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EUROVISION Style Scoreboard 1 NETHERLANDS 156 19 BRAZIL 47 2 AUSTRALIA 138 24 MEXICO 42 4 SWEDEN 123 20 SLOVENIA 46 3 HUNGARY 133 23 LITHUANIA 42 5 UNITED STATES 97 22 KAZAKHSTAN 43 7 SPAIN 90 28 SLOVAKIA 35 6 NORWAY 91 26 TUNISIA 39 8 ROMANIA 89 25 GREAT BRITAIN 40 9 ALGERIA 82 27 ARGENTINA 36 10 PORTUGAL 75 30 INDONESIA 31 11 SERBIA 68 31 MOLDOVA 28 16 IRELAND 54 29 POLAND 33 14 FINLAND 55 33 CHILE 24 12 FRANCE 60 32 INDIA 26 13 CROATIA 57 34 GREECE 20 17 CANADA 51 35 EGYPT 18 15 MALTA 55 36 P. R. OF CHINA 17 21 DENMARK 45 37 NEW ZEALAND 9 18 ITALY 51 So, in Eurovision way, top 3 are 1. The Netherlands 2. Australia 3. Hungary Biggest Movers of the contest: +2 Biggest "Losers": +4 +3 lost podium A little more stats still to come.

Zonal Qualifier – Asia & Oceania April 15–16, 2020 Seoul Zonal Qualifier – Africa April 17–18, 2020 Cairo Zonal Qualifier – America April 17–18, 2020 Panama City Zonal Qualifier – Europe April 18–19, 2020 Madrid

Finally Brazil won a FIFA World Cup event as hosts. U-17, but still... Finally!

While the Europeans are on, in Poland my team made a great debut in the Polish Curling League (third level), winning both games this weekend. We played for the first time in this roster. However, next leg (21-22 December) will be quite interesting, as we play against the other two teams, who have also won their both games so far.

Yes, FIBA seems to break the bank in this cycle. Still all those 3x3 absurds are much worse.

Yes, I believe I can get more ? For sure I can get autographs from the brazilian skiers (except for one who has no contact at all with the team) and I am sure they would be glad with sending autographs ? and also from some IBU Cup athletes. I can't promise, but maybe also from Doro Wierer and Thomas Bormolini (it depends on if I will see them in Livigno this season)

Yes, good, old, not always reliable, Google Translate. I should have joined the league now?

became new FEI members.

I'm sorry, I have not responed before now. To answer your questions: 1) It will be much more clear when I open the Biathlon Manager Game Thread. 3f, now been changed to 3e) I know it's not so clear, but what I write is what I mean. An example to clarify. J.T. Boe scores 150 points in the first WC round. You would like to earn some points via the transfer system, so you choose to "sell" J. T. Boe. You then choose to "buy" L. Hofer for your team to replace J. T. Boe. Hofer scored 80 points in the first WC round. The difference is +70 points (150-80), so 70 points are added to your total score. Let's say your 10 biathletes have scored a total of 670 points after the first WC round. You decide to make the aforementioned transfer. Your total score will then be 740 (670+70) when the second WC round starts. I hope this has clarified how the transfer system works. And yes, I'm a bit crazy. Or that is what some of my friends tell me when I come up with ideas like these. Anyhow, thanks for the good luck. I probably need it. To all, I have deleted some paragraphs in the rules. Nothing drastically, the point system is still the same. @heywoodu I don't know what the price could be? Maybe a personal autograph from a certain Brazilian female biathlete? According to my knowledge, you seem to know one very well.

Full Videos from today's action Women's Mass Start Men's Mass Start - Heat "A"

Adrian Meronk becomes the first Polish player in history to qualify for the European Tour. He attended Tennessee before turning pro in the fall of 2016. He finished 5th in the Challenge Tour rankings this past season with most Top 10 finishes out of anyone (one win).

Israel is USA's enclave in the Middle East specifically created as such after WWII. There's more money being spend on Israel than even Obamacare's budget. It's a bottomless pit. Of course they will support whatever suits Israel. And the Dems can't really protest that as another silly Trump gimmick since they risk losing the Jewish votes back home.

