Cyprus in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Cyprus
Cyprus
Member station CyBC
National selection events
Participation summary
Appearances 9
First appearance 2003
Last appearance 2017
Best result 8th: 2004, 2006
Worst result Last: 2017
External links
Cyprus's page at Eurovision.tv
For the most recent participation see
Cyprus in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017

Cyprus has entered the Junior Eurovision Song Contest nine times. They were forced to withdraw in 2005, as Rena Kiriakidi's 'Tsirko' was said to be too similar to another song. However, the Cypriot viewers were able to watch the show and vote.

In May 2007, CyBC were announced by the EBU to host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008.[1]

Cyprus withdrew from the competition in 2010 because of unspecified reasons. Although they were in talks with the EBU to return to the contest in 2013, they eventually did not. On 3 July 2014, CyBC announced its return to the competition after a four-year absence.[2] They were represented by Sophia Patsalides with the song 'I pio omorfi mera' which placed in ninth place out of sixteen participating entries, achieving a score of sixty-nine points. Despite withdrawing from the contest in 2015 for financial reasons, CyBC returned in 2016, only to place in the bottom two twice, second-to-last in 2016 with George Michaelides and the song 'Dance Floor' in Valletta, Malta and last in 2017 with Nicole Nicolaou and the song 'I wanna be a star' in Tbilisi, Georgia. The following year, on 11 June 2018, CyBC announced that they would again withdraw from the contest in 2018.[3]

Participation

Table key

 1st place   2nd place   3rd place   Last place   Withdrew/Disqualified 

Year Artist Song Language Place Points
2003 Theodora Rafti "Mia efhi" (Μια ευχή) Greek 14 16
2004 Marios Tofi "Oneira" (Όνειρα) Greek 8 61
2005 Rena Kiriakidi "Tsirko" (Τσίρκο) Greek Withdrew
2006 Louis Panagiotou and Christina Christofi "Agoria koritsia" (Αγόρια Κορίτσια) Greek 8 58
2007 Yiorgos Ioannides "I mousiki dinei ftera" (Η μουσική δίνει φτερά) Greek 14 29
2008 Elena Mannouri and Charis Savva "Gioupi gia!" (Γιούπι για!) Greek 10 46
2009 Rafaella Kosta "Thalassa, ilios, aeras, fotia" (Θάλασσα, Ήλιος, Αέρας, Φωτιά) Greek 11 32
Did not participate between 2010 and 2013
2014 Sophia Patsalides[4] "I pio omorfi mera" (Η πιο όμορφη μέρα) Greek, English 9 69
2015 Did not participate
2016 George Michaelides "Dance Floor" Greek, English 16 27
2017 Nicole Nicolaou "I Wanna Be a Star" Greek, English 16 45
2018 Did not participate

Broadcasts and voting

Commentators and spokespersons

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and YouTube. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov.[5] The Cypriot broadcaster, CyBC, sent their own commentator to each contest in order to provide commentary in the Greek language and English languages. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Cyprus. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2003.

Year(s) Commentator Spokesperson
2003 TBC TBC
2004 TBC Stella Maria
2005 TBC Anna Maria Koukides
2006 Kyriakos Pastides George Ioannidies
2007 Natalie Michael
2008 Christina Christofi
2009 George Ioannidies
Did not participate between 2010 and 2013
2014 Kyriakos Pastides Paris Nicolaou
Did not participate in 2015
2016 Kyriakos Pastides Loucas Demetriou
2017 Maria Christophorou
Did not participate in 2018

Voting history

The tables below shows Cyprus' top-five voting history rankings up until their most recent participation in 2014:

Hostings

Year Location Venue Presenters
2008 Limassol Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Centre Sophia Paraskeva & Alex Michael

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Cyprus to host JESC 2008". esctoday.com. 25 May 2007. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
  2. ↑ "Cyprus returns to Junior Eurovision!". junioreurovision.tv. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Cyprus: Withdraws from Junior Eurovision". Eurovoix. 11 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "Sophia Patsalides to represent Cyprus".
  5. ↑ Fisher, Luke James (21 November 2015). "Tonight: Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015!". Junior Eurovision Song Contest – Bulgaria 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
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