Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2017

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Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2017

Totallympics Forum - 4 February 2017 - 30 April 2017

 

 

Official Site

 

 

OFFICIAL SCHEDULE

• Untill Saturday 25th March 2017 - Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• From Sunday 26th March 2017 - British Summer Time (GMT +1)

 

Saturday, 4th February 2017

• 12:00 - National Jury Registration Window Opens

 

Sunday, 12th February 2017

• 00:00 - National Entries Selection Window Opens

 

Monday, 6th March 2017

• 24:00 - National Jury Registration and National Entries Window Closed

 

Tuesday, 7th March 2017

• 00:00 - Host Jury Voting Window Opens

 

Thursday, 9th March 2017

• 24:00 - Host Jury Voting Window Closed

 

Friday, 10th March 2017

• 00:00 - National Jury Voting Window Opens

 

Saturday, 1st April 2017

• 24:00 - National Jury Voting Window Closed

 

Sunday, 2nd April 2017

• 19:30 - Festival of Music begins

 

Monday, 3rd April 2017

• 12:00 - Voting Order Draw
• 12:30 - Road to TISC 2016

 

Friday, 28th April 2017

• 18:00 - Opening Ceremony

 

Saturday, 29th April 2017

• 10:30 - Grand Final

 

Sunday, 30th April 2017

• TBC - Closing Ceremony

 

PARTICIPATING NATIONS (Youtube Playlist)

NATIONS	USERS	ARTISTS		SONGS
Algeria	bestmen	Zaho		Tant de choses
Argentina	konig, LDOG	Maxi Trusso		Taste of love
Azerbaijan	Il_qar	Miri Yusif		#SənləBiz
Brazil	titicow, vinipereira	Alok + Bruno Martini ft. Zeeba		Hear me now
Bulgaria	stefanbg (Federer91)	Mey		Would you be mine
Canada	intoronto	The Weekend		False Alarm
Croatia	dcro	Antonela Doko		Onaj Dan
Czech Republic	ahjfcshfghb	Hodiny		Stmivani
Denmark	Agger	Kris Herman		Nar man ikke kan ga hjem
Finland	Finnator123	JVG		Hehkuu
France	Benolympique, Bohemia	Amir		Au coeur de moi
Germany	catgamer, OlympicsFan	Wincent Weiss		Musik Sein
Great Britain	uk12points	Rag'n'Bone Man		Human
Greece	Janakis	Stavento ft. Melina Aslanidou		Nero kai Xoma
India	Dolby	Aamir Khan		Dhaakad
Indonesia	Griff88	Rendy Pandugo		I Don't Care
Iran	MHSN	Mehdi Yeganeh		Behet Ghol Midam
Ireland	OlympicIRL	Two Door Cinema Club		Bad Decisions
Italy	Gianlu33, Henry_Leon, Pablita, SteveParker	Alessio Bernabei		Noi Siamo Infinito
Kazkhstan	Ruslan	Ninety One		Kalay Karaisyn?
Lithuania	Werloc	GJan		Wild
Malta	Glen	The Travellers		Xemx u xita
Mexico	mrv86	Natalia Lafourcade ft. Los Macorinos		Tu si sabes quererme
Moldova	Ionoutz24	Sunstroke Project		Hey mamma
Morocco	#MA	Bouchra		Yallah
Netherlands	heywoodu	Kensington		Do I Ever
New Zealand	Wanderer	Graham Candy		Back into it
Poland	rybak	Sylwia Grzeszczak		Tatma dziewczyna
Portugal	kungshamra71	Branko & Mayra Andrade		Reserva Pra Dios
Romania	africaboy	Delia		Ce are ea
Russia	VovanA	JRBS		Песня Про То, Как Гусь Нашёл Омлет
Serbia	DaniSRB, dareza	Saša Kovačević		Zamalo tvoj
Slovakia	hckosice	Mária Čírová		Unikát
Slovenia	justony, mihamiha	Nina Pušlar		To mi je všeč
Tunisia	amen09, tuniscof	Myrath		Endure the silence
United States	dezbee2008	Zedd, Aloe Blacc & Grey		Candyman
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FINAL RESULTS

 

