Akademiya Eurovision 2019

The Russian broadcaster, VGTRK, announced on 4 December 2018 that they would be participating at the 2019 Contest.^[5] Submissions for entrants were open between 18 December to 20 March, with the audition stage taking place in the Russian capital, Moscow, in April 2019.^[6] VGTRK announced on 16 September that a total of eleven artists would be competing in the national final.^[7] The national selection of the entrant for Russia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019, took place at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow on 24 September 2019, and was televised a day later on 25 September. The winner was determined by a voting split of 50% jury members and 50% internet voting which opened on 17 September and closed on 23 September.^[8] Tatyana Mezhentseva and Denberel Oorzhak won the national final with the song "Vremya dlya nas".

Tatyana Mezhentseva and Denberel Oorzhak

Tatyana Mezhentseva (Russian: Татьяна Меженцева, born 14 December 2009) and Denberel Oorzhak (Russian: Денберел Ооржак, born 3 June 2006) are Russian child singers.^[9] They represented Russia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "A Time for Us". Mezhentseva will go on and represent her country again in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Paris with the song "Mon Ami".

A Time for Us

"A Time for Us" is a song by Russian singers Tatyana Mezhentseva and Denberel Oorzhak. It represented Russia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019.

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.^[11]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 22 November 2019 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 24 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.^[12] 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.

Points awarded to Russia[13] Score Country 12 points 10 points  Armenia 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points  Kazakhstan 2 points  Portugal 1 point Russia received 57 points from the online vote

Points awarded by Russia[13] Score Country 12 points  Australia 10 points  Armenia 8 points  Kazakhstan 7 points  North Macedonia 6 points  Ireland 5 points  Albania 4 points  Netherlands 3 points  Serbia 2 points  Italy 1 point  Poland

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Russia^[13]

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