Sindo

Hi everyone, just two weeks left before Rio 2016, the event we all were waiting for when working/surfing on Totallympics in the past years. I guess about 90% of today’s Totallympics community already knew Totallympics before February 2016, when as you know the “old” Totallympics (March 2011-February 2016) died and the “new” Totallympics has borne in March 2016. Some other users probably has discovered Totallympics after the February 2016 event and so they know Totallympics only as it is now. As many of you know, after many years of hard work I had totally lost my motivations some months ago and a forum’s database huge problem was the peak of it, and I have decided to start everything again from scratch, starting a new forum with a new software and a new webmaster, with 0 posts on the forum but a community already formed. I will have to decide what to do in my personal and professional life in the next months and I still have too many variables to guarantee you I will try to make out of Totallympics a results database as it was before (which I would like to do starting from September 2016, but I am not sure I will be able to realize it), but I am glad I have decided to start Totallympics again and did not let the community to die and spread Totallympics’ users around national forums/forums focused only on one sport/social networks. The next 4 weeks will be the most important for Totallympics, even if as you know the best thing of Totallympics has always been to live for 4 years and not only for the 16 Olympic days. I will not be able to focus 20 hours per day on Totallympics like I did for London 2012, therefore I am asking some little help to all Totallympics users who like the community and will follow the Olympic Games on the forum and would like Totallympics to keep growing day after day. You all have various ways to help the forum and I will list some of them here. Of course you will decide if and in which way to help, those are just some suggestions. 1) If you are a”silent reader”, register on Totallympics and take part in the disussion. There are a lot of visitors who reads Totallympics, maybe even everyday, but who are not registered on the forum. Don’t be shy! Register and join the discussion during the Olympic Games! 2) Respect Totallympics’ Rules. It is very important to keep the community a peaceful place even during the “hottest” Olympic days, when every user will have happy and sad moments according to his/her nation’s performance in Rio. If you feel you are too nervous please try to limit yourself and wait some minutes/hours to connect/post on the forum to avoid fights around the forum. 3) Use the Report button instead of replying to the provocations. If you read a post you think should be deleted or edited, please report it to the moderators instead of replying and make the fight bigger. Moderators will then decide whether to edit/delete the post or not and whether to give some “punishments” to the involved users. Admins have already been authorized to give 24 or more hours post-prevention punishment when they feel it is necessary to calm down someone, which means you will still be able to read the forum but not to post anything for 24 or more hours, so please behave! 4) Try to make your nation’s National Thread active. National Threads are important to attract more users from your Nation on the forum and discuss in the National Thread also in your own national language. It is not easy to make a National Thread active if you are the only user from your Nation on Totallympics but sometimes you just need a “flash” to start and more users will then join to discuss in the thread. Using your nation’s language is also important because it allows users who don’t speak English language at all to take part in Totallympics too. So even if you are alone or just 2 users from your Nation, try to write in the National Thread with the hope more users from your Nation will join the discussion. Take India and Serbia National Threads as examples to follow, those two are the most active National Threads since years and more users have joined Totallympics to be able to take part in the National Thread. 5) Try to spread Totallympics around your Nation’s sports communities. Of course you know better than anyone else the forums/social networks pages where your nation’s sport fans gather to discuss about Olympic Games. If you want to make your Nation’s community bigger on Totallympics, you can invite those interested to join and make the community bigger and more represented, both in the National Thread, in Prediction Contests and around the forum. 6) Take part in Rio 2016 Prediction Contests. More participants could attract more users to take part. And a link to Totallympics Prediction Contests in your national forums/social networks communities could also be a good way to find more interested users to join Totallympics and its Prediction Contests. 7) If you still don’t have one, set an avatar. It is pretty bad for the instant view of the home page and inside a thread to see many users with the same avatar (the default one, a no-face man :d). Setting an avatar is free and very quick, so please unless you like the no-face default avatar, choose a picture and set it as your avatar (your national flag will also work!). Please note that some months ago the maximum size of avatars has been increased, so if you set your avatar long time ago it could be in a very low quality, you can now upload it in a better quality. Sorry for the long post, I hope you will take the time to read it and follow it as much as you can Enjoy the Olympic Games on Totallympics!

I have disabled the negative rank to avoid users getting targeted by other users who don't stand them just to see them having a bad reputation. If a post is seen as aggressive users could report it, if they just don't agree with the content I don't think is a good solution to add the negative rank.

