Totallympics International Song Contest - Special Event

[dcro 10,210]

I'll be controversial here and suggest that maybe we could keep Annual as is, but have Open and Special-themed edition taking biennial turns?

[Olympian1010 7,976]

14 minutes ago, dcro said:

I'll be controversial here and suggest that maybe we could keep Annual as is, but have Open and Special-themed edition taking biennial turns?

I get controversial too, and say that I like that idea 

 

Special-themed editions on Olympic year, Open on non-Olympic year?

[dcro 10,210]

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I get controversial too, and say that I like that idea 

 

Special-themed editions on Olympic year, Open on non-Olympic year?

 

Or not, as Ermelo 2020 will go forward as planned. We will not have #cancel@heywoodu around here.

 

Although, to be honest, I'm not really sure about the whole idea myself.

 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,142]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

 

Or not, as Ermelo 2020 will go forward as planned. We will not have #cancel@heywoodu around here.

 

Although, to be honest, I'm not really sure about the whole idea myself.

 

 

 

 

Not sure Ermelo still exists after the storm passing right by where I live and full-on hitting Ermelo two days ago  

[Vektor 3,326]

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’m going to be pretty TISC fatigued when the Open rolls around though. I wouldn’t want my experience of the annual and open ruined by a third contest.

 

Yeah, I think we should only have 2 contests per year. This year was an exception because of some very obvious COVID related reasons.

 

Biennial turns feel a bit too much for me because I prefer the Open contest to the Special. I think having this Special edition every 4 year instead of the Open one would be better, it would also make it more... special.  So we would have the next Special edition in 2024 "in France" after the Summer Games.

[Olympian1010 7,976]

2 minutes ago, Vektor said:

 

Yeah, I think we should only have 2 contests per year. This year was an exception because of some very obvious COVID related reasons.

 

Biennial turns feel a bit too much for me because I prefer the Open contest to the Special. I think having this Special edition every 4 year instead of the Open one would be better, it would also make it more... special.  So we would have the next Special edition in 2024 "in France" after the Summer Games.

Yeah, maybe we celebrate every Olympiad with a special edition, that either replaces the Open or acts as a stand alone 3rd contest.

[Wumo 3,002]

15 minutes ago, Vektor said:

 

Yeah, I think we should only have 2 contests per year. This year was an exception because of some very obvious COVID related reasons.

 

Biennial turns feel a bit too much for me because I prefer the Open contest to the Special. I think having this Special edition every 4 year instead of the Open one would be better, it would also make it more... special.  So we would have the next Special edition in 2024 "in France" after the Summer Games.

 

12 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yeah, maybe we celebrate every Olympiad with a special edition, that either replaces the Open or acts as a stand alone 3rd contest.

I would personally like the idea of having a special standalone TISC edition every Olympic year (Summer Olympics). Instead of having it after the Games have finished, we could have it as a warm up event to the Games. The contest could run for 4-5 weeks, with a 2.5-3 weeks registration period, entries selection and all other preparations made, and a 2-2.5 weeks contest period 

 

To make an example with this, or rather next year's Games. The first events of the Olympics would have started on July 22nd this year. A schedule example for a TISC Special event could have looked like this.

 

A simple schedule example for a TISC Special event:

 

 June 14th

 Registration and Entries Selection Window Open

 

June 28th

 Registration and Entries Selection Window Closed

 

July 03rd

 Tournament Draw is made

 

 July 05th

Totallympics International Song 2020 Special Event begins

 

 July 19th

Totallympics International Song 2020 Special Event ends

[Werloc 3,164]

Nah, this special edition didn't feel that special for me and I probably would not want a repeat format of this, because it diminishes the amount of interaction between users when we have to hide which countries we've chosen and the voting is too odd and inconsistent, which means that good songs can easily not get past groups, quarters and so on so on. 

 

The only thing that's easier is that I don't need to spend 20+ hours in the span of two weeks to decide what I like and what I don't, but I honestly rather have that than watch how all of my favourite songs drop out of the competition without having a say in that voting phase.

[dcro 10,210]

52 minutes ago, Werloc said:

Nah, this special edition didn't feel that special for me and I probably would not want a repeat format of this, because it diminishes the amount of interaction between users when we have to hide which countries we've chosen and the voting is too odd and inconsistent, which means that good songs can easily not get past groups, quarters and so on so on. 

 

Well, not that inconsistent. It's not like 1st placed nations from various groups were randomly losing to 4th/5th placed teams. In fact, I am positively surprised at consistency we witnessed in that respect.

 

But, yes, there is plenty of luck involved as well, as random draw decides whether or not certain nations can meet before the final (like it usually is in sport tournaments as well).

[Wanderer 1,726]

No Special editions - or only on special occasions, just move along with Annual and Open as per usual. as Vektor said, I am greater fan of Open editions too.