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Just now, Janakis said:

Thanks very much!!!!

You're welcome!! It's such a great song and deserves to do really well today!

Great Britain

Greece

12

Canada

11

Tunisia

10

Portugal

9

India

8

United States

7

Chile

6

Colombia

5

Estonia

4

Italy

3

Iran

2

Denmark

1

Great Britain

Canada

11

Tunisia

10

Portugal

9

India

8

United States

7

Chile

6

Colombia

5

Estonia

4

Italy

3

Iran

2

Denmark

1

Great Britain

Tunisia

10

Portugal

9

India

8

United States

7

Chile

6

Colombia

5

Estonia

4

Italy

3

Iran

2

Denmark

1

It;s the return of the 'complaining curse' from last time! Every time someone complained about a lack of points in the last edition, sure enought the next vote would see them pick up a stack of points!

Merci France!! And GB is on the board!

Just now, bestmen said:

welcome to the group of 0 point , hands up

you've got company

Just now, Bohemia said:

 

I don't have Internet Explorer :/

Try Mozilla

Wow songs ranked number 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 are all from the Americas!!

1 minute ago, dcro said:

Wow, thanks a million. Though, honestly, I expected more points from the first few juries...

 

are on a roll!

Don't complain you're beating GB!!

Completely forgot the contest was this weekend!! What a wonderful surprise!

Asian YOG Table Tennis Qualifier:

Girls:

Sun Yingsha

Su Pei-Ling

Miu Hirano
Jinnipa Sawettabut

Boys:

Wang Chuqin

Lin Yun-Ju

Tomokazu Harimoto
Cho Daeseong

7 minutes ago, dcro said:

Rankings always put those with smaller resources in a disadvantage, and therefore should be avoided whenever possible...

Especially in sports like Athletics where there are many more competitions in Europe/North America than other parts of the world with a higher ranking status including the Diamond League, IAAF Label Road Races and combined event challenge. 

1 hour ago, EselTheDonkey said:

IAAF seems to completely change their qualification system. They will introduce a new World Ranking List which will be important for qualifying: https://www.iaaf.org/news/press-release/iaaf-official-world-rankings

Don’t like the sound of this. The rankings will give more points to certain events, but if the Diamond League (where certain athletes are invited, with many from the host countries) are given a high points weighting then that will corrupt the whole qualification system and seriously disadvantage athletes from smaller nations. 

Rwanda

Traditional - Cyprien Rugamba (Imirindi)

Afrobeat - Kamichi (Zoubeda)

Men's Weightlifting Qualification Part 2:

Men's 94kg

Host:

Commonwealth Champion 2017:

Rankings:

Invitation: TBD

Men's 105kg

Host:

Commonwealth Champion 2017:

Rankings:

Invitation: TBD

Men's +105kg

Host:

Commonwealth Champion 2017:

Rankings:

Invitation: TBD

Men's Weightlifting Qualification Part 1:

Men's 56kg

Host:

Commonwealth Champion 2017:

Rankings:

Invitation: TBD

Men's 62kg

Host:

Commonwealth Champion 2017:

Rankings:

Invitation: TBD

Men's 69kg

Host:

Commonwealth Champion 2017:

Rankings:

Invitation: TBD

Men's 77kg

Host:

Commonwealth Champion 2017:

Rankings:

Invitation: TBD

Men's 85kg

Host:

Commonwealth Champion 2017:

Rankings:

Invitation: TBD

The Cycling qualification rankings have now been published by the UCI, these are the qualifiers (2 athletes each):

COMBINED (ROAD/MTB)

Men: (link)

Women: (link)

BMX: (link)

Argentina automatically qualified 1 team (2 athletes) per event.

3 hours ago, intoronto said:

 qualified in the men's tournament.

That’s excellent! And beating a pretty strong field including South Africa and Nigeria. 

Qualification Update:

Rwanda have qualified for the Women's Beach Volleyball Tournament at the 2018 Commonwealth Games by winning the African Commonwealth Qualification Tournament held over the weekend in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Results (Semifinals)

2 - 0

2 - 0

Results (Final)

2 - 0

More info on the Men's Tournament will follow soon!

Apparently only 457 tickets have been sold for the 2018 Winter Paralympics! With only 191 tickets sold for the opening ceremony.

This is very worrying and will need a surge of enthusiasm during the 2018 Olympics to boost ticket sales for the Paralympics.

Weightlifting are apparently changing their qualification from national team quota to individual qualifying, whilst reducing the max quota per nation to 8 athletes. 

Hope the cut doesnt prevent smaller nations in Oceania from qualifying like they used to do 

1 hour ago, bestmen said:

One of six African countries to host 2025 WorldAthletics Championships

 

We are talking with Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco — those countries have the facilities

 

here

Hope it’s Kenya! The Youth Championships held this year had incredible crowds and the East African region has such a strong athletics pedigree that it has to host the championships. 

South Africa and Morocco probably have a chance but I doubt they’d be able to deliver the passion of Kenya. Plus we would just have had empty shiny stadiums in Doha, small crowds in small stadiums in Eugene and then Budapest, so a bit of excitement and atmosphere would be great for the IAAF!

Equestrian:

Tripartite Allocation:

(5) Quota for each region minus (1) Host and (3) Tripartite:

EUROPE:

NORTH AMERICA: +2 CENTRAL AMERICA/CARIBBEAN RANKING

AFRICA, OCEANIA, ASIA, SOUTH AMERICA still to be decided by FEI Jumping Challenge ranking

British votes have been sent!

I had a top 4 that I've really struggled to rank from 12-9, all of them have been added to my playlist.

This was probably the toughest vote I've ever had to make in the contest.