Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2024

[Olympian1010 7,479]

Am I the only one that hears a similar progression in the Greek and entry this song:

 

 

[heywoodu 13,560]

8 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

This is also, by a considerable margin, the shortest TISC thread since the rebirth of Totallympics 

 

It's a shame becuase this was so well organized by @Henry_Leon

It also kind of felt like this might be the TISC with the largest number of votes being posted by the organizer instead of the actual voters. Too bad so many juries were apparently busy  (too bad for them especially, because I think we here all had fun as always )

Edited March 24 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 13,560]

One of the most 'interesting' entries for me was the Mexican one by the way. It started fantastically fun and after 20 seconds I was convinced it'd score high on my list, but then the singing started and was just a bit too 'flat' and repetitive for me (like it never really gets going, for my taste at least), whereas the fun first part never really came back later on  

 

If they have more songs where that first part features more heavily, I'd love to hear them  

[Werloc 3,127]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

One of the most 'interesting' entries for me was the Mexican one by the way. It started fantastically fun and after 20 seconds I was convinced it'd score high on my list, but then the singing started and was just a bit too 'flat' and repetitive for me (like it never really gets going, for my taste at least), whereas the fun first part never really came back later on  

 

If they have more songs where that first part features more heavily, I'd love to hear them  

Lol, this is actually insane how differently people perceive stuff  

 

At the start, I thought that I would not like that song  then it drew me in on second 40. 

[Werloc 3,127]

6 hours ago, konig said:

Im not the only one who notice that

Yeah, I don't know how other people rank and how they decide, but logically thinking, the disco music genre is one of those genres that are not known for huge variation, which is why many disco songs have a lot of things in common with each other. It's not insane to assume that if you liked Italy, you should have felt somewhat keen on Argentina as well. For me, personally, Argentina even had a bit more to offer in that regard.

 

It would've been okay if Argentina scored like less than Italy, but not by a 110 point margin. I can only assume that if this song was sent let's say by the French jury and it was in French, we'd have at least 80-100 points :/ Although we have a long history of songs in Spanish doing well too, so yeah, it's impossible to explain what goes on in the voting processes of all of the juries  

[Federer91 2,140]

6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

It also kind of felt like this might be the TISC with the largest number of votes being posted by the organizer instead of the actual voters. Too bad so many juries were apparently busy  (too bad for them especially, because I think we here all had fun as always )

 

This is the biggest take from me too. I know the founding fathers of Totallympics Song Contests are way more traditionalist (and stubborn) than the IOC and FIFA combined , but i think it's time to make some changes to the show. Mainly the schedule for the Grand Finale 

 

It's evident, that Saturdays aren't the most suitable time for a growing number of people, who are doing lots of other stuff. Switching to Sundays could help free more people, as that is the more traditional rest day for everyone. 

 

Also, another good idea in my opinion is to split the Finale into 2 parts. Have half the votes on Saturday evening (European time) and the other half on Sunday evening. This way users could choose, which of the 2 days is more suitable for them and we are getting away from the day sessions, when people are more likely to be outside, working, travelling, shopping or doing other things, that they wont do in the evening. The downside to this is the time zone difference for our Asian users and Wanderer. But we could make a special session just for them on Sunday afternoon, which would be Sunday evening for them, or they could be the first to vote on Saturday afternoon etc. 

 

There needs to be a change, so that more people follow and participate, because having the host submit 20-25 from the 35 nations is a bit underwhelming. 

[OlympicIRL 4,770]

33 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

 

This is the biggest take from me too. I know the founding fathers of Totallympics Song Contests are way more traditionalist (and stubborn) than the IOC and FIFA combined , but i think it's time to make some changes to the show. Mainly the schedule for the Grand Finale 

 

It's evident, that Saturdays aren't the most suitable time for a growing number of people, who are doing lots of other stuff. Switching to Sundays could help free more people, as that is the more traditional rest day for everyone. 

 

Also, another good idea in my opinion is to split the Finale into 2 parts. Have half the votes on Saturday evening (European time) and the other half on Sunday evening. This way users could choose, which of the 2 days is more suitable for them and we are getting away from the day sessions, when people are more likely to be outside, working, travelling, shopping or doing other things, that they wont do in the evening. The downside to this is the time zone difference for our Asian users and Wanderer. But we could make a special session just for them on Sunday afternoon, which would be Sunday evening for them, or they could be the first to vote on Saturday afternoon etc. 

 

There needs to be a change, so that more people follow and participate, because having the host submit 20-25 from the 35 nations is a bit underwhelming. 

 

I honestly don't know what you mean by this and think this is an unfair statement. Every single host can tell you that they have complete control over the scheduling and what days and times they want to host. I always tell the host they have full control to organize as they would like and that it's their show.

[Henry_Leon 1,235]

 

Italian jurors voted:

 

ITA pts	nation	tot pts	Henry Leon	@SteveParker	@Pablita	@Gianlu33
12	Ireland	32	7	12	10	3
11	Guatemala	31	11	9		11
10	Moldova	27	10	10	7
9	Spain	23			11	12
8	Germania	18		11		7
7	Brazil	17			12	5
6	Portugal	16	8		6	2
5	Netherlands	16	12		4
4	Lituania	15	1	8		6
3	Mexico	14		2	8	4
2	Albania	13		4	9
1	Malta	11	4	7
	Romania	10				10
	Indonesia	9	9
	Czech	9				9
	Slovakia	8	6		2
	India	8	5		3
	Francia	8				8
	Argentina	6		6
	Kazakhstan	5		5
	Poland	5			5
	China	3	3
	Chile	3		3
	Sweden	2	2
	Montenegro	1		1
	Croatia	1			1
	Slovenia	1				1

[Benolympique 1,644]

thank you for this magnificent show, great work from our Italian neighbors. I had a great evening . Thank you to all the countries who voted for France, a very nice 4th place (perhaps because the song was in English) and understood by all.. Congratulations to the winner and to all the others who introduced us to beautiful songs.

[Henry_Leon 1,235]

TAISC 2024

Closing Ceremony

-30 min

Edited March 24 by Henry_Leon