Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2018

[kungshamra71 892]

Hey! Maybe this has already been asked and answered in the past by I’ve been out for a while so I might have miss it, but isn’t the Irish song a cover from the Led Zeppelin song? And isn’t Led Zeppelin an English band? 

 

Or is the song actually a cover from an even older Irish song? 

 

Edit: nevermind!!!  glad I was wrong 

Edited October 26, 2018 by kungshamra71

[Olympian1010 7,990]

1 hour ago, dezbee2008 said:

I'll be starting my task of putting the points together this weekend, but I'm still missing the first reserve from one member.

 

By the way, the festival of music is open, so send us your countries (and their songs) here.

I’ll take Cyprus and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 

[Agger 1,663]

40 minutes ago, kungshamra71 said:

Hey! Maybe this has already been asked and answered in the past by I’ve been out for a while so I might have miss it, but isn’t the Irish song a cover from the Led Zeppelin song? And isn’t Led Zeppelin an English band? 

 

Or is the song actually a cover from an even older Irish song? 

 

Edit: nevermind!!!  glad I was wrong 

 

The Led Zeppelin song is quite different

but Nightwish has covered it

[heywoodu 15,174]

1 hour ago, dezbee2008 said:

 

The Olympic-like Mixed Music team where two countries will compete in a team, with one of the countries having a female juror. It's not really part of the contest, just something for fun. @dcro will tell you more

Meanwhile @dcro has 'reacted' to this post of yours, yet hasn't said anything more. Disappointing.

[dcro 10,210]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Meanwhile @dcro has 'reacted' to this post of yours, yet hasn't said anything more. Disappointing.

 

What? I explained it two pages ago, but alright then.

 

Mixed Team Music'thlon - Competition Rules

 

Basic team scoring rules per round:

5	Top scoring team
3	2nd best scoring team
2	3rd best scoring team
1	4th best scoring team

 

Bonus points:

20	Team members scoring gold and silver medals
11	Both team members scoring medals
4	Both team members scoring odd points
4	Both team members scoring even points
1	Both team members scoring points

 

Penalties*:

-1	Both team members not scoring points
-4	Both team members not scoring for the 2nd straight round
-11	Both team members not scoring for the 3rd straight round
-20	Both team members not scoring for the 4th straight round
ELIMINATION	Both team members not scoring for the 5th straight round

* teams currently voting can not be penalized

** all bonus and penalty points will be doubled on the final votes of a non-participating nation

[dcro 10,210]

Do we know the start time of the official draw then?

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

16 minutes ago, dcro said:

Do we know the start time of the official draw then?

 

We'll say 16:00 GMT for now but it could possibly change to be a bit later. 

 

@Olympian1010 @dcro @mrv86 @heywoodu @Agger are currently signed up as helpers, still time to join the volunteer team if anyone wishes. @rybak will be in the team too if he found someone to do his shift at work for him

 

Edited October 27, 2018 by OlympicIRL

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

Also here are some details of how the draw will take place (it sounds complicated but Parts 1-4 will all take place in advance of the main draw).

 

The main purpose of the draw will be to complete the following:

1. Nations will be assigned a position in the voting order between 1-35.

2. Positions 1-35 will be pre-assigned to 35 different base cities which will host the 35 delegations.

3. The nations will be divided up into 7 teams of 5 for the TISC team challenge. Each team will be based in one of seven regions spread across the United States and each team member will be based within a different city in that region.

4. These team positions will be spread evenly throughout the voting order (voting positions 1-7 will contain one team member from each team and so on.

5. The 7 different regions hosting the teams are as follows:

 

• The Northeast (New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Burlington, and Atlantic City)
• Eastern Midwest (Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee)
• Western Midwest (Minneapolis, Omaha, Des Moines, Wichita, Kansas City)
• Atlantic (Orlando, Atlanta, Washington, Richmond, Baltimore)
• South (Little Rock, New Orleans, Dallas, Oklahoma, Nashville)
• Mountain (Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City)
• Pacific (Anchorage, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Portland)

Note: The bold cities indicate the main team base for each team, and the nation based there will play the role of captain for their team. This idea will be expanded on later but it will essentially be used as one element of separating teams that are tied for position and has a role in a minor bonus available to each team. Plus, there is a certain amount of bragging rights to be had with being able to say you are the captain of the team

 

 

 

 

So, how will this process take place?

