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Here is the breakdown of the judges' votes for each group stage match.... Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F

Denmark has hereby officially announced a national bobsleigh team aiming for the 2026 Winter Olympics! 6 athletes on the team with triple jumper Jannick Bagge as pilot. They'll be part of the ISBF Development programme with Bagge scheduled to go through pilot training and the hope that they'll be starting in 2 Europe Cup competitions this winter.

My favs 1- 2- 3- 4- 5- The worst ex aequo - and

Thank you everyone for their attention and support all trough this week. Fellows, we made this Special edition quite an enjoyable one. My most sincere acknowledgement to each of you, but especially fellow organizars @OlympicIRL @dcro @Vektor @Wumo and of course, the people who kindl came to my aid on short notice: my reserve juries @hckosice @Cobi @dezbee2008 @intoronto @Olympian1010 @Sindo @Vic Liu & @Vojthas. For me, the top 5 in no particular order were this: &

I want to congratulate both @OlympicIRL and @mrv86 for successfully hosting the event. Personally, I was lucky with the draw, because I don't think would have reached the Round of 16 with the traditional format. Anyways, thanks to all the jurors who voted for the song at least once. In general I really liked the songs, so I had some troubles judging 4 or 5 matches, and changed my mind a few times during the competition, but finally this is my top7:

Amazing news for Italian baseball, after an awful week of doping cases. After 22 years Italy will back to host an European championship

2021 FINA Swimming World Cup calendar: Cluster #1 1. Singapore (SGP) – September tbc * 2. Jinan (CHN) – September tbc* Cluster #2 3. Berlin (GER) – October 1-3 4. Budapest (HUN) – October 7-9 Cluster #3 5. Doha (QAT) – October 21-23 6. Kazan (RUS) –October 28-30

Alright, that was a shit ton of pages to go through, but I'm glad I made it to the end First of all, thank you to the community who was able to vote for Hong Kong in the group stages. I chose that song because I was also in the middle of picking some songs for another contest, and when I got an invite via Twitter to join, I just had to do it. I also had chosen songs from my other choices (Guam and Swaziland, or eSwatini for you 'name nazis' out there) from that same contest. For Guam, I had chosen Pia Mia (mainly because she's the biggest pop star to ever come out of the island) with a song called Bitter Love and for eSwatini (or Swaziland), I had chosen this artist named Symphony with a song called Chance. I don't know how either of them would have done in this contest, but I don't regret it one bit. Okay, so I was in Group F with @kungshamra71 (love the song from Angola btw), @IoNuTzZ (thanks for claiming a spot already before this thing started lol), @heywoodu (I'm gonna sound stupid, but wtf though), and @justony (proof that you can tie 3-4 times in the group stage and still make it to bronze apparently, but whatevs). My favorites in no particular order are South Africa, Guinea, Kosovo, Gibraltar (I was rooting for them in the final though), Angola, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, and Burundi About the choices, there are some I wasn't surprised about and some that I never saw coming, but if you had told me that @OlympicIRL would pick Costa Rica and that would have gone on to win the contest, I would sort of believe you, because of course he will. So, it's been fun following the contest, and when we do decide to do it again, just let me know and I'll join. Whether I pick Hong Kong again or give another nation a go is totally another story

Sorry I'm late everyone! Wow, where to start.... @mrv86 I cannot thank you enough for all you have done to save this contest. This required a huge effort and commitment to organise these knock-out stages and you did it brilliantly and at short notice. Amazing job, I don't know what would have happened if you hadn't stepped forward And thanks to all the other elves who stepped forward and helped out too @Wumo @Vektor and @dcro. Thanks a lot all 3 of you for your help to organise it I really did not think my entry would still be alive so late into the contest and really thought Gibraltar had this final, so thank you all who placed a vote for Costa Rica at any stage of the contest and indeed the final! When I discovered this band, I was delighted to be able to share them here and represent who are sadly absent in this forum. I would love if we could find a Costa Rican user to bring them to TISC for real. Not sure how serious @dcro was about us looking for a user but it's a nice idea even if it might not be possible. I could not vote in this contest but my favourites were and . Thanks to all who participated and let me find some new music and artists that I never heard before! I wasn't sure if anyone would guess Costa Rica was my entry but glad it made some surprises when it was revealed. @EupenM @Vojthas great to see you here in TISC for the first time and would love you to join us for the TISC Open 2020 in the next months. It's always good to have fresh ears and new users to add to our already varied bunch of music lovers. @Sindo thanks so much for your good sport in participating in this special edition. You are more than welcome to join us in the standard TISC editions anytime, it's been a pleasure to have you take part for the first time. And an honourable mention for @Quasit who made a pleasant return to TISC after his many years of service as a neutral observer behind the scenes. Thanks again everyone, looking forward to the next contest in the Netherlands. No pressure @heywoodu

