Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2019

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Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2019

 

 Totallympics Forum - 3 February 2019 - 5 May 2019 

 

 

 

Official Schedule
Until Saturday, April 6th: Central Standard Time (GMT -6)

From Sunday, April 7th: Central Daylight Time (GMT -5)
 

Sunday, February 3rd

12:00 National Jury Registration Window Open

 

Sunday, February 10th

12:00 National Entries Selection Window Open

 

Sunday, March 10th

23:59 National Jury Registration and National Entries Window Closed

 

Monday, March 11th

00:00 Host Jury Voting Window Open

 

Wednesday, March 13th

23:00 Host Jury Voting Window Closed

 

Thursday, March 14th

00:00 National Jury Voting Window Open

 

Thursday, April 4th

23:59 National Jury Voting Window Closed

 

Friday, April 5th

00:00 Festival of Music and Road to TAISC 2019

 

Saturday, April 6th

11:30 Voting Order Draw

 

Friday, May 3rd

21:00  Opening Ceremony 

 

Saturday, May 4th

07:00 Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2019 Grand Final

 

Sunday, May 5th

20:00 Closing Ceremony

 

 

 

 

Participating Nations

 

National Jury	Jury Member(s)	Artist - Song
Algeria	bestmen	Yasmine Ammari - Je me bats
Argentina	konig	Andres Calamaro - Falso LV
Australia	KingOfTheRhinos	Amy Shark - I Said Hi
Brazil	vinipereira  titicow	Melim - Ouvi Dizer
Bulgaria	stefanbg	ToTo N - Chuzhdi Usmivki
Chile	Pabloffo	Paloma Mami - Not Steady
PR of China	Function CR Lee	Liu Zhijia - The Uncommon Words
Colombia	Damian	Durazno - Día de suerte
Croatia	dcro	Zsa Zsa - Pruži Mi Ruku
Denmark	wumo26  Agger	Jacob Dinesen - Into your arms
Egypt	thepharoah	Tamer Hosny - Naseny Leh
Finland	Finnator123	Anssi Kela - Ilves
France	Bohemia  Benolympique	Diva Faune ft. Lea Paci - Get Up
Germany	catgamer	Nico Santos - Rooftop
Great Britain	Quasit	Gorillaz - Humility
Greece	Janakis	Eleni Foureira - Tómame
India	Dolby	Ranveer Singh - Apna Time Aayega
Indonesia	Griff88	Titi DJ - Imajinasi
Ireland	OlympicIRL	Kodaline - Shed A Tear
Italy	Gianlu33  Henry_Leon  SteveParker  Pablita  Dunadan	Lo Stato Sociale - Una Vita In Vacanza
Lithuania	Werloc	Gebrasy - Acceptance
Malta	Glen	Ira Losco - Hey Now Ira Losco - Hey Now
Mexico	mrv86	Moenia - Clásico
Netherlands	heywoodu	Within Temptation - Mad World
New Zealand	Wanderer	Yumi Zouma - In Camera
Norway	Skijumpingmaster	CLMD - Trouble
Poland	Monzanator	Riverside - River Down Below
Portugal	kungshamra71	David Carreira ft. Sara Carreira - Gosto de Ti
Romania	IoNuTzZ	DJ Project ft. Mira - Inima nebuna
Russia	FC Mezhgorye	Monetochka - Every time
Serbia	DaniSRB	Željko Joksimović - Menjaj pesmu
Slovakia	hckosice	dip band - Iba Raz
Slovenia	justony	Neomi - Moviestar
Spain	Jur	Juan Antonio - No te echo de menos
Tunisia	amen09  tuniscof	Myrath - Dance
Turkey	Memo	Sena Şener - Sevmemeliyiz
United States	dezbee2008  Olympian1010	Childish Gambino - This is America
Venezuela	Argenis Gonzalez	Rawayana, Willy Rodríguez, McKlopedia & La Vida Bohème - Sin Ti

 

Total Number of Jury Members:  47/47

Total Numbers of Participating Nations:  38/38

 

2019 TAISC Playlist

 

 

2019 Grand Final Schedule

 

