The OGAE France's previews meeting took place this Sunday in Paris, with some 60 members of the club, coming from all over the country.
Fans watched the songs from both semi-finals, then voted to select 20 finalists. After lunch, they enjoyed a second contest, with 25 entries… but without knowing which countries actually got its qualification. This brought a lot of excitement, especially when coming to the end of the presentation. Russia failed to qualify… but Ireland did and when the song by Dustin played, half of the fans sang "Irelande Douze Points" while the other half answered "Irelande Zéro Points" !
The final scoreboard:
- 12 points Switzerland 121 points
- 10 points Portugal 104 points
- 8 pointsSweden 94 points
- 7 pointsSerbia87points
- 6 pointsIceland 76 points
- 5 points Slovenia 63 points
- 4 points Armenia 62 points
- 3 points Norway 61 points
- 2 points Israel 61
- 1 point Belgium 53 points
The guest of honour of this OGAE France's meeting was Ortal (2005 French entrant), who took part in the voting and had a pleasant conversation with people there. A special report on what she said will be published later on esctoday.com
The result leaves Sweden 69 points ahead of Serbia in second place with Switzerland one point behind. Armenia become the third country to reach 100 points this year.
The full scoreboard after 21 juries have declared their votes:
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Andorra 20
Israel 19
Albania 24
Latvia 1
Armenia 100
Lithuania 0
Azerbaijan 0
Malta 11
Belarus 1
Moldova 0
Belgium 14
Montenegro 0
Bosnia & Herzegovina 8
Netherlands 0
Bulgaria 19
Norway 78
Croatia 3
Poland 0
Cyprus 8
Portugal 69
Czech Republic 0
Romania 51
Denmark 10
Russia 47
Estonia 0
San Marino 6
Finland 0
Serbia 122
France 6
Slovenia 20
FYR Macedonia 0
Spain 0
Georgia 3
Sweden 191
Germany 16
Switzerland 121
Greece 48
Turkey 24
Hungary 6
Ukraine 92
Iceland 76
United Kingdom 0
Ireland 4
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