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Sorry for my bad post yesterday . Congrats to @Hipooo for the amazing win and to @Wanderer for the wonderful 2nd place. Thank you to @Dnl. @Wumo and @OlympicIRL for this amazing edition. and yes I will return for Sweden. I have already a song I want to select. Lol once again thanks to all who voted for Avicii. 8 gold medals not bad.

Beijing 2022 Provisional Quotas after 3/4 World Cup Events M 5000m Relay: Canada China Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands ROC South Korea M Individual Quotas (one short of 56): x5: , , , (+1), (+2), , , x3: , (+1) x2: (-2), (+2), x1: , , Dropped Out: (-1), (-2), (-1), (-1) W 3000m Relay: Canada China France Italy Netherlands ROC South Korea United States W Individual Quotas x5: , , , , , , x4: (+2) x3: (-1), x2: (+1), , , x1: , , Dropped Out: (-1) Mixed 2000m Relay Canada China France Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Kazakhstan Netherlands ROC South Korea United States Not a great World Cup for smaller short track nations. 4 nations lost quotas on the men's side and one on the women's side and Austria, Croatia and Turkey are no longer have any qualified athletes. No other nations's gained quotas and the extra quotas instead went to the bigger nations. Even after adding 5 quotas to all the relay teams, it still isn't enough to get to 56 on the men's side. Great Britain is the biggest winner as it gained 2 men's and one women's quota and now has a mixed relay qualified though the 2nd women's quota is definitely not secure. The final World Cup stop is this weekend and there's a good chance there'll be a lot of changes since the worst result gets dropped from the rankings. Hopefully some more nations will be able to qualify. Also on another note, does anybody know what's up with the wikipedia page about the qualification? Their rankings are completely different from the ISU website.

Congratulations @Hipooo Thank you @Dnl for all of your hard work! Also thank you to everyone who voted for Greece and gave us 48 points! Unfortunately we finished in 29th place, although I am not surprised and personally I would not have given our song any points. We are one of the 15 countries that never missed a version of the song contests, however we are the only ones who never finished top 10. I hope this will change soon. I already have song ideas for both contests in 2022. Here are my personal votes (vs how many points Greece gave to them) 12 points- (11) 11- (12) 10- (4) 9- (8) 8- (0) 7- (2) 6- (5) 5- (6) 4- (0) 3- (7) 2- (0) 1- (0) Canada and Sweden were by far my favourites. Those two and USA were the only ones I knew before this contest, although Czech Republic also sounded familiar. Canada @intoronto I always liked, although I knew the modern version from the movie "Cars" and did not know about this earlier version, and Sweden @Belle was a song that I enjoyed a lot during my teenage years and always gives me good/happy memories when I hear it.

Technically he says he's for the freedom of choice (the choice NOT to have a vaccine)

The only things i want to say is: thanks to @Dnl @Wumo and @OlympicIRL for the organization and suport of a new contest. It was the 70s birthday of Charlie Garcia, the singer, few days after i choose his song, one of his better songs and a real clasic of the argentinian rock, i was confident for a top ten (11 was the better position in this contest, it was close) but is not with the average music taste of the jurys. Thanks to everyone for make this contest great year after year.

preliminary Start list for the World Championship https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2021/11/2021-IWF-WC_ENTRY-LIST_22112021.pdf guys in Brunei probably never participated in a weightlifting competition they wrote their body weights instead of the "Entries"

Turkey defeated Denmark at the ECh The Turkish team have now 2 victory.

OUT OF TOPIC Včera na Totallympics International Song Contest 2021 se České republice povedla věc naprosto nevídaná. S písní Hell.o od Lenny totiž poprvé tuto soutěž vyhrálo! Přitom dosavadní úspěch bylo 16. místo (tehdy s písní Svatá Kordula od Anety Langerové). Příští rok tedy bude tuto akci hostit Česko.

