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Teapacks met OGAE members
Serbia wins the vote of OGAE Israel
OGAE Israel had its annual party tonight, in Tel Aviv. Teapacks, the Israeli entrants to the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest attended the party and answered the fans questions. "We were most impressed by the Turkish entry in 2004 and the one from Moldova in 2005 when we were looking for inspiration for 'Push the button'", said Kobi Oz, the band's leader.
"I can not predict if will qualify to the final or not, but we will be satisfied if we are only remembered after the contest is over". Kobi Oz also spoke about the preparations for Helsinki. "We are still trying to convince the Finns to allow me to perform with a cord microphone instead of the cordless one. We will be happy to meet fans in Helsinki and for that matter we plan on performing somewhere in Helsinki on May 8th". The band also told that from of the 2007 contest, the songs they like the most are the ones from Andorra, Belgium, Bulgaria and Ukraine.
In addition, the 150 fans voted for the 2007 entries, in a semifinal and final format. The fans were divided into 10 juries. The 10 countries that qualified for the final were: Denmark, Cyprus, Israel, Malta, Moldova, FYR Macedonia, Serbia, Iceland, Switzerland and Belarus. After the semifinal, the 10 juries were asked to vote for all the 24 finalists and here are the results:
1. Serbia 80
2. Switzerland 58
3. Iceland 53
4. Belarus 41
5. Cyprus 41
6. Ukraine 35
7. Finland 33
8. France 32
9. FYR Macedonia 32
10. Spain 30
11. Moldova 25
12. Malta 21
13. Israel 19
14. Sweden 18
15. Bosnia Herzegovina 14
16. Germany 13
17. United Kingdom 9
18. Greece 9
19. Russia 6
20. Denmark 6
21. Romania 5
22. Ireland 0
23.Lithuania 0
24. Armenia 0
THE OGAE SCOREBOARD SO FAR: Seven juries have voted
The Israeli OGAE are the first so far to award points to this year's host country, Finland. Belarus maintain their lead over Switzerland but the gap is just 5 points. Slovenia, who were the last OGAE country could of course not vote for themselves, and are slipping from the top after receiving no points from the Israeli vote. With seven OGAE juries having now voted, the leaderboard looks like this:
Belarus 55
Switzerland 50
Slovenia 36
Serbia 36
Greece 32
Cyprus 28
Ukraine 27
Bulgaria 15
Iceland 15
France 15
Bosnia & Herzegovina 14
Denmark 13
Germany 12
Sweden 10
Georgia 10
Romania 9
Russia 7
Spain 7
Finland 4
Turkey 3
FYR Macedonia 3
Netherlands 2
Armenia 2
Moldova 1
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YOU KNOW WHAT....when I see how all songs are bad this year I really think that serbia is gonna win this year...good luck
...dont`you think that SERBIA gets highest score because has the GREATEST song?...ok,guys let`s be honest for once...Maria is not "beauty queen"...but the song,the lyrics,voice& performance ...
is telling us the obvious thing SERBIA IS THE WINNER for 2007. (i think so)...by the way i`m half Macedonian half Greek.I hardly wait this eurosong. 
Whatever just don't bring the ORCHESTRA back please, what nonsense, hehe......
Thanx for the info Molly.
finallay we cant make anything.. eveything on ebu's hand...!!! yhe best way change voting system,turn bacj jury system..the best solution surelt this..!!! ı hope EBU undertand sthing going wrong by televoting.. ar they deaf or blind?!?!?!
Serbia just won the second show (songs 11-19) of the Nordic previews! Well done Marija!
Luka, there's loads of others living and working in Sweden too, Croatians, Albanians, Serbs, Turks, Macedonians, Bosnians, probably some Romanians, Bulgarians and Greeks too....they all vote. As they do in all gastarbeiter countries...nothing much can be changed there. And why wouldn't they vote?
Serbia gets (actually it will do - it hasn't happened yet) - most of its votes from neighbours and diaspora. It's typical for every country in the Balkans excluding Slovenia but including Turkey. It's only a question of who gets the most - or the least. This is why I don't understand why is there so much outcry about Serbia in particular, when others in the region are benefiting from it too. But if despite that you want to change the voting system - change it, I don't mind, it will affect everyone on the Balkans proportionately....
Edin: Don't you think people across Europe as a whole should be free to vote just as they please? People are migrating more than ever - there's lots of Poles in the UK, they'll vote for their own from there.....in 15 yrs time maybe some Portuguese guy working in Belarus may televote for Portugal from there, or similar. DNP voting has become an institution of ESC itself, a lot of people are annoyed but really most of them don't mind, I think....AND it doesn't seem to affect the overall winner, that jumps across the continent erratically enough - a lot more countries participating, blah-blah-blah......it's all fine. Should we let Switzerland win this year then, for good measure? I know the Swedes are going for the "kill", hehe....
And with Baltic states I mean 3 Ex Soviet states only .
Of course it's the televoting that makes neighbourly voting possible , and it was not Ex YU states who introduced it , it was Baltic states who started voting for each other in the late ninetees. Other countries just followed them - unfortunately.
