Final votes in the OGAE Poll 2017 continue to come in — and there have been a few surprises. OGAE Macedonia, OGAE Israel and OGAE Russia have revealed their votes, and it’s good news for Czech Republic and Serbia. The former nil-pointers are now on the scoreboard.
First up was OGAE Macedonia. Unlike most OGAEs, they did not give their 12 points to Italy. Instead the douze points went to Belgium, while Italy got 10 points and France received eight. Macedonia also saved neighbouring Serbia from the nil points wasteland by giving Tijana Bogicevic three points.
Next was OGAE Israel. Their 12 points went to Italy, ten points to Estonia and eight points to Sweden. They were less impressed with Belgium, but still gave Blanche six points. Israel was feeling the love for Montenegro and had three points for Slavko.
Russia might not be competing in Eurovision 2017, but OGAE Russia was still there to vote in the OGAE Poll 2017. And they were doing things a bit differently. Russia’s 12 points went to Estonia, their ten points to Portugal, and they only had eight points to give to the overall winner, Italy.
Russia didn’t have any points to give to favourites Belgium, Sweden and France, but they had a big fat seven points for Montenegro. Russia also saved the day for the Czech Republic. Their one point for Martina Bárta ensures that “My Turn” has finally made it to the scoreboard.
On the overall scoreboard, Italy is unbeatably locked in to first place, now with 437 points. Belgium is second with 290, and Sweden follows in third place with 284 points. France can be found in fourth place with 242 points, while Estonia is fifth with 218 points.
Montenegro has taken the biggest leap in the scoreboard. Slavko has gone from six to 16 points, which means a jump from 25th to 17th place on the board. Serbia and the Czech Republic make their debut on the scoreboard, taking up the two final spots.
OGAE Poll 2017: Macedonia votes
- Belgium – 12 points
- Italy – 10 points
- France – 8 points
- Israel – 7 points
- Sweden – 6 points
- Switzerland – 5 points
- Estonia – 4 points
- Serbia – 3 points
- Latvia – 2 points
- Hungary – 1 point
OGAE Poll 2017: Israel votes
- Italy – 12 points
- Estonia – 10 points
- Sweden – 8 points
- France – 7 points
- Belgium – 6 points
- Denmark – 5 points
- Bulgaria – 4 points
- Montenegro – 3 points
- Switzerland – 2 points
- Hungary – 1 point
OGAE Poll 2017: Russia votes
- Estonia – 12 points
- Portugal – 10 points
- Italy – 8 points
- Montenegro – 7 points
- FYR Macedonia – 6 points
- Norway – 5 points
- Azerbaijan – 4 points
- Georgia – 3 points
- Finland – 2 points
- Czech Republic – 1 point
OGAE Poll 2017: Totals so far
- Italy – 437 points
- Belgium – 290 points
- Sweden – 284 points
- France – 242 points
- Estonia – 218 points
- Bulgaria – 106 points
- Portugal – 103 points
- Israel – 90 points
- FYR Macedonia – 88 points
- Finland – 59 points
- Switzerland – 41 points
- Denmark – 39 points
- Hungary 36 points
- Norway – 30 points
- Australia – 29 points
- Azerbaijan – 28 points
- Montenegro – 16 points
- Romania – 15 points
- Belarus – 15 points
- Austria – 14 points
- Cyprus – 13 points
- Latvia – 12 points
- United Kingdom – 12 points
- Armenia – 7 points
- Iceland – 7 points
- Croatia – 6 points
- Greece – 6 points
- Ireland – 4 points
- Georgia – 4 points
- Poland – 4 points
- Netherlands – 3 points
- Serbia – 3 points
- Czech Republic – 1 point
These countries are yet to receive any points: Albania, Germany, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain and Ukraine.
Well I really like the song from Czech Republic. It has a beautiful sentiment and is sung with real feeling. Deserves to reach the final.
Well im not allowed to comment though on WB..
(whenever i post my comments are getting removed sadly)
But i am just so happy about Verona’s (12) points! <3 😀
Thank you to Russia! <3
WOW! <3 ESTONIA gets douze 12 points! <3
@Timo1962FI
Thank you my friend 🙂 its nice finally to read here love comments for israel and other countries who are not portugal and Italy.