My personal top songs (no order in particular):

My top five would look like this: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Actually top six Additionally, I enjoyed

So now when the contest is over I will reveal my personal top 5 + some honourable mentions: 1. @justony 2. @OlympicIRL 3. @Sindo 4. @Vic Liu 5. @Vektor Honourable mentions: @dcro @mrv86 @Ashton @amen09 Also to @Werloc, your entry was in the better half of my personal list. Unfortunately I never got the chance to vote for it

Congrats @Olympian1010, honestly I'm quite shocking

Totallympics, please let's hear a round of applause for the Winner of the TISC Special 2020: COSTA RICA Fellow Users, please rise for Costa Rica's National Anthem Let's close the celebrations listening the rightful winner Patterns - Spirit It has been a pleasure to see you tonight! Thank you for your interest and we'll see each other soon!

Quite proud of this.

Yeah they did Winter in 2018. I think people liked it just as much, but it was a pain in the ass for JMRC to film some of the events. I remember there was editing issues as well, and it was more expensive than other seasons.

Su-Wei Hsieh and Simona Halep officially withdraws from US Open.

Was hoping for a upset from wisps but no probs the Maniacs finished 3rd so yeah that's fine. Hoping for newer events maybe Winter Marble League

Actually pacific nations were my first choice but I somehow feel they don't get the recognition they deserve. I would honestly not complain had Kiribati won the competition but shockingly didn't make past group stage. It was unlucky of me choosing Kosovo then Somalia, Puerto Rico entire group was chosen by me like during the draw lol. So I thought Kosovo but again I feel Kosovo deserved to win as a music nation. I had 3 songs from 3 artists all extremely famous from Kosovo. All 3 had more views than the other presented song. I went with one of my favourite songs. Among other 2, one was a movie song and other a extremely famous 700M + views song in the local language which was later translated to English after it's popularity. I'm not going to tell about which those 2 are but yeah the choice of nation to me was justified.

Undecided on that. Communications gives me a couple of options. I could do journalism, PR, copy writing/advertising, social media, public speaking, etc. I’m not really sure where I want to specialize yet. I’ve still got some time to figure that out. I’ve really enjoyed all my comms classes though, so I’m certain I made the correct choice.

Well, I already declared my major at my community college, so I’ll stick with it at a four year. I’m a communication studies major.

It's quite a unique and wonderful opportunity to attend this special event representing somewhere I like very much. Thank you so much for the organization work you've done perfectly @OlympicIRL and @mrv86. And I would like to share the reason I chose Taiwan and my second and third choice, Hong Kong and South Korea . I and my generation are heavily influenced by Taiwanese music when we were growing up and most classic songs we still sing are from Taiwan. So I chose Taiwan and the most popular Taiwanese language song to attend the event. And I lived in Hong Kong for a couple of years and like its music and culture, also I like K-pop music and idols, so they were my alternative choices. And I would like to share my Hong Kong and Korean songs for you guys. G.E.M - I Love You (covered Beyond) BTS - Boy with Luv

at first I was reading Mixed gender event and was really confused for a second

For the "childrens day" in Argentina, the goverment doesnt have a better idea to put a Clown to make the Covid report......

