Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008
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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.
It was held at the "Spyros Kyprianou" Athletic Centre in Lemesos, Cyprus and hosted by Alex Michael and Sophia Paraskeva.
It was won by the Georgian trio Bzikebi, with the song "Bzz..".
This is the first song to win any Eurovision Song Contest in an imaginary language.
Ukraine took 2nd place and Lithuania finished 3rd.
Bzikebi also became the first group act to win Junior Eurovision.
The theme of the event was "Fun in the Sun", despite the fact that there were thunderstorms in Lemesos the day of the contest.
The stage, which was designed by George Papadopoulos, was nominated for the prestigious international "Live Design Excellence Awards".
The design is an abstract composition and consists of a round stage representing the island of Cyprus, real water along the front of the stage, two jetties, the waves breaking and moving away from the island and five sailing boats with oars.
During the competitive performances, a beach ball with the design of the performer's national flag would be floating in the on-stage pond while they were performing.
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 w...
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