OGAE

Fan organization

Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l'Eurovision

Abbreviation	OGAE
Formation	1985 (1985)
Type	NGO, NP, NPO
Location	Savonlinna, Finland
Coordinates	61°52′5″N 028°53′10″E / 61.86806°N 28.88611°E / 61.86806; 28.88611
Region served	42 countries (see list below)
President	Simon Bennett
Secretary	Laufey Helga Guðmundsdóttir
Treasurer	Mathieu Kroon Gutiérrez
Other Members	Klaus Woryna (Board Member) Erik Bolks (Board Member) Marcus Davey (Deputy Member) Ben Robertson (Deputy Member)
Main organ	Fanclub Network
Website	www.ogaeinternational.org

OGAE (French: Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l'Eurovision, English: General Organisation of Eurovision Fans) is an international organisation that was founded in 1984 in Savonlinna, Finland by Jaripekka Koikkalainen. The organisation consists of a network of 42 Eurovision Song Contest fan clubs across Europe and beyond, and is a non-governmental, non-political, and nonprofit company.

Four non-profit competitions are organised independently every year to promote national popular music to Eurovision fans from around the world. The international organisation works frequently in cooperation with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in order to help promote the Eurovision Song Contest, and has also established a strong relationship with the national broadcasting companies from across the participating countries.

The current President of the OGAE International Network is Simon Bennett from OGAE United Kingdom, who succeeded from Maiken Mäemets of OGAE Finland in 2015.

Contents

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  1 History
  


• 
  2 OGAE branches
  
  
  
  • 
    2.1 OGAE Rest of the World
    
  
  
  
  


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  3 OGAE Contests
  
  
  
  • 
    3.1 OGAE Eurovision Song Contest Poll
    
  
  
  • 
    3.2 OGAE Second Chance Contest
    
  
  
  • 
    3.3 OGAE Song Contest
    
  
  
  • 
    3.4 OGAE Video Contest
    
    
    
    • 
      3.4.1 Participation
      
    
    
    • 
      3.4.2 Winners
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


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  4 See also
  


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  5 References
  


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  6 External links
  

History

Although the Eurovision Song Contest began in 1956, the OGAE International Network was founded by Jaripekka Koikkalainen in 1984 in Savonlinna, Finland.^[1] The organisation, which is an independent Eurovision Fan club, operates as a non-governmental, non-political and non-profit body, and works frequently in cooperation with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The network is open to countries that take part in the Eurovision Song Contest or have participated in the past. Several other countries around Europe and beyond that do not have their own independent OGAE Network, including Australia, Kazakhstan, Monaco, San Marino, South Africa, and the United States of America, participate under the name "OGAE Rest of the World".^[2]

Every year the organisation arranges four competitions – Song Contest, Second Chance Contest, Video Contest and Home Composed Song Contest.^[3] The cooperative exercise of the OGAE Network is to raise awareness of popular national music across the world, in collaboration with the fans of the Eurovision Song Contest, as well as establishing a strong relationship between national broadcasting companies and the marketing of the Eurovision Song Contest itself to a wider fan-base.^[3]

In 2007, Antonis Karatzikos was elected as new International Coordinator for OGAE, until 2009. In July 2009 he was re-elected for the same post.^[4] In 2011, OGAE International Network became a registered organisation in France, and Maiken Mäemets was elected President.^[3] She was re-elected for a second term on 17 May 2013 at the Euro Fan Café (Moriska Paviljongen) in Malmö, Sweden.^[5] During the annual OGAE Presidents’ Meeting, which took place on 22 May 2015 at the Euro Fan Café in Wien; the presidents of the OGAE Clubs elected a new board for the OGAE International Network (shown below), who will maintain their roles until the next election in 2017.^[6]