RUNNING ORDER

ORDER	NATION	HOST TIME	LOCAL TIME
1	Indonesia	10:30	16:30
2	Romania	10:45	12:45
3	Slovenia	11:00	12:00
4	Ireland	11:15	11:15
5	Russia	11:30	13:30
6	Croatia	11:45	12:45
7	Slovakia	12:00	13:00
8	Algeria	12:15	12:15
9	Lithuania	12:30	14:30
LUNCH		12:45-13:30
10	Malta	13:30	14:30
11	Iran	13:45	17:15
12	Moldova	14:00	16:00
13	Bulgaria	14:15	16:15
14	Kazakhstan	14:30	19:30
15	India	14:45	19:15
16	Denmark	15:00	16:00
17	Poland	15:15	16:15
18	Netherlands	15:30	16:30
19	Finland	15:45	17:45
BREATHER		16:00-16:30
20	Argentina	16:30	12:30
21	Great Britain	16:45	16:45
22	Morocco	17:00	17:00
23	Mexico	17:15	11:15
24	United States	17:30	12:30
25	Tunisia	17:45	17:45
26	Portugal	18:00	18:00
27	Canada	18:15	13:15
28	France	18:30	19:30
DINNER		18:45-19:45
29	Greece	19:45	21:45
30	New Zealand	20:00	07:00
31	Azerbaijan	20:15	23:15
32	Germany	20:30	21:30
33	Brazil	20:45	16:45
34	Serbia	21:00	22:00
35	Italy	21:15	22:15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Festival of Music

User	Country
konig	Ecuador Peru
dcro	St Vincent and the Grenadines
Gianlu33	Mauritius Tahiti
OlympicIRL	Australia
bestmen	Iraq Palestine
Agger	Belgium Norway
heywoodu	Norfolk Islands
mrv86	Colombia Puerto Rico
dezbee2008	Guam Virgin Islands
uk12points	Mongolia Togo
Ionoutz24	Cook Islands Papua New Guinea
Benolympique	Iceland Spain
Griff88	Chinese Taipei Myanmar
Wanderer	Sudan
amen09	Cameroon Jordan
Rybak	Cyprus Sweden

 

 

 

Edited April 25, 2017 by uk12points

[uk12points 434]

Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2017 - Charter and Official Rulebook

 

 

 

SECTION 1 - SONG CHOICE AND ELIGIBILITY:

 

1. (a) All songs must be ORIGINAL, NEW MATERIAL, released on or after January 1st, 2016. Exceptions will be made in the following circumstances:

• (i) A song released as a single no more than 6 months before the cut-off date (i.e. July 1st, 2015) may ONLY be chosen if that song was subsequently released on an album for the first time during the official period of eligibility. For example, a song which was released as a single on July 1st 2015 may be chosen if that song was later included in an album released on January 1st 2016 or thereafter.
• (ii) A song which is a copy of an original song may ONLY be chosen if both artists of the original song and the copy version are from the same nation AND if the original song was also released within the period of eligibility (on or after January 1st, 2016).

 

1. (b) All songs must be ORIGINAL to the nation for which they are competing. In other words, if a song is a copy or cover of an original song by an artist from another nation, then it is ONLY permitted to participate for the nation of the artist who produced the original version. If the artist of the cover version is from the same nation as the original artist, then the cover version must fulfill rule 1(a) in order to be eligible to participate.

 

 

SECTION 2 - ARTIST CHOICE AND ELIGIBILITY:

 

2. (a) Artists chosen to represent a nation must be born in or be of the same nationality as the nation for which they are participating OR they must have more or equal association with that nation.

 

2. (b) In the case of bands, at least 50% of the band must be born in or be of the same nationality as the nation for which they are participating OR they should have more or equal association with that nation.

 

2. (c) For the purposes of the Totallympics International Song Contest, the same concept of nationality as that used by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) will be adopted. So, for example, artists from Scotland must represent Great Britain, artists from Faroe Islands must represent Denmark, etc.

 

 

SECTION 3 - NATIONAL JURY VOTING:

 

3. (a) National juries may consist of a single jury member OR a multi-member jury made up of two or more users from that nation.

 

3. (b) National juries must send their votes in SECRET (via private message) to the host organising member(s) of the song contest as requested.

 

3. (c) Each jury member in a multi-member jury shall send their individual preferences in SECRET (via private message) to the host organising member(s). The votes from each of the members of the multi-member jury will be combined to form a single set of votes which will represent the overall voting preference of that national jury. In this way, the votes from each of the participating national juries, whether single or multi-member juries, will hold equal value or weight.

 

3. (d) National juries will use the following voting format:

• (i) Jury members will award points to their 12 favourite songs in ascending manner from points 1 through 12 (inclusive) with the first preference receiving a maximum score of 12 points, second preference receiving 11 points, third preference receiving 10 points, and so forth until the song of 12th preference which will receive a single point.

