Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2025

[rybak 3,315]

Me who loves cats and catgamer in Kilkenny Cats? It cant be coincidence 

[Topicmaster1010 5,530]

7 hours ago, OlympicIRL said:

Wicklow Wolfhounds     @Agger@Wumo@mrv86@Topicmaster1010

You forgot @Vic Liu!

[heywoodu 16,061]

44 minutes ago, Bohemia said:

Belfast Titanics yay we're gonna drown 

[Olympian1010 8,254]

1 hour ago, rybak said:

Me who loves cats and catgamer in Kilkenny Cats? It cat be coincidence 

Fixed it 

[OlympicIRL 5,824]

I will do my best to organise a pairs competition also involving nations from the 4 teams that are eliminated in the first half of the team competition along with the lowest ranked individual nations at the halfway point (end of session 2) to form 8 pairs.

Pairs will be balanced so that the highest ranked nation in the competition will be paired with the lowest ranked nation, second highest with the second lowest and so on. All of that will be based on the individual ranking at the halfway point.

 

This way every nation will have at least interest in some event until the end of the 3rd session.

 

I will probably base it closely on @mrv86‘s proposed rules, and have sprints every 3 rounds of votes. The pairs with most medals from those 3 rounds get the points along with an extra bonus for medal and points doubles.

 

I do only have 1 day to organise this now so I can’t promise anything though.

Edited 12 hours ago by OlympicIRL

[OlympicIRL 5,824]

Pairs Event

 

 

The pairs event will kick-off in the second-half of the contest at the beginning of the third session. It will involve nations from the teams eliminated from the team competition after the first 2 sessions.

 

There will be 8 pairs participating so in addition to the 12 eliminated nations from the team event (13 in the event that the 4 nation team are eliminated), the remaining 3 or 4 places will be awarded to the lowest ranked nations individually who are still in the team event.

 

All rankings will be taken from the halfway stage (end of session 2).

 

Pairs will be formed by ranking the 16 participating nations and balancing them as follows:

• Highest ranked nation of the 16 will be paired with the lowest ranked of the 16.
• 2nd ranked will be paired with the 15th.
• 3rd ranked will be paired with the 14th, and so on in this fashion....

 

 

The format will mimic a madison cycling event. There will be 6 sprints in total (5 intermediate sprints and a final sprint).

The intermediate sprints each will run over the course of 3 rounds of voting. For example:

 

Sprint 1 (votes from the 18th-20th juries)

Sprint 2 (votes from the 21st-23rd juries)

Sprint 3 (votes from the 24th-26th juries)

Sprint 4 (votes from the 27th-29th juries)

Sprint 5 (votes from the 30th-32nd juries)

 

There will then be a final sprint which will be worth double points and will consider the votes from the 33rd and 34th juries.


How sprint points are won??

The 8 pairs will be ranked after each sprint is completed by the following criteria in order of importance:

 

- total medals won

- gold medals won

- silver medals won

- bronze medals won

- points won

- highest point value from a single jury

 

Therefore, the pair that won the most total medals during that sprint will be ranked highest. If there is a tie for total medals, the pair with the most gold wins, then most silvers, then most, bronze medals.

 

If there is still a tie we then consider how many points the pair won during that sprint.

 

 

After each sprint, the highest ranked teams will be awarded points as follows:

 

- 1st ranked = 5 points

- 2nd ranked = 3 points

- 3rd ranked = 2 points

-4th ranked = 1 point

 

 

 

Bonus points:

Pairs will win 5 bonus points every time both pairs win medals from a single jury.

Pairs will win 2 bonus points every time both pairs win points from a single jury.

Pairs that win 5 bonus points for medal doubles, cannot also claim points doubles in the same vote, i.e. they won't receive 5 and 2 points, they will just receive 5 points.

 

 

In the event of a tie in the overall standings after each sprint, the pair that finished highest ranked in the most recent sprint will be ranked higher.

Therefore, if there is a tie in the overall standings at the end of the competition, the pair that finished highest in the final sprint will be ranked higher overall.

 

 

 

 

[OlympicIRL 5,824]

Ok, I have added links to the rules for the team and pairs event in the first post in the thread.

Please note, the team and pairs events will only be updated after every 3 juries during the Grand Final.

 

I am planning to begin the Opening Ceremony at 19:30 GMT tomorrow but if it runs a bit later I will post on thread to let you know. Please don't expect wonders from the opening ceremony. When taking on the organisation I said we will have a slimmed down version of TISC this time as I have been juggling it with my work, Christmas, holidays and now exams too . I wish I could have prepared more but I prioritised what was important and essential.

But the main thing was I wanted to get TISC up and running once more after a hiatus of over a year and I'm sure you will agree that's the most important thing and hopefully we will have a fun day together like we usually do.

 

See you all soon, if you have any questions, let me know!

Edited 1 hour ago by OlympicIRL