Fly_like_a_don

I have chosen the song.Will post it on my 20th birthday tomorrow 

I believe it’s open to all countries at this point. I have two playlists I keep if you want them.
 
I was rewatching the Games for a while towards the end of summer, but then school work got in the way.

So sorry for the late reply. Anyway hope India dan bring the whole virus under control. Cheers.

We will have a discussion after this contest to see about possibly extending the release date criteria for the next Annual as a once off due to Covid-19. Perhaps we could allow some songs from the last 6 months of the previous year to be considered to allow some flexibility. 
But we’ll discuss it after this contest and put it to a vote.

India is in as well. Haven't decided anything let's see.
Chances are high that India doesn't participate in annual next year though due to extremely extremely less number of songs published in 2020 maybe 5% of entire 2019 and few relased ones were from movies shooted earlier and now not many movies are going to released either nor are they many individual albums. So unless there are a couple of months even 4-5 from 2019 given it'll be hard to choose a good song from 2020.

Thanks for sharing this information. How is the latest situation in India? Is it getting better?

A big randomised sero survey of covid 19 shows 64 million people had been infected in india by the disease by May itself. As per the estimations by August end at least 1/4th of Indian population has been infected which could even be 2/3rd in worst case scenario as the sero survey results of August are out. 
 
However re infection percentage is very very less. Not sure if we need many doses of vaccine when it arrives .

I don’t see how that follows.  His successor must be someone from the same Party.

I think it’s going to be summer again.

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. 

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 

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 

Congratulations to all the Indian National Thread contributors for reaching the landmark 1000 pages. 

I don't think so Qatar even doesn't go with international women athletes like Bahrain, I don't know if the Latvian federation is OK with her competing wearing hijab or not,  she had been asked many times if she'll continue competing or but she didn't answer so let's wait and see,  BTW 90% of Egyptian lifters wearing hijab and they win a world and Olympic medals so she can continue competing wearing hijab no problem 

I don't think so because she will miss the Olympics if she switches nationality, her Olympic points belong to Latvia.

Japan's contribution to science is immense. Not that long ago, a group of Japanese organic chemists invented reactions known as cross-coupling reactions (and improved the already existing ones, giving them greater depth and use) which were revolutionary and made it possible to do synthesis of very complicated molecules - medicines, different farmaceuticals making their production elegant, going faster (meaning fewer steps in order to produce desired molecule) and cheaper. The reaction involved metals like paladium, Pd and some of them a non-metal boron. These reactions enabled connection of such structures in one step only.
Akira Suzuki, Ei-ichi Negishi and Kenkichi Sonogashira will be always remembered. Suzuki and Negishi won Nobel Prize in 2010.
 
  
 
The synthesis of Vancomycin (an antibiotic) using intermolecular Suzuki coupling is shown bellow.
 

 


 

The longest running daily soap in India returned and instantly became viral  across social media as actors and  actressess wore face shield and masks in all scenes . While many are wearing between shoots, the makers here decided to use them throughout the episode. 
 

I know having best runner-up system is probably the neatest way and I am considering it.
But then again, I always really dislike that system of advancing teams who are best runner-up of certain groups. Because it's definitely much easier to do well in easy groups and for a team coming 3rd in a tough group, it's much harder to score points. So a best 3rd placed team is very rarely the best 3rd placed team in reality.
 
It's still the most likely option I am considering, I just want to rant about my pet peeve
 
 

I have a feeling @Olympian1010 has given  a large sum of money to make the Orangers win this season more than any fans of minty maniacs or raspberry racers did conbined. Sadly no one put their money on mellow yellow. 

Back to #1 I guess 

Group B : The only group with 5 continents represented.

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I'm here too for the draws @OlympicIRL

Very questionable.. Come on these are marbles. Felt like Round 6 of an athletics field event final with those at the end doing way better than those who are at the beginning. If same teams are winning it doesn't make fun. It should be unpredictable but rather it's following real sport event finals. 

Idea is good but let's not call best of the worst 
 
Call it the Challeger Trophy, Plate League or Plate finals