Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008
Fun in the Sun
Dates
Final	22 November 2008
Host
Venue	Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Centre, Limassol, Cyprus
Presenter(s)	Alex Michael Sophia Paraskeva
Directed by	Klitos Klitou
Supervisor	Svante Stockselius
Executive producer	Munro Forbes
Host broadcaster	Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC)
Website	junioreurovision.tv/event/lemesos-2008
Participants
Number of entries	15
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	None
Non-returning countries	Portugal  Sweden
Participation map      Competing countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2008
Vote
Voting system	Each country awards 1–8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite songs.[1]
Winning song	Georgia "Bzz.."
2007 ← Junior Eurovision Song Contest → 2009

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the sixth edition of the annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which is the world's largest song contest for children.^[2] It was held at the "Spyros Kyprianou" Athletic Centre in Lemesos, Cyprus and hosted by Alex Michael and Sophia Paraskeva. The theme of the event was "Fun in the Sun".^[3] It was won by the Georgian trio Bzikebi, with the song "Bzz..". Ukraine took 2nd place and Lithuania finished 3rd.^[4] Bzikebi also became the first group act to win the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

For the contest, various changes to the rules were made. One was that adults could assist children to write the songs submitted to their national broadcaster; previously only children could write the songs, with no assistance from adults. Another change was only six people could be on stage during a performance, instead of eight. The most significant change, however, was only half of the vote was decided by the tele-voters. Before the 2008 contest tele-voters completely decided the whole result. The other half of the result was decided by a jury of adults and children.^[5][6]