OFF TOPIC: The medals are automatically given according to the reputation ranking, it is one of the feature of this forum's sofware, here you can see the default rankgs (I can change the number as I want, but as of today I have never changed them )

Thank you, I have fixed it

I have not had any problem. Are you still facing the problem today ? EDIT: I just made a software update, hopefully it is fixed now and the problem was because of the missing update.

Oh yes, I just checked Rio 2016 section and even there I found 3 threads with this mistake, but I can't believe I did the same mistake also in all Olympic threads. Anyway, I will start to fix them soon, thanks for reporting

Sorry, I read it just now. I have found only 3 threads with that mistake and I have fixed them, if there are some more please let me know.

This is only for overall medal count, and the first post will be updated by me or other admins after each event(s)

Nations will be ranked only according to "Total" medals, men's, women's and mixed medals will not influence the rankng, it's just to have one more information and to check if the sum of the medals is correct. Example: Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total M W X Total M W X Total M W X Total M W X Total 1 Afghanistan 7 5 1 13 4 8 0 12 9 1 1 11 20 14 2 36 2 Albania 9 1 0 10 8 9 1 18 2 14 1 17 19 24 2 45

Not necessary, but just to have one more information about medals distribution

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total M W X Total M W X Total M W X Total M W X Total 1 United States 18 27 1 46 18 17 2 37 19 17 2 38 55 61 5 121 2 Great Britain 18 7 2 27 13 9 1 23 9 8 0 17 40 24 3 67 3 China 12 14 0 26 7 11 0 18 9 16 1 26 28 41 1 70 4 Russia 9 10 0 19 6 12 0 18 12 7 0 19 27 29 0 56 5 Germany 10 5 2 17 2 6 2 10 9 4 2 15 21 15 6 42 6 Japan 5 7 0 12 7 1 0 8 11 10 0 21 23 18 0 41 7 France 5 3 2 10 10 7 1 18 13 1 0 14 28 11 3 42 8 South Korea 4 5 0 9 2 1 0 3 6 3 0 9 12 9 0 21 9 Italy 7 1 0 8 5 7 0 12 6 2 0 8 18 10 0 28 10 Australia 3 5 0 8 7 3 1 11 5 4 1 10 15 12 2 29 11 Netherlands 2 6 0 8 3 4 0 7 2 2 0 4 7 12 0 19 12 Hungary 1 7 0 8 2 1 0 3 2 2 0 4 5 10 0 15 13 Brazil 5 2 0 7 5 1 0 6 4 2 0 6 14 5 0 19 14 Spain 3 4 0 7 1 3 0 4 4 2 0 6 8 9 0 17 15 Kenya 3 3 0 6 3 3 0 6 0 1 0 1 6 7 0 13 16 Jamaica 4 2 0 6 1 2 0 3 0 2 0 2 5 6 0 11 17 Croatia 3 2 0 5 3 0 0 3 1 1 0 2 7 3 0 10 18 Cuba 5 0 0 5 1 1 0 2 3 1 0 4 9 2 0 11 19 New Zealand 3 1 0 4 1 8 0 9 3 2 0 5 7 11 0 18 20 Canada 1 3 0 4 1 2 0 3 3 11 1 15 5 16 1 22 21 Uzbekistan 4 0 0 4 2 0 0 2 7 0 0 7 13 0 0 13 22 Kazakhstan 3 0 0 3 3 2 0 5 3 6 0 9 9 8 0 17 23 Colombia 1 2 0 3 1 1 0 2 2 1 0 3 4 4 0 8 24 Switzerland 3 0 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 2 3 4 0 7 25 Iran 3 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 3 1 0 4 7 1 0 8 26 Greece 1 2 0 3 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 3 3 0 6 27 Argentina 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 28 Denmark 1 1 0 2 3 3 0 6 3 4 0 7 7 8 0 15 29 Sweden 0 2 0 2 2 3 1 6 0 3 0 3 2 8 1 11 30 South Africa 1 1 0 2 5 1 0 6 2 0 0 2 8 2 0 10 31 Ukraine 2 0 0 2 4 1 0 5 2 2 0 4 8 3 0 11 32 Serbia 2 0 0 2 2 2 0 4 0 2 0 2 4 4 0 8 33 Poland 0 2 0 2 1 2 0 3 2 4 0 6 3 8 0 11 34 North Korea 1 1 0 2 1 2 0 3 1 1 0 2 3 4 0 7 35 Belgium 1 1 0 2 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 4 2 0 6 35 Thailand 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 2 2 4 0 6 37 Slovakia 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 38 Georgia 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 4 7 0 0 7 39 Azerbaijan 1 0 0 1 6 1 0 7 7 3 0 10 14 4 0 18 40 Belarus 1 0 0 1 2 2 0 4 2 2 0 4 5 4 0 9 41 Turkey 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 3 4 0 0 4 8 0 0 8 42 Armenia 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 43 Czech Republic 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 3 3 1 7 6 3 1 10 44 Ethiopia 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 3 0 5 3 5 0 8 45 Slovenia 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 2 2 0 4 46 Indonesia 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 47 Romania 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 3 3 2 0 5 48 Bahrain 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 48 Vietnam 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 50 Chinese Taipei 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 3 0 3 51 Bahamas 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 51 Cote d'Ivoire 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 2 51 Individual Olympic Athl. 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 54 Fiji 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 54 Jordan 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 54 Kosovo 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 54 Puerto Rico 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 54 Singapore 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 54 Tajikistan 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 60 Malaysia 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 1 0 0 1 3 1 1 5 61 Mexico 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 2 0 0 2 3 2 0 5 62 Algeria 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 62 Ireland 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 64 Lithuania 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 3 3 1 0 4 65 Bulgaria 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 3 0 3 65 Venezuela 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 2 0 3 67 India 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 67 Mongolia 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 69 Burundi 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 69 Grenada 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 69 Niger 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 69 Philippines 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 69 Qatar 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 74 Norway 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 3 1 0 4 75 Egypt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 1 2 0 3 75 Tunisia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 1 2 0 3 77 Israel 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 2 78 Austria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 78 Dominican Republic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 78 Estonia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 78 Finland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 78 Moldova 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 78 Morocco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 78 Nigeria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 78 Portugal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 78 Trinidad and Tobago 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 78 United Arab Emirates 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 Totals 161 137 9 307 163 135 9 307 195 156 9 360 517 430 27 974