Position	Name	OGAE club
President	Simon Bennett	United Kingdom
Secretary	Laufey Helga Guðmundsdóttir	Iceland
Treasurer	Mathieu Kroon Gutiérrez	France
Board members	Klaus Woryna	Germany
	Michal Smrek	Slovakia
Deputy members	Marcus Davey	Australia
	Erik Bolks	Netherlands

OGAE branches

OGAE currently has forty-six members, including two in Germany.^[1][7] These are:

1. 
    Albania
   


2. 
    Andorra
   


3. 
    Armenia
   


4. 
    Australia
   


5. 
    Austria
   


6. 
    Azerbaijan
   


7. 
    Belarus
   


8. 
    Belgium
   


9. 
    Bulgaria
   


10. 
     Croatia
    


11. 
     Cyprus
    


12. 
     Czech Republic
    


13. 
     Denmark
    


14. 
     Estonia
    


15. 
     Finland
    


16. 
     France
    


17. 
     Germany
    


18. 
    Germany Eurovision Club
    


19. 
     Greece
    


20. 
     Hungary
    


21. 
     Iceland
    


22. 
     Ireland
    


23. 
     Israel
    


24. 
     Italy
    


25. 
     Latvia
    


26. 
     Lithuania
    


27. 
     Luxembourg
    


28. 
     Macedonia
    


29. 
     Malta
    


30. 
     Montenegro
    


31. 
     Netherlands
    


32. 
     Norway
    


33. 
     Poland
    


34. 
     Portugal
    


35. 
    Rest of the World
    


36. 
     Romania
    


37. 
     Russia
    


38. 
     Serbia
    


39. 
     Slovakia
    


40. 
     Slovenia
    


41. 
     Spain
    


42. 
     Sweden
    


43. 
      Switzerland
    


44. 
     Turkey
    


45. 
     Ukraine
    


46. 
     United Kingdom
    

OGAE Rest of the World

Countries that do not have an OGAE Network in their own right, but are active or associate members of the EBU are unified under the name "Rest of the World". The countries which constitute this OGAE Network are:^[2][8]

• 
   Afghanistan
  


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   Algeria
  


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   Argentina
  


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   Bosnia and Herzegovina²
  


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   Botswana
  


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   Brazil
  


• 
   Canada
  


• 
   Chile
  


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   China
  


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   Colombia
  


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   Costa Rica
  


• 
   Egypt
  


• 
   Georgia²
  


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   Hong Kong
  


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   Japan
  


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   Jordan
  


• 
   Kazakhstan
  


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   Kyrgyzstan
  


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   Lebanon
  


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   Lesotho
  


• 
   Liechtenstein
  


• 
   Mexico
  


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   Moldova²
  


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   Monaco²
  


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   Morocco²
  


• 
   Namibia
  


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   New Zealand
  


• 
   Peru
  


• 
   San Marino²
  


• 
   Seychelles
  


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   South Africa
  


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   South Korea
  


• 
   Swaziland
  


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   Tunisia
  


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   United Arab Emirates
  


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   United States of America
  


• 
   Uzbekistan
  


• 
   Venezuela
  

Notes

1.^ Currently there are no Candidate Members.

2.^ Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Monaco, Morocco and San Marino have all participated in the Eurovision Song Contest, though they do not have full OGAE membership and thus are part of OGAE Rest of the World.^[9][10]

OGAE Contests

OGAE Eurovision Song Contest Poll

The Marcel Bezençon Fan Award was handed out in 2002 and 2003, and voted on by the members of OGAE, the Eurovision international fan club. It was discontinued and replaced by the Composer Award in 2004.