 

• - 1st preference -> 12 points
• - 2nd preference -> 11 points
• - 3rd preference -> 10 points
• - 4th preference ->   9 points
• - 5th preference ->   8 points
• - 6th preference ->   7 points
• - 7th preference ->   6 points
• - 8th preference ->   5 points
• - 9th preference ->   4 points
• - 10th preference ->   3 points
• - 11th preference ->   2 points
• - 12th preference ->   1 point

 

• (ii) In single member juries, these scores will subsequently represent the National Jury Vote of that nation. However, in multi-member juries, the votes of all the jury members from that nation will be combined to form a single set of points. The song which has received the most number of points from that national jury will be deemed to be the overall first preference choice of that jury and will receive the maximum score of 12 points; the song which has received the second highest number of points from that national jury will be deemed to be the overall second preference choice of that jury and will receive a score of 11 points, and so forth until the song which has received the 12th highest number of points which will receive a single point from that national jury.

 

3. (d) National juries must submit their votes by the official voting deadline as designated by the host organiser(s). National juries who fail to submit their votes within the required time frame will be disqualified from the contest.

 

3. (e) Any Nation which fails to participate in the voting process will be automatically disqualified from the contest.

 

3. (f) A random draw will take place in advance of the Grand Final to determine the order in which the National Juries will reveal their votes. This draw must be shown to be transparent and available to competing members should they wish to follow the result.

The result of this draw must always be adhered to in order to preserve the random nature in which the voting will progress during the Grand Final. A National Jury may only request a "swap" in their designated voting position if, after the random draw, they have been assigned a voting slot outside of "reasonable hours". For the purpose of this contest, reasonable hours will be determined as anytime between 08:30-23:00 local time. During the "swap" process, the host organiser will first look to make swaps between National Juries who are eligible for swaps after the random draw.

 

 

SECTION 4 - NATIONAL JURY TIE-BREAK PROCEDURES:

 

4. (a) In the event of a tie in the combined votes of multi-member juries, the following set of rules outlines how the tie-break will be resolved:

• (i) The song which has received points from the greatest number of jury members will be deemed the winner of the tie. For example, take the following scenario.... Songs A, B, and C each received a combined score of 10 points after the results of each national jury member were combined and calculated. Song A received a single score of 10 points from one jury member, Song B received scores of 7 points and 3 points from two separate jury members and Song C received scores of 5 points, 3 points and 2 points from 3 separate jury members. All three songs received a total of 10 points, however, Song C is deemed to be the winner of the tie because a greater number of jury members voted for that song (3 members in this case).
• (ii) If the songs remain deadlocked after 4 (a) (i), the song which received the highest value score from an individual jury member will be deemed the winner of the tie. For example, take the following scenario.... Song A and Song B each received a combined score of 14 points after the results of each national jury member were combined and calculated. Song A received scores of 8+6 points while Song B received scores of 7+7 points. Song A will be deemed the winner of that tie since that song received a score of higher value (8 points) from one of the national jury members.
• (iii) If the songs remain deadlocked after 4 (a) (i) and (ii), jury members from that national jury who did not award any votes to any of the songs involved in the tie-break will be asked to break the tie. This tie-break rule can only ever be used to break ties in juries of 3 members or more and ONLY if there is a jury member who did not vote for any of the songs involved in the tie-break.
• (iv) After the procedures 4 (a) (i), (ii) and (iii) have been carried out, all outstanding ties within the votes of a national jury shall be resolved by carrying out a single random draw. The nature of this random draw shall be as follows:
• The names of each national jury member will be entered into a draw. Each name will be drawn. The first jury member drawn will be awarded the right to break the unresolved tie of highest value. The second jury member drawn will be awarded the right to break the unresolved tie of the second highest value. For example, take the following scenario.... there are two members of National Jury X. After the votes of User A and User B are combined and calculated the following situation arises:

 

        COUNTRY (Total points) -> Combined value

• Country A (24 points) -> 12 points
• Country B (21 points) -> 11 or 10 points
• Country C (21 points) -> 11 or 10 points
• Country D (18 points) -> 9 points
• Country E (16 points) -> 8 points
• Country F (13 points) -> 7 or 6 points
• Country G (13 points) -> 7 or 6 points
• Country H (10 points) -> 5 points
• Country I (7 points) -> 4 or 3 points
• County J (7 points) -> 4 or 3 points
• Country K (4 points) -> 2 points
• Country L (1 point) -> 1 or 0 points
• County M (1 point) -> 1 or 0 points

 

Those highlighted in red text are those ties which could not be resolved by 4 (a) (i), (ii) or (iii). As a result of the random draw, User A was drawn first, meaning that user will be given the right to break the unresolved tie of the highest value (the tie between Country B and C for 11 or 10 points). User B was drawn second meaning that user will be given the right to break the unresolved tie of the second highest value (the tie between Country F and G for 7 or 6 points). The order will then be reversed so that User B will be given the right to break the unresolved tie of the third highest value (the tie between Country I and J for 4 or 3 points). User A will finally be given to break the unresolved tie of the fourth highest value (the tie between Country L and M for 1 or 0 points.

