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I'm sorry again for slow montion, but it's not my fault I hope that tomorrow, at Grand Final everything will go well. Btw. Spain (Hiszpania) is on the last part of parade due to penguins...

Parade of Nations We finish the parade with this nice, old song: Słowenia/Slovenia Jury Member: @justony Artist: Luka Basi Stany Zjednoczone/United States Jury Members: @dezbee2008 @Olympian1010 Artist: Ashe & FINNEAS Szwecja/Sweden Jury Member: @Belle Artist: Molly Sandén Hiszpania/Spain Jury Member: @Cobi Artist: Sinsinati Tunezja/Tunisia Jury Member: @amen09 Artist: Yasmine Azaiez Węgry/Hungary Jury Member @Vektor Artist: Carson Coma Wielka Brytania/Great Britain Jury Member: @Dragon Artist: Laura Marling Włochy/Italy Jury Members: @Gianlu33 @Henry_Leon @Pablita @SteveParker Artist: Francesco Gabbani Polska/Poland Jury Members: @rybak @Vojthas Artist: Brodka

Parade of Nations We continue parade with folk song: Mołdawia/Moldova Jury Member: @Ionoutz24 Artist: Nicoleta Nuca Niemcy/Germany Jury Member: @catgamer Artist: Silbermond Norwegia/Norway Jury Member: @Skijumpingmaster Artist: TIX Nowa Zelandia/New Zealand Jury Member: @Wanderer Artist: Ladyhawke & Broods Portugalia/Portugal Jury Member: @kungshamra71 Artist: Nena Rumunia/Romania Jury Member: @IoNuTzZ Artist: Roxen Serbia/Serbia Jury Member: @NikolaB Artist: Sanja Ilić & Balkanika Słowacja/Slovakia Jury Member: @hckošice Artist: Emma Drobná

Parade of Nations We continue parade with folk song: Grecja/Greece Jury members: @Makedonas @Yannakis Artist: Michalis Hatzigiannis Holandia/Netherlands Jury Member: @heywoodu Artist: Di-rect Indie/India Jury member: @Fly_like_a_don Artist: Nikato Y Tamang Indonezja/Indonesia Jury Member: @Griff88 Artist: Weird Genius ft. Sara Fajira Irlandia/Ireland Jury Member: @OlympicIRL Artist: Dermot Kennedy Izrael/Israel Jury Member: @Dnl Artis: Dennis Llyod Kanada/Canada Jury Member: @intoronto Artist: The Weeknd Kazachstan/Kazakhstan Jury Member: @Ruslan Artist: Rita Ora & Imanbek Litwa/Lithuania Jury Member: @Werloc Artist: Evgenya Redko Malta/Malta Jury Member: @Glen Artist: Miriam Christine Meksyk/Mexico Jury Members: @Braulio @mrv86 Artist: Fran

I'm sorry for this slow montion but seems my computer can't handle TAISC, as I still have some technical difficulties...

Parade of Nations Let's start the parade, first nations will walk listening in the background an nice (at least for me ) song Argentyna/Argentina Jury member: @konig Artist: Bándalos Chinos Brazylia/Brazil Jury members: @Laraja @titicow Artist: Bruno Martini, Iza, Timbaland Bułgaria/Bulgaria Jury member: @Federer91 Artist: Mihaela Marinova Chiny/China Jury member: @Vic Liu Artist: Hua Chenyu Chorwacja/Croatia Jury member: @dcro Artist: nipplepeople Czechy/Czech Republic Jury member: @Hipooo Artist: We All Poop Dania/Denmark Jury members: @Agger @Wumo Artist: GRETA Finlandia/Finland Jury member: @Finnator123 Artist: Toivon kärki Francja/France Jury members: @Benolympique @Bohemia Artist: Kendji Girac

Some Tradition Before Parade of Nations let's listen some arts one of the most known Polish people Frédéric Chopin:

Btw. Shawn Mendes, his girlfriend and their pets sends best wishes to all Totallympic users

Out but still in As we all know in last Totallympics Annual International Song Contest Canadian singer Shawn Mendes was winner and Canada wins the right to host the contest. Unfortunately Canada couldn't host the event but we can't forget about this fact. Luckily they are competing again. Here you have a little reminder of previous winner.

