Australia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017

Isabella Clarke
Isabella Clarke
Born	31 May 2004 (age 20)
Origin	Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Singer
Years active	2013–present

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Country	Australia
National selection
Selection process	Internal selection
Selection date(s)	Artist: 10 September 2017; Song: 7 October 2017;
Selected artist(s)	Isabella Clarke
Selected song	"Speak Up!"
Finals performance
Final result	3rd, 172 points
Australia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Australia participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 which took place on 25 November 2017, in Tbilisi, Georgia. The Australian broadcaster ABC is responsible for choosing their entry for the contest. Isabella Clarke was internally selected to represent Australia in Georgia. Her song for the contest, "Speak Up", was revealed on 7 October 2017.

Background

Prior to the 2017 Contest, Australia had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twice since its debut in 2015, with the song "My Girls" performed by Bella Paige.^[1] In 2016, Alexa Curtis represented Australia with the song "We Are", achieving fifth place.^[2]

Before Junior Eurovision

On 10 September 2017, it was announced that Isabella Clarke had been internally chosen by the broadcaster to represent Australia. Isabella's song "Speak Up" was revealed on 7 October 2017.^[3]

Artist and song information

Isabella Clarke

Isabella Clarke (born 31 May 2004) is an Australian singer who represented Australia at the 2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Speak Up". She started singing when she was nine. The last 2 years she has performed at The Victorian State Schools Spectacular in Australia^[5]

At Junior Eurovision

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which took place on 20 November 2017, Australia was drawn to perform fifteenth on 26 November 2017, following Serbia and preceding Italy.^[6]

Voting

In 2017, a new voting system was introduced, in which 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.^[7]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 24 November 2017 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 26 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.^[8] 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 Australia^[9]
Score	Country
12 points	Netherlands
10 points	Italy
8 points	Ireland Ukraine
7 points	Belarus Georgia Poland Russia
6 points	Portugal Serbia
5 points	Armenia
4 points	Macedonia
3 points	Malta
2 points	Cyprus
1 point	Albania
Australia received 79 points from the online vote

Points awarded by Australia^[9]
Score	Country
12 points	Russia
10 points	Georgia
8 points	Belarus
7 points	Ukraine
6 points	Poland
5 points	Malta
4 points	Albania
3 points	Armenia
2 points	Serbia
1 point	Macedonia

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Australia^[9]
Draw	Country	Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points Awarded
01	Cyprus	15	15	15	11	12	15
02	Poland	5	6	8	3	6	5	6
03	Netherlands	11	14	7	13	9	12
04	Armenia	2	9	13	9	5	8	3
05	Belarus	9	2	2	4	7	3	8
06	Portugal	14	13	3	7	13	11
07	Ireland	10	12	14	15	15	14
08	Macedonia	12	3	1	14	11	10	1
09	Georgia	1	4	9	2	4	2	10
10	Albania	7	5	5	10	10	7	4
11	Ukraine	6	10	6	5	1	4	7
12	Malta	3	7	12	8	3	6	5
13	Russia	4	1	4	1	2	1	12
14	Serbia	8	8	10	6	8	9	2
15	Australia
16	Italy	13	11	11	12	14	13

References

^ Granger, Anthony (8 October 2015). "JESC'15: Australia Debuts, 17 Countries To Compete". eurovoix.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
^ Escudero, Victor M.; Jordan, Paul (20 November 2016). "Georgia wins the 2016 Junior Eurovision Song Contest!". www.junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
^ Díaz, Sebastián (10 September 2017). "Australia chooses Isabella Clarke for Junior Eurovision 2017". wiwibloggs.com. Wiwibloggs. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
^ "About Isabella Clarke (in Portuguese)". Archived from the original on 2017-10-22. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
^ Díaz, Sebastián (10 September 2017). "Australia chooses Isabella Clarke for Junior Eurovision 2017". wiwibloggs.com. Wiwibloggs. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
^ "The running order for Junior Eurovision 2017 is revealed!". European Broadcasting Union. 20 November 2017. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
^ Granger, Anthony (15 November 2018). "Junior Eurovision 2018 – How Does The Voting Work?". Eurovoix.
^ Farren, Neil (10 November 2017). "Voting in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest". Eurovoix. Archived from the original on 11 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Results of the Final of Tbilisi 2017". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 1 June 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2021.