Did you see how much hate comments for israel and for her lovely singer imri? I dont understand that.i think its awful to the singer’s from different countries to read here the comments and to think that they do not have a chance to win.so lets skeep the competition if we already have a winner lol.
Well, I guess Italy is the obvious winner even if it is far from being my favorite this year. Occidentali’s Karma simply lacks the “Euphoria” or “Heroes” factor. For me it is just an entertaining song that I like to hear once or twice from the background in my office, but no way, not a winner. Maybe my number 15. I wish best of luck for Azerbaijan, Israel, Belgium, Australia, Bulgaria, Armenia and Hungary. Not in a particular order. They all are good.
Forgor Albania and Portugal.
*forgot
Cheap pop songs in english all the same. Only Hungary is good from your favourites.
I’m guessing that casual viewers will give higher rankings to Portugal, Norway and Ukraine – genres that OGAE folks tend not to support.
Casual voters will likely give lower rankings to Belgium, Bulgaria and Macedonia – songs that have awesome videos, but come across as tepid on their own.
Omg Russia is so political so against the Eurovision spirit why didn’t they vote for Ukraine omgggg.
Wait
Nobody likes Ukraine
Nvm
Russia’s OGAE poll is weird. Estonia and Portugal got the top points! (ok, I don’t actually mind, as I love both songs), 8p to favourite Italy. Montenegro got 7 POINTS? That was a surprise! Seriously? The fourth best song this year is this? Overall, they seem to have voted some of their neighbours in the north (Estonia, Norway, Finland), 2 of the three countries in Kaukausus (not sure about the spelling, I apologize), Azerbaijan and Georgia. Also they voted some Balkan countries (Montenegro, FYROM)! Czech Republic got some points at last! It’s interesting I didn’t see Bulgaria getting any points,… Read more »
It’s Caucasus and I also wondered about Bulgaria. Then again I love the Czech song, it’s got a such a great sentiment. You watched me back, now I’m going to watch yours.
he cant sing live and the song is dated pop song in english, nothing special. This kind of songs was top once.
Thank you OgaeRussia Your Top 3 and Czech Rep. are my favorite this year.you have great quality of music taste .good luck .celebrate diversity ^^
How many ogae are left? I just want them to go away. The most irrelevant thing in Eurovision is this ogae, just go away.
Well, let’s see the rehearsals and staging in semi’s, cuz I doubt that some of these countries will do so well unlike here from these esc freaks. :- )
Freaks? Are you freak too? Lol
Portugal song and Salvador are amazing.
Russian voting is really interesting and in a good way
I’m sure Russian televote would give at least 8 or 10 to Portugal this year.. like when they gave 8 to Zoe or 12 to Il Volo.
Except Russia isn’t participating
Imri and robin bengston my love :)Imri is so cute he posted on instegram a happy birthday massage to robin and call him Swedish mafen:) love those guys i hope they will stay friend’s after the Eurovision and maybe sing together:)
I think israel is the dark horse this year.
Yes in 2003, but we are in 2017 🙂
You need some personality to win and Israel’s enrtry has zero.
This tea. I don’t think Israel will be in the final, it’s the type of song that’s enjoyable but not outstanding.
Polegando i read that comment also about Goldan boy in 2015 and about hovi star in 2016 and we come higher than italy..im just saying…..
I mean we came to high places polegando
The difference is “Golden boy” was so catchy and enjoyable.
And Hovi was saved by juries.
“I feel alive” is not catchy and it’s not jury-friendly. Israel will need a fantastic staging this year.
You wrong. Israel have lots of beauty and personality.what is your problem?? Little envy of beautiful pepole?
Thank you Macedonia for the point’s for israel.
You have good taste 🙂
I’m from Mos?ow. On Monday I heard Verona on the street from some cafe
Interesting. A certain finalist I think.
Sweden will win big time.Italy will be a big flop.
I agree with you.
Italy and Portugal with boring songs.
Dont know what the hype is about.
For me Sweden or Australia.
I hope you’ve bet some money, seems you’re so sure about it.
You could get a lot of money.
I am sure of it , i dont need to bet i have lot’s of money..but thanks
Can you gift me some!! I am to put in polite terms “not very rich”.