Voting Order	Nation	Voting Time (Host)	Voting Time (Local)
Session #1
1	SLOVENIA	07:00	14:00
2	TUNISIA	07:12	13:12
3	INDONESIA	07:24	19:24
4	CHILE	07:36	08:36
5	SPAIN	07:48	14:48
6	NORWAY	08:00	15:00
7	SERBIA	08:12	15:12
8	P.R. OF CHINA	08:24	21:24
9	POLAND	08:36	15:36
10	INDIA	08:48	19:18
Break		09:00 - 09:30	30 mins
Session #2
11	ROMANIA	09:30	17:30
12	RUSSIA	09:42	17:42
13	SLOVAKIA	09:54	16:54
14	NETHERLANDS	10:06	17:06
15	FRANCE	10:18	17:18
16	GERMANY	10:30	17:30
17	ARGENTINA	10:42	12:42
18	GREECE	10:54	18:54
19	MALTA	11:06	18:06
Break		11:18 - 12:30	72 mins
Session #3
20	CROATIA	12:30	19:30
21	BULGARIA	12:42	20:42
22	MEXICO	12:54	12:54
23	FINLAND	13:06	21:06
24	GREAT BRITAIN	13:18	19:18
25	LITHUANIA	13:30	21:30
26	ITALY	13:42	20:42
27	UNITED STATES	13:54	11:54
28	ALGERIA	14:06	20:06
29	TURKEY	14:18	22:18
Break		14:30 - 15:00	30 mins
Session #4
30	NEW ZEALAND	15:00	08:00 (Sun)
31	PORTUGAL	15:12	21:12
32	VENEZUELA	15:24	16:24
33	BRAZIL	15:36	17:36
34	:DEN  DENMARK	15:48	22:48
35	:COL  COLOMBIA	16:00	16:00
36	:EGY  EGYPT	16:12	23:12
37	:IRL  IRELAND	16:24	22:24
38	:AUS  AUSTRALIA	16:36	07:06 (Sun)

 

 

2019 Festival of Music Entries

 

Country	User	Artist - Song
:CZE Czech Republic	hckosice	Czech it - Letters
:ECU Ecuador	hckosice	Maga Córdova - Error Tras Error
:JAM Jamaica	mrv86	Koffee - Toast
:JPN Japan	Agger	Kikagaku Moyo - Majupose
:NCA Nicaragua	konig	Israel Lanuza - BE
:PUR Puerto Rico	Henry_Leon	Pedro Capó & Farruko - Calma (Remix)
:SWE Sweden	mrv86	Molly Sanden - Sand
:URU Uruguay	konig	Cuarteto de Nos - Invisible

 

Festival of Music Playlist

 

 

Edited May 5, 2019 by mrv86

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Charter and Official Rulebook

 

 

 

SECTION 1 - SONG CHOICE AND ELIGIBILITY:

 

1. (a) All songs must be ORIGINAL, NEW MATERIAL, released on or after January 1st, 2018. 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 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, 2017 may be chosen if that song was later included in an album released on January 1st, 2018 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, 2018).

 

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

 

1. (c) Songs that competed at Eurovision shall be excluded from competing at TISC. However, songs which competed in a national final but were not put forward to represent their nation at Eurovision may be selected to compete at TISC.

 

 

SECTION 2 - ARTIST CHOICE AND ELIGIBILITY:

 

2. (a) Artists chosen to represent a nation must have been born in or be of the same nationality as the nation for which they are participating OR they must have more or equal association with that nation.

 

2. (b) In the case of bands, at least 50% of the band must be born in or be of the same nationality as the nation for which they are participating OR they should have more or equal association with that nation.

 

2. (c) For the purposes of the Totallympics International Song Contest, the same concept of nationality as that used by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) will be adopted. So, for example, artists from Scotland must represent Great Britain, artists from Faroe Islands must represent Denmark, etc.

 

 

SECTION 3 - NATIONAL JURY VOTING:

 

3. (a) National juries may consist of a single jury member OR a multi-member jury made up of two or more users from that nation.

 

3. (b) National juries must send their votes in SECRET (via private message) to the host organising member(s) of the song contest as requested during the designated voting window.

 

3. (c) Each jury member in a multi-member jury shall send their individual preferences in SECRET (via private message) to the host organising member(s). The votes from each of the members of the multi-member jury will be combined to form a single set of votes which will represent the overall voting preference of that national jury. In this way, the votes from each of the participating national juries, whether single or multi-member juries, will hold equal value or weight.