Googled the Italians and this must be the only sport where they go from trash singing/dancing reality tv shows to (try to) become an Olympian. Usually it's the other way around, first they become Olympians and then cash in by making appeareances in reality shows.

Correct 💪💪💪. Czech fans are actually Czechoslovak fans. And they way the national teams help each other is really great. Not only in alpine skiing but for example also short track🙂

I really shouldn't need to explain this. More famous doesn't equal better, yes, they may be more critically acclaimed, but that does not mean that their music is better only because they have more views on Youtube. Also, in the modern age of this industry, we tend to imagine that we as people are responsible for who gets famous, but there are so many games behind the scenes that nobody becomes famous without a reason, especially when we're talking mainstream fame. And no, I'm not only talking about the games that labels play - buying spots on the radio, having a different platform where they can pitch music to Spotify, millions upon millions of dollars in marketing, venue placement and all that good shit, I'm also talking about Spotify and Youtube algorhythms that work for people who are already ahead, not for emerging artists, and especially not for artists that are not coming from a country that's a major player in the music soundscape. Basically, more and more nowadays you're listening to what's put in front of you, and rarely do you look for ways to seek out music on your own, this was made apparent by Spotify and how people consume music through playlists and are not even listening to full albums most of the time. Artists like Avicii don't come out of nowhere, artists nowadays are massively produced and the labels paint a pretty picture to make you think they're hot and up and coming, but everything is planned out years in advance. You could see that by looking at credits and seeing what songwriters wrote songs for who and then went on to become famous artists themselves after years of grind in the industry making connections, oooor another good example would be a huge super star Taylor Swift having a huge tour and who is warming up the stage for her? Shawn Mendes, Troye Sivan, Fifth Harmony that were put there by their labels and are now all huge artists. Lenny never had the chance to become more famous than Avicii, does that mean that she should automatically lose to him? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Czech Republic's gold moves them to 11th in the All-Time medal table. New Zealand enters the table in 18th position. For nations tied in the table, countback has been used to separate them by looking at their highest non-medal winning result.... Totallympics International Song Contest All-Time Medal Table Updated after Edition XVII (TISC Open 2021) Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Ireland 5 0 3 8 2 Great Britain 2 1 1 4 3 Canada 2 1 1 4 4 Italy 1 2 0 3 5 Sweden 1 1 2 4 6 Germany 1 1 0 2 7 Netherlands 1 1 0 2 8 Denmark 1 0 1 2 9 Serbia 1 0 1 2 10 Lithuania 1 0 0 1 11 Czech Republic 1 0 0 1 12 Colombia 0 2 0 2 13 United States 0 1 2 3 14 Australia 0 1 1 2 15 Norway 0 1 0 1 16 Slovakia 0 1 0 1 17 Brazil 0 1 0 1 18 New Zealand 0 1 0 1 19 Mexico 0 1 0 1 20 China 0 1 0 1 21 France 0 0 3 3 22 Malta 0 0 1 1 23 Romania 0 0 1 1 Total Medals 17 17 17 51

Congrats Czech Republic, nice to see a new winner! Here are my personal votes: 12 points : Lithuania 11 points : Indonesia 10 points : Denmark 9 points : Germany 8 points : Croatia 7 points : Ireland 6 points : Poland 5 points : Ukraine 4 points : Great Britain 3 points : China 2 points : Canada 1 point : Argentina I didn't even vote for the winner, I don't think it has often happened

votes : Steve Parker 12 pts 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Pablita 12 pts 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Gianlu33 12 pts 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Henry_Leon 12 Great Britain 11 Spain 10 Sweden 9 Indonesia 8 Slovakia 7 Serbia 6 Denmark 5 New Zealand 4 Lituania 3 USA 2 Vietnam 1 Mexico

I didn't get a chance earlier, but wanted to thank @Dnlfor taking this on last minute and seeing it through the end. I also wanted to thank all those countries and users who voted for the Canadian entry!

Even here I struggled to choose between these two @hckošice

One last goodbye to her reindeers before departure to USA

Nobody who is in can ask that!!