You can predict just one team sport, all of them or as many as you wish, the choice is yours. You can post your predictions as a normal comment or using the template you can find in post #2. If you are using the template, copy and paste the table(s) for the sport(s) you want to add your predictions for. Now you have two ways to add a flag in the each cell: 1) you can add the three letter IOC country code (AUS for Australia, GER for Germany, USA for United States etc.) and when you will save the post the flags will appear; 2) you can select the flag you want from the emoticons list in each cell. These predictions are just for fun, no ranking will be kept. Therefore, you can edit your post whenever you want, even when the qualification period will be started. 3x3 Basketball Men's : : : : : : : - - - - Women's : : : : : : : - - - - Baseball Men's : : : : : Basketball Men's : : : : : : : : : : : Women's : : : : : : : : : : : Handball Men's : : : : : : : : : : : Women's : : : : : : : : : : : Field Hockey Men's : : : : : : : : : : : Women's : : : : : : : : : : : Football Men's : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : - - Women's : : : : : : : : : : : Rugby Sevens Men's : : : : : : : : : : : Women's : : : : : : : : : : : Softball Women's : : : : : Volleyball Men's : : : : : : : : : : : Women's : : : : : : : : : : : Water Polo Men's : : : : : : : : : : : Women's : : : : : : : : : - -

Do someone know the "Torneo dell'Avvenire", an Under 16 important tournament played in Milan ? I am doing the assistant referee in this tournament and I am liking this experience a lot, if someone wants to ask a question or an information to some players let me know Here are the draws I have watched at least some minutes of every of these matches (including qualification rounds) and had to take some decisions when players did not agree to some calls (women's matches are much more controversial than men's matches ) and I have got to know many players and their parents/coaches. Also I bring the balls, I officially homologate results to the tournament's referee and I make the drawing lots before the matches. I have been impressed in particular by the Argentinian boy Tomas Descarrega, he seems a beast, let's write this name somewhere

Every Olympic Thread has been now opened. Thanks to everyone who gave their contribution, I have opened all threads using my admin powers from your accounts so that a standard format was kept. Users who own a thread can now keep the schedule updated when a more detailed schedule will be released in the next weeks, or anyway few days before the Olympics start when the Rio 2016 website will have a detailed schedule for each sport. You can also start using the Olympic Threads for the discussion, predictions and news related to the Olympic Games about each sport, instead of the general discussion thread. You can continue using the Olympic Qualification Threads for the qualification related events.