OMG Barbara I apsolutely hated Ambasadori - apparently they were engineered to represent us in 1976 despite the fact that Bisera Veletanlic (Baj Baj Baj) won the Opatija festival three times over that year (in those days that was our preselection). She was the hall audience favourite, the radio audience favourite and god knows what else, and the song was smashing as I'm sure you know. Ambasadori however were chosen because they were the "expert" jury's favourite, and landed on their noses collectively afterwards. I was only a kid but my older brother remembers it all apparently.
To me that song sounded always like some sort of Libyan Gadafi pop.....bleurgh! Sorry, hehe....
@Edin: All I'm saying is that they should try harder yet. Even when they try to joke and be loud (UK) - it doesn't work, as opposed to Ukraine whose shrillness I've grown to like. They just never get it right, that's their problem....because their attitude is wrong to begin with...don't know.
Well Edin , don't you think that before 1999 when the language rule was changed it was jus the opposite ???
Top 5 was guaranteed for songs in English or French languages . Look how many times Ireland won - and only because they were singing in English . Quality songs from Turkey , Greece , Portugal , Finland, Cyprus ,not only that they couldn't dream about victory but not even about being in top 5 .
Yugoslavia left the competition between 1976 and 1981 because the results were constabntly bad , no matter what they would send because of the language it would end up at the bottom . In 1976 we had such a good song by Ambasadori and it ended up last . Times change. Same goes for Turkey , Greece, Portugal .....
@molly
are you still on that subject?!?!? what was that? i forgot.. lol 
whoever says that has just no brain hahahahhahahaha
Hmmmmm. Greece in 18th place and no Turkey in the final.
For me "Molitva" is the best Serbian entry so far:-)
Chi Chi
No it wasn't an attack on your comment about israel! Lol! i just said what i thought. Best wishes!
Edin, a lot of what you say is true, and I've never disputed that. However, why do we need to worry "western worries"? Isn't it also true, hand on the heart, that "western" entries are more often than not undistilled, unattractive crap? I mean look at Holland, for example, bless them. They haven't got a CLUE, and they won't find it any time soon. Or even Belgium, which I incidentally like a lot - it'll finish at the bottom, given that few people nowadays know what classic disco is, let alone listen to it.
Europe has changed, only, viewed from the West, it still ends roundabout Luxembourg (check a lot of xenophobic reactions of Westerners here). They are finding it very hard to cope with the musical (and every other) "invasion" from the East and overall feel very uncomfortable about it. Instead of rethinking the whole approach they have to ESC, considering the changing circumstances, they are sulking and feel "cheated". If they can't help themselves - by sending more attractive entries - nobody can. The Serbian song could have easily been a Swiss entry (there's nothing "balkanic" about it inherently, it's a fairly non-descript international power-ballad) - and I'm sure it would have been equally noticed as such, because of the genre which seems to traditionally do well at ESC. Instead they're sending mindless...nothing, really, which will nonetheless probably end in top 5, if not win altogether.
I of all people am trying to have a balanced, inclusive view of ESC, never underestimating Western entries. The sad truth is though that sometimes that can be very hard work. Paradoxically, the most "modern" song of all doesn't come from UK or France, as expected - but from Georgia, of all places. That says a lot about the shift of power in musical Europe.
yeah Lane Moje is the best entry for serbia,because it s really good song and attarctive everyone!!! but this song have chance because of ex-friends
@nikolas
i agree with you, that's why i love him
..or this wonderful ballad of serbia......
@chi chi larue:
verka is horrible: ridiculous, clown...silly words...and i am afraid it is going to win and follow the success of lordi leaving behind all the musically interesting entries like malta or bulgaria....HORROR ;-/
It's absolutely true that Serbia has a potentially big voting machine behind it - through no fault of it's own, I must add - but it's also true that other ex-YU countries are benefiting from the same anomaly (as is the case elsewhere in Europe too). Croatia too has a HUGE immigration and diaspora yet it's hardly ever mentioned in that context.
The Serbs need to justify that so called "advantage" by constantly sending decent songs in future (which I'm sure we will). And, with all due complaints about it, "Molitva" is just that - a decent entry, some would say more than just decent. So I'm happy with the arrangement so far. If anything kills the ESC it will be cheap music, not predictable voting....
@ana
verka is great fun and makes you addicted !!! watch out for yourself lol
@ Edin: If I remember correctly, Monaco gave 6 points to Lane - but I'll check it all up once more, it's interesting.
i tottaly agree that serbia can easy win because of eyugas countries....!!! surely,nearly ther are 6-7 ex-yugo country,both of them givme high points each other,so that ıf serbia take 6 /12 that mean's only 66 points from ex-yuga..so with that voting system we will always see like ugly things ....
@ Danniela: I'm pretty sure, yes - I think the data displayed in the history section on this site is wrong (for example, Bulgaria never even competed that year yet their votes are displayed - I don't remember them voting at all).
I'll watch the recording of the show again just to make sure, I may well be slightly wrong.
da nema one vase ruznjace, prosla bi ona i bolje
E pa sad, uvek ti Srbija kriva.....
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