Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2016

[hckošice 13,644]

1 minute ago, catgamer said:

 

Hello hckosice, happy to be back too

 

Now I just have to look for a decent song and I don't know whether my original choice would be eligible to participate

 

why do you think the song would not be eligible to participate? when was the song released?

[catgamer 117]

1 minute ago, hckosice said:

 

why do you think the song would not be eligible to participate? when was the song released?

 

The song was released in 2015 afaik

[hckošice 13,644]

1 minute ago, catgamer said:

 

The song was released in 2015 afaik

 

so it should be ok

 

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1. (a) All songs must be ORIGINAL, NEW MATERIAL, released on or after January 1st, 2015. Exceptions will be made in the following circumstances:

• (i) A song released as a single no more than 6 months before the cut-off date (i.e. July 1st, 2014) may ONLY be chosen if that song was subsequently released on an album for the first time during the official period of eligibility. For example, a song which was released as a single on July 1st 2014 may be chosen if that song was later included in an album released on January 1st 2015 or thereafter.
• (ii) A song which is a copy of an original song may ONLY be chosen if both artists of the original song and the copy version are from the same nation AND if the original song was also released within the period of eligibility (on or after January 1st, 2015).

1. (b) All songs must be original to the nation for which they are competing. In other words, if a song is a copy of an original song by an artist from another country then it is ONLY permitted to participate for the nation of the artist who produced the original version. If both artists are from the same nation then the song must fulfill rule 1(a)(ii) in order to be eligible to participate.

 

[bestmen 2,637]

there are many good songs what's happened to you

[dcro 10,193]

Link to Croatian song on opening post is leading to Slovak entry!

[hckošice 13,644]

9 minutes ago, dcro said:

Link to Croatian song on opening post is leading to Slovak entry!

 

sorryyyy.. fixed

 

surely Antarctica is again behind this attempt of sabotage

[amen09 384]

Malik is not connected since 14 march

i hope he is fine 

Tunisia

 

 

Myrath (ميراث, meaning legacy), a metal band from  Tunisia

 

 

Myrath - Believer

 

Lyrics :

 

Burning fire
In your eye
Melt away overnight
Carve your life
Sharpened knife
Like a thrill
In a fight
It's the moment to blow our minds
Faith is blind
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Your victory will live forever
Keep fighting for the riot inside
Believe and carry on
Jump on the bandwagon
History goes on
Believe and carry on
Bird of night
Broken chains
There's no time to deny
Past is gone
The future's bright
Throw away
Yesterday

 

Create your brand new name
There's no shame
So light the flame
You know you're gonna win or you'll learn
Your victory will live forever
Keep fighting for the riot inside
Believe and carry on (You'll win or you'll learn)
Jump on the bandwagon (The candle will be burnt)
History goes on (You'll win or you'll learn)
Believe and carry on
If you believe then you can reach
Anything you want
ميراث ميراث نورك ساطع وغالي(Myrath .. Myrath ... your light is bright and precious )
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Your victory will live forever
Keep fighting for the riot inside
Believe and carry on
Jump on the bandwagon
History goes on
Believe and carry on
 

[dcro 10,193]

Antarctica wins the first WINTERFEST Annual Contest, not without controversies

 

 

After winning the inaugural WINTERFEST last year, Antarctica was once again the winner. Although, unlike the last year's WINTERFEST when Antarctica won by a whopping 94 points margin, the 2016 WINAC (short for WINTERFEST Annual Contest) was a much tighter affair. The song contest was held once again in Antarctica on April 1st. Apparently, the idea of WINTERFEST contests is to always have Antarctica as the host. Antarctica's representatives, Antarctica Clear-ice Revival, charmed the crowd with their new hit "Have you ever seen the snow?" and were awarded 147 points from 20 nations competing. Antarctica's win though came out as a quite of a surprise considering that coming into the last two votes they were 22 points behind leading Mongolia.

 

Second last to vote was the jury from Lapland. Voting in general was going very smoothly, but just before Lapland's votes the power went down what caused a break of about 15 minutes. Lapland decided to give the hosts 12 points while Mongolia didn't get any, what was quite surprising considering that each national jury before Lapland gave points to Mongolia.

 

Incidentally, Mongolia was the last to show their votes. But, remember, unlike at the TISC contests, the national juries are allowed to vote for themselves at WINTERFEST contests. Keeping that in mind, Mongolia's win still seemed quite certain as they only needed two points to secure the win. But, the unthinkable happened. Mongolia decided to give just 1 point to themselves and 12 points to Antarctica and therefore Antarctica remained undefeated at the WINTERFEST contests. The announcement of Mongolia's votes was very hard to watch for the home cheering crowd, but after it become apparent that Antarctica is the new-old winner there was a huge roar.

 

Despite this very tight win, the circumstances were quite controversial to say the least. Firstly, it's quite odd that Mongolia gave itself just 1 point. 15 out of 20 national juries gave at least 8 points or more to their own songs. 4 national juries (Jan Mayen, Sandwich Islands, Greenland and Luxembourg) were more fair-play orientated as they refused to give any points to themselves. Moreover, all of them announced that they won't be giving any points to themselves before the contest even started. That's why the fact that Mongolia gave only 1 point to themselves is quite suspicious since the trend was to either give yourself a lot of points or zero points. Secondly, there was another unexpected break just before the last votes as the power went down again! Lightning did struck twice in the same spot, and just before the most crucial votes. But, what happens on Antarctica, stays on Antarctica, right?

 

However, despite these inconsistencies, the winner's trophy remains in Antarctica. In the post-contest interview, Antarctic participants said that they were quite confident of victory, even before the last votes.

