Poland in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018

TVP confirmed its intention to participate in December 2017.^[2] According to the financial plans of the broadcaster, a national final was to be organised to select the Polish representatives, with many artists confirming their intention to participate in a national selection, such as Natalia Wawrzyńczyk, Arfik, Ula Kowalska, Julia Chmielarska, Ula Dorosz and Wiktoria Zwolińska.^[3][4] Among rumoured acts to participate in the national final were also Paula Biskup with the song "Wyliczanka",^[5] as well as thirteen-year-old artist Roksana Węgiel, the winner of the first edition of the Polish version of The Voice Kids.^[6][7][8] In September 2018, composer Agnieszka Wiechnik made an official request to TVP to organise a national final.^[9]

On 21 September 2018, the Polish broadcaster revealed that they had chosen Roksana Węgiel internally in order to represent Poland in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018.^[10][11] TVP general director Jacek Kurski later confirmed choice of Roksana Węgiel was his "dictator-like" decision in consultation with the producer Konrad Smuga, based on the results of the televote and the entire selection process included in the first edition of The Voice Kids.^[12] Her entry, "Anyone I Want to Be", written by Maegan Cottone, Nathan Duvall, Cutfather, Peter Wallevik, Daniel Davidsen, Małgorzata Uściłowska and Patryk Kumór, was presented to the public on 6 November 2018, accompanied by an official music video.^[13]

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which both took place on 19 November 2018, Poland was drawn to perform twentieth (last) on 25 November 2018, following Malta.^[14]

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.^[15]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 23 November 2018 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 25 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 to vote for a minimum of three and a maximum of five songs.^[16] 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 Poland[17] Score Country 12 points  France 10 points  Australia  Serbia 8 points  Albania  Ukraine 7 points 6 points  Israel  Wales 5 points  Georgia 4 points  Belarus  Russia 3 points  Macedonia 2 points  Italy 1 point  Kazakhstan Poland received 136 points from the online vote

Points awarded by Poland[17] Score Country 12 points  Ukraine 10 points  Australia 8 points  Ireland 7 points  Macedonia 6 points  Russia 5 points  Malta 4 points  Armenia 3 points  Italy 2 points  Israel 1 point  Georgia

The following members comprised the Polish jury:^[18]

• Damian Ukeje [pl]
• Majka Jeżowska
• Milena Grigorian
• Saszan
• Zuzanna Janik

Detailed voting results from Poland^[17]

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