Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2024

[Cinnamon Bun 579]

A	B	C	D	E	F	G
1
2
3
4
5

 

A	B	C	D	E	F	G
1	15	11	23	19	26	23	32
2	18	22	27	8	14	5	24
3	31	3	33	34	17	7	28
4	21	9	4	1	10	35	13
5	16	30	12	6	25	29	2

A4 are the London Broncos, D4 is Barnet, E2 is Workington Town, E5 is Forest Green Rovers, G4 is St Helens, A1 is Maidenhead United, D2 is Whitehaven, E3 is Tamworth, F1 are the Barrow Raiders, F4 is Southend United, G1 is Cornwall and D1 is Brackley Town. 

 

London Broncos play in the Championship (2nd Division) and Barent (National League - 5th Division) lost to Exeter City (League 1 - 3rd Division) in the 1st round. 

Workington Town play in League 1 (3rd Division) and Fores Green Rovers (National League - 5th Division) lost to Stockport County (League 1 - 3rd Division) in the 1st round. 

 

St Helens play in Super League (1st Division) and Maidenhead United (National League - 5th Division) lost to Crawley Town (League 1 - 3rd Division) in the 1st round. 

 

Whitehaven play in League 1 (3rd Division) and Tamworth (National League - 5th Division) beat former Premier League team Huddersfield Town (League 1 - 3rd Division) to progress to the 2nd round. 

 

Barrow Raiders play in the Championship (2nd Division) and Southend United (National League - 5th Division) lost to former Premier League team Charlton Athletic (League 1 - 3rd Division) in the 1st round. 

 

Cornwall play in League 1 (3rd Division) and Brackley Town (National League North - 6th Division) beat Braintree Town (National League - 5th Divison) to progress to the 2nd round. 

 

And that's it, the draw is complete. A big thanks to @Belle and @Henry_Leon for helping out. The provisional schedule will be up in due course as well as the results of the team comp draw.   

[Cinnamon Bun 579]

In terms of the first table, there were 2 clubs missing that are/could be apart of the Professional/Semi Professional English League system. 

 

The first are the Wigan Warriors (club logo above), they play in Super League (1st Division) and are the defending back to back Super League champions. Not quite sure how I forgot to add them, but somehow I did. 

 

The second are the Bedford Tigers (club logo above). They originally weren't set to join the system from non league but there are strong rumours that they are now set to join League 1 (3rd Division), replacing the aforementioned Cornwall.             

Edited 18 hours ago by Cinnamon Bun

[Cinnamon Bun 579]

 

Team Challenge

 

For this years team challenge every country will be split up into 7 groups of 5. Now if  don't have to be withdrawn then every team members points will count, but if they do then only the top 4 team members results. After 10 votes the team with the least amount of points is eliminated, after that a team will be eliminated after every 5 votes. 

 

The teams were drawn automatically using a random draw generator. All the countries were split into 5 different pots based off the all time ranking medals list followed by the participations list.

 

 

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
France	New Zealand	China	Argentina	Albania
Canada	Czech Republic	Hungary	Bulgaria	Chile
Great Britain	Denmark	Malta	Tunisia	Guatemala
Ireland	Lithuania	Mexico	Greece	Indonesia
Italy	Serbia	Brazil	India	Turkey
Netherlands	Spain	Romania	Poland	Moldova
Sweden	United States	Slovenia	Slovenia	Portugal

 

The Draw Results: 

 

 

[Cinnamon Bun 579]

 

Team Challenge

 

The theme for this years team challenge will be counties in the UK. For equal representation, I have selected at least 1 county for each of the 4 main countries that make up the UK. The 7 selected counties where drawn into each of the 7 teams. 

 

The draw result: 

 

 

Here is a little factfile on each of the 7 counties: 

 

	Team Merseyside					Rank #
						Total
	0	0	0	0	0	0

 

Merseyside is an English county located in the North West region of the UK. It's biggest settlements include Liverpool, Southport St Helens and Birkenhead. Merseyside is know for it's music and sport, with bands like The Beatles and The Coral and clubs like Everton and Liverpool all coming from the county.   

