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Both semifinals on IBA
OGAE Israel: 12 points to Sweden!
Israel's entrant to Belgrade, Boaz Mauda, was happy to meet the Eurovision Song Contest's fans, who all gave him a warm welcome. Mauda answered questions by the curious fans and was happy to be informed that dozens of them will be supporting him in Serbia. Oshrat Papir, Mauda's partner in the duet 'Butterflies' in the Kdam-Eurovision was also present. This was a nice coincidence, since it was also the occasion when the song was selected by the members to represent OGAE Israel at the OGAE Second Chance contest. IBA's head of delegation, Yoav Ginay, was another guest. He broke some good news to the crowd, when he declared that IBA will broadcast both the 2008 semifinals.
The club members and guests voted beforehand for both semifinals (voting for Israel was allowed) and the 20 qualifying countries were: Ukraine, Israel, Slovenia, Hungary, San Marino, Armenia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iceland, Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Turkey, Russia, Norway, Bulgaria, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland and Sweden. The crowd then voted for the final. 4 countries finished last with null points, all of them consisting of the 'Big 4' countries: Spain, United Kingdon, France and Germany. The top 10 result is:
- 12 Sweden
- 10 Switzerland
- 8 Portugal
- 7 Norway
- 6 Turkey
- 5 Serbia
4 Israel (Came 7th but excluded from the overall OGAE's Scoreboard) - 4 Iceland
- 3 Albania
- 2 Hungary
- 1 Ukraine
The result leaves Sweden with a huge 83 point gap over second placed Switzerland. Serbia remain in third, clear of fourth placed Armenia who failed to pick up points from Israel, leaving Ukraine, Norway and Iceland in the race for the top four.
- You can see the breakdown of votes on the OGAE scorecard here
- For more information or to join your local club, please email mailto:ogae@esctoday.com
After 28 OGAE juries have declared their scores, here is the updated scoreboard:
Andorra 20 Israel 19 Albania 27 Latvia 1 Armenia 125 Lithuania 0 Azerbaijan 4 Malta 11 Belarus 5 Moldova 0 Belgium 20 Montenegro 0 Bosnia & Herzegovina 20 Netherlands 0 Bulgaria 19 Norway 116 Croatia 3 Poland 0 Cyprus 8 Portugal 86 Czech Republic 0 Romania 52 Denmark 15 Russia 58 Estonia 0 San Marino 6 Finland 0 Serbia 151 France 11 Slovenia 31 FYR Macedonia 0 Spain 0 Georgia 9 Sweden 265 Germany 17 Switzerland 182 Greece 59 Turkey 36 Hungary 8 Ukraine 121 Iceland 115 United Kingdom 0 Ireland 4 1. 3. 4. 2. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. - - - 18. 20. 21. 22. - 43. 42. 41. 40. 39. 37. 36. 35. 34. 33. 32. 31. - 29. 28. 27. - 25. 24. 38. |
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come on Isreal...you have no taste in music..this is the year 2008..SWEDENS song sounds old,like it came out in the late 1970,s..all of her songs do..the only song that is impressive on your list is SWITZERLAND,s
Willox Willox is just one more side of Hero/zingo star/Jay stone's splitted identity, among many other aliases that I don't remember at the moment. He deserves all our PITY and FORGIVENESS!
- garry chelsea!
Oooh, thats harsh but funny! 
In the first semifinal I will vote for Andorra !!!
max i love your descritption of hero from hence forth the one called hero will now be known as GOLLUM the beast of charlottes ring
YEAHHHHH!
We love Israel 
sweden has the best song, the most classy singer and best voerall production!! ofcourse we will win!!
- Fabio Deluca
LMAO!! Don't we all!!! Cos he is just the most popular person on the site, we all want to pervert him!! 
- Hero.
Sorry, unfortuanatley it just can't work between us, I know you really fancy me and everything but sorry, you're just not my type! kisses xxx!!! LMAO
Jonny K, why don't you say the truth?! You wanted to pervert Hero. via email! Shame on you!
(Hahahahahaha)
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Yay. Israel would probably give high points to Hero too, given their voting patterns in the past. Too bad they're in the wrong semi. Really glad to see Portugal get high points too.
- Hero.
Oh and . . . . . . I am not gay, so sorry, you're not in with a chance!
@mark x
Belive me he is not Swedish. secondly as i have mentioned before his annoing coments make some fans hear dislike swedish entry. Now you say that you started to hate Swedish song too. That means I am right and this guy has sucsided. If I was you i would just ignore him.
- Hero .
I don't hate Charlotte . . . . . . . . . I hate you!!
And I never asked for your e-mail!! What are you on about???
And also if you haven't yet noticed, I am not a charlotte basher, I am a charlotte supporter. But I dislike you because you are just a prick, it has nothing to do with Charlotte at all!
kisses from the UK xxx
Again that Jesper is hero.... he drives me crazy.... look the way he writes, like a little child... Please get him off here
A few people are saying that Charlotte is a bitch and Sweden always send the same song every year? Why? First: what is the same with Spirits are calling my name and Hero? And Sweden tried to send diffrent, The Ark 2007...but What did europe do? You took Sweden down because of that! Sweden have realy done a great job this year....I hope Sweden will show you how much they mean when they say "we want to win" I promis you! If Sweden winns, we will have the biggest and most expensiv Eurovision in History!
