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Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l'Eurovision
Trade nameOGAE
Native nameOrganisation Générale des Amateurs de l'Eurovision
IndustryMusic
GenreAwards
FoundedSavonlinna, Finland (1985 (1985))
FounderJari-Pekka Koikkalainen
Number of locations40
Websiteogae.net

OGAE (Template:Lang-fr, English: General Organisation of Eurovision Fans) is one of the two major international fan club networks of the Eurovision Song Contest. Although the Eurovision Song Contest started in 1956, OGAE began in 1984 in Finland and has many branches throughout Europe. All countries that take part or have taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest are eligible to have their own OGAE and most of them do, as does Lebanon. All other countries around the world are united under OGAE Rest of World, created in 2004.

Every year, the organisation puts together four non-profit competitions (Song Contest, Second Chance Contest, Video Contest and Home Composed Song Contest). The purpose is to spread national popular music throughout the world and to exercise co-operation over the OGAE network of clubs, cooperation among the Eurovision Song Contest fans, promotion of the Eurovision Song Contest, and establishment of strong relations with national broadcasting companies.

In 2007, Antonis Karatzikos was elected as new International Coordinator for OGAE, until 2009. In July 2009 was re-elected for the same post. He served until 2011.

OGAE members

OGAE currently has 40 members, including two in Germany. These are:

OGAE Voting for participation of Eurovision Song Contest

Marcel Bezençon Awards – Fans' Award

Year Country Song Performer Final Result Points
2002  Finland "Addicted to You" Laura Voutilainen 20th 24
2003  Spain "Dime" Beth 8th 81

Winners of voting

Every year since 2007, OGAE has conducted a pre-Eurovision Contest poll in which every national club plus OGAE Rest of the World vote all entries, using the same scoring system of Eurovision Voting (the most voted songs on each club receive 1 to 8, and then 10 and 12 points, and countries can't vote for themselves). The winners of this poll are:

Year Country Song Performer Place Points 2nd Place 3rd Place
2007  Serbia "Molitva" (Молитва) Marija Šerifović 1st 268   Switzerland  Belarus
2008  Sweden "Hero" Charlotte Perrelli 18th 47   Switzerland  Serbia
2009  Norway "Fairytale" Alexander Rybak 1st 387  France  Sweden
2010  Denmark "In a Moment Like This" Chanée and N'evergreen 4th 149  Israel  Germany
2011  Hungary "What About My Dreams?" Kati Wolf 22nd 53  France  United Kingdom
2012  Sweden "Euphoria" Loreen 1st 372  Italy  Iceland
2013  Denmark "Only Teardrops" Emmelie de Forest 1st 281  San Marino  Norway
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OGAE Song Contest

The OGAE Song Contest is an audio event in which all OGAE national clubs can enter with an original song released in the previous 12 months in their countries, and sung in one of the country's official languages.

Winners

OGAE Second Chance Contest

Main article: OGAE Second Chance Contest

The OGAE Second Chance Contest is a visual event in which the OGAE national clubs can enter if there was a televised national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest that year. The members of each club choose amongst the songs that did not win, the ones that will represent each club in the event.

OGAE Guest Jury Hits

Further information: OGAE Second Chance Contest

The OGAE Guest Jury Hits is a contest for the OGAE members that can not participate in the OGAE Second Chance Retrospective Contest, either because they didn't hold a National Final that year, or did not participate in Eurovision at that time.

OGAE Video Contest

Main article: OGAE Video Contest

The OGAE Video Contest is a video event in which, much like the OGAE Song Contest, all OGAE national clubs can enter with an original song and video released in the previous 12 months in their countries. There is no obligation on the entry for the OGAE Video Contest to be sang in one of the country's official language.

External links

References

  1. ^ "Eurovision Fanclub Network". OGAE. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
  2. "Club History" (in Finnish). OGAE Finland. 5 June 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  3. Viniker, Barry (2007-07-02). "OGAE elects new International Co-ordinator". ESCToday. Retrieved 2007-07-02. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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