I don’t know if Italy is going to win. For sure Sweden will not! I think they will probably qualify anyway… …we all know why!
Israel why you gave 12 point’s to the monkey???? Israel should gave 12 point’s to Blanche , at least she is Jewish and has family in israel.or to the amazing song by Sweden
People vote for their favorite songs, not the singers relligion. If that was the case, we could assume that Salvador Sobral is a Pastafari, since Portugal got 12 from Italy.
Love your argument!
You’re sick! So catholic Countries should vote for other catholic Countries, protestant for protestant and so on? The real sad thing is that you Israelians are not even European!
Lamme Do you have a problem with Israelis??? Most israelis come from europe!!and israel is one little america with her progressive technology, economy and start app so we much better than you Lamme…Also Australia, armania, Azerbaijan not in europe..this is not the criteria to participate go and learn before you write stupidity.
It is Armenia not armania. You forgot to mention about Turkey and also Russia, Cyprus, Georgia.
Yes, having some of the ‘European territory’ doesn’t make you European and it’s is certainly not a criteria needed for participation at the ESC.
Israelis actually come from Middle East.
MAOIRA your message is so stupid, you’re a politically uncorrected person, we are speaking about a song contest and your reasons and your yardsticks are religions and nationality….. You are the kind of person that would be banned from any juries and televoting, thanks to person like you the results of Eurovision Song Contest are often false ….. All my contempt dear…. !!
@fabio Lol , Dear i was just joking.
All the commentors here take eich massage so seriously..Relax and drink cold water 🙂
Romania 18th 🙂 🙂 🙂
thank you OGAE for not overhyping them
This is the bookmakers prediction Range of probability of qualification of various countries
1)Sweden- 93.4 to 96.15
2)Armenia- 88.89 to 93.4
3)Greece-87.5 to 90.91
4)Australia- 80 to 92.85
5)Portugal- 80 to 94.33
6)Azerbaijan- 80 to 87.5
7)Belgium-75 to 87.5
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8)Moldova- 63.63 to 72.73
9)Latvia- 61.54 to 71.42
10)Cyprus- 61.54 to 66.67
11)Finland-58.33 to 63.63
12)Poland-50 to 69.23
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13)Iceland-36.36 to 45.45
14)Georgia- 26.67 to 40
15)Albania- 25 to 35.71
16)Montenegro-20.84 to 30.76
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17)Czech Republic- 12.5 to 20.83
18)Slovenia-10 to 16.67
I haven’t calculated yet for Semi-2
Tell me if somebody wants it 🙂
I did a similar thing in the post about Semi 2 odds.
Oh ….i saw now….must have missed it!!
You used what odds?
You produce SPAM
The Russian vote was…different. But TASTEFUL! 12 to the best song a.k.a. Estonia, with the amazing songs from Portugal and Italy rounding out the top 3. Nothing for the Moscow-born Kristian Kostov. #oop
Wow… Top 3 from Russia! Portugal that high?? Really happy for that!!! And Estonia, and Italy…
Thanks 🙂
I get Estonia. Super catchy and I love most fans don’t care about what is dated.
Yes it’s 80’s, yes is Modern Talking, so what?
Salvador is 50’s. So what?
There are songs that are flat out dated (Greece, Israel) and songs that are retro (Estonia, Portugal). People need to get the difference.
The only flat and dated is italy and portugal songs.Israel has a good song.Sweden or Bulgaria or Australia will win.
You insult people calling them idiots, you are a boor. In addition ,you have very bad musical taste.
@luli I have an amazing taste in music..i think you have the worst taste in music and in beauty.i insult only pepole who insult israel here.so mind your own business.
You have insult Elle because she wrote that she like a song of portugal.Who you that you think you are free to offens people? Moderator removed your post.I like the Portuguese song very much. Go away this forum because you have no culture.
LuliYou should go away from this forum bye bye
You have insult Elle because she wrote that she like a song of portugal.Who you are that you think you are free to offens people? Moderator removed your post.I like the Portuguese song very much. Go away from this forum because you have no culture.
My dear luli, did he/her???
