Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020

Serbia participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Warsaw, Poland. Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) selected Petar Aničić, who achieved 11th place with 85 points.^[1]

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020
Country	Serbia
National selection
Selection process	Internal selection
Selection date(s)	Artist: 25 September 2020 Song: 9 October 2020
Selected entrant	Petar Aničić
Selected song	"Heartbeat"
Selected songwriter(s)	Vladimir Graić Leontina Vukomanović Petar Aničić Nemanja Filipović
Finals performance
Final result	11th, 85 points
Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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Background

Main article: Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2020 contest, Serbia had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest eleven 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 2019 contest, Serbia placed 10th with Darija Vračević and the song "Podigni glas".^[5]

Before Junior Eurovision

On 25 September 2020, RTS announced that Petar Aničić would represent Serbia in the contest with the song "Heartbeat".^[6]

At Junior Eurovision

After the opening ceremony, which took place on 23 November 2020, it was announced that Serbia will perform fourth on 29 November 2020, following the Netherlands and preceding Belarus.^[7]

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.^[8] 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 27 November 2020 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 29 November 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 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

Points awarded to Serbia^[11] Score Country 12 points   France 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points   Georgia 4 points   Belarus   Netherlands 3 points   Kazakhstan   Russia 2 points   Malta 1 point   Spain   Ukraine Serbia received 50 points from the online vote

Points awarded by Serbia^[11] Score Country 12 points   Belarus 10 points   Kazakhstan 8 points   Poland 7 points   France 6 points   Spain 5 points   Georgia 4 points   Netherlands 3 points   Ukraine 2 points   Germany 1 point   Malta

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Serbia^[11]

Draw	Country	Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points Awarded
01	Germany	9	11	9	9	8	9	2
02	Kazakhstan	3	1	6	3	6	2	10
03	Netherlands	6	6	8	5	5	7	4
04	Serbia
05	Belarus	1	2	1	1	1	1	12
06	Poland	5	7	2	4	2	3	8
07	Georgia	2	5	4	6	10	6	5
08	Malta	10	9	10	8	9	10	1
09	Russia	11	10	11	10	7	11
10	Spain	4	4	5	7	3	5	6
11	Ukraine	8	3	7	11	11	8	3
12	France	7	8	3	2	4	4	7

References

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2. "Junior Eurovision Song Contest: Serbia". junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
3. Philips, Roel (2 August 2005). "Serbia & Montenegro, Lithuania and Ukraine join in Hasselt". esctoday.com. ESCToday. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
4. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1372 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
5. "Final of Gliwice-Silesia - Junior Eurovision Song Contest". junioreurovision.tv. EBU. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
6. "Petar Aničić will represent Serbia!". junioreurovision.tv. 25 September 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
7. "This is the running order for Junior Eurovision 2020". Junioreurovision.tv. EBU. 23 November 2020. from the original on 23 November 2020.
8. Granger, Anthony (16 October 2020). "Junior Eurovision'20: Voting To Be Tweaked With Discussions On Going Around Points Presentation". Eurovoix. from the original on 16 October 2020.
9. Granger, Anthony (15 November 2018). "Junior Eurovision 2018 – How Does The Voting Work?". Eurovoix.
10. "How to vote for your favourite at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020". Junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. 10 November 2020. from the original on 10 November 2020.
11. "Results of the Final of Poland 2020". European Broadcasting Union. from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.