 

20 Nations and Territories competed in this, the first edition of the WINAC (and the second edition of the WINTERFEST song contests). Though, some reports are stating that 23 nations were expected to compete. Two of them were kicked out for not paying the entry fee while Liberia withdrew after some conflict with the organizers. Apparently, Liberia was listed as "Library" on the entry list, what seemed to be a typing mistake. However, Liberia's multiple requests for correcting the name were rejected by Antarctic organizers. Liberia withdrew after that. In a post-contest interview, Antarctic organizers didn't really address that issue, all they said was "We know the grammar".

 

Antarctic organizers also expressed their "disappointment" and "disbelief" because none of the TISC nations decided to join WINAC after Totallympics temporarily went down in February.

 

The final results were as follows:

 

Spoiler

Antarctica (147 points)
Mongolia (146 points)
Novaya Zemelya (114 points)
Sandwich Islands (100 points)

Iceland (99 points)
Jan Mayen (99 points)

Alaska (85 points)

Greenland (76 points)

Swaziland (73 points)

Tristan da Cunha (69 points)

Austria (57 points)

Peter I Island (41 points)

Lapland (40 points)

South Georgia Islands (29 points)

Nunavut (22 points)

Wrangel Island (17 points)

Svalbard Islands (14 points)

Sakhalin (11 points)

Tasmania (9 points)

Luxembourg (1 point)

 

[bestmen 2,637]

sandwich island :lol

[hckošice 13,644]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

Antarctica wins the first WINTERFEST Annual Contest, not without controversies

 

 

After winning the inaugural WINTERFEST last year, Antarctica was once again the winner. Although, unlike the last year's WINTERFEST when Antarctica won by a whopping 94 points margin, the 2016 WINAC (short for WINTERFEST Annual Contest) was a much tighter affair. The song contest was held once again in Antarctica on April 1st. Apparently, the idea of WINTERFEST contests is to always have Antarctica as the host. Antarctica's representatives, Antarctica Clear-ice Revival, charmed the crowd with their new hit "Have you ever seen the snow?" and were awarded 147 points from 20 nations competing. Antarctica's win though came out as a quite of a surprise considering that coming into the last two votes they were 22 points behind leading Mongolia.

 

Second last to vote was the jury from Lapland. Voting in general was going very smoothly, but just before Lapland's votes the power went down what caused a break of about 15 minutes. Lapland decided to give the hosts 12 points while Mongolia didn't get any, what was quite surprising considering that each national jury before Lapland gave points to Mongolia.

 

Incidentally, Mongolia was the last to show their votes. But, remember, unlike at the TISC contests, the national juries are allowed to vote for themselves at WINTERFEST contests. Keeping that in mind, Mongolia's win still seemed quite certain as they only needed two points to secure the win. But, the unthinkable happened. Mongolia decided to give just 1 point to themselves and 12 points to Antarctica and therefore Antarctica remained undefeated at the WINTERFEST contests. The announcement of Mongolia's votes was very hard to watch for the home cheering crowd, but after it become apparent that Antarctica is the new-old winner there was a huge roar.

 

Despite this very tight win, the circumstances were quite controversial to say the least. Firstly, it's quite odd that Mongolia gave itself just 1 point. 15 out of 20 national juries gave at least 8 points or more to their own songs. 4 national juries (Jan Mayen, Sandwich Islands, Greenland and Luxembourg) were more fair-play orientated as they refused to give any points to themselves. Moreover, all of them announced that they won't be giving any points to themselves before the contest even started. That's why the fact that Mongolia gave only 1 point to themselves is quite suspicious since the trend was to either give yourself a lot of points or zero points. Secondly, there was another unexpected break just before the last votes as the power went down again! Lightning did struck twice in the same spot, and just before the most crucial votes. But, what happens on Antarctica, stays on Antarctica, right?

 

However, despite these inconsistencies, the winner's trophy remains in Antarctica. In the post-contest interview, Antarctic participants said that they were quite confident of victory, even before the last votes.

 

20 Nations and Territories competed in this, the first edition of the WINAC (and the second edition of the WINTERFEST song contests). Though, some reports are stating that 23 nations were expected to compete. Two of them were kicked out for not paying the entry fee while Liberia withdrew after some conflict with the organizers. Apparently, Liberia was listed as "Library" on the entry list, what seemed to be a typing mistake. However, Liberia's multiple requests for correcting the name were rejected by Antarctic organizers. Liberia withdrew after that. In a post-contest interview, Antarctic organizers didn't really address that issue, all they said was "We know the grammar".

 

Antarctic organizers also expressed their "disappointment" and "disbelief" because none of the TISC nations decided to join WINAC after Totallympics temporarily went down in February.

 

The final results were as follows:

 

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Antarctica (147 points)
Mongolia (146 points)
Novaya Zemelya (114 points)
Sandwich Islands (100 points)

Iceland (99 points)
Jan Mayen (99 points)

Alaska (85 points)

Greenland (76 points)

Swaziland (73 points)

Tristan da Cunha (69 points)

Austria (57 points)

Peter I Island (41 points)

Lapland (40 points)

South Georgia Islands (29 points)

Nunavut (22 points)

Wrangel Island (17 points)

Svalbard Islands (14 points)

Sakhalin (11 points)

Tasmania (9 points)

Luxembourg (1 point)

 

 

Library   but Austria I invited all our neighbors but Austria didn´t send us any response and now I see that they competed there...traitors...

 

Thanks dude, you made my day great article

Edited April 5, 2016 by hckosice