Signatures of the chiral critical endpoint of QCD in heavy-ion collisions: the role of finite-size effects

We briefly discuss the status of the signatures of the QCD critical endpoint in heavy-ion collisions concentrating on the role played by the finiteness of the medium created in such experiments.
Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, Acta Phys. Pol. format. Talk presented at "Excited QCD 2011" (20-25 February 2011, Les Houches, France)