Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2024

[heywoodu 15,322]

  On 3/17/2025 at 1:39 PM, rybak said:

I think we can say that unfortunately Totallympics is going to die soon, no TISC, no prediction contests, low amount of posts and even lower number of users, some regular of them are MIA since Paris 24 or even before.... It was good 15 years for me in this community, but nothing cant last forever 

 

As for me, I'm not able to host TISC either, due to lack of time and motivation, despite hosting this in past, during covid times at their peak....

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Well yeah, with that spirit  

[Sindo 1,512]

  On 3/17/2025 at 1:39 PM, rybak said:

I think we can say that unfortunately Totallympics is going to die soon, no TISC, no prediction contests, low amount of posts and even lower number of users, some regular of them are MIA since Paris 24 or even before.... It was good 15 years for me in this community, but nothing cant last forever 

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Don't be so negative We have always had a drop of interest in the post-Olympic year. I'm sure things will get better next year with the Winter Olympics and the start of 2028 Olympics qualifications.

 

As for TISC and Prediction Contests, this is the risk when something relies too much on one single person, but we can't force them to keep doing that forever, especially because it's a hobby for them and not a job.

 

I think a low profile TISC is possible even without @OlympicIRL's help, let me know if you need some help with that!

[intoronto 5,839]

Co-hosting as an option? 

[Cinnamon Bun 898]

  On 3/17/2025 at 1:39 PM, rybak said:

I think we can say that unfortunately Totallympics is going to die soon, no TISC, no prediction contests, low amount of posts and even lower number of users, some regular of them are MIA since Paris 24 or even before.... It was good 15 years for me in this community, but nothing cant last forever 

 

As for me, I'm not able to host TISC either, due to lack of time and motivation, despite hosting this in past, during covid times at their peak....

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Like Sindo said, post Olympic year is always tough as nothing really happens so there's no real motivation for people to be on the forum so the lack of action should probably be expected. 

 

Regarding the prediction contests, if people are OK with it I don't mind stepping up and hosting them in Wumo's absence. I might need some help with the table templates and all that technical stuff but other than that I should be all good. 

[Cobi 984]

  On 3/17/2025 at 2:17 PM, intoronto said:

Co-hosting as an option? 

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I think this is the best alternative, if not the only one, to make it happen this season. As I said before, I am open to help collecting the votes and preparing the templates and scoreboard.

[mrv86 3,166]

As some of you pointed out, there are some alternatives to one person hosting in a "real" venue.

 

Before @Cobi volunteered, I was thinking maybe we could use his template to collect the votes in a spreadsheet hosted in the cloud.

Then 2-3 could verify validate the forms are complete (including reserves), and said persons (or another volunteers) could also help with trnasforming the votes into templates/scoreboards.

 

I myself could research if there's a somewhat easy form to make/transform the info into GIF or dinamic templates; in any case I also volunteer to help.

 

As @Sindo said, we should look for the bright part. Maybe this could be the start of a new stage for TISC.