OGAE Second Chance Contest 1995

OGAE Second Chance Contest 1995
Host broadcaster	OGAE Sweden
Venue	Örebro, Sweden
Winning song	Sweden "Det vackraste"
Voting system
Each country's jury, made up of member's of the country's OGAE branch, 3–8, 10, and 12 points to their eight favourite songs.
Number of entries	9
Returning countries	Denmark  Israel  Slovenia
Withdrawing countries	Austria  Cyprus  Estonia  Finland  Hungary  Iceland  Malta  Netherlands  Romania  Russia
OGAE Second Chance Contest
◄1994        1996►

The 1995 OGAE Second Chance Contest was the 9th OGAE Second Chance Contest, organized by the 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. This year's contest was held in Örebro in Sweden after Gladys del Pilar won the 1994 Contest with "Det vackraste jag vet".^[1]

9 songs competed in the contest with Slovenia, Israel, Denmark returning to the contest. However a number of countries were forced to withdraw: Estonia, Finland, Netherlands, and Romania were all forced to miss the contest due to being relegated from the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest; Austria, Cyprus, Hungary, Iceland and Russia was also absent from the contest due to no national finals being held in the country for this year's Eurovision. Furthermore Malta did not take part although a national final was being held.

For the second time "Guest Juries" were used in the contest, allowing OGAE branches from countries who held no national final for Eurovision 1994 to compete in Second Chance. The Guest Juries for the 1995 contest came from France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany,and Spain.

Sweden were the winners of the 9th edition of Second Chance, represented by singer Cecilia Vennersten with "Det vackraste ", a song composed by Peter & Nanne Grönvall with lyrics by Nanne Grönvall & Maria Rådsten. The runner-up position went to the United Kingdom's Deuce, while third place was awarded to Ireland and Naoimh Penston.

Participants

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English translation	National final	Place	Points
1	United Kingdom	English	Deuce	"I Need You"	—	3rd	2	119
2	Denmark	Danish	Jacob Launbjerg	"Vi ses en dag"	See you some day	Unplaced	9	60
3	Sweden	Swedish	Cecilia Vennersten	"Det vackraste"	The most beautiful	2nd	1	129
4	Norway	Norwegian	Nina Grønvold	"Kjærlighet for første gang"	Love for the first time	4th	8	72
5	Croatia	Croatian	Marinela Malic	"Mjesec je jak afrodizijak"	The moon is the mightly afrodisiac	19th	7	73
6	Israel	Hebrew	Dana International	"Laila tov Europa"	Good evening Europe	2nd	5	76
7	Slovenia	Slovene	Faraoni	"Ljubezen je"	Love is	4th	6	75
8	Portugal	Portuguese	Pedro Miguéis	"Ainda é tempo"	There is still time	4th	4	82
9	Ireland	English	Naoimh Penston	"Always you"	–	2nd	3	94

Score sheet

		Juries
	United Kingdom	119		8	10	10	7	12	8	8	7	12	6	7	12	12
	Denmark	60	5		3	5	3	6	3	5	5	4	5	10	3	3
	Sweden	129	10	10		12	12	10	10	10	10	8	12	8	10	7
	Norway	72	8	6	4		8	7	4	4	8	6	3	6	4	4
	Croatia	73	7	7	8	7		3	6	7	4	7	2	3	6	6
	Israel	76	4	4	12	4	5		7	3	6	10	4	2	5	10
	Slovenia	75	3	3	5	3	10	5		12	12	3	8	4	2	5
	Portugal	82	6	5	7	8	4	4	5		3	2	10	12	8	8
	Ireland	94	12	12	6	6	6	8	12	6		5	7	5	7	2

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

N.	Recipient nation	Voting nation
4	United Kingdom	France, Germany, Israel, Spain
3	Ireland	Denmark, Slovenia, United Kingdom
	Sweden	Croatia, Netherlands, Norway
2	Slovenia	Ireland, Portugal
1	Israel	Sweden
	Portugal	Italy

See also

• OGAE
• Eurovision Song Contest 1995

External links

• Second Chance 1995

References

1. ^ OGAE SECOND CHANCE 1995