EUROVISION RETROSPECTIVES
This activity will look back at Eurovisions past. The idea is that we, as OGAE Rest of the World, will cast our own votes as members on the songs, and decide our club’s favourite for the year. We will run this monthly for the most part, and each year will be randomly drawn.
Every month, with the exclusion of May and September, a random draw will choose a past Eurovision Song Contest. We will post the link to the video of the contest for members to watch, and then cast their votes on their favourites.
While previously, different voting systems were used, we will maintain the current 12, 10, 8-1point vote.
In our monthly newsletter, we will inform of the year that was randomly drawn, as well as the results of the previous month’s retrospective. We will run this from the start of the month for approximately 25 days, to allow for tallying of voting and reporting of results.
We will continue to host online “Watch Parties”, if members are interested in accessing these ongoing. Currently, these are hosted on the following day/time (usually the third weekend of the month):
Sunday - 7:30pm AEDST/AEST - Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time/Australian Eastern Standard Time
Sunday - 3pm EDT/EST - Eastern Daylight Time/Eastern Standard Time (USA)
We cannot guarantee that we will be able to meet everyone’s wishes, but we will do everything we can.
Each activity will be available until the 26th of the month to cast votes.
Casting your vote will earn you 5 points. (Per month if participating in each Retrospective - unless otherwise stated)
FEBRuary 2023:
Back to our scheduled poker chip-dip to randomly select the next year our club will be reviewing… click here to watch the draw!
We will be hosting our usual watch parties for the contest in review, as follows:
sunday february 19
7:00pm AEDST - Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time
3pm EST - Eastern Standard Time (USA)
Click here to join us and our members as we chat while watching the show together!
For those who wish to watch the full show in their own time, click here.
If you only want to watch the live performances, click here.
And, of course, Don’t forget to cast your vote (12, 10, 8-1 style) by clicking “Vote Now” below!
january 2023:
Celebrating the monumental third victory for Ukraine, this month we are looking back at all 17 of Ukraine’s entries, with the 18th being their 2020 song, Solovey by Go_A added in for good measure.
As with all our “country” retrospectives, members were asked to score each song out of 10, rather than the traditional 12,10 8-1 format.
All the information, and the results, can be found by clicking this link!
DECEMBER 2022:
Junior Eurovision 2022 will take place of the usual Eurovision Retrospective - click here to view the page (voting will open from 14 December only).
Our results video, plus the full results are available via the link above!
november 2022:
1968 showed us just how wonderful the days of old could be - with its glamour and array of gold-standard performances (for the most part)! Who was the winner for the OGAE Rest of the World fanclub? did we follow our usual trend of the winner taking out the top spot, or that off chance that a fan fabourite trampled the actual winner to take out our favourite?
Click here to see our delightful member, Jon, presenting our club’s top 5!
For the full table of results - click here!
Previous Retrospectives - archive:
october 2022: 1987
SEPETMBER 2022: no retro
august 2022: 2007
july 2022: 1998
june 2022: 2016
MAY 2022: no retro
april 2022: 1993
march 2022: 1996
february 2022: 1989
JANUARY 2022: ITALY
decemBER 2021: JESC
NovemBER 2021: 1991
OCTOBER 2021: 1970
September 2021: no retro
August 2021: 1959
JULY 2021: 1961
JUNE 2021: 1986
MAY 2021: no retro
APRIL 2021: no retro
MARCH 2021: 2009
FEBRuary 2021: 2005
January 2021: 1997
December 2020: 1969
Thank you to all our members (and friends) who join our watch parties.