JESCOdds 2023

The JESCOdds 2023 - was the 1st edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest Odds and 2nd of the ESCOdds ever. That has been ever made and was held from 19 to 26 November 2023.

JESCOdds 2023 2023
Dates
Final	19-26 November 2023
Host
Executive supervisor	Mark Nightingale
Participants
Number of entries	14
Debuting countries	Norway South Korea Switzerland
Returning Countries	None
Non-returning Countries	Greece Italy Kazakhstan Portugal San Marino Serbia Sweden Spain
Participation map
Vote
Winning song	Germany

Fourteen countries participated in the second odds (and first JESC odds), along with debuting Norway, South Korea and Switzerland. Last season's competitors Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Sweden and Spain withdrew from the competition.

Egor Tarashkevich (Germany) won the final with 424 points. The top five also included Sergey Silkin (Croatia), Anton Desyatov (Lebanon), Denis Nikitin (Vietnam) and Nikita Belonogov (Denmark).

Format

Grand Final rules

The opportunity to leave your predictions for the final became available from November XX, 2023 and lasted until the broadcast of the final on November 26, 2023.

In the final, each of the participants had to indicate the top forecast of 16 positions, placing the finalist countries in it. In the forecast, the finalist country should not have been repeated.

Points were awarded for each finalist country in the bet as follows:

• 24 points for a full hit of the occupied place by the finalist country, or 48 points for guessing the position of the country in the top 5;
• 22 points for an error of +/-1 of the place taken by the finalist country, or 44 points for guessing the position of the country in the top 5;
• 20 points for an error of +/-2 of the place taken by the finalist country, or 40 points for guessing the position of the country in the top 5;
• 18 points for an error of +/-3 of the place taken by the finalist country, or 36 points for guessing the position of the country in the top 5;
• 16 points for an error of +/-4 of the place taken by the finalist country, or 32 points for guessing the position of the country in the top 5;
• 14 points for an error of +/-5 of the place taken by the finalist country;
• 12 points for an error of +/-6 of the place taken by the finalist country;
• 10 points for an error of +/-7 of the place taken by the finalist country;
• 8 points for an error of +/-8 of the place taken by the finalist country;
• 7 points for an error of +/-9 of the place taken by the finalist country;
• 6 points for an error of +/-10 of the place taken by the finalist country;
• 5 points for an error of +/-11 of the place taken by the finalist country;
• 4 points for an error of +/-12 of the place taken by the finalist country;
• 3 points for an error of +/-13 of the place taken by the finalist country;
• 2 points for an error of +/-14 of the place taken by the finalist country;
• 1 point for an error of +/-15 of the place taken by the finalist country;
• 0 points for an error of +/-16 or more from the place taken by the finalist country;

As a result, all the points received were summed up with each other and gave a total for the final.

Participating Countries

Results

Fourteen participants took part in the bets. Participants could make and change their bets from November 19 and November 26 (before the broadcast of the final).

Country	Place	Points
Australia, Mark Solovyov	10	328
Croatia, Sergey Silkin	2	390
Denmark, Nikita Belonogov	5	376
Germany, Egor Tarashkevich	1	424
Hungary, Roman Dudarev	8	361
Japan, Pasha Kulik	6	370
Lebanon, Anton Desyatov	3	384
Netherlands, Jean Isaac	12	309
Norway, Aleksei Komarov	13	286
South Korea, Denis Leonenko	14	273
Switzerland, Victor Pevchev	11	317
Thailand, Maksim Bogomolov	7	368
United Kingdom, Igor Kapsharin	9	360
Vietnam, Denis Nikitin	4	382