@Olympian1010 was kind enough to make a logo for this edition before the contest. I will let him present it to you all here or @Dnl can if he so wishes

Adjusted Competition Schedule for Lillehammer:

I like the easily understood wording of the PM.

No problemo kámo. som k dispozícii.

Díky moc!! Já tomu pořád nemůžu uvěřit, je to něco, co jsem si přál od doby, co jsem se na Totallympics zaregistroval! Taky děkuju za ochotu, kdybych měl nějaký problém, tak se kdyžtak ozvu. Jsem ale člověk, kterej si pracovní záležitosti dělá sám, ale kdybych potřeboval poradit třeba s postupy a grafikou, tak se zeptám tebe (komunikace s tebou mi činí nejmenší potíže vzhledem k mojí anglický jazykový bariéře )

Really cool to see on the monobob entry list for the NorAm Cup in Park City. Of course, their speed on training runs has been... pedestrian.

Also known as The Hunger Games in the curling world I'm pulling for Gushue and Einarson.

84 countries have qualified so far. With 4 more in qualification position: and which brings it up to 88. Here are countries trying to qualify, especially in light of the rule change in Alpine skiing, no worlds championships requirements anymore. has one alpine skier aiming for qualification has one alpine skier aiming for qualification, just needs two more races under 160 points to qualify. has one alpine skier aiming for qualification, last race saw him finish just higher than 160, so perhaps its possible skier is training to comeback for Beijing, should easily qualify if he gets five races under 160. Other countries with alpine skiers trying to qualify, but a long shot to qualify atm: is also one spot out of qualification in women's skeleton.

It's so strange to see that only 15 nations competed in each edition, yet at every contest we have +30 nations Btw. Congrats Czech Republic and @Hipooo for winning New Zealand and @Wanderer for second place and Sweden @Belle for another good (please don't leave the contest), this time third place. It's very rare, if not first time ever that all top3 finishers received points from me Also congrars @Dnl for finishing the contest, as a previous host, I know how difficult and time consuming is this and work in real life could be problem in hosting and running this event. And also thanks everyone who voted for Polish song, yet 16th place isn't what I expected after selecting this song. To be honest I already have selected song for Annual Contest 2022 but I will reconsider it if I should choose this song and changing for an song in English......

Colombia is missing in all the events. So at least plus one.

This tweet is misleading. This would ONLY be for a diplomatic boycott.

I didn't have time yet to update all the hyperlinks but I did edit this basic table. Still 15 nations in the ever-present club Nations at the Totallympics International Song Contest Nations Highlighted in yellow are ever-present participants and have taken part in every edition to date Nation Number of Participations Debut Algeria 9 TISC Open 2015 Antarctica 0 Special Guest TISC Annual 2018 Argentina 17 TISC Open 2013 Australia 5 TISC Open 2014 Austria 2 TISC Annual 2018 Azerbaijan 9 TISC Open 2013 Brazil 17 TISC Open 2013 Bulgaria 16 TISC Open 2013 Canada 15 TISC Open 2013 Chile 7 TISC Annual 2015 China 6 TISC Annual 2019 Colombia 9 TISC Open 2014 Croatia 15 TISC Open 2013 Czech Republic 10 TISC Open 2013 Denmark 17 TISC Open 2013 Egypt 9 TISC Open 2013 Estonia 3 TISC Open 2014 Finland 10 TISC Open 2014 France 17 TISC Open 2013 Germany 12 TISC Open 2013 Great Britain 16 TISC Open 2013 Greece 17 TISC Open 2013 Guyana 4 TISC Open 2013 Hungary 8 TISC Annual 2014 India 16 TISC Open 2013 Indonesia 12 TISC Annual 2016 Iran 4 TISC Annual 2017 Ireland 17 TISC Open 2013 Israel 4 TISC Annual 2020 Italy 17 TISC Open 2013 Kazakhstan 13 TISC Open 2013 Latvia 2 TISC Open 2013 Lebanon 1 TISC Open 2014 Lithuania 17 TISC Open 2013 Malta 17 TISC Open 2013 Mexico 17 TISC Open 2013 Moldova 10 TISC Open 2015 Montenegro 2 TISC Annual 2014 Morocco 5 TISC Open 2013 Netherlands 15 TISC Open 2014 New Zealand 15 TISC Open 2014 Norway 6 TISC Annual 2014 Poland 17 TISC Open 2013 Portugal 13 TISC Open 2015 Romania 15 TISC Open 2013 Russia 8 TISC Open 2013 Serbia 17 TISC Open 2013 Slovakia 17 TISC Open 2013 Slovenia 17 TISC Open 2013 Spain 12 TISC Annual 2014 Sweden 9 TISC Open 2013 Switzerland 3 TISC Open 2014 Tunisia 15 TISC Annual 2014 Turkey 8 TISC Open 2013 Ukraine 3 TISC Open 2013 United States 17 TISC Open 2013 Uruguay 2 TISC Open 2017 Venezuela 2 TISC Annual 2018 Vietnam 2 TISC Open 2013

