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 April, May and September (or as advised), 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, 8-1 point vote (unless otherwise stated).

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 - 7:00pm 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)

*Unless otherwsie stated below by the month of the year.

FEBRUARY 2025:

Coming off of an epic “All Swiss Songs” retrospective, we have again chip-dipped to see which year we will randomly Retrospectively review… And if you would like to check our the draw, click here!

As is customary, we will of course hold two watch parties for the Retro, and they will be:

sunday FEBRUARY 16

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)

Voting has now closed for this Retrospective - results to follow soon.

January 2025:

All things Switzerland, as is customary in January for the winning country… Click here for more!

DECEMBER 2024:

Let’s all meet up in the year 2000… And we did! It was fun going back to some of the awesome songs of the year, and some of the less so too! Denmark too the win, Flying on the Wings of Love to the top spot, and with so many other memorable performances too!

With the time of year and people’s availability - we did not source a results video… this will be back for February!

You can see the full results in a table of course, click here!