OGAE Second Chance Contest 2009

OGAE Second Chance Contest 2009
Host broadcaster	OGAE Sweden
Venue	Stockholm, Sweden
Winning song	Denmark "Someday"
Voting system
Each jury awards 1–8, 10, and 12 points to their ten favourite songs
Number of entries	20
Debuting countries	Andorra  Moldova Rest of the World
Returning countries	Netherlands  Slovakia (as Rest of the World)
Withdrawing countries	Belgium  Germany  Malta  Russia  United Kingdom
OGAE Second Chance Contest
◄2008        2010►

The 2009 OGAE Second Chance Contest was the 23rd OGAE Second Chance Contest, organised between members of international Eurovision Song Contest fan club OGAE to select the best song not to make it to the Eurovision Song Contest through their national finals. The contest was held in Stockholm, Sweden after Sanna Nielsen won the 2008 Contest for Sweden with "Empty Room".

20 countries participated in the contest, with songs that failed to win their televised national selections. Malta was to originally compete with "Avalon" by Georgina & Ruth Casingena, however OGAE Malta has since decided to withdraw.^[1][2][3]

Andorra and Moldova entered the contest for the first time, while the Netherlands returned after their absence from the 2008 contest, while Slovakia returned after a 14 year absence, last entering in 1993. The Slovak song was also representing OGAE Rest of the World, representing countries with no national OGAE branch.^[4]

The United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany left the contest due to not holding a multi-song national final for the 2009, but voted as guest juries, along with Austria, France, Italy and Turkey.^[5] Russia was also absent from this year's contest. Luxembourg withdrew from being a Guest Jury at September 2nd 2009.

The draw for the running order was conducted on 19 June in Gävle, where it was decided that newcomer Andorra would start the show, while Portugal would close it.^[5][6]

The contest was won by Denmark's Hera Björk with "Someday", who received 257 points, 28 points more than runner-up Sweden. This was Denmark's 2nd win in the contest. Slovakia placed last, receiving 4 points. The full result of the Second Chance Contest were presented on 22 December 2009 through a PDF file sent to the competing OGAE clubs. The voting show on DVD will be released during early 2010.^[7]

Participants

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English translation	National final	Place	Points
01	Andorra	Catalan	Mar Capdevila	"Passió obsessiva"	Obsessive passion	3rd	14	21
02	Moldova	English	Alexa	"A Flight to the Light"	—	2nd	15	15
03	Estonia	English	Laura	"Destiny"	—	3rd	8	97
04	Spain	Spanish	Mirela	"Nada es comparable a ti"	No one compares to you	4th	3	208
05	Norway	English	Alexander Stenerud	"Find My Girl"	—	3rd	4	137
06	Poland	English	Renton	"I'm Not Sure"	—	2nd	18	6
07	Finland	English	Passionworks	"Surrender"	—	3rd	9	66
08	Greece	English	Sakis Rouvas	"Right on Time"	—	2nd	7	97
09	Slovenia	English	Omar Naber	"I Still Carry On"	—	2nd	6	118
10	Croatia	Croatian	Ivo Gamulin Gianni	"Daj mi jedan razlog"	Give me one reason	4th	13	23
11	Lithuania	English	Rūta Ščiogolevaitė	"Redemption"	—	4th	19	6
12	Ireland	English, Irish	Laura-Jayne Hunter	"Out of Control"	—	3rd	16	15
13	Netherlands	English	De Toppers	"Angel of the Night"	—	2nd	11	47
14	Macedonia	Macedonian	Vlatko Lozanoski	"Blisku do mene" (Блиску до мене)	Close to me	4th	17	8
15	Serbia	Serbian	Ana Nikolić	"Bili smo najlepši" (Били смо најлепши)	We were the most beautiful	Unplaced	12	26
16	Slovakia	Slovak	Desmod & Lucia Nováková	"Posledná minúta"	Last minute	Unplaced	20	4
17	Israel	Hebrew, Arabic, English	Noa and Mira Awad	"Will You Dance With Me"	—	2nd	5	136
18	Denmark	English	Hera Björk	"Someday"	—	2nd	1	257
19	Sweden	English	Alcazar	"Stay the Night"	—	5th	2	229
20	Portugal	Portuguese	Filipa Baptista	"O teu lugar"	Your place	4th	10	49

Score sheet

27 juries voted in total – all competing countries voted along with guest juries from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey and the United Kingdom.^[8]

		Juries
	Andorra	21		5		6													2	1	1	2							4
	Moldova	15			3									5		6													1
	Estonia	97	4	10		5	1	6	6		2	7	6	7		8	5		1	7	4	7		5	3				3
	Spain	208	10	8	6		5	8	8	10	7	10	4	10	8	7	10	7	12	8	8	10	3	7	10	7	5	12	8
	Norway	137		4	7	8		2	7	8	4	2		6	7	5	1	4	8	10	10	4	6	8	4	5	10	2	5
	Poland	6			1											3									2
	Finland	66	1		2	1	4	7		5						1	6	6	6	2		5	10		6			4
	Greece	97	7	3	5	3	6		4		12	4	1	4	3					5	7		5	4		6	4	7	7
	Slovenia	118	5		8	2	8	4	5	6		6		2	4	4	4		4	3	6	6	4	6	7	1	8	5	10
	Croatia	23								3							3	12								2	3
	Lithuania	6														1			3								1	1
	Ireland	15			4						1	3	3					2				1	1
	Netherlands	47		12			2		2	4			8					10	3		2			1		3
	Macedonia	8															7	1
	Serbia	26	3					1	1	1	8	1	2	3	2								2	2
	Slovakia	4		1				3
	Israel	136	6	2		7	7	10	3		5	5	7	1	5	2	8	8		6	3	3	7	3	12	12	6	6	2
	Denmark	257	12	6	10	10	12	12	10	7	10	12	12	12	12	10	2	5	7		12	12	12	12	8	8	12	8	12
	Sweden	229	8	7	12	12	10	5	12	12	6	8	10	8	10	12	12		10	12		8	8	10	5	10	7	10	6
	Portugal	49	2			4	3			2	3		5		6				5	4	5				1	4	2	3

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

N.	Recipient nation	Voting nation
13	Denmark	Andorra, Austria, Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
7	Sweden	Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Spain
2	Israel	Belgium, France
	Spain	Israel, Italy
1	Croatia	Rest of the World
	Greece	Slovenia
	Netherlands	Moldova

See also

• OGAE
• Eurovision Song Contest 2009

External links

• Second Chance 2009

References

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4. ^ Repo, Juha (2009-07-25). "OGAE Second Chance contest has started". ESCToday. http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/14208. Retrieved 2009-07-25. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "Second Chance 2009". http://www.sechuk.com/Sech09-1.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-27. 
6. ^ Calleja Bayliss, Marc (2009-06-21). "All the entries announced in the 2009 OGAE Second Chance". Oikotimes. http://www.oikotimes.com/v2/index.php?file=articles&id=5954. Retrieved 2009-06-21. 
7. ^ Dufaut, Dominique (2009-12-22). "OGAE Second Chance Contest 2009: Here are the results!". ESCToday. http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/14658. Retrieved 22 December 2009. 
8. ^ OGAE SECOND CHANCE CONTEST 2008 – RESULTS TABLE