Today, Andreas Nilsson, executive producer of the OGAE Second Chance Contest 2009, sent to all OGAE coordinators a letter, together with a pdf-file with the results of the contest, to explain the delay and to give the final results. The annual OGAE Second Chance contest chooses the best national final entry that did make it to the Eurovision Song Contest among those submitted by the regional OGAE clubs.

Andreas Nilsson wrote: " … since it's a new year next week, I won't let the results of this year's edition be public in 2010.So after much consideration, I myself together with our president, Jens Johansson, have come up with revealing the results by a PDF-file.I know, it's boring and it was definitely not our first option to reveal the results in text.But we have to. … I let the scoreboard programming and editing of videos in the hands of some professionals that did this last year and in 2006. But due to sickness, operations and other complicated things, the end production was lagging behind. … So I'm sorry for all this, and that you have to READ the results first, and wait for the result show to finish.I have no date WHEN the video will be finished … .When we do have a finished version of the voting show, this will be distributed online, youtube/Torrent etc. … ."

These are the results:

Pl.	Country	Performer	Song	Points
1	Denmark	Hera Björk	Someday	257
2	Sweden	Alcazar	Stay the night	229
3	Spain	Mirela	Nada es comparable a ti	208
4	Norway	Alexander Stenerud	Find my girl	137
5	Israel	Noa & Mira Awad	Will you dance with me	136
6	Slovenia	Omar Naber	I still carry on	118
7	Greece	Sakis Rouvas	Right on time	97
8	Estonia	Laura	Destiny	97
9	Finland	Passionworks	Surrender	66
10	Portugal	Filipa Baptista	O teu lugar (Pela vida adentro)	49
11	Netherlands	De Toppers	Angel of the night	47
12	Serbia	Ana Nikolic	Bili smo najlepsi	26
13	Croatia	Ivo Gamulin Gianni	Daj mi jedan razlog	23
14	Andorra	Mar Capdevila	Passio obsessiva	21
15	Moldova	Alexa	A flight to the light	15
16	Ireland	Laura Jane Hunter	Out of control	15
17	FYR Macedonia	Vlatko Lozanoski	Blisku do mene	8
18	Poland	Renton	I'm not sure	6
19	Lithuania	Ruta Sciogolevaite	Redemption	6
20	Slovakia	Desmod & Lucia Nováková	Posledná minúta	4

The Maltese entry Avalon was withdrawn from the competition.

The OGAE Second chance contest has been held since 1987 and retrospective editions of earlier years were held later. Denmark already won the contest in 1989 with Lecia Jønsson and Landet Camelot. This year's winning song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTbQ25QsGUQ