OGAE Second Chance Contest 2002
The 2002 OGAE Second Chance Contest was the 17th OGAE Second Chance Contest, organised between members of international Eurovision Song Contest fan club OGAE to select the best song not to make it to the Eurovision Song Contest through their national finals. 18 songs comepted in the contest, held in Stockholm in Sweden after OGAE Sweden's win the previous year with "Allt som jag ser" by Barbados.
Five countries returned to the contest after missing the previous year - Austria, Belgium, Finland, Macedonia and Romania all returned as competing countries. However five other countries could not compete after being relegated from competing in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 - Iceland, Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal were all unable to compete. Two further countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lithuania, were disqualified duirng the voting when their results were not received by the deadline.
The 18 competing entries were joined by seven guest juries in the voting for the winner, coming from France, Luxembourg, Ireland, Portugal, Netherlands, Norway and Turkey.
At the end of the voting the winner was Spain's David Bisbal with "Corazon latino", beating Sweden's winner from 2001 Barbados in second place, and Israel's Sarit Hadad into third place.
Participants
Draw |
Country |
Language |
Artist |
Song |
English translation |
National final |
Place |
Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Turkish |
Ayça Dönmez |
"Saril Bana" |
Embrace me |
Unplaced |
16 |
20 |
|
2 |
English |
Vank |
"All Too Young" |
– |
2nd |
18 |
11 |
|
3 |
Macedonian |
Andrijana Janevska |
"Oh cherie, mon cherie" |
Oh darling, my darling |
2nd |
12 |
41 |
|
4 |
English |
Karen Polidano |
"When Comes My Lover" |
– |
2nd |
16 |
20 |
|
5 |
Slovene |
Karmen Stavec |
"Še in še" |
More and more |
2nd |
4 |
129 |
|
6 |
Croatian |
4'33" |
"Ave Maria Laudata" |
– |
13th |
7 |
87 |
|
7 |
Greek, English |
Peggy Zina |
"Love Is A Wonderful Thing" |
– |
2nd |
8 |
74 |
|
8 |
Spanish |
David Bisbal |
"Corazón latino" |
Latin heart |
2nd |
1 |
203 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disqualified |
3 |
|
10 |
English |
Aika |
"Stay" |
– |
2nd |
6 |
93 |
|
11 |
English |
Joy Fleming & Jambalaya |
"Joy To The World" |
– |
2nd |
10 |
58 |
|
12 |
English |
Linda Leens & Horens |
"Stop The War" |
– |
2nd |
15 |
25 |
|
13 |
Swedish |
Barbados |
"Världen utanför" |
The world outside |
4th |
2 |
176 |
|
14 |
English |
Severine Doré |
"Wherever You'll Be" |
– |
6th |
11 |
54 |
|
15 |
Danish |
Luna Park |
"Sommerregn" |
Summer rain |
2nd |
12 |
41 |
|
16 |
English |
Tricia Penrose |
"DJ Romeo" |
– |
2nd |
14 |
40 |
|
17 |
English |
Nightlight Duo & Cowboys |
"Another Country Song" |
– |
2nd |
9 |
66 |
|
18 |
English |
Loud9 |
"Won't Forget Tonight" |
– |
3rd |
5 |
113 |
|
19 |
English |
Sarit Hadad |
"DJ Superman" |
– |
Unplaced |
3 |
130 |
|
|
|
|
|
– |
|
Disqualified |
66 |
*B'Avarija had originally won the Lithuanian national final, however were disqualified as a Lithuanian version of the song was released on the group's album at the end of 2001.
See also
- OGAE
- Eurovision Song Contest 2002