 

3. (d) National juries will use the following voting format:

• (i) Jury members will award points to their 12 favourite songs in ascending manner from points 1 through 12 (inclusive) with the first preference receiving a maximum score of 12 points, second preference receiving 11 points, third preference receiving 10 points, and so forth until the song of 12th preference which will receive a single point. See below scoring table for reference:

 

1st Preference	12 pts
2nd Preference	11 pts
3rd Preference	10 pts
4th Preference	9 pts
5th Preference	8 pts
6th Preference	7 pts
7th Preference	6 pts
8th Preference	5 pts
9th Preference	4 pts
10th Preference	3 pts
11th Preference	2 pts
12th Preference	1 pt

 

 

• (ii) In single member juries, these scores will subsequently represent the National Jury Vote of that nation. However, in multi-member juries, the votes of all the jury members from that nation will be combined to form a single set of points. The song which has received the most number of points from that national jury will be deemed to be the overall first preference choice of that jury and will receive the maximum score of 12 points; the song which has received the second highest number of points from that national jury will be deemed to be the overall second preference choice of that jury and will receive a score of 11 points, and so forth until the song which has received the 12th highest number of points which will receive a single point from that national jury.

 

3. (d) National juries must submit their votes by the official voting deadline as designated by the host organiser(s). National juries who fail to submit their votes within the required time frame will be disqualified from the contest.

 

3. (e) Any Nation which fails to participate in the voting process will be automatically disqualified from the contest.

 

3. (f) A random draw will take place in advance of the Grand Final to determine the order in which the National Juries will reveal their votes. This draw must be shown to be transparent and available to competing members should they wish to follow the result.

The result of this draw must always be adhered to in order to preserve the random nature in which the voting will progress during the Grand Final. A National Jury may only request a "swap" in their designated voting position if, after the random draw, they have been assigned a voting slot outside of "reasonable hours". For the purpose of this contest, reasonable hours will be determined as anytime between 08:30-23:00 local time of that national jury. During the "swap" process, the host organiser will first look to make swaps between National Juries who are eligible for swaps after the random draw.

 

 

SECTION 4 - NATIONAL JURY TIE-BREAK PROCEDURES:

 

4. (a) In the event of a tie in the combined votes of multi-member juries, the following set of rules outlines how the tie-break will be resolved:

• (i) The song which has received points from the greatest number of jury members will be deemed the winner of the tie. For example, take the following scenario.... Songs A, B, and C each received a combined score of 10 points after the results of each national jury member were combined and calculated. Song A received a single score of 10 points from one jury member, Song B received scores of 7 points and 3 points from two separate jury members and Song C received scores of 5 points, 3 points and 2 points from 3 separate jury members. All three songs received a total of 10 points, however, Song C is deemed to be the winner of the tie because a greater number of jury members voted for that song (3 members in this case).
• (ii) If the songs remain deadlocked after 4 (a) (i), the song which received the highest value score from an individual jury member will be deemed the winner of the tie. For example, take the following scenario.... Song A and Song B each received a combined score of 14 points after the results of each national jury member were combined and calculated. Song A received scores of 8+6 points while Song B received scores of 7+7 points. Song A will be deemed the winner of that tie since that song received a score of higher value (8 points) from one of the national jury members.
• (iii) If the songs remain deadlocked after 4 (a) (i) and (ii), jury members from that national jury who did not award any votes to any of the songs involved in the tie-break will be asked to break the tie. This tie-break rule can only ever be used to break ties in juries of 3 members or more and ONLY if there is a jury member who did not vote for any of the songs involved in the tie-break.
• (iv) After the procedures 4 (a) (i), (ii) and (iii) have been carried out, all outstanding ties within the votes of a national jury shall be resolved by carrying out a single random draw. The nature of this random draw shall be as follows:
• The names of each national jury member will be entered into a draw. Each name will be drawn. The first jury member drawn will be awarded the right to break the unresolved tie of highest value. The second jury member drawn will be awarded the right to break the unresolved tie of the second highest value. For example, take the following scenario.... there are two members of National Jury X. After the votes of User A and User B are combined and calculated the following situation arises:

 

      COUNTRY (Total points) -> Combined value

• Country A (24 points) -> 12 points
• Country B (21 points) -> 11 or 10 points
• Country C (21 points) -> 11 or 10 points
• Country D (18 points) -> 9 points
• Country E (16 points) -> 8 points
• Country F (13 points) -> 7 or 6 points
• Country G (13 points) -> 7 or 6 points
• Country H (10 points) -> 5 points
• Country I (7 points) -> 4 or 3 points
• County J (7 points) -> 4 or 3 points
• Country K (4 points) -> 2 points
• Country L (1 point) -> 1 or 0 points
• County M (1 point) -> 1 or 0 points