2015 Pan American Games Champ, former World silver medalist Tory Nyhaug has retired due to health reasons. He just recovered from a concussion sustained over 18 months ago.He has decided the risk of another concussion is just not worth continuing. All the best in retirement!

Did Henrique Mkhitaryaninho play?

The US (Trump puppet Mike Pompeio to be exact) has declared the illegal Israeli settlements on Palestine land to no longer be illegal/against international law. Another victory for the world's single largest peace threat, also known as Israel.

The nightmare deepens for Romania, 4-0 at half time for Spain. If I prepare 1 month I bet I can play better than half of our players.

I’ll give it a crack too. I’ll sign up later today.

sure... they all get the points normally awarded at every Continental Open tournament... 100 pts for the winner, 70 for the runner-up, 50 for the bronze medallists and so on... as explained in this document: http://99e89a50309ad79ff91d-082b8fd5551e97bc65e327988b444396.r14.cf3.rackcdn.com/up/2017/01/IJF_WRL_Events_2017-2020_Point-1483967512.pdf

Tomorrow's Semifinals h.16.00 local time, 15.00 CET, Ivory Coast vs Ghana h.20.00 local time, 19.00 CET, Egypt vs South Africa the winners qualify for Tokyo 2020 and will play the Gold Medal match, the losers will play for the last available spot in the Bronze Medal match...

Anna Weidel

Luckily this time the Senegalese found a doctor in time. https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-du-senegal/2018/stage-1

I used to give my friends and classmates “autographs” when I was younger too . The “autographs” were generally papers I didn’t want back, or were too lazy to put in my folder. So instead of throwing them away, I’d give it someone and say “hold on to this in case I become famous (and then sell it on EBay )”. Generally that person would take it, and throw it right in the trash can . Even my old unofficial girlfriend

One or.. more? I mean, there might be (or should I say there surely are) more collectors among Totallympians, for whom it would be a nice gift.

An autograph from a 9 years old child is cute ? that's something to be appreciated, yes. I can get also one from other brazilian cross country skiers and biathletes (also some athletes from other countries during the races).

Great! Did you use Google Translate - it seems it did well - yes, it does mean what you wanted. I have just one team. League: https://menedzerskokow.tvp.pl/pl/league/totallympics code: 50c73b59

I am cheering for you!

In general it's just a medister. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medisterpølse) During christmas season (which of course starts a long time before christmas) there are julemedister as well, usually with a bit different spices than usually. There are also other kinds. For some years we've had grillmedister in the summer period and for a year or two Aldi has had different kinds following the seasons (yeah, also spring, summer and autumn). But the Danish Peoples Party doesn't really seem to care. They also keep on saying that IKEA is taking away their christmas because of the collection "Vinterfest" even though the politician who started it has been invited to take part in IKEA's christmas

Correct. If already qualified teams (Japan, USA) are in your Olympic qualification group, then only 2 teams advance.

And now for my personal view. Firstly, thank you @Wumo and @Agger for creating a wonderful event. @Wumo forget about all those people, who do not appreciate hard work, and try not to beat yourself up too much. I personally know that it is highly impossible to organize such big contest, it is getting a lot of you, so I really appreciate all those who went up hosting also previous events. To delegation, wow, thank you so much, I was really surprised, that a song, sung in a completely different language. could "steal" 12 points. I can not remember, when did we ever get 12 pts (maybe with Tina ). @dcro "thank you" for not awarding a song, performed by Croatian singer . I also did not put Maksim Mrvica on my list, because it reminded me too much on Croatian Eurovision songs (Vanna, Magazin,...). @bestmen once again, amazing points presentation, congrats for that, thank you for your 11 points, whether you meant it for real or not, I don't care. @Griff88 another surprise from a country I was not expecting to be awarded with 10 points. Also thank you all others who voted for my song, thank you for your patience, cause I was among last to send my song and my votes. Last, but not least, congratulations @heywoodu. This girl is simply amazing, she is a lot on Slovenian radio stations, but until now, I did not know, she comes from Netherlands. It is something unusual for a winning song getting also 12 points from myself. See you soon, in TAISC 2020.

One more fun fact: This was the first time that the winning entry was leading after the first jury.

