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I was more going for: Totallympics becomes a trusted Twitter source, then a Trusted Olympics website like ITG. Then we become a sports news network, then a mainstream news network. Then we use our fame to launch a political party, win power in all major countries and rule the world.
 
But 50 extra users is fine

As today we celebrate the 1-month-to-go mark for the Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2018 Grand Final, we are proud to announce the cities and venues that will host the music competition. Around the five major regions of Brazil, a total of 10 cities will be the home for the 42 delegations: our capital Brasília (DF), Cuiabá (MT), Fernando de Noronha (PE), Foz do Iguaçu (PR), Gramado (RS), Manaus (AM), Natal (RN), Ouro Preto (MG), Salvador (BA) and São Luís (MA).
 
In addition to those cities, the contest itself will take place in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), home of the 2016 Summer Olympics. The legendary Maracanã stadium will be the venue of unforgettable Opening and Closing ceremonies, while the Olympic Park will have the honour of hosting the contest. Having recently received the Rock in Rio festival, the Park not only will be the main stage for the Annucal TISC, but host a number of events in celebration of our 10th overall contest, such as: the World Music street, in which international artists from our Festival of Music will perform; the Brazilian Roots street, a stage for contemporary and classical artists from the home nation; the TISC Official Exhibition at the Carioca Arena, celebrating the achievements and history of the contests; and last but not least, the Winterfest Special Presentation at the newly refurbished Aquatics/Ice Centre, giving fans a taste of the music from our friends of the south. We hope you will join us in Brazil 2018!
 
 

 

Marmite Club
 
All these have received medals, if not golds from @Wanderer. Coincidence??

After the host nation jury voting, all other nations can now send their votes for the Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2018. The voting is very simple: after listen to the songs in contention (which can be found in this list), the registered users in the contest must send their votes to me (@vinipereira) via private message, following the template below. Jury members will award points to their 12 favourite songs, which should be done no later than April 6th. You can find small excerpts of the songs in the recap videos above (we recommend to play them in HD). We thank you all for the participation!
 
 
TEMPLATE FOR VOTING
 
1st preference (12 points) = 2nd preference (11 points) = 3rd preference (10 points) = 4th preference (9 points) = 5th preference (8 points) = 6th preference (7 points) = 7th preference (6 points) = 8th preference (5 points) = 9th preference (4 points) = 10th preference (3 points) = 11th preference (2 points) = 12th preference (1 point) = alternate 1 = alternate 2 =  
 

After China winning their Curling semifinal and Croatia winning Snowboard bronze a new record has been set of 26 nations winning medals at a winter Paralympic Games!

The playlist is ready 
the description  "name of country" of each song  will be added  ASAP

I'm really sorry! For all these years I genuinely thought you were from Hungary @Vojthas but you never know, a nationality transfer could be on the cards one day!

Medal tables and points tables from each contest are available from today.
 
Only 2014 Annual Points Table is missing sadly.

Thepharoah only will participate if someone put a gun in his head and order him to put a song, in another case, impossible.
 
 He is strong enough to resist my annoyng messages to participate here, over and over he reject the "invitation", dont understimate his powers and firm determination to dont participate.

I think this is the list of users who have competed in all 10 editions to date....
@LDOG @vinipereira @titicow @Agger @Bohemia @Janakis @OlympicIRL @Henry_Leon @Pablita @SteveParker @Werloc @Glen @mrv86 @rybak @DaniSRB @dareza @Wanderer @justony @uk12points and @dezbee2008
 
I hope I didn't leave out anyone.
 

No solution in sight?
 
After about 2½ hours of meeting, the Danish jury still haven't found any solution and will therefore take a lunch break. 
Chairman of the jury, Agger, was seen leaving the meeting room angry walking towards the cafeteria, while none of the other jury members have left the room most likely meaning that either they are trying to find a solution without him, maybe even meaning a coup or that he is indeed the only member of the jury.
We will keep on following the situation!

Great to see the number of medal winning nations topping Sochi already! The record of 25 could be under threat as Sweden, China, Poland, Kazakhstan and Czech Republic all have good chances of a medal.

Great Britain
The British jury this year opted for their gut choice as the first song nominated in the selection process has been chosen to represent Great Britain.
Rae Morris, a 25 year old singer and pianist from Blackpool released the single Someone Out There in February 2018 and the selection panel first discovered her potential on an afternoon TV talk show a few weeks ago, triggering a rapid chain of events that will see Rae representing Great Britain in Brazil.
The song is said to be about a fan who sent her a mix of hand made, creative gifts whilst she was in a recording session, reminding her that 'Someone Out There' really is always thinking of you.
Rae Morris -  Someone Out There
 

Lyrics
Someone out there loves you
Someone out there is lonely too
They may not know it, they may be trying to tell you
And you may not know till you pass on the street
Your heads turn, your eyes lock and you feel complete
Someone out there loves you

When the world's got you down and there's no end in sight
Do you give up? Keep your eyes shut?
When the days are drawn out
Feels like nothing is going your way
Do you give up? Keep your eyes shut?

