at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006, having previously participated in 2005 as part of Serbia and Montenegro. Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) a member organisation of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) are responsible for the selection process of its entrants. Serbia used the national selection format broadcasting a show entitled Izbor za dečju pesmu Evrovizije for its participation at the contests between 2006 and 2010.
Serbia and Montenegro participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005; their only participation during the country's existence. Filip Vučić represented the country with "Ljubav pa fudbal", which finished 13th for the country. Following the country's dissolution in 2006, Serbia continued to participate in the contest, debuting in 2006. Montenegro participated in the 2014 contest.
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