The National Anthem

At the beginning I want say thank you to everyone who registered to the contest and decided to travell around Poland in recent month. The Opening Ceremony is dedicated to Krzysztof Krawczyk, a iconic Polish singer who recently passed away after covid side effects.

Let's begin the show! Ladies and gentlemens welcome to the opening ceremony of Totallympics Annual International Song Contest Poland 2021!

Short press release Due to some technical difficulties the opening ceremony which had to begin today at 19:00 CET (GMT+2) will be delayed about half hour, which means 19:30 CET (GMT+2). Organizing committee apologize everyone who waits impatiently.

Surely it won't happen since in Osaka (which is now the most hit prefecture and city by fourth(?) wave of covid) at figure skating World Team Trophy they let fans into the venue and there were many people, of course with keeping distance and in masks, but still.

Very neutral

Thank you for this news. Of course I will post your templates instead you, health is the most important in the world and I hope that thanks the vaccine you will be safe

Unforunately some votes have been leaked, organizing committee want apologize everyone for that spoiler, but we did evertyhing too keep all votes in secret until Saturday's Grand Final, but penguins again were better than organizers.... aNTARCTICA TOKELAU 12 SABA 11 REUNION 10 NEW CALEDONIA 9 MACAU, CHINA 8 JERSEY 7 ISLE OF MAN 6 GIBRALTAR 5 FAROE ISLANDS 4 GREENLAND 3 BONAIRE 2 ABKHAZIA 1

@dcro About MER points. Anyone from Ukraine is trying to achieve MER in jumping? I still believe for reallocation place for Wojaniec

Finally I can say that, each jury have received their full set of templates

I'm not sure if it's good thread to post it, but our Ministry of Health together with Ministry of Sport and NOC decided that all Polish athletes who already have ticketes to Tokyo, those who still fights for their places and UEFA Euro 2020 football players all will have priority to take vaccines before their events.

I didn't read whole thread today, but I have question if anyone besides me noticed that there is flag of Ottoman Empire and not Turkey?

Yes, you're right Mistake fixed.

Official Voting Order Voting Order Host Jury Time National Jury Time 1 Ireland 11:00-11:15 10:00-10:15 2 Romania 11:15-11:30 12:15-12:30 3 Spain 11:30-11:45 11:30-11:45 4 Serbia 11:45-12:00 11:45-12:00 5 Czech Republic 12:00-12:15 12:00-12:15 6 Italy 12:15-12:30 12:15-12:30 7 Tunisia 12:30-12:45 11:30-11:45 8 United States 12:45-13:00 06:45-07:00 9 Moldova 13:00-13:15 14:00-14:15 Breakfast/Coffee Break 13:15 13:45 10 Germany 13:45-14:00 13:45-14:00 11 China 14:00-14:15 20:00-20:15 12 Slovakia 14:15-14:30 14:15-14:30 13 Israel 14:30-14:45 15:30-15:45 14 Finland 14:45-15:00 15:45-16:00 15 Kazakhstan 15:00-15:15 19:00-19:15 16 Indonesia 15:15-15:30 20:15-20:30 17 Poland 15:30-15:45 15:30-15:45 18 Lithuania 15:45-16:00 16:45-17:00 Lunch/Dinner Break 16:00 17:00 19 Brazil 17:00-17:15 12:00-12:15 20 India 17:15-17:30 20:45-21:00 21 Malta 17:30-17:45 17:30-17:45 22 Sweden 17:45-18:00 17:45-18:00 23 Portugal 18:00-18:15 17:00-17:15 24 Argentina 18:15-18:30 13:15-13:30 25 Canada 18:30-18:45 12:30-12:45 26 Greece 18:45-19:00 19:45-20:00 27 Netherlands 19:00-19:15 19:00-19:15 28 Croatia 19:15-19:30 19:15-19:30 Snack/Supper Break 19:30 20:00 29 Bulgaria 20:00-20:15 21:00-21:15 30 Norway 20:15-20:30 20:15-20:30 31 Hungary 20:30-20:45 20:30-20:45 32 Denmark 20:45-21:00 20:45-21:00 33 Mexico 21:00-21:15 14:00-14:15 34 Great Britain 21:15-21:30 20:15-20:30 35 New Zealand 21:30-21:45 07:30-07:45 36 France 21:45-22:00 21:45-22:00 37 Slovenia 22:00-22:15 22:00-22:15