Congratulations to @Hipooo and Czech Republic for their deserved win. Tough luck for @Wanderer and New Zealand, but both countries offered us an exciting battle, so congratulations to them as well. A big thank you to @Dnl for hosting, in the end it was an amazing contest, despite all the difficulties that occured. A big thank you to everyone who voted our song, I'm glad you liked it. I can't say I'm surprised by our 29th place finish, it is more or less what I expected. I mean that, after listening all the songs and judging objectively, I would put our song somewhere around 30th place. Now, time to reveal how I voted. 1. Ireland 2. France 3. Poland 4. Croatia 5. Ukraine 6. Germany 7. Czech Republic 8. Canada 9. Moldova 10. New Zealand 11. Brazil 12. Argentina Some interesting notes. I voted for both Czech Republic and New Zealand, though I didn't rank them as high as they finished. None of the two made Greece's combined top 12. Same for France, who received 11 points from me, but were left out from our combined top 12. I didn't give any points to 7 of 12 countries that made our combined top 12, including Sweden, who got our 12 points. However, all my top 5 songs were in the combined top 12, except France. From the five countries I voted and made Greece's combined top 12, we gave the most points to Canada, who in my ranking, was the lowest ranked of that five countries.

She was Petra Vlhová neighbor during childhood, she lived (actually I think still reside) in the next side-block of Petra was living. They visited the same school etc..etc... She has Czech father and slovak mother (sadly pased away last year) born in Czech Třinec but lived almost all her life and learned to ski in Slovak Liptovský Mikuláš. but since she used to attend slovak schools, she speak Slovak language, At her 16 (if I am not wrong) she decided to represent Czechia, mainly because of issues with the stupid leadership in our nowadays thankfully former federation at that time. Btw when Petra finish her 1st run she always inform Martina about the track, Same in opposite way happen in 2nd runs. Another prove of Czechoslovak unity.

Congratulations @Hipooo! I'm very happy for you and I'm looking forward to see what you prepare for the next year. As I said when I was giving the points, big thanks to @Dnlfor hosting this edition. Personally, after 2 very bad editions, I am very happy to tie my personal record again with this 6th place, but this time beating my previous point record (118 from my 1st participation in Open 2019), which is even better. Big thanks to all the juries from 19 countries who have given points to "La Oreja de Van Gogh": @kungshamra71(2nd time in 5 editions that I got a gold medal. I'm glad that the song brought you memories! I liked the Portuguese song too and in fact i added it to my main playlist ) @Hipooo @catgamer @Damian(I think that your song deserved better. I regret not giving it a few points) @Belle @IoNuTzZ @Ionoutz24 @NikolaB(Serbia is the only country giving Spain at least 1 point for the last 5 editions, so thanks for that ) @Griff88 @Gianlu33@Henry_Leon @Pablita @SteveParker (I don't know who voted for my song this time, but thank you all. I'm really glad you picked Franco Battiato this year, he was relatively popular in Spain and I felt sorry when I heard he died). @hckošice @dophuquy @Vic Liu @Federer91 @Benolympique @Bohemia @EupenM @Laraja @LuizGuilherme@titicow (I don't know who voted for my song this time, but thank you all) @Glen @heywoodu @intoronto It was also the first time (at leats since I'm participating) that Canada, Czech Republic, Sweden, Colombia, Vietnam and Romania gave points to Spain. This means that Greece, Hungary and the US are the only countries who have never awarded us a single point.