 

[Cinnamon Bun 579]

	Team Shropshire					Rank #
						Total
	0	0	0	0	0	0

 

Shropshire is an English county situated in between the North West and West Midlands areas of the UK. It's biggest settlements include Shrewsbury, Telford, Whitchurch and Oswestry. The county is best known for it's countryside and scenery, with some of it even spilling into Worchestershire and parts of eastern Wales. 

 

	Team Durham					Rank #
						Total
	0	0	0	0	0	0

 

 

Durham is an English county situated in the North East region of the UK. It's biggest settlements are Durham (the city of the same name), Darlington, Hartlepool and Stockton-On-Tees. The county is also home to Barnard Castle, where chief advisor to then Prime Minister Boris Johnson Dominic Cummings infamously drove 300+ miles from London to go and visit and broke COVID rules

 

 

	Team  Flintshire					Rank #
						Total
	0	0	0	0	0	0

 

Flintshire in a Welsh county situated in the most northern part of Wales and the North West of the UK. It's biggest settlements are Connahs Quay, Flint, Buckley and Mold. Flintshire is best known for it's coastline and it's tourist destinations along it, which are particularly popular for those wanting to go on a "budget holiday". 

 

	Team Cheshire					Rank #
						Total
	0	0	0	0	0	0

 

 

Cheshire is an English county in the North West region of the UK. The biggest settlements are Warrington, Chester, Crewe and Widnes. Like Merseyside, the county is famous for it's music and sport with artists such as Gary Barlow and Nicola Roberts and athletes such as Tyson Fury and Ian Botham. 

 

	Team  Derry/Londonderry					Rank #
						Total
	0	0	0	0	0	0

 

 

Derry/Londonderry is a Northern Irish county situated in the North West region of Northern Ireland. It's biggest settlements are Derry, Limavady, Magherafelt and Coleraine. The county is best known for garlic football and hurling with both sports being widely popular within the Derry/Londonderry area. 

 

	Team Wigtownshire					Rank #
						Total
	0	0	0	0	0	0

 

 

Wigtownshire is a Scottish county located in the South West region of Scotland and the Northern region of the UK. It's biggest settlements are Stranraer, Wigtown, Newton Stewart and Portpatrick. The county is best known for it's port crossing via ferry to Northern Irish locations such as Larne and Belfast.   

[heywoodu 14,954]

Sorry for missing the draw, I was getting ready for bed when it began and just saw it now  

 

Nice to see it so filled with local sports facts though  

[Cinnamon Bun 579]

21 hours ago, Cinnamon Bun said:

Announcement: 

 

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I am pleased to announce that the Grand Final will take place on Sunday 10th November, with the opening ceremony taking place tomorrow night. However there are still a few things I need to go through before then. 

 

1. There is still a distinct possibility that  will have to be withdrawn from the contest. @avlar has still not sent his Jury votes and if he still hasn't done so by end of play Saturday then I will be forced to withdraw  from the contest. To prepare for this outcome, I will message all of the jurors who have voted for  but haven't named a reserve to replace them with to name one incase this happens. I will also do this to anyone who is placed below  in the voting order as  will still be included in the draw and the opening ceremony. 

 

2. The time for the closing ceremony is subject to change as it all depends on when the main contest finishes. 

 

3. The festival of music is still open but will close at 8pm GMT tomorrow so if anyone wants to put in a last minute entry you've got till then to do so, remember it's a maximum of 4 countries per juror. 

 

4. I need some volunteers for the draw, so if anyone would like to come forward and help draw it out that would be much appreciated. There will be 2 separate draws, one for the running order and one for the team comp, and the draw will commence in around 15 minutes time.    

 

The opening ceremony will commence in approximately 2 hours.