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Hey! Maybe this has already been asked and answered in the past by I’ve been out for a while so I might have miss it, but isn’t the Irish song a cover from the Led Zeppelin song? And isn’t Led Zeppelin an English band? 

 

Or is the song actually a cover from an even older Irish song? :)

 

Edit: nevermind!!! :d:d glad I was wrong :d

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1 hour ago, dezbee2008 said:

I'll be starting my task of putting the points together this weekend, but I'm still missing the first reserve from one member.

 

By the way, the festival of music is open, so send us your countries (and their songs) here.

I’ll take Cyprus and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 

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40 minutes ago, kungshamra71 said:

Hey! Maybe this has already been asked and answered in the past by I’ve been out for a while so I might have miss it, but isn’t the Irish song a cover from the Led Zeppelin song? And isn’t Led Zeppelin an English band? 

 

Or is the song actually a cover from an even older Irish song? :)

 

Edit: nevermind!!! :d:d glad I was wrong :d

 

The Led Zeppelin song is quite different :p

but Nightwish has covered it :)

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1 hour ago, dezbee2008 said:

 

The Olympic-like Mixed Music team where two countries will compete in a team, with one of the countries having a female juror. It's not really part of the contest, just something for fun. @dcro will tell you more

Meanwhile @dcro has 'reacted' to this post of yours, yet hasn't said anything more. Disappointing.

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3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Meanwhile @dcro has 'reacted' to this post of yours, yet hasn't said anything more. Disappointing.

 

What? I explained it two pages ago, but alright then. :p

 

Mixed Team Music'thlon - Competition Rules

 

Basic team scoring rules per round:

5  Top scoring team
3  2nd best scoring team
2  3rd best scoring team
1  4th best scoring team

 

Bonus points:

20 Team members scoring gold and silver medals
11 Both team members scoring medals
4 Both team members scoring odd points
4 Both team members scoring even points
1 Both team members scoring points

 

Penalties*:

-1 Both team members not scoring points
-4 Both team members not scoring for the 2nd straight round
-11 Both team members not scoring for the 3rd straight round
-20 Both team members not scoring for the 4th straight round
ELIMINATION Both team members not scoring for the 5th straight round

* teams currently voting can not be penalized

** all bonus and penalty points will be doubled on the final votes of a non-participating nation

#banbestmen

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16 minutes ago, dcro said:

Do we know the start time of the official draw then?

 

We'll say 16:00 GMT for now but it could possibly change to be a bit later. 

 

@Olympian1010 @dcro @mrv86 @heywoodu @Agger are currently signed up as helpers, still time to join the volunteer team if anyone wishes. @rybak will be in the team too if he found someone to do his shift at work for him :d

 

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Also here are some details of how the draw will take place (it sounds complicated but Parts 1-4 will all take place in advance of the main draw).

 

The main purpose of the draw will be to complete the following:

1. Nations will be assigned a position in the voting order between 1-35.

2. Positions 1-35 will be pre-assigned to 35 different base cities which will host the 35 delegations.

3. The nations will be divided up into 7 teams of 5 for the TISC team challenge. Each team will be based in one of seven regions spread across the United States and each team member will be based within a different city in that region.

4. These team positions will be spread evenly throughout the voting order (voting positions 1-7 will contain one team member from each team and so on.

5. The 7 different regions hosting the teams are as follows:

 

  • The Northeast (New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Burlington, and Atlantic City)
  • Eastern Midwest (Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee)
  • Western Midwest (Minneapolis, Omaha, Des Moines, Wichita, Kansas City)
  • Atlantic (Orlando, Atlanta, Washington, Richmond, Baltimore)
  • South (Little Rock, New Orleans, Dallas, Oklahoma, Nashville)
  • Mountain (Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City)
  • Pacific (Anchorage, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Portland)

Note: The bold cities indicate the main team base for each team, and the nation based there will play the role of captain for their team. This idea will be expanded on later but it will essentially be used as one element of separating teams that are tied for position and has a role in a minor bonus available to each team. Plus, there is a certain amount of bragging rights to be had with being able to say you are the captain of the team :p

 

 

 

 

So, how will this process take place?

 

Part 1:

USA is randomly assigned a position in the voting order (position 1-35). USA as host will be based in the host city of Orlando in the Atlantic Region.

 

Part 2:

Once USA is assigned to their voting position, we will know exactly the voting positions that the other 4 members of the Atlantic team will be voting (of course we don't know who those other 4 nations are at this point).

 

Part 3:

We then draw the order of the other remaining 6 Team Regions. After this, we will have a table showing us exactly where each team will be spread in the voting order. It will look something like this, for example:

 

 

   Jury Voting Order 18   :WHT  NATION - Western Midwest
1

  :WHT  NATION - Atlantic

19   :WHT  NATION - South
2   :WHT  NATION - Northeast 20   :WHT  NATION - Mountain
3   :WHT  NATION - Eastern Midwest 21   :WHT  NATION - Pacific
4   :WHT  NATION - Western Midwest 22

  United-States-flat-icon.png  UNITED STATES - Atlantic

5   :WHT  NATION - South 23   :WHT  NATION - Northeast
6   :WHT  NATION - Mountain 24   :WHT  NATION - Eastern Midwest
7   :WHT  NATION - Pacific 25   :WHT  NATION - Western Midwest
8

  :WHT  NATION - Atlantic

26   :WHT  NATION - South
9   :WHT  NATION - Northeast 27   :WHT  NATION - Mountain
10   :WHT  NATION - Eastern Midwest 28   :WHT  NATION - Pacific
11   :WHT  NATION - Western Midwest 29

  :WHT  NATION - Atlantic

12   :WHT  NATION - South 30   :WHT  NATION - Northeast
13   :WHT  NATION - Mountain 31   :WHT  NATION - Eastern Midwest
14   :WHT  NATION - Pacific 32   :WHT  NATION - Western Midwest
15

  :WHT  NATION - Atlantic

33   :WHT  NATION - South
16   :WHT  NATION - Northeast 34   :WHT  NATION - Mountain
17   :WHT  NATION - Eastern Midwest 35   :WHT  NATION - Pacific

 

 

Part 4:

We will then reveal where each of the city bases will be assigned to each voting position. This will be pre-assigned so that the draw doesn't take an eternity to complete. So after this reveal, the table should look something like this for example, with (c) denoting team captains:

 

 

   Jury Voting Order 18   :WHT  NATION - Des Moines
1

  :WHT  NATION - Atlanta

19   :WHT  NATION - Nashville
2   :WHT  NATION - Burlington 20   :WHT  NATION - Las Vegas
3   :WHT  NATION - Indianapolis 21   :WHT  NATION - Portland
4   :WHT  NATION - Minneapolis (c) 22

  United-States-flat-icon.png  UNITED STATES - Atlantic (c)

5   :WHT  NATION - Little Rock 23   :WHT  NATION - Atlantic City
6   :WHT  NATION - Phoenix 24   :WHT  NATION - Chicago (c)
7   :WHT  NATION - San Francisco 25   :WHT  NATION - Wichita
8

  :WHT  NATION - Washington

26   :WHT  NATION - Oklahoma
9   :WHT  NATION - Boston 27   :WHT  NATION - Albuquerque
10   :WHT  NATION - Detroit 28   :WHT  NATION - Seattle
11   :WHT  NATION - Omaha 29

  :WHT  NATION - Richmond

12   :WHT  NATION - New Orleans 30   :WHT  NATION - Philadelphia
13   :WHT  NATION - Denver (c) 31   :WHT  NATION - Cleveland
14   :WHT  NATION - Anchorage 32   :WHT  NATION - Kansas City
15

  :WHT  NATION - Baltimore

33   :WHT  NATION - Dallas (c)
16   :WHT  NATION - New York (c) 34   :WHT  NATION - Salt Lake City
17   :WHT  NATION - Milwaukee 35   :WHT  NATION - Los Angeles (c)

 

 

 

Part 5:

We will begin assigning the other 34 nations to their voting positions. There are no limitations in terms of how quickly team spaces will be filled. One team can have all it's team members assigned before another team has any assigned to them. It will be completely random.

At this point we will also learn who the team captains will be for each team and the city each nation will be based in.

 

 

As stated already, we will conduct part 1-4 in advance of the main draw so that everything can be ready to go for the main event,

 

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Fingers crossed for Mountain Team :fingers: 

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