Congrats to @OlympicIRL for the win as well as him and @mrv86 organising it, was pretty fun. My original first choice would have been Belgium but I never bothered to ask for it because I thought surely somebody took it already. South Korea and Mali were my initial choices I requested which were taken and ended up with Khadja Nin instead. Thanks to everyone who liked the Burundian entry, I think I wouldn't have made it as far with my other choices. Although to be honest it was annoying losing to North Macedonia. Alternate choices:

I'm surprised you say that. If you knew about my favourite songs/pieces ever, you'd attest me a weird taste in music. My taste totally depends on rhythm and how catchy the instruments/basslines and vocals are. That's why I find something to my likings from any genre but my main three would be European dance/trance/techno from the late 90s/early 2000s, power metal and a mix of ambience and (modern) classic. I figured I had more chances making the KO stages with the latter style but I could have had fun with other entries.

As for Gibraltar's entry in the next song contest. Did you know flamenco-metal was a thing?

I'll post the group stage judging results later today. @Werloc will finally find those elusive judges who voted for Japan!

It was my favorite at another contest, when I was looking at the entries I was like "Ah! This song!"

Bruno Fernandes as top scorer of Europa league is the easiest prediction since United gets a penalty every game this year

I also really want to share you the artist that was so very close to being the Costa Rican representative as I love both of these songs: MishCatt - Saturn Eyes MishCatt - Blue Blood

Well my favorites didn't won but I also liked a lot Costa Rica's song so I have to say it's a well deserved win! My favorite was , but most of the songs were ok. I just didn't like at all the ones from and . P.S - I had already shared the very same song from Anselmo Ralph in a Festival of Music from a previous TISC

No, but I give a huge applause to whoever picked the i love Cesaria Evora and her Sodade, i bet no single portuguese do not know this very famous (and good) song!

Finally, about my pick... Funnily enough, I first heard The Free Electric Band right here when @Dragon of all people entered it for Festival of Music once. I stumbled onto it several more times and thought it would be a nice pick - first I had to discretely make sure that non-IOC members would be allowed to enter. I also considered It Never Rains in Southern California and Down by the River...

My Top 5 (actually 7 ) is 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Fun fact: I almost broke the rules with South Africa. My first choice was Malaika from Miriam Makeba, but then I realized that the rules don't allow it as the song doesn't originate from South Africa, so I went with her most well known song instead. Anyway, I would like to thank everyone who voted for South Africa, I am pleasantly surprised about how far it went considering how old the song is. My favorite songs were

My favorites were (in no particular order). Followed by , most of all... South Korea grew on my quite a bit, funnily enough.

OMG! My song was one step away from the final! Thank you to everyone who voted for Ivory Coast!

Anyways, thanks for today, easily the most enjoyable day of the entire competition with the spirit of the original TISC. I'm heading off to sleep and I'm still on the lookout for at least one person that voted for Japan. I'm a cat, because curiosity is freakin' killing me

Congrats to everyone, especially to those who took their time to host and organize the competition. Thank you! ---- On a side note, the reason why I chose is my parents are from there. Congrats to @OlympicIRL and on the win!

Even when it's anonymous. What this contest proved is that we're simps for @OlympicIRL

Gold Medal Match Now, for real, the user finishing in 2nd place is That means that our TISC Special Champion is none other than

Pleasantly surprised to see @amen09 behind Cape Verde. Thanks for introducing me to this song.

Finished the 2015 African Games today, as well as, the 2020 Marble League. With the conclusion on the TISC Special and the start of my uni semester tomorrow, I guess summer is officially over

You, me, and @Vojthas teams all managed to top the standings and qualify for next year’s marble league! Congrats to @Vojthas and the Savage Speeders. They deserve a ML victory after that glorious choke last year. Overall, I’m satisfied with the Orangers performance. I would much rather have won gold obviously, but this was a marble league to remember for us, and there’s absolutely no shame in silver (it’s still a medal after all). I have a feelings things are going to get “crazy” in the 2021 ML

Now I get why @Fly_like_a_don wanted people to be able to change away from famous artists at the beginning of the contest

The song is the only one of these songs which I discovered here and now I listen this at least 10 times daily. This entry is highly underrated.

Werloc choose Japan and i like what dezbee choose.......weird tournament P.D: Olimpian choose the gayest clip song ever.

Gold Medal Match Now let's meet the identify of the first group of judges Judge Emperor voted for.... Judge Uno voted for.... Judge Harpagon voted for.... Judge Piccolomino voted for.... Judge Draufgänger voted for.... Judge Pepel voted for.... Judge Woyceck voted for.... Judge Taine voted for....