 

• Those highlighted in red text are those ties which could not be resolved by 4 (a) (i), (ii) or (iii). As a result of the random draw, User A was drawn first, meaning that user will be given the right to break the unresolved tie of the highest value (the tie between Country B and C for 11 or 10 points). User B was drawn second meaning that user will be given the right to break the unresolved tie of the second highest value (the tie between Country F and G for 7 or 6 points). The order will then be reversed so that User B will be given the right to break the unresolved tie of the third highest value (the tie between Country I and J for 4 or 3 points). User A will finally be given the right to break the unresolved tie of the fourth highest value (the tie between Country L and M for 1 or 0 points).
• This procedure to break the unresolved ties will be used for national juries of any number with the first user drawn being given the right to break the unresolved tie of the highest value, the second user drawn being given the right to break the unresolved tie of the second highest value, third user the third highest tie, etc. reversing the order if need be when the order has completed one cycle.
• However, it should be noted that unresolved tie-breaks which require random draws will occur mostly in two-member juries since national juries with 3 or more members will likely resolve all ties through 4 (a) (i), (ii) or (iii).

 

 

SECTION 5 - OVERALL SCOREBOARD TIE-BREAK PROCEDURES:

 

5. (a) In the event of a tie in the overall scoreboard between two or more nations, the following set of rules outlines how the tie-break will be resolved:

• (i) The nation which has received points from the greatest number of National Juries will be deemed the winner of the tie.
• (ii) If there is still a tie after 5 (a) (i), the nation which has received the greatest number of 12 points will be deemed the winner of the tie.
• (iii) If there is still a tie after 5 (a) (i), (ii), the nation which has received the greatest number of 11 points will be deemed the winner of the tie. If the tie remains deadlocked, the process will continue by counting the number of 10 points each nation received, 9 points, 8 points, and so on until the tie-break can be resolved.

5. (b) If there is still a tie in the overall scoreboard between two or more nations after 5 (a) (i), (ii) and (iii) have been implemented, those nations shall be deemed to have tied for position in the overall scoreboard.

 

 

SECTION 6 - TEAM CHALLENGE FORMAT AND RULES:

 

6. (a) Each edition of the Totallympics International Song Contest will feature a Team Challenge competition. The main purpose of this team element is to further enhance the community spirit that is an integral feature of TISC events and to provide another means of encouraging users to interact with one another.

 

(b) The TISC Team Challenge event may vary in format from one contest to the next. The nature of the format will be dependent on the number of participating nations.

 

(c) Nations will be assigned to their team by random draw.

 

(d) The ideal format is that there will be a minimum of 8 teams, each made up of 4 nations. However, if that is not possible, the teams will be formed from one of the following formats (listed in order of preference):

• (i) teams of 3 nations
• (ii) teams of 5 nations
• (iii) if it's not possible for each team to have the same number of nations, a special provision will be introduced (for example: power plays).

 

(e) It is recommended that the teams shall be named after various cities/regions of the host country and combined with a nickname. For example, a contest in Brazil might feature teams called the Brasilia Capitals and Manaus Amazons.

 

 

SECTION 7 - ELIGIBILITY, CONDUCT AND RESPONSIBILITY OF PARTICIPANTS:

 

7. (a) Any first time participant must have been registered on the forum at least 2 months before they take part in the contest. The date used to calculate the 2 months rule will be 2 months prior to the National Selection deadline. A first time participant may be allowed special dispensation to participate in TISC, even if they do not fulfill the 2-month rule criteria. However, in such circumstances, that user must have shown a high level of activity in the forum in terms of posts and presence. This special dispensation will be awarded on the agreement of Totallympics admin, namely Sindo, who will conduct all necessary verification checks and will be given final approval by the TISC management team, namely OlympicIRL and the host of that TISC edition.

These rules are not designed to exclude, only to ensure TISC retains a distinct character, built upon a unique community atmosphere created by users of the forum.

 

7. (b) Participating users shall be respectful of the song choice of all nations once they fulfill all of the necessary eligibility requirements.

 

7. (c) Participating users must not reveal or give any indication as to their preferences or voting choices at any stage before the official announcement of the votes during the Grand Final.

 

7. (d) Participating users must not discuss private voting procedures with other members so as to ensure fairness is always in play and to ensure any suspense during the Grand Final is kept intact.