Year	Winner	Song	Performer
2002	Finland	"Addicted to You"	Laura Voutilainen
2003	Spain	"Dime"	Beth

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

Year	Winner	Song	Performer	Runner-up	3rd place
2007	Serbia	"Molitva" (Молитва)	Marija Šerifović	Switzerland	Belarus
2008	Sweden	"Hero"	Charlotte Perrelli	Switzerland	Serbia
2009	Norway	"Fairytale"	Alexander Rybak	France	Sweden
2010	Denmark	"In a Moment Like This"	Chanée and N'evergreen	Israel	Germany
2011	Hungary	"What About My Dreams?"	Kati Wolf	France	United Kingdom
2012	Sweden	"Euphoria"	Loreen	Italy	Iceland
2013	Denmark	"Only Teardrops"	Emmelie de Forest	San Marino	Norway
2014	Sweden	"Undo"	Sanna Nielsen	Hungary	Israel
2015	Italy	"Grande amore"	Il Volo	Sweden	Estonia
2016	France	"J'ai cherché"	Amir	Russia	Australia
2017	Italy	"Occidentali's Karma"	Francesco Gabbani	Belgium	Sweden
2018	Israel	"Toy"	Netta Barzilai	France	Finland

Background colours
	won the final
	second in the final
	third in the final
	missed the final

OGAE Second Chance Contest

Main article: OGAE Second Chance Contest

The OGAE Second Chance Contest is a visual event which was founded in 1987 and is organised by branches of OGAE, the international fan club of the Eurovision Song Contest.^[11] Four nations competed in the first contest which took place in 1987. The contest was previously a non-televised event, but evolved over the years by the usage of video tape and nowadays DVD and YouTube.^[12]

Each summer following the Eurovision Song Contest, each branch can enter one song that failed to win the country's national selection process for the annual Eurovision Song Contest. The members of each club choose amongst the songs that did not win and select one to represent the club in the event. Votes are cast by members of the OGAE clubs and are returned to the OGAE branch organising the particular year's event. Guest juries have been used to cast votes since 1993.^[13]

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.^[14][15]

Year	Winner	Song	Performer	Points	Host city	No. of entries
1986	Germany	"Stimmen in Wind"	Juliane Werding	16	Savonlinna	5
1987	Israel	"Ba'ati Eleiha"	Yardena Arazi	83	Savonlinna	10
1988	Germany	"Explosion"	Mary Roos	83	Cardiff	10
1989	Norway	"Hjem"	Karoline Krüger and Anita Skorgan	93	Berlin	13
1990	Italy	"Vattene amore"	Mietta and Amedeo Minghi	136	Oslo	18
1991	France	"Désenchantée"	Mylène Farmer	151	Pisa	17
1992	Portugal	"Se o dia nascesse"	Nucha	115	Paris	16
1993	Italy	"La solitudine"	Laura Pausini	154	Montargis	20
1994	Greece	"Ftes"	Sabrina	116	Pisa	19
1995	Spain	"Cada vez"	Paloma San Basilio	144	Athens	21
1996	Spain	"Me quedaré solo"	Amistades Peligrosas	159	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	16
1997	Spain	"Amor perdido"	Marta Sánchez	199	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	22
1998	Poland	"Im Wiecej Ciebie tym mniej"	Natalia Kukulska	125	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	16
1999	France	"Jardin de lumière"	Leyla Doriane	169	Athens	24
2000	Sweden	"Svarta änkan"	Nanne	168	Paris	26
2001	France	"Moi... Lolita"	Alizée	189	Umeå	24
2002	United Kingdom	"What If"	Kate Winslet	126	Paris	25
2003	France	"Cassé"	Nolwenn Leroy	183	Southampton	27
2004	Russia	"Gryozy"	Varvara	178	Lyon	27
2005	Italy	"Da grande"	Alexia	164	Moscow	28
2006	Greece	"Mambo"	Elena Paparizou	244	Pisa	30
2007	Spain	"Qué no daría yo"	Rebeca	179	Athens	29
2008	Croatia	"Ruža u kamenu"	Franka Batelić	164	Zaragoza	27
2009	United Kingdom	"Viva la Vida"	Coldplay	248	Zagreb	30
2010	United Kingdom	"Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer)"	Freemasons feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor	228	London	27
2011	United Kingdom	"Someone Like You"	Adele	189	London	26
2012	Italy	"Per sempre"	Nina Zilli	219	London	26
2013	Spain	"Te despertaré"	Pastora Soler	237	Bologna	30
2014	France	"Dernière Danse"	Indila	251	Spain	26
2015	France	"Andalouse"	Kendji Girac	248	France	31
2016	Spain	"Sofia"	Álvaro Soler	234	France	28
2017	Australia	"Fighting for Love"	Dami Im	232	Spain	28
2018	United Kingdom	"Scared of the Dark"	Steps	230	Sydney	29
2019					London