This procedure to break the unresolved ties will be used for national juries of any number with the first user drawn being given the right to break the unresolved tie of the highest value, the second user drawn being given the right to break the unresolved tie of the second highest value, third user the third highest tie, etc. reversing the order if need be when the order has completed one cycle.

However, it should be noted that unresolved tie-breaks which require random draws will occur mostly in two-member juries since national juries with 3 or more members will likely resolve all ties through 4 (a) (i), (ii) or (iii).

 

 

SECTION 5 - OVERALL SCOREBOARD TIE-BREAK PROCEDURES:

 

5. (a) In the event of a tie in the overall scoreboard between two or more nations, the following set of rules outlines how the tie-break will be resolved:

• (i) The nation which has received points from the greatest number of National Juries will be deemed the winner of the tie.
• (ii) If there is still a tie after 5 (a) (i), the nation which has received the greatest number of 12 points will be deemed the winner of the tie.
• (iii) If there is still a tie after 5 (a) (i), (ii), the nation which has received the greatest number of 11 points will be deemed the winner of the tie. If the tie remains deadlocked, the process will continue by counting the number of 10 points each nation received, 9 points, 8 points, and so on until the tie-break can be resolved.

5. (b) If there is still a tie in the overall scoreboard between two or more nations after 5 (a) (i), (ii) and (iii) have been implemented, those nations shall be deemed to have tied for position in the overall scoreboard.

 

 

SECTION 6 - CONDUCT AND RESPONSIBILITY OF PARTICIPANTS:

 

6. (a) Participating users shall be respectful of the song choice of all nations once they fulfill all of the necessary eligibility requirements.

6. (b) Participating users must not reveal or give any indication as to their preferences or voting choices at any stage before the official announcement of the votes during the Grand Final.

6. (c) Participating users must not discuss private voting procedures with other members so as to ensure fairness is always in play and to ensure any suspense during the Grand Final is kept intact.

6. (d) Participating users must be respectful when posting and discussing with other members on the Totallympics International Song Contest Thread.

6. (e) If foul play is detected with respect to 6 (a), (b), (c) or (d) at any stage before, during or after the contest, the TISC organising committee reserves the right to place the participation or result of that nation under review.

 

 

SECTION 7 - HOSTING DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

7. (a) The host organisation must allow a minimum of 3 weeks from the opening date for the national selection and the deadline to submit an entry. This is to give users enough time to see the thread, consider song and artist choices and submit their entries.

 

7. (b) The host organisation must allow a minimum of 2 weeks for National Juries to submit their votes during the National Jury voting phase. This is to allow jury members enough time to consider each song carefully before casting their votes.

 

7. (c) The host organiser(s) must submit their votes in advance of receiving votes from other National Juries by private message. The votes of the host(s) should be sent by private message to a neutral party after the national selection window has passed and before the national jury voting phase begins.

 

7. (d) The host organiser(s) must abide by the same rules that govern the participation of users in the Totallympics International Song Contest as outlined in Section 6.

 

 

SECTION 8 - FUTURE HOSTING RIGHTS:

 

8. (a) Upon completion of the relevant song contest, the winning nation will automatically be awarded the rights to host the subsequent Totallympics International Song Contest 1 year later.

 

8. (b) If the winning nation wishes to decline the hosting duties, a discussion will be raised in the relevant TISC thread to discuss hosting options and allowing users to put forward their bid to become the next hosts.

Edited February 14, 2017 by uk12points

[dcro 10,210]

Looks like Croatia will be the first entrant.

 

On the side note, Grand Final is scheduled for my birthday.

[uk12points 434]

9 minutes ago, dcro said:

Looks like Croatia will be the first entrant.

 

On the side note, Grand Final is scheduled for my birthday.

Welcome to the contest Croatia and congratulations for being the first!

Not a bad birthday present I guess, maybe a Croatian victory could top it off!!

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

  Ireland will be making the short trip across the pond for TISC Annual 2017. No way we would miss it

 

 

[bestmen 2,818]

Edited February 4, 2017 by bestmen

[uk12points 434]

28 minutes ago, OlympicIRL said:

  Ireland will be making the short trip across the pond for TISC Annual 2017. No way we would miss it

 

 

Welcome!! It wouldn't be a contest without Ireland, the dominant force of TISC!

[uk12points 434]

6 minutes ago, bestmen said:

We look forward to having you, and your wonderful gifs!

[dezbee2008 819]

Woo-hoo, here we go again. will definitely make our way across the pond for the contest. Can't miss this for the world. 

[rybak 3,217]

 Let's start! I'm in of course

Edited February 4, 2017 by rybak