Btw thanks to all juries who voted for Avicii. RIP Avicii!

well I think in this sort of competitions it is not about winning them, it's about find new music, new artists, new ethnic elements from those countries who participate. In the end all of us are the champions. Let's not focus on wining, we just have to be happy.

Bruh, Sweden has won before. It would be unfair if Sweden won just for sending Avicii. This is not a name recognision contest, it's a song contest. Third place is huge, learn to be happy for others and by saying this you're also disregarding everyone that voted for your song and there were many many gold medals as well.

Final Leaderboad after 37/37 juries: 1. Czech Republic 198 2. New Zealand 182 3. Sweden 177 4. Denmark 156 5. France 133 6. Spain 130 7. Ukraine 114 8. Ireland 104 9. China 99 10. Serbia 87 11. Lithuania 85 12. United States 84 13. Hungary 83 14. Canada 82 15. Mexico 81 16. Poland 78 17. Croatia 77 18. Argentina 75 19. Brazil 73 20. Great Britain 73 21. Germany 69 22. Italy 68 23. Indonesia 67 24. Vietnam 60 25. Romania 58 26. Portugal 56 27. Moldova 54 28. Slovakia 54 29. Greece 48 30. Kazakhstan 46 31. Netherlands 44 32. Malta 28 33. India 26 34. Slovenia 17 35. Israel 9 36. Colombia 6 37. Bulgaria 5

Mexico ¡Hola Totallympics! Es un gusto compartir con Ustedes una edición más de este concurso. Sin más preámbulo, estos son los votos mexicanos. !Hello Totallympics” It is a joy to share with you another edition of this contest. Without further preamble, these are the Mexican votes France 10 Argentina 9 Greece 8 Serbia 7 Czech Republic 6 Denmark 5 Kazakhstan 4 Lithuania 3 Ukraine 2 Hungary 1

Well, the global press has given up on Taiwan and Hong Kong already so they have to find something else for the next two weeks

Thanks Denmark for 12points! @Wumo

Peng Shuai isn't a global name. She's not been a top player since injury in 2015. What's more, she's been suspended for offering money for a player to withdraw from 2017 Wimbledon. She's hardly won a singles match in the last three years and was basically semi-retired. Her last good season was 2017.

First Slovakia is apparently part of Russia and now it's under the Danish flag. Slovakia is really being occupied. XD

Thought you'd have liked traditional Greek syrtaki dance and legendary Nana's distinctive voice a little more, but...oh well, that's life I guess.

Thank you Vietnam. I know it. We can appreciate each other. Sorry that Avicii is unbeatable for me here.

Thanks Poland for the 8 points.

Thank you Greece!

Wait, Slovenia really did reset the count here. Amazing start to the second week for them.

Well, at least the idea that "she disappeared" is nonsense. China is what it is but it ain't North Korea

Luge World Cup in Beijing became the first WOG test event with spectators. Last night's match invited 300 Yanqing (Beijing suburb) local spectators. Though still no tickets publicly available, hopefully it's one more step closer for me to get ticket during WOG.

I suppose I could some random watch party from the past but I'll just go with this one cuz it was the most popular here: Volleyball at Tokyo, legend and Seoul medalist Hugo Conte is part of the tv broadcast team and watches Argentina win a medal after 33 years (his son is part of the current team)...