OGAE – Yesterday the OGAE Club of Switzerland revealed their votes for the 2017 OGAE Poll and it is yet another win for Italy and Francesco Gabbani who extends his lead even further. Switzerland does not come up with any surprises here and vote for the songs agreed on by other clubs.
Switzerland Top 10:
Italy 12pts
Belgium 10pts
France 8pts
Sweden 7pts
Estonia 6pts
Portugal 5pts
Finland 4pts
Israel 3pts
FYR Macedonia 2pts
Hungary 1pts
Overall Top 10:
1st Italy 102pts
2nd Belgium 75pts
3rd Sweden 66pts
4th France 56pts
5th Estonia 55pts
6th Israel 26pts
7th Switzerland 20pts
8th F.Y.R. Macedonia 19pts
9th Hungary 15pts
10th Portugal 14pts
The Eurovision Times 
Pleasantly surprised to see Portugal in the overall top10.
I wonder when was the last time Sweden missed the ogae top10.
Portugal in OGAEs top 10 with a song not in English and not danceable.
The end of days! :P
I am very surprised as well.
Last year.
They were 11th (Sweden)
which imo proves that OGAE are less country bias (as seen in CH doing well this year) as GENRE bias (and since MF ends up in always the same genre/type, they often over do well there)!
All about the stage:
It sounds promising. :)
Nah, not for me. The only stage in recent years I really liked was Malmö 2013. It was warm and organic. I’m tired of all these high-tech excesses.
We haven’t seen it working. One has to be positive. :) There’s a chandelier ad all.
Let’s hope it doesn’t go all Phantom of the Opera, then again, that actually might be a cool way to knock out some of the more rubbish entries….. (perhaps Bjorkman has a plan so that Sweden reigns supreme) ;)
Phantom of the ESC has his wicked ways and collapsing chandelier would surely add nicely to his overall notoriety.
am wondering how much falling chandeliers should really influence 2017 esc result, and why it should
I’m sure will get a good result. Besides it’s NF’s where the chandeliers should be.
The guests will arrive soon. Yes, preview night!
We are expecting a full report! :D
LOL! :-) will your guests represent a typical ESC jury of today?!
Just a random bunch of family and friends. :)
Favourtites: BEL, FIN, PRT, ARM, ITA
Other songs that got support: AZE, CZE, CYP, LAT, HUN, NOR, BLR, ISR, FRA, UKR
Scaringly similar to my list …
Expected results. :) How did people react to Salvador’s body language?
Check Natalia Anderson’s reaction and you’ll see what I saw tonight. I also showed them the winner’s reprise. :)
Good (minus the dizzy part, I hope). :)
Nobody got dizzy. :)
And btw, everyone went WTF ROFL when Estonia was on. Those facial expressions made people crack up by large numbers. :)
I know; it’s hard not to laugh when watching those two trying to act…
We tried to do the “Lost” + facial expression while smoking a cigarette on the terrace and had wicked fun. My sister’s wife won the “Doing Verona” competition. :)
lol good for her! We are lost in Verona… they’d better find themselves a good acting coach.
Koit is an actor,by the way.
This is not his best work then.
indeed : -)
Damn. I forgot BGR, which was very popular too. :)
Other ROFL songs: MNE, ROM, HRV, SMR, LIT
All in all, Greece was the one that got most negative comments though: “ESC by numbers”, “Generic”, “Dull as dishwater” etc.
I understand why Bulgaria is popular. The comments about Greece were to be expected; it’s a waste of a good singer.
Indeed. I closed my eyes when Bulgaria was on and it is a beautiful song. It’s Kristian who doesn’t make me hop onto the bandwagon …
I agree; the song loses all authenticity.
I was a bit surprised by the positive reaction to Israel but think that it can be explained by the composition of semi-final 2. There are so many silly, pretentious, pompous and contrived songs in this SF that you could hear people sigh with relief at hearing an unpretentious fun entry. I also realised that Norway has a fantastic draw. Coming after San Marino and Croatia it felt like a remedy. :)
I understand that reaction. Israel is not pretentious and ott. Norway may do better than many expect. Waiting for the rehearsals.
At this point, I expect my 5 votes to go to Hungary, Norway, Belarus, Israel and either Macedonia (love the song despite the lukewarm reaction it got tonight but have my doubts about Jana) or The Netherlands (love the ladies and their voices but alas there isn’t much of a song to speak about). I wish that I could vote in SF 1. Well, GOOOO Hungary and Belarus. :)
I have not yet reached a decision on how I will vote. The Dutch trio deserves to be in the final, that’s for sure.
The trio yes, the song no imo. Well, I’ll have to pick the one-eyed from the blind as we say in German. (Not a pc idiom …)
Life is never perfect and is rarely pc. Good night, Togravus. :)
Wise words. Gute Nacht, Shevek. :)
The Hungarian entry with English subtitles “Tears of thousands of people are flowing on my guitar”
Very good stuff!
as much as I kind of like Hungary 2017, will always prefer old Hungarian songs of ex communist contests, here kovács Kati (or Kati Kóvacs she was /is on the jury of “A dal”),