Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022

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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022
CountryFlag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
National selection
Selection processNational final
Selection date(s)18 September 2022
Selected entrantZlata Dziunka
Selected song"Nezlamna (Unbreakable)"
Selected songwriter(s)Zlata Dziunka
Kateryna Sereda
Finals performance
Final result9th, 111 points
Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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Ukraine competed in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Armenia, which was held on 11 December 2022 in Yerevan. [1] The country was represented by Zlata Dziunka (born 1 December 2008) with the song "Nezlamna (Unbreakable)", who won the national selection organised by the Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne. [2]

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Background

Prior to the 2022 contest, Ukraine had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest fifteen times since its debut in 2006. [3] Ukraine never missed a contest since their debut appearance, [4] and 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 2021 contest, Olena Usenko represented the country in Paris, France with the song the "Vazhil", placing 6th out of 19 entries with 125 points.

Before Junior Eurovision

National final

The Ukrainian broadcaster announced on 1 August 2022 that they would be participating at the 2022 contest. [8]

Format

The final, which took place on 18 September 2022, featured five acts vying to represent Ukraine in Yerevan. The winner was selected via the 50/50 combination of votes from an online vote and an expert jury, the members of which were chosen by the public. The online voting, taking place via Suspilne's official website junioreurovision.ua, was opened on 16 September and closed before the show, and was reopened for 15 minutes after all songs were performed. [9] Both the public televote and the expert jury will assign scores ranging from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) and the entry that has the highest number of points following the combination of these scores is declared the winner. In the event of a tie, the jurors were to be tasked with assessing and individually voting for their favourite. The voting for the expert jury was organised via Suspilne's official website junioreurovision.ua. [10] Ten candidates were presented to the public and a voting was open from 30 August to 6 September 2022, with the three candidates topping the online voting being invited to become jurors of the show. [10] All candidates to become expert jurors were:

The three selected jury members with the most votes were announced on 13 September 2022. [11] Khrystyna Soloviy was chosen as the head juror, forming the jury panel together with Myroslava Saliy and Anzhelika Rudnytska. [11]

Competing entries

The submissions for the national selection with original songs from Ukrainian citizens or Ukrainians living in other countries were accepted until 23 August 2022, with participants being required to submit a live performance of their entries recorded on a laptop or telephone without any alterations made to the recording. [2] [12] [13] Five acts were selected from over 50 received submissions to proceed to the final, which were announced on 6 September 2022. [14] [15]

Final

The final took place on 18 September 2022, hosted by Timur Miroshnychenko in Kyiv and was broadcast on Suspilne Kultura as well as online via Suspilne's Facebook and YouTube channels. [14] [15] [16] The results were determined by a combination of jury and online vote. [10] [9] Due to a tie in the final results, the jurors each voted individually for their winner, with Sofia Artemenko & DJ Polinka receiving 1 vote and Zlata Dziunka receiving 2 votes, therefore winning the final. [17]

Final – 18 September 2022
DrawArtistSongJuryOnline
voting		TotalPlace
1Sofia Artemenko & DJ Polinka"Zamovliannia" (Замовляння)4592
2Zlata Dziunka"Nezlamna" (Незламна)5491
3Yelyzaveta Petruk"Pisnia pro lelechat" (Пісня про лелечат)1235
4Daria Rebrova"Paporoti kvitka" (Папороті квітка)3363
5Diana Stasiuk"We Are the Future"2134

At Junior Eurovision

After the opening ceremony, which took place on 5 December 2022, it was announced that Ukraine would perform sixteenth (last) on 11 December 2022, following Armenia. [18]

Voting

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. [19]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 9 December 2022 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 11 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. [20] 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 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

Jury selection

The members of the Ukrainian jury panel will be selected via a public online vote. Ten candidates were announced on 28 October 2022 and the online vote took place until 2 November 2022 via Suspilne's official website junioreurovision.ua. [21] Based on the results of the vote, the five potential jurors that receive the most votes will be asked to sign to be part of the jury. In the event that a juror is unable to sign the agreement to be on the jury, the juror with the next highest number of votes will be offered the place on the jury. [21]

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Ukraine [22]
DrawCountryJuror AJuror BJuror CJuror DJuror EAverage RankPoints Awarded
01Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 69671283
02Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3819556
03Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 151513121515
04Flag of Malta.svg  Malta 1010969101
05Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 11138141313
06Flag of France.svg  France 7678165
07Flag of Albania.svg  Albania 13141110812
08Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 21527210
09Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 4435447
10Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia 1274131092
11Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 511103674
12Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 83213112
13Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 9514151411
14Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 141215111114
15Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia 12124238
16Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine

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