2016
Hosted in: Valetta, Malta Won by: Georgia – Mzeo by Mariam Mamadashvili The Eurovision Song Contests has had many voting procedures and ways to present them over the years, indeed the Junior version has seen plenty of wild ones. This year, however, saw the weirdest change yet – for the first time ever, the audience has no input on the contest, being replaced by the Kids’ Jury. However, instead of a pan-European one, as this was the case since 2012 , each country now has its own Kids’ Jury. Second, after the overly dramatic ending that is the new voting procedure introduced in the adult contest later that year, they were hesitant to adopt that in this contest too. And finally, because somehow 2 sets of points from 17 countries isn’t enough, there are points from the on-stage, strictly neutral panelists. They really want to Americanize this contest, aren’t they? Thankfully this was only used for a year. Whether you liked it or not, two of the on-stage judges are Jedward. Their par...