Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020
| Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 | |
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| #MoveTheWorld! | |
| Date and venue | |
| Final |
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| Venue | Studio 5 TVP headquarters Warsaw, Poland |
| Organisation | |
| Organiser | European Broadcasting Union (EBU) |
| Executive supervisor | Martin Österdahl |
| Production | |
| Host broadcaster | Telewizja Polska (TVP) |
| Directors |
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| Executive producer | Marta Piekarska |
| Presenters |
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| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 12 |
| Debuting countries | Germany |
| Non-returning countries | |
Participation map
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| Vote | |
| Voting system | The professional jury of each country awards a set of 12, 10, 8-1 points to 10 songs. Viewers around the world vote for 3 songs, and their votes are distributed proportionally. The votes of the jury and the audience make up 50% of all votes. |
| Winning song | France "J'imagine" |
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 was the 18th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, held on 29 November 2020 at the TVP headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, and presented by Ida Nowakowska, Małgorzata Tomaszewska, and Rafał Brzozowski. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP), which staged the event after winning the 2019 contest for Poland with the song "Superhero" by Viki Gabor. This was the first time the contest was held in the same country for two consecutive years. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the competing performances were pre-recorded by the participating broadcasters remotely, under the supervision of the EBU under similar conditions, and the participating artists followed the event from their countries of origin.
Broadcasters from twelve countries participated in the contest, the smallest number of participants since 2013. Some countries cited the pandemic and its resulting travel restrictions as the reasons for their non-participation. Meanwhile, Germany participated for the first time.
The winner was France with the song "J'imagine" by Valentina. This was France's first victory in the contest, as well as its first win at a Eurovision event since Eurovision Young Dancers 1989. Kazakhstan and Spain finished second and third, respectively, for the second year in a row. The Netherlands and Belarus completed the top five, with the Netherlands finishing fourth also for the second year in a row. Debuting country Germany finished last.