And Stopp taking Charlotte down! You don't know he and she has done nothing wrong! Leave her out side your false things about Sweden
Eurovision needs Sweden!12 points to HERO!
IN SEMI FINAL 2 , I WILL VOTE TO UKRAINE.
OGAE clubs are made of ESC-fans. It's same fans that vote on every poll. That's why we will get the same result in every poll. But think on the millions of viewers that have not heard the songs yet. That people does not take part in polls or forums, and it's that people who will decide the winner, not the fans. In my opinion, the Swedish entry will not grab everybody's attention. The best songs are in semi 2, and Sweden has only two 12's guaranteed: the ones from Iceland and Denmark. The rest is quite unpredictible, but I am afraid Latvia, Turkey, Lithuania, Belarus and Georgia will cast the top marks to Ukraine. It's possible Czech Republic, Macedonia and Croatia will vote for Ukraine as well. So, the panorama for Sweden is not that clear. Quality wise, many other songs are fairly superior than Sweden, too.
Stian, that's not the reality, that's your theory. There always has to be one startposition that's having worse statistics than the other ones. I bet that startposition number 2 has no curses making it impossible to go through to the final from it.
I finds it really odd (but sometimes even amusing) when people here say they know how the result will and not will be. No one knows - every year there are suprises - and that's also a part of the fun of Eurovision. Perhaps Charlotte stays in the semi, perhaps she goes to the final, perhaps she wins. We will know in a few weeks.
@ Hero said:
"Not long ago jonny k asked for my email to be friend and I did not accept the offer, sorry, I am not gay, I have no chance of knowing what gay is since I don't have hormones to like men"
Man, you are SO PATHETIC. You didn't let him know your email because 'you are not gay'? What does it have to do? You won't ever reveal your email, because you know your account will be instantly collapsed by thousands or messages, from all the people that cannot stand you. You don't have a profile here for the very same reason. You don't show anything about your identity, you act from the shadows. Who the hell you are? You are a coward, you don't have the guts to show who you are. Then I take your comments as pure nonsense from a nobody.
Vote for Macedonia!!!!!!
Vote for Tamara feat. Vrchak and Adrian!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Macedonia!!!!!!
Macedonia in the final!!!
Vote for number 18 on 2nd semifinal!!!!!!
U people IS.... hihihihihihi
GOSH WHAT THE FUCK DID CHARLOTTE DO 2 U GUYS?!?!?!?
JUST FUCK OF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U PEOPLE IS JUST BUNCH OF DISGUSTING FREAKS!!!!!!!!!
Hero/Anders/ Josh/Night of musical comedy/ Zingo star.... Max look at all these names and compare the non-sense written. This is all done by same Swedish jerk. How much longer must we endure this ???
Sergio Poul, you should say something about your fellow Swedish patriot, because it's thanks to him people get so annoyed about the Swedish entry. It's nothing against Sweden, but sometimes 1 person (that kameleon with 5 or more profiles here) can spoil it for a whole nationality. And now I am so fed up with him that I can not even stand your entry anymore. I sincerely hope that Sweden will fail big time. Can not wait. Sorry my friend, but enough is enough....
If somebody is interested: here are the results of Swedish tv show Inför eurovision song contest for first semifinal.
Here is the top 10 that they are assuming will pas to final:
1. Norway 24 p.
2. Armenia 23 p.
3. Romania 20 p.
4. Greece 19 p.
5. Azerbaijan 17 p.
6. Andorra 16 p.
7. Poland 15 p.
8. Bosnia Herzegovina 15 p.
9. The Netherlands 15 p.
10. Russia 15 p.
The pints are given by 5 experts (including Lena Philipsson).
The maximum possible result is 25 p.
@Stian
Dude if you don't like Swedich song it is your business and a meter of your test. We can all respect that. Everybody has favorites. But think before writing such coments as "Swedes are stupid people" etc. Belive me, Swedes are smarter than you at list, because they dont call you stupid......
WOW!!! Sweden again!!! Good luck Charlotte!!!
marc x
Sure you're right I'm another clone too )))))))))))
It's the only one person who votes for Sweden in all the European polls and gives highest points to Sweden, lol)))))))))))))))))) Please, don't stop your night of comedy!))))
Votes of OGAE is not the thing that we can define winner by, but if people of different nationalities and tastes give to this song their highest points it means that this song can be loved by absolutely different countries and people on ESC too and it will be loved no matter what number it has. The main goal is to qualify to the final and to take there better number, though it can't be worth number than second in semi. We believe Charlotte will win! I just believe in her and this song Iike never believed in some other ESC song. And I can't understand why it's compared with Invincible, there were no so big noise around Carola in 2006 even closer to this.
@ zingo star/hero
Well, it's hard to believe that there are two persons in the world who are members of esctoday.com and who are both so incredibly insane...
So the thought is near that you are the same person - especially because you're accusing other persons of doing so all the time and as short-minded as you seem to be, this could be easily one of your "tricks"...
Perhaps you don't even know it, perhaps you're simply schizophrenic... You know the "Lord of the Rings"? I could imagine you very clearly like Gollum...
Whatever it is - you should necessarily frequent a doctor, as soon as possible, because it seems to get worse and worse for you every day...
btw.: when you want to bluff the next time, you should take care that you change the style of your texts a bit, there are some obvious similarities...
Am i so wrong that i don't like a lot Russia? I don't find it something special for winning...sorry.galantis.athen s
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