The logo have been revealed! It's about time to presented Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2021 logo. Ladies and gentlemen, this is it: As you can see there is white stork (it was reason why I presented the White Storks team as last). As you could read earlier today this bird is one of the Polish animal symbol as over 25% of all storks is living here by most of the year. With Poland's national flag in the background. But it isn't just flag, the red part of logo is as well water over which the stork is flying and on the white part of the flag you can see blades of grass. Simply, the white stork is flying over one of the hundrends Masurian lakes. It's song contest, so the notes couldn't be missed in the logo as well. This year contest motto is "Let the notes fly!" I want say a big thank you to @Olympian1010 who helped created this stunning logo and idea for the motto. Thank you so much! The opening ceremony which is scheduled for Friday, April 16th will take place in Moszna Palace in small village Moszna. The Moszna Palace is a historic castle and palace located in the small village of Moszna, in southwestern Poland. Situated approximately 30 kilometres south of the regional capital Opole, the residence is an excellent example of romantic fairy-tale and eclectic architecture. The history of this building begins in the 18th century, although traces of older cellars were discovered in the gardens during excavation and reconstruction works at the beginning of the 20th century. Some of the those could have been remnants of a presumed Templar stronghold. The central part of the castle is an old baroque palace which was partially destroyed by fire on the night of April 2, 1896 and was reconstructed in the same year in its original form by Franz Hubert von Tiele-Winckler (the son of Hubert von Tiele-Winckler). The reconstruction works involved an extension of the residence. The eastern Neogothic-styled wing of the building was built by 1900, along with an adjacent orangery. In 1912-1914, the western wing was built in the Neo-Renaissance style. The architectural form of the castle contains a wide variety of styles, thus it can be generally defined as eclectic. The height of the building, as well as its numerous turrets and spires, give the impression of verticalism. The whole castle has exactly ninety-nine turrets. Inside, it contains 365 rooms with a total floorage of 7,000 sq. m. and a cubic capacity of about 65,000m The castle was twice visited by the German Emperor Wilhelm II. His participation in hunting during his stay at the castle was documented in a hand-written chronicle in 1911 as well as in the following year. After World War II the castle did not have a permanent owner and was the home of various institutions until 1972 when it became a convalescent home. Later it became a Public Health Care Centre for Therapies of Neuroses. Nowadays it can be visited by tourists since the health institution has moved to another building in the neighbourhood. The castle also has a chapel which is used as a concert hall. Since 1998 the castle housed a gallery in which works of various artists are presented at regular exhibitions. Apart from the castle itself, the entire complex includes a park which has no precise boundaries and includes nearby fields, meadows and a forest. Only the main axis of the park can be characterised as geometrical. Starting from the gate, it leads along the oak and then horse-chestnut avenues, towards the castle. Further on, the park passes into an avenue of lime trees with symmetrical canals running along both sides of the path, lined with a few varieties of rhododendrons. The axis of the park terminates at the base of a former monument of Hubert von Tiele-Winckler. On the eastern side of the avenue there is a pond with an islet referred to by the owners as Easter Island. The islet is planted with needle-leaved shrubs and can be reached by a Chinese-styled bridge. The garden, as part of the whole park complex was restored slightly earlier than the castle itself. Preserved documents of 1868 state that the improvement in the garden's aesthetic quality was undertaken by Hubert von Tiele-Winckler.