Where? I missed it, damn it… Would you, please, tell me in which post exactly? I would have nailed this loser to the ground. I only said somewhere that Israel singer had the charisma of an amoeba, which is true, after all 🙂
Thanks
Ofc Portugal is one the BEST songs, now and ever!
Elle Who are you to talk about israel singer..i bet in a million years you will not look as good as him.so go get some life!
Keep envy at the most beautiful singer imri.i bet you look awful poor you.
liat let me say you have the worst music taste ever! You shouldn’t even be allowed to vote in the contest…
Lamme you shouldn’t even aloud to write here your nonsense!!!
Lamme Are you antisemitic or you just not like Israel????
If a song is a huge hit (Italy case), then it can’t be dated.
Your 3 mentions are “Hits wannabe”, yet all fail in that 🙂
Go and learn something before talking Liat 🙂
Marc you cant argue about personal taste.
You Italians insulting every one here who not like your song.for me, israel and Greece and Sweden are good song’s.Sorry who put you to determine what is dated or good and what is not??? Get some life and respect othet songs and other singers.if the Italian will keep their arrogant toward other counties songs they will not win.Mark my words.
liat, but you can insult people calling them idiots because they have different music taste than you? You are lack of culture.
I’m not Italian XD
I defend what I like 🙂
You can say you don’t like Italy but not with bad arguments.
You can’t call dated a song which is a Hit in Charts, Radios and Youtube. Use other adjectives 🙂
And saying Italy is dated but then you love Greece or Israel..
Marc @liat aloud to say she dont like italy song WITHOUT any explanation at all!!! Its only a matter of taste.about israel-im not sure the jury not like it..israel get high score here from ogea and from wiwi.and imri is very likeable.so lets talk after the semi and than we see who is right.
Yeah but a “flat out dated” song can still be a better song than a retro song and I don’t mean any of this year’s entries at all. Is it a good song? That’s all that counts. Obsessions like these or similar reffering to genre etc make no sense. You either like something or you don’t
I’m still baffled that Estonia is 5th. Baffled.
I don’t get the hype with Estonia!!
OGAE Russia gave Estonia 12 points. Now we know what Putin likes, prepare for Tallinn 2018.
I do love the Italian entry but I do find it weird that it has the most OGAE Points ever when even clear overwhelming wins such as Rybak; Lena, Loreen and Emmelie didn’t even get over 300 points. And they won ESC easily witth literaly no competition what so ever! And Lena didn’t even win OGAE..
Don’t think this will reflect the final result at all!
Maybe most of people like italian song more than Loreen, Rybak, Emmelie and Lena. Is this possible? Yes it is.
Il Volo got more televote than Loreen, Emelie and Lena. And remember Il Volo sang in italian, the others in english…a big difference.
So it is very possible that italian song could get a higher vote than the up-mentioned artists
I may be wrong but I believe there were fewer clubs back in Rebak’s time, which explains why he didn’t have such a BIG number compared to Francesco.
You’re right.
The thing that it surprises me is that people don’t think that it could be possible for Francesco to get a very high top score.
Singing in italian, and without neighbour voting Italy got the second highest televoting.
Do we have to consider that Rybak sang in english and got all the votes from Scandinavians, Baltics and Ex-sovietic countries?
Rybak would’ve won even if he had represented Malta, because he got big points from literally everyone. Just look at his televote receipts… only Switzerland gave it less than 6 points. Diaspora and neighbor voting is of course a reality, but a strong enough song can defeat them.
That was such a pathetic song tbh 😐
I don’t like Fairytale either, but clearly everyone else did. I live in Italy and it was 2009 anyway, I never got to hear it around as I didn’t even follow the contest back then haha
Nudiecrudi,
Il Volo got the best televote score rating ever (2 countries less voting compared to 2009)
Rybak is second and Sergey third 🙂
Estonia’s first twelve points if I’m not mistaken! Thanks, Russia!
you won’t make it to finals 😉
Rude. I personally think Estonia will absolutely make the finals.
Oh wow Tom who peed in your sandbox? ????
Sweden will overtake Italy in ESC!
bet some money, you’ll be rich because with 1000€ you’ll get 15.000€
seems you’re so sure.
Sweden will be the real flop of this year! France, Belgium, Estonia,and Portugal will overtake it!