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took part in the

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 was the seventeenth edition of the annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest, organised by Telewizja Polska (TVP) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It was held on 24 November 2019, at the Gliwice Ar ...

, which was held on 24 November 2019 in

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, Poland.

Background

Prior to the 2019 contest, Georgia had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest eleven times since its debut in , and since then they have never missed a single contest. Georgia is also the most successful country in the competition, with three victories in , and . In the 2018 contest, Tamar Edilashvili represented her country in

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with the song "Your Voice".She ended 8th out of 20 entries with 144 points.

Before Junior Eurovision

''Ranina''

Georgia used an original children's talent show format, ''Ranina'' (

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: რანინა), as the selection method for their artist. Starting on 24 March 2019, the show lasted around two months with ten candidate artists.

Contestants

Shows

=Round 1 (24–31 March 2019)

=Round 2 (7–14 April 2019)

=Round 3 (21–28 April 2019)

=Round 4 (5–12 May 2019)

=Semi-final (19 May 2019)

=Final (26 May 2019)

= The winner of the final was Giorgi Rostiashvili, who would go on to represent Georgia with the song "We Want to Love".

At Junior Eurovision

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which both took place on 18 November 2019, Georgia was drawn to perform sixth on 24 November 2019, following Spain and preceding Belarus.

Voting

Detailed voting results

Notes

References

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