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:
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 1. 3. 4. 2. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. – 14. – 16. – 19. 18. 20. 21. 22. – 43. 42. 41. 40. 39. 37. 36. 35. 34. 33. 32. – 30. – 28. 27. – – 24. 38. |