Good idea. If you think about a format for the first post of each thread, we can open the section.

Sorry I see this only now. Click on right button of your mouse inside the post, click on "Select All" and delete. It should delete the table.

Sorry I see this only now. I have added some buttons from smart phone toolbar, including the buttons for tables. Of course working on tables from the smart phone will not be so easy, but now you can do it.

I have already assigned some sports, look at the first post and you can start working on those threads in the Test Thread

One thread, joint men's and women's.

Yes, that's the plan

Hi everyone, less than 3 months to go to Rio 2016 and we now have to open the Olympic Threads, of course one for each Olympic Sport. I have prepared the format for the first post, which is pretty simple, just with some basic information and the Schedule for that sport. Here is the Archery Olympic Thread, and the Handball Olympic Thread, to use as an example for all other sports (you have one individual sport and one team sport template): http://totallympics.com/index.php?/topic/16-test-thread/&do=findComment&comment=908 The Schedule of course is still provisional for most sports, and you can base it on this PDF file: https://www.rio2016.com/sites/default/files/users/Samuel%20Green/olympic_ticket_guide_150116.pdf You will then update the schedule in the next weeks when a more detailed schedule will be available. Now you can start to prepare these threads, but first of all we should decide users who will open threads for each sport, to avoid more users would open the thread of the same sport. So in this thread, if you are interested to open a thread, you can reserve the sport you want to open the thread for. I will update the list so that you know which sports are still “free” to take. You can write here up to 3 Olympic Sports you want to open the Olympic Thread for and I will then allocate them accordingly. Of course you can also choose Archery and Handball, which are already ready. Please note that if you open the thread you should be responsible for updating it before (and possibly even during) Rio 2016, so if you don’t want or can’t use the format we used, please leave the Olympic Threads to someone else. Of course many of us still have to learn a lot about this new forum software and how to work with tables and formats, but I am of course ready to help you if you have any problems with that and I’m sure everyone would be able to learn it, and it could also be useful for the future when hopefully we will start to post sports results again on the forum. I will then confirm you through PM (and updating the list here too) that a sport has been allocated to you and you can start working on that thread. But please don’t open the thread yet, work on that in a post into the Test Thread, so that if you have some problems you can ask for help before to open the thread, and so that all Olympic Threads will be opened more or less in the same period (when everyone of them will be ready, hopefully few weeks). OlympicIRL is preparing the formats for the results, so when you will open the thread you will have to “reserve” a post for each sport events, so for example 4 reserved posts for Archery, 47 for Athletics, 5 for Badminton and so on. Archery – Dolby Athletics – OlympicIRL Badminton – Griff88 Basketball – George_D Beach Volleyball – mrv86 Boxing – phelps Canoeing-Slalom – hckosice Canoeing-Sprint – dareza Cycling-BMX – Agger Cycling-Mountain Bike – Agger Cycling-Road – hckosice Cycling-Track – Agger Diving – mrv86 Equestrian – dcro Fencing – phelps Field Hockey – LDOG Football – vlad Golf – Danylove80 Gymnastics-Artistic – George_D Gymnastics-Rhythmic – George_D Gymnastics-Trampoline – George_D Handball – hckosice Judo – George_D Modern Pentathlon – Vojthas Rowing – dareza Rugby Sevens – juddy96 Sailing – Crolympic Shooting – Harsh Shah Swimming – DaniSRB Synchronized Swimming – George_D Table Tennis – vinipereira Taekwondo – mrv86 Tennis – Danylove80 Triathlon – uk12points Volleyball – batbobi Water Polo – DaniSRB Weightlifting – vlad Wrestling – juddy96

It happened to me too for about one hour this morning and I could not open the forum. But when I was able to open the forum I did not see this message anymore. Do you still see that somewhere ?

Unfortunately I have no news of KSR, the Polish user who was taking care of the Events of the Week Thread, since the forum went down in February. I only have his e-mail address but it seems to be not used anymore. Hopefully he will come back one day.

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