We finally reached the end, the last team which will be introduced is... Masurian White Storks The team consists of four countries Serbia Israel Portugal Denmark The white stork is a large bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on the bird's wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average 100–115 cm from beak tip to end of tail, with a 155–215 cm wingspan. The two subspecies, which differ slightly in size, breed in Europe (north to Finland), northwestern Africa, southwestern Asia (east to southern Kazakhstan) and southern Africa. The white stork is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa from tropical Sub-Saharan Africa to as far south as South Africa, or on the Indian subcontinent. When migrating between Europe and Africa, it avoids crossing the Mediterranean Sea and detours via the Levant in the east or the Strait of Gibraltar in the west, because the air thermals on which it depends for soaring do not form over water. A carnivore, the white stork eats a wide range of animal prey, including insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, small mammals and small birds. It takes most of its food from the ground, among low vegetation, and from shallow water. It is a monogamous breeder, but does not pair for life. Both members of the pair build a large stick nest, which may be used for several years. Each year the female can lay one clutch of usually four eggs, which hatch asynchronously 33–34 days after being laid. Both parents take turns incubating the eggs and both feed the young. The young leave the nest 58–64 days after hatching, and continue to be fed by the parents for a further 7–20 days The nominate race of the white stork has a wide although disjunct summer range across Europe, clustered in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in the west, and much of eastern and central Europe, with 25% of the world's population concentrated in Poland. The team base will be resort town Mikołajki. Mikołajki is a resort town in Mrągowo County in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in north-eastern part of country. The town is located near the Śniardwy, the largest lake of both the Masurian Lake District and Poland. It is located in the center of the ethnocultural region of Masuria. The name of the village comes from the patron of the church of St. Nicholas. Originally there was an Old Prussian settlement in the place of Mikołajki. The first mention of the village comes from 1444. From 1466 under the authority of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland as a fief under the Teutonic Order. In 1515, the first permanent bridge was built on the isthmus of the lake, a toll was charged for the passage, part of which was transferred to the Teutonic Knights. Two inns were built next to the bridge. Privileges for innkeepers were renewed in 1516, they were obliged to transport Teutonic robes and food (each in a two-horse cart) to Ryn and back. The Teutonic Knights built a manor and an inn in Mikołajki, they had a monopoly on catching fish, which they exported. The main occupation of the inhabitants was rafting and logging, as well as weaving, Mikołajki was famous for making hairs of cow and horse hair, from which Masurian skirts were sewn. Before the Reformation, the church in Mikołajki was not included in the list of parishes and branch churches in the Warmian archpriesthood. The church in Mikołajki was most likely served by the Teutonic chaplain from Ryn. After the secularization of the Teutonic Order in the year, most Masurian Protestant parishes received Polish-speaking pastors. In 1539 Mikołajki was inhabited almost exclusively by Poles. Pastor Jakub Wilamowski came from Poland to Mikołajki in 1552. In 1798, priests from the parish in Święta Lipka led missions in Mikołajki. From 1701 Mikołajki was part of the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1726 it was granted city rights by the Prussian king Frederick William I, three years later a large part of the buildings was destroyed by fire. The town was made up of three settlement units: Rynek, Koniec and Kozłowo. The latter is located on the other side of the lake in relation to the center of Mikołajki. In 1833, some buildings were destroyed by a fire. During the census of 1837 out of 1963, only 271 inhabitants spoke German on a daily basis. From 1843, permanent shipping in Masuria was launched, which brought the city to life. In 1911 Mikołajki gained a railway connection with Mrągowo and Orzysz. From 1920, the city became a popular tourist destination, now it is known as the "sailing capital of Poland".