Ranina

Georgia used an original children's talent show format for the first time, Ranina (Georgian: რანინა), as the selection method for their artist. Starting on 2 March 2018, the show lasted around two months with ten candidate artists.^[4]

Tamar Edilashvili

Tamar Edilashvili (born 11 May 2005) is a Georgian child singer. She represented Georgia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Minsk, Belarus.^[16]

The young singer currently studies at the NK School-Lyceum and the E. Mikeladze Central Music School. Tamar is no stranger to music competitions, having participated in the X Factor Georgia in 2017 and reaching the semi-final.

In October of last year, the three-month-long competition Ranina had begun, which saw Tamar and nine other entrants participate in multiple rounds of the show. During one of the shows, Tamar performed with Ethno-Jazz Band Iriao, the group that represented Georgia at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.^[17]

Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten.^[19]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 23 November 2018 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on Sunday 25 November at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for a minimum of three and a maximum of five songs.^[20] They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

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Points awarded to Georgia[21] Score Country 12 points  Ireland  Israel  Russia 10 points  France  Italy  Wales 8 points  Armenia 7 points  Ukraine 6 points 5 points  Australia  Kazakhstan  Macedonia 4 points 3 points 2 points  Azerbaijan  Netherlands  Portugal  Serbia 1 points  Poland Georgia received 39 points from the online vote

Points awarded by Georgia[21] Score Country 12 points  Malta 10 points  Ukraine 8 points  Australia 7 points  Italy 6 points  Kazakhstan 5 points  Poland 4 points  France 3 points  Ireland 2 points  Netherlands 1 point  Belarus

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Detailed voting results

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Detailed voting results from Georgia^[21]

Draw	Country	Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points Awarded
01	Ukraine	1	1	2	3	3	2	10
02	Portugal	19	14	18	16	14	19
03	Kazakhstan	14	7	15	4	4	5	6
04	Albania	13	19	16	15	16	17
05	Russia	15	8	12	14	9	12
06	Netherlands	16	11	10	6	7	9	2
07	Azerbaijan	12	16	17	17	18	18
08	Belarus	18	9	9	7	11	10	1
09	Ireland	11	15	4	13	8	8	3
10	Serbia	10	18	14	9	12	13
11	Italy	4	2	5	5	5	4	7
12	Australia	3	4	3	2	2	3	8
13	Georgia
14	Israel	8	17	6	19	19	16
15	France	6	5	7	12	10	7	4
16	Macedonia	5	10	19	11	13	11
17	Armenia	9	12	8	18	17	14
18	Wales	17	13	13	10	15	15
19	Malta	2	3	1	1	1	1	12
20	Poland	7	6	11	8	6	6	5

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