 

Part 1:

USA is randomly assigned a position in the voting order (position 1-35). USA as host will be based in the host city of Orlando in the Atlantic Region.

 

Part 2:

Once USA is assigned to their voting position, we will know exactly the voting positions that the other 4 members of the Atlantic team will be voting (of course we don't know who those other 4 nations are at this point).

 

Part 3:

We then draw the order of the other remaining 6 Team Regions. After this, we will have a table showing us exactly where each team will be spread in the voting order. It will look something like this, for example:

 

 

	Jury Voting Order	18	NATION - Western Midwest
1	NATION - Atlantic	19	NATION - South
2	NATION - Northeast	20	NATION - Mountain
3	NATION - Eastern Midwest	21	NATION - Pacific
4	NATION - Western Midwest	22	UNITED STATES - Atlantic
5	NATION - South	23	NATION - Northeast
6	NATION - Mountain	24	NATION - Eastern Midwest
7	NATION - Pacific	25	NATION - Western Midwest
8	NATION - Atlantic	26	NATION - South
9	NATION - Northeast	27	NATION - Mountain
10	NATION - Eastern Midwest	28	NATION - Pacific
11	NATION - Western Midwest	29	NATION - Atlantic
12	NATION - South	30	NATION - Northeast
13	NATION - Mountain	31	NATION - Eastern Midwest
14	NATION - Pacific	32	NATION - Western Midwest
15	NATION - Atlantic	33	NATION - South
16	NATION - Northeast	34	NATION - Mountain
17	NATION - Eastern Midwest	35	NATION - Pacific

 

 

Part 4:

We will then reveal where each of the city bases will be assigned to each voting position. This will be pre-assigned so that the draw doesn't take an eternity to complete. So after this reveal, the table should look something like this for example, with (c) denoting team captains:

 

 

	Jury Voting Order	18	NATION - Des Moines
1	NATION - Atlanta	19	NATION - Nashville
2	NATION - Burlington	20	NATION - Las Vegas
3	NATION - Indianapolis	21	NATION - Portland
4	NATION - Minneapolis (c)	22	UNITED STATES - Atlantic (c)
5	NATION - Little Rock	23	NATION - Atlantic City
6	NATION - Phoenix	24	NATION - Chicago (c)
7	NATION - San Francisco	25	NATION - Wichita
8	NATION - Washington	26	NATION - Oklahoma
9	NATION - Boston	27	NATION - Albuquerque
10	NATION - Detroit	28	NATION - Seattle
11	NATION - Omaha	29	NATION - Richmond
12	NATION - New Orleans	30	NATION - Philadelphia
13	NATION - Denver (c)	31	NATION - Cleveland
14	NATION - Anchorage	32	NATION - Kansas City
15	NATION - Baltimore	33	NATION - Dallas (c)
16	NATION - New York (c)	34	NATION - Salt Lake City
17	NATION - Milwaukee	35	NATION - Los Angeles (c)

 

 

 

Part 5:

We will begin assigning the other 34 nations to their voting positions. There are no limitations in terms of how quickly team spaces will be filled. One team can have all it's team members assigned before another team has any assigned to them. It will be completely random.

At this point we will also learn who the team captains will be for each team and the city each nation will be based in.

 

 

As stated already, we will conduct part 1-4 in advance of the main draw so that everything can be ready to go for the main event,

 

Edited October 27, 2018 by OlympicIRL

[heywoodu 15,174]

Fingers crossed for Mountain Team  

[hckošice 14,910]

who bet that SVK will get Anchorage ? that´s because we already bought new swimsuits