OGAE Video Contest

Main article: OGAE Video Contest

The OGAE Video Contest is a video event which, much like the OGAE Song Contest, is organised between branches of OGAE, the international fan club of the Eurovision 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 sung in one of the country's official languages.

Participation

So far 50 countries have been represented at the contest at least once. These are listed here alongside the year in which they made their debut:

Year	Country making its debut entry
2003	Albania,  Armenia,  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Finland,  France,  Germany,  Greece,  Iceland,  Israel,  Italy,  Macedonia,  Malta,  Netherlands,  Norway,  Portugal,  Russia,  Slovenia,  Spain,  Turkey,  United Kingdom
2004	Bulgaria,  Croatia,  Luxembourg,  Serbia and Montenegro
2005	Ireland,  Kazakhstan (as Rest of The World),  Poland,  Ukraine
2006	Moldova,  Serbia,  South Africa (as Rest of The World)
2007	Andorra,  Austria,  Estonia,  Latvia,  Namibia (as Rest of The World)
2010	Australia (as Rest of The World)
2012	Belgium,  United States (as Rest of The World)
2013	Belarus
2014	Azerbaijan,  Montenegro,  Slovakia
2016	Cyprus,  Czech Republic,  Hungary,  Romania,  Sweden,   Switzerland,  Uzbekistan (as Rest of The World)

OGAE Rest of the World represents countries that do not have an OGAE branch of their own. Their first participation came at the 2005 Contest, where they represented Kazakhstan.

Winners

Nine countries have won the contest since it began in 2003. The most successful countries in the contest has been Russia and France, who have won the contest three times each.

Year	Country	Video	Performer	Points	Host city
2003	France	"Fan"	Pascal Obispo	122	Istanbul
2004	Portugal	"Cavaleiro Monge"	Mariza	133	Fontainebleau
2005	Ukraine	"I Will Forget You"	Svetlana Loboda	171	Lisbon
2006	Italy	"Contromano"	Nek	106	Izmir
2007	Russia	"LML"	Via Gra	198	Florence
2008	Russia	"Potselui"	Via Gra	140	Moscow
2009	Russia	"Karma"	Yin-Yang	142	Saint Petersburg
2010	Poland	"Kim tu jestem"	Justyna Steczkowska	85	Volgograd
2011	France	"Lonely Lisa"	Mylène Farmer	96	Wrocław
2012	Italy	"È l'amore che conta"	Giorgia	135	Paris
2013	Belgium	"Papaoutai"	Stromae	144	Turin
2014	France	"Tourner dans le vide"	Indila	141	Brussels
2015	Germany	"Gäa"	Oonagh	122	Paris
2016	United Kingdom	"Hymn for the Weekend"	Coldplay	673	Lüneburg
2017	Belgium	"Mud Blood"	Loïc Nottet	184	London
2018	Czech Republic	“Me Gusta”	Mikolas Josef		Antwerp

See also

• ABU Song Festivals


• Bundesvision Song Contest


• Cân i Gymru


• Caribbean Song Festival


• Eurovision Dance Contest


• Eurovision Song Contest


• Eurovision Young Dancers


• Eurovision Young Musicians


• Intervision Song Contest


• Junior Eurovision Song Contest


• OGAE Second Chance Contest


• OGAE Video Contest


• Sopot International Song Festival


• Turkvision Song Contest

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