It’s a regular fixture on the fan calendar, where OGAE fan club members decide their favourite of the national final acts who didn’t quite make it to Eurovision. Now the clubs have had their say and declared France’s Seemone the winner of the OGAE Second Chance Contest 2019 with her Destination Eurovision entry “Tous les deux”.

This year’s edition of the “visual event” was hosted by OGAE Italy, after Sanremo act Annalisa won Second Chance 2018 with her song “Il mondo prima di te”.

Italy came very close to winning for a second time. Sanremo super finalists Il Volo placed second in the OGAE poll on 292 points, just two points behind Seemone’s 294.

In third place was Melodifestivalen comeback queen Anna Bergendahl whose “Ashes to Ashes” earned 272 points.

Australia took fourth, with electro-pop duo Electric Fields. Their popular entry “2000 and Whatever” clocked up 242 points.

Rounding out the top five was the outspoken Unser Lied für Israel act Aly Ryan, whose national final entry “Wear Your Love” confirmed its status as a Eurovision fan favourite with 185 points.

The contest also had a few surprises. Bella Santiago’s “Army of Love” and María Villar’s “Muérdeme” were huge fan favourites to win each their national finals. However, several months on, enthusiasm seems to have cooled for their songs, picking up 75 and 71 points respectively.

At the bottom of the table, András Kállay-Saunders’s duo The Middletonz was 22nd with only five points for “Roses” and Finland’s Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman was 23rd with his national final song “Superman” on just three points. While in last place, Portugal’s mid-table Festival da Canção finisher Surma did worse with nil points for the avant-garde “Pugna”.

Each OGAE club whose country selected their Eurovision entry using a national final nominated one unsuccessful national final song as their entry for the Second Chance Contest.

Missing from the 2019 national final season is an act from Montevizija and Georgian Idol, as neither Montenegro nor Georgia have an OGAE club. Instead OGAE Rest of the World voted between the national finalists from Montenegro, Georgia and Moldova (which also doesn’t have an OGAE) and selected Moldova’s Maxim Zavidia as their entry.

OGAE Second Chance Contest 2019 – results

Wiwi Poll results

Earlier in the year, we asked wiwibloggs readers who you thought should win the OGAE Second Chance Contest 2019. Y’all had roughly the same favourites as the overall contest winners.

Your favourite was Australia’s Electric Fields, who took the top spot with 15.02% of the vote. Other OGAE favourites in the top five were Germany’s Aly Ryan, France’s Seemone and Sweden’s Anna Bergendahl.

Wiwibloggs readers also liked the UK’s Kerrie-Anne whose “Sweet Lies” placed fourth in the pool. “Sweet Lies” didn’t do as well in the overall OGAE poll, taking a mid-table result in 13th place.

Australia: Electric Fields – “2000 and Whatever” 15.02% (1,695 votes) Germany: Aly Ryan – “Wear Your Love” 10.43% (1,177 votes) France: Seemone – “Tous les deux” 7.2% (812 votes) United Kingdom: Kerrie-Anne – “Sweet Lies” 6.63% (748 votes) Sweden: Anna Bergendahl – “Ashes to Ashes” 6.58% (743 votes) Romania: Bella Santiago – “Army of Love” 6.23% (703 votes) Spain: María Villar – “Muérdeme” 6.19% (698 votes) Lithuania: Monika Marija – “Light On” 5.06% (571 votes) Croatia: Lorena – “Tower of Babylon” 3.95% (446 votes) Norway: Mørland – “En livredd mann” 3.9% (440 votes) Italy: Il Volo – “Musica che resta” 3.89% (439 votes) Czech Republic: Barbora Mochowa – “True Colours” 3.75% (423 votes) Ukraine: Kazka – “Apart” 3.59% (405 votes) Hungary: The Middletonz – “Roses” 2.97% (335 votes) Denmark: Julie And Nina – “League of Light” 2.85% (322 votes) Albania: Mirud – “Nene” 2.09% (236 votes) Latvia: Edgars Kreilis – “Cherry Absinthe” 2.01% (227 votes) Portugal: Surma – “Pugna” 1.75% (197 votes) Slovenia: Ula Lozar – “Fridays” 1.75% (197 votes) Estonia: Lumervav Feat. Inga – “Milline Päev” 1.12% (126 votes) Finland: Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman – “Superman” 1.11% (125 votes) Serbia: Ivana Vladović & Wonder Strings – “Moje bol” 1.09% (123 votes) Iceland: Friðrik Ómar – “Hvað ef ég get ekki elskað?” 0.53% (60 votes) Moldova: Maxim Zavidia – “I Will Not Surrender” 0.31% (37 votes)

What do you think of the OGAE Second Chance Contest 2019 results? How would “Tous les deux” have faired at Eurovision? Should any of these acts enter a national final again for 2020? Tell us your thoughts below!