Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022

Malta's participation in the contest was confirmed by PBS in June 2022. PBS organised the national final Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 to select the Maltese entry.^[4]

Artists and songwriters were able to submit their entries between 24 June 2022 and 15 August 2022.^[5] For the preliminary selection, PBS nominated a professional jury, which judged the studio versions of all submissions.^[5] While applicants can submit more than one song, only one submission per lead artist can make the final participant list, unlike the previous edition.^[5][6] The final list of participants was revealed on 1 September 2022.^[5]

The final took place on 2 October 2022 at the Rediffusion House in Gwardamanġa, hosted by Ryan and Josmar .^[7] The winner was selected by the votes of a jury panel (75%) and public televoting (25%).^[8] The jury consisted of singer Mary Rose Mallia, Maltese Eurovision Song Contest 1997 entrant Debbie Scerri, Maltese Eurovision Song Contest 2004 entrant Ludwig Galea and presenter Roderick Azzopardi Custo.^[9] The interval act featured performances by former Maltese Junior Eurovision entrants Eliana Gomez Blanco (2019), Gianluca Cilia (2017), and Ike and Kaya (2021). "Diamonds in the Skies" performed by Gaia Gambuzza was announced as the winner of the national final.

After the opening ceremony, which took place on 5 December 2022, it was announced that Malta would perform fourth on 11 December 2022, following Kazakhstan and preceding Italy.^[11]

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 participating broadcaster assembled 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.^[12]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 9 December 2022 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 11 December 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 to vote for three songs.^[13] 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 Malta Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points  Spain 4 points 3 points  Armenia 2 points 1 point  Albania  Ukraine Malta received 33 points from the online vote.

Points awarded by Malta Score Country 12 points  Ireland 10 points  Spain 8 points  Netherlands 7 points  Albania 6 points  Georgia 5 points  Poland 4 points  Armenia 3 points  Ukraine 2 points  Italy 1 point  United Kingdom

Detailed voting results from Malta^[14]

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