 

7. (e) Participating users must be respectful when posting and discussing with other members on the Totallympics International Song Contest Thread.

 

7. (f) If foul play is detected with respect to 7 (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) at any stage before, during or after the contest, the TISC organising committee reserves the right to place the participation or result of that nation under review.

 

 

SECTION 8 - HOSTING DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

8. (a) The host organisation must allow a minimum of 3 weeks from the opening date for the national selection and the deadline to submit an entry. This is to give users enough time to see the thread, consider song and artist choices and submit their entries.

 

8. (b) The host organisation must allow a minimum of 2 weeks for National Juries to submit their votes during the National Jury voting phase. This is to allow jury members enough time to consider each song carefully before casting their votes.

 

8. (c) The host organiser(s) must submit their votes in advance of receiving votes from other National Juries by private message. The votes of the host(s) should be sent by private message to a neutral party after the national selection window has passed and before the national jury voting phase begins.

 

8. (d) The host organiser(s) must abide by the same rules that govern the participation of users in the Totallympics International Song Contest as outlined in Section 6.

 

 

SECTION 9 - FUTURE HOSTING RIGHTS:

 

9. (a) Upon completion of the relevant song contest, the winning nation will automatically be awarded the rights to host the subsequent Totallympics International Song Contest 1 year later.

 

9. (b) If the winning nation wishes to decline the hosting duties, the runner-up of that edition will then be awarded the opportunity to accept or decline the hosting rights. If the runner-up also declines the hosting duties, the 3rd placed nation of that edition will have the opportunity to accept or decline the hosting rights.

 

9. (c) In the event that the hosting rights are declined by the top 3 ranked nations at the previous edition of the relevant TISC, an open bid process will be conducted in order to award the hosting rights. This process will be open to all candidates, first-time hosts as well as previous hosts.

A random draw will take place with each candidate being awarded a number of tickets in the draw. The more tickets a candidate has entered, the better their chance of being selected as host. Here is the process for how the tickets will be distributed:

 

Each candidate automatically awarded 1 ticket each in the draw. However, additional tickets awarded as follows

- did not host in the previous 5 editions (+1 additional ticket)

- did not host in the previous 10 editions (+1 additional ticket)

- did not host previously (+2 additional tickets)

- took part in the previous bidding process (+1 additional ticket). For first-time hosts, they will add an additional ticket for each edition they are unsuccessful for in bidding, thus increasing their chance slightly with each unsuccessful bid. This increase will only be available for first-time hosts. Additionally, if a first-time host missed 2 consecutive bidding campaigns, then their tickets no longer carry forward and they lose those additional tickets.

 

 

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Calling all Nations: 2019 Annual TISC starts

 

January 3, 2019.- The 6^th edition of the Annual Totallympics International Song Contest has officially begun today, with the organizing committee opening the registration period for National juries to express their interest in entering the competition.

 

As five years ago, Mexico will host one of the most exciting events in Totallympics calendar, expecting to see the debut of both, countries and jury members, in what it has been promised to be a revamp of the last edition.

 

Apart from revealing the official schedule, the committee also confirmed the city of Guadalajara once again will be the main site, although this time, the opening ceremony and the grand final will be staged at the VFG Arena. This venue, built in 2005 inside the ranch of mariachi music icon Vicente Fernández, can accommodate up to 15,000 spectators and is one of the main venues for concerts in the country, including shows by international performers like Aerosmith, Sarah Brightman, Depeche Mode, Celine Dion, Iron Maiden, Muse, Katy Perry, Red Hot Chili Peppers & Shakira.

 

Spoiler

 

Finally, the committee has promised to deliver a new experience to those delegations who wish to come, including some features about the country’s main culture, history, geography, and of course, music tradition; in that order of ideas, they revealed a clip which contains a “special invitation” visiting potential national juries, with the motto #musichasnoborders, as shown in this clip.

 

Spoiler

 

[Bohemia 1,411]

Yesss 

 is in

[Benolympique 2,398]

France my too

[konig 1,504]

Argentina is in?

[dezbee2008 819]

 is in. You joining @Olympian1010 ?

[Olympian1010 7,973]

33 minutes ago, dezbee2008 said:

 is in. You joining @Olympian1010 ?

To join or not to join that is the question. The answer to that question yes by the way. Sign Me Up!!!

[amen09 390]

 is in 

[Werloc 3,164]

Lithuania is in. As is tradition.