You can rest assured you're not the only one

Someone out there loves you
Someone out there is lonely too
They may not know it, they may be trying to tell you
And you may not know till you pass on the street
Your heads turn, your eyes lock and you feel complete
Someone out there loves you

When the pages don't turn and the words are all blurred
Don't you give up, don't you give up
When you reach out a hand and courageously ask me to dance
But the music stops, keep your head up

You can rest assured you're not the only one

Someone out there loves you
Someone out there is lonely too
They may not know it, they may be trying to tell you
And you may not know till you pass on the street
Your heads turn, your eyes lock and you feel complete
Someone out there loves you
Someone somewhere out there loves you

You can rest assured you're not the only one
You can rest assured you're not the only one
You can rest assured you're not the only one
You can rest assured you're not the only one

Two idiots on one place. Only Theresa May is missing for ful experience

It was inside the games and some individual national federation press releases. Most is pretty good quality but some of the alpine skiing and snowboarding events may not be proposed for 2022 they may be discussed for 2026

Where do I start with this one
 
I have been fascinated with the Olympics since 2002!! (I was 9 years old at the time). Back then our middle school had video announcements, so during the 2002 Winter Olympics we would record the results of the Olympics and then this would be played throughout the school. At the time I was a young person who really did not understand the magnitude of the Olympic games.Ever since then I have watched every Olympics (religiously, at hours only dedicated fans like us would wake up to do so) till 2016. Around the Rio Olympics I applied to be a volunteer at the 2018 Winter Olympics and I was officially accepted as one in early 2017. These would be the first Olympics I got to see in person! As a volunteer my accommodation was located in Sokcho, which was in the northeast part of the country. The only problem I noticed with the operations was the lack of English speaking and transportation could have been better. However, with pretty much everything being covered for you, this was a great experience! Perhaps a Totallympics team can be in Tokyo and onward as volunteers
 
I was able to see the following events:
-Mixed doubles curling gold medal match (free volunteer ticket)
-Canada vs USA Women's hockey preliminary match
-Canada vs Korea Men's hockey preliminary match
-Short track speed skating sessions on the 17th and 20th - thank you to a friend at the ISU for those tickets! 
 
I also went to Beijing and Tokyo, so I got to see the next 2 host cities as well
 

Great of Wall of China

Seoraksan National Park, Republic of Korea

New Events Proposed by Sport Federations for Beijing 2022: (Some are yet to be finally confirmed but are likely to be nominated or at least discussed with an eye on future editions)
 
Alpine Skiing:
Individual Parallel Slalom Telemark Parallel Sprint Telemark Team Parallel Sprint Biathlon:
Single Mixed Relay Bobsleigh/Skeleton:
Mixed Team Event Curling:
No new event but increasing mixed doubles from 8 teams to 16 teams Figure Skating:
Synchronised Skating Freestyle Skiing:
Big Air Mixed Team Aerials Luge:
Women's Doubles Men's Sprint Women's Sprint Men's Doubles Sprint Men's Natural Track Women's Natural Track Nordic Combined:
Women's Event Short Track Speed Skating:
Team Event Snowboarding:
Snowboard Cross Team Event Parallel Slalom Mixed Team Parallel Event Ski Jumping;
Mixed Team Event

Wow I never knew GB was that efficient at getting 12 points, and only 2 golds behind the mighty Ireland!! 

All-time voting medal table and all-time voting points table are available from today.

By the way if it helps anyone’s predictions GB have agreed to allow a women’s football team to compete at the Olympics if they qualify, however they will not send a men’s team if they qualify.

To be fair her lane infringement was very very obvious, one foot was entirely in the next lane!

Were you really worrying that Malta wouldn't be participating in this contest?  We're in

Individual General Standing
Updated as of February 26th, 2018
 
Rank Users Nation +/- # Avg. Points 1 Dunadan 0 6 462,0 2772 2 Pablita 0 6 444,7 2668 3 Jahiegel 0 6 411,2 2467 4 OlympicsFan 0 5 473,0 2365 5 stamura84 0 6 336,0 2016 6 ady48 0 6 334,3 2006 7 Albe 0 6 321,7 1930 8 EselTheDonkey 0 5 384,0 1920 9 chrischi08 0 6 320,0 1920 10 juliosilva 0 6 309,3 1856 11 Henry_Leon 0 6 303,5 1821 12 dcro 0 6 266,7 1600 13 Herberth Nelson Balbi S. 0 6 254,7 1528 14 GoPoland 0 6 240,0 1440 15 Morgan 0 5 278,6 1393 16 heywoodu 0 6 216,0 1296 17 phelps 0 6 211,8 1271 18 Topicmaster1010 0 5 249,0 1245 19 Agger 0 5 244,8 1224 20 suchyy7 0 6 194,5 1167 21 Nate River 0 6 181,8 1091 22 hckosice 0 6 178,0 1068 23 tigersay 0 5 209,8 1049 24 toulousain 0 5 204,4 1022 25 Gianlu33 0 6 169,7 1018 26 MCMXC 0 6 166,8 1001 27 Wanderer 0 6 166,5 999 28 CiroMennella99 0 5 198,6 993 29 africaboy 0 6 165,0 990 30 Forzazzurri 0 5 179,2 896 31 Monzanator 0 6 141,7 850 32 tuniscof 0 6 138,0 828 33 rybak 0 5 161,0 805 34 vinipereira 0 6 133,2 799 35 mrv86