FRANCE – Although the EBU has provided no videos from the second round of rehearsals, here are the impressions we gathered from our sources regarding the third day of rehearsals as ten countries carried out their efforts on stage.
๐ณ FIRST VOTING PHASE KICKS OFF
๐ณ VOTE IN JUNIOR EUROPREDICTION
In order to understand this review, it’s imperative to realise that if you anticipate seeing an adult style music TV show on Sunday, simply forget it. With Junior Eurovision in Paris, in a magical setting like the one built in La Seine Musicale, you can expect only a fairytale presenting the dream of young children across Europe, through music performance.
From the ten countries conducting their rehearsals on December 16th, it seems that The Netherlands, Italy and somehow Poland, gathered the most positive reactions. It is no secret that Poland and Armenia are the top favourites to win this year according to the press, but we have serious indications that this will not happen as there are highly positive reactions for countries like Italy, Georgia and Ukraine.
Vocally it was impressive, according to our sources, to listen to Malta and Portugal. Ireland and Germany are not making any fuzz among the press and Spain seems to have been trapped in the way they present their entry instead of performing it. Somehow we relive the Miki Nuna thing all over again.
In the meantime, the EBU focuses on the participants with few videos uploaded every day, not really giving much news online. It is the broadcasters that actually provide information and multimedia to the users rather than the official EBU site. But then again, EBu’s Junior Eurovision website was always reluctant on what to post online.
Here’s also an update with the table of commentators and spokespersons for the 2021 edition of Junior Eurovision. This table will be updated as soon as there are information given. The official voting begins this afternoon at 20:00 CET and the show will be online live from Paris on Sunday through YouTube. The polls predict Poland, Armenia and Italy to win the contest (at the time this post was written).
JUNIOR EUROVISION 2021 ๐ซ๐ท COMMENTATORS & SPOKESPERSONS
| PARTICIPANT(S) | COMMENTATOR(S) | SPOKESPERSON |
|---|---|---|
| ๐ฆ๐ฑ Albania | TBA | TBA |
| ๐ฆ๐ฒ Armenia | TBA | Karina Ignatyan |
| ๐ฆ๐ฟ Azerbaijan | TBA | TBA |
| ๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria | TBA | TBA |
| ๐ซ๐ท France | Stรฉphane Bern & Laurence Boccolini | TBA |
| ๐ฌ๐ช Georgia | Nikoloz Lobiladze | Sandra Gadelia |
| ๐ฉ๐ช Germany | Constantin Zรถller (Consi) | TBA |
| ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland | Louise Cantillon | Levi Hackett |
| ๐ฎ๐น Italy | Mario Acampa, Marta Viola, Giorgia Boni | TBA |
| ๐ฐ๐ฟ Kazakhstan | TBA | TBA |
| ๐ฒ๐น Malta | TBA | TBA |
| ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands | Buddy Vedder | Matheu Hinzen |
| ๐ฒ๐ฐ North Macedonia | Eli Tanaskovska | *provided |
| ๐ต๐ฑ Poland | TBA | TBA |
| ๐ต๐น Portugal | Nuno Galopim | TBA |
| ๐ท๐บ Russia | Anton Zorkin | Liza Gureeva |
| ๐ท๐ธ Serbia | Tijana Lukiฤ | *provided |
| ๐ช๐ธ Serbia | Tony Aguilar and Julia Varela | TBA |
| ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine | Viktor Diachenko | Oleksandr Balabanov |
Nineteen countries will participate in the contest, with Albania, Armenia, Ireland, Italy, North Macedonia and Portugal all returning after their absences from the previous edition, while Azerbaijan and Bulgaria will return after two and four-year absences respectively. Belarus will not participate, as the country’s broadcaster is under a three-year suspension from the EBU.
โญ Luces, brillos y mucha buena energรญa… ยกeso es lo que nos espera este domingo 19 de diciembre! #LeviEnsayo2 https://t.co/RdlOCe4KRh pic.twitter.com/a9xkSkVZnZ
— Eurovisiรณn RTVE (@eurovision_tve) December 16, 2021
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