Strange, maybe. Complicated, indeed. This season of BMG will very much be used as sort of a prototype to see what works and doesn't. I'm curious to see which biathletes benefit most from this point system?

Number of countries giving points 22 - 21 - 20 - 19 - 15 - 14 - 13 - , , , 12 - , 11 - , , 10 - , 9 - , , , , 8 - , , 6 - , , , , 5 - , , 4 - , 3 - , "Douze points" (receiving 12 pts) 4 - 3 - , 2 - , , , , 1 - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 0 - 12 countries EXTRA According to these voting pattern, Moldova was last country to win some points, only after 22nd country voted ( ).

I didn't say it was the Himalayas Run

The system was designed to give more meaningful International matches to all teams going to the Olympics in 2020. That’s why every teams, even Japan and the US, are participating in the final qualification tournament. It’s somehow the most sensible of FIBA’s four qualification systems for these Olympics so I am not inclined to complain too much...

I've heard of one, yes

Today's races Full Results Women's Mass Start https://sesongstartskiskyting.no/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/kvinner_fellesstart_resultater.pdf Men's Mass Start - Heat "A" https://sesongstartskiskyting.no/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/menn_fellesstart_resultater.pdf Men's Mass Start - Heat "B" https://sesongstartskiskyting.no/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/mennB_fellesstart_resultater.pdf

Special mention for the Czech Republic and Asia. Czechs made history by claiming (largely unexpected) two spots, while Pakistan has a chance to be the sixth Asian nation qualified. I don't think Asia ever had more than two nations in eventing at single Olympics.

@heywoodu you can update your 2021-2023 calendar. Ermelo got awarded the hosting rights of Dressage World Championships for Young Horses in that period. I can promise you some Maksim Mrvica tunes. http://www.eurodressage.com/2019/11/17/ermelo-beats-verden-race-hosting-2021-2023-world-young-horse-championships

I officially applied for a job at Inside the Games, let’s hope for a miracle

And another FIS victory for Totallympics

Some very personal thoughts for someone's first time as host: As first time host I did not really know what to expect. I had only previously been a spectator to one TISC and participated in one other, so my TISC-experience was quite small. Fortunately for me, I have had Agger as co-host who has participated many times in TISC and hosted one previously. I knew they were a lot preparation done before a TISC even opens. The most demanding thing during the preparation process was to come up with ideas and an a concept for this TISC. I'm not a person filled with many creative ideas, so this process felt at time frustrating. For me, I felt I had to live up to many different expectations from the users here on the forum. But due to not being overly creative, I often ended up being frustrated with myself. I began to question if I was a good enough host. It even develop into thinking if I was good enough as a person. TiSC and my studies took so much of my time that I did not have time to just sit down and relax. I was really stressed and I couldn't sleep much. This could not go on for much more time. One day, I sat down and said to myself, "Stop blaming yourself and try to live up to everybody's exceptions. Don't think you have to create something new, use ideas you like and adjust them to your liking". After this, I was much more at peace with myself. I started to believe in my own ideas and I didn't care if I used an idea someone had used before. It was okay. When the Grand Final ended yesterday evening/night, I cried, It had been such an emotional rollercoaster for me. All what I have written above seems to tell that I should have said stop during the process before it came to me questioning myself, and yes I should have probably done that, but I didn't. Instead I have been through a personal process where I have learned to accept my own limits. I never thought hosting a song contest on a sports forum would learn me something about my own personal life. I don't think my story is at all a good representaton of hosting an edition of TISC. Don't be scared to host. it's fun when your product is finally done, but it can feel frustrating during the process. TISC is, after all, about trying to create a stronger community here on Totallympics. I will give a special thank you to @Agger, @OlympicIRL and @vinipereira. Thanks to @Agger for the help preparing for TISC as co-host. Credits to his work on the presentation of the different cities and towns. Thanks to @OlympicIRL for his help with different ideas, especially his idea for a point format for the TISC Team Challenge. Thanks to @vinipereira for his help with the design of the logo. It would not have been possible without you. And lastly, thanks to all who have been so kind to have shown their interest and passion for TISC once again

Yep, with my main example being the one that basically said eating meat makes you a murderer and a terrible human being. Yeah.......gubay