Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2020 - Cancelled Edition

[heywoodu 16,003]

 

1 minute ago, Werloc said:

 

Would that be rejecting the nation of Algeria, or rejecting a person that quit the contest that he was hosting due to his political beliefs? 

 

That is an assumption though.

 

Spoiler

Albeit a possibly not unfair one.

 

[heywoodu 16,003]

 

 

OMG TISC STARTED  

[Vektor 3,326]

lol, you weren't kidding that we are still really early compared to previous years.

 

The date of the Annual Grand Finals:

 

4th June 2016

29th April 2017

28th April 2018

4th May 2019

[Werloc 3,191]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

 

 

OMG TISC STARTED  

 

Damn, I haven't received any templates this year. 

[heywoodu 16,003]

Just now, Vektor said:

lol, you weren't kidding that we are still really early compared to previous years.

 

The date of the Annual Grand Finals:

 

4th June 2016

29th April 2017

28th April 2018

4th May 2019

 

TAISC 2020 has been all about breaking rusty old traditions though.

 

- Different visual formats, changing it up

- Intros, characters and whatnot, adding extra dimenions

- Earlier in the year, freeing up those motorsports filled days it's normally on

- Registration only, saving us the time of actually listening songs and voting and all that stuff

[kungshamra71 948]

15 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Me neither  

 

I hadn't even heard it until the top 2000 and now it's like radio stations have it on an endless loop  

 

Coming from out of nowhere to 4th on the all-time top 2000, that is something. Although those farmers and their song in 9th have shown it doesn't mean much  

 

Well my biggest surprise was when while we were listening to the top on the radio in my work, suddenly on one of the last days a song comes up in the top: "Gotta catch them all, Pokemon!" 

[heywoodu 16,003]

1 minute ago, kungshamra71 said:

 

Well my biggest surprise was when while we were listening to the top on the radio in my work, suddenly on one of the last days a song comes up in the top: "Gotta catch them all, Pokemon!" 

That was another one of those internet things two years ago I think  

 

Only slightly lower than Hallelujah and one of TISC's winners (RIP) and higher than We Will Rock You, two of @brunamoura's all-time favourite songs (143 and 144), and Billie Jean  (and luckily higher than the impossible to escape Californication, yuck)

 

[Vektor 3,326]

Hm.... after thinking about this a bit more, I think we should restart the selection relatively soon, like in 4-5 days, (which would be 2 weeks long according to the rules) and have the Grand Finale somewhere in March. I mean, it would probably better to have the Finale in May to avoid some of the OQT events, but we already have a lot of songs selected, and it would be unfair to make those countries wait for so long. 

[Olympian1010 8,229]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

 

TAISC 2020 has been all about breaking rusty old traditions though.

 

- Different visual formats, changing it up

- Intros, characters and whatnot, adding extra dimenions

- Earlier in the year, freeing up those motorsports filled days it's normally on

- Registration only, saving us the time of actually listening songs and voting and all that stuff

Right but we agreed to a shortened format.

[OlympicIRL 5,659]

Hi everyone,

 

This is a sad day for TISC. We have rules in place and some rules you never ever want to enforce and hope that you won't need and hope they are just there for guidance. Sadly today I will be enforcing rule 7(f).

 

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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.

 

I had been in contact with @Sindo in recent days as I felt things were taking a turn for the worst. When bestmen refused to acknowledge Israel's entry, I had to add that to the first post myself and I told Sindo that my red line is if bestmen removes Israel from the list once more or goes on another rant then he would have to be stripped of hosting duties.

 

On top of that, I have no choice but to disqualify him from TISC entirely. To deny another user the right to participate is a totally unacceptable move and it means that we cannot consider him to be a fair judge of other users and songs.

 

As for the future of this contest, TISC Annual 2020 will go ahead, no doubt about that. I won't make any decisions yet about how soon or hosting, I need some time to think it over as do we all.

 

Apologies to everyone.