2012
Hosted in: Amsterdam, Netherlands Won by: Ukraine – Nebo by Anastasiya Petryk Last year while many people speculate that 2011 would kick start a new tradition of the previous year’s winning country will host the following year, which would theoretically mean that 2012 would go to Georgia, it landed on runners-up Netherlands instead, the first contest to have been held in the west since 2007 – which is, coincidentally, also held in the Netherlands. They really are the only country there who had a realistic chance of winning AND hosting the contest. The reason for Georgia’s withdrawal from hosting duties was undisclosed. Don’t worry though, as this will be the last time the contest wasn’t held in the country that won the previous year… until 2015 . While 2012 also marks the 10 th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest if you can imagine such a thing, the contest still hasn’t recovered from the old “Benelux vs. the East” narrative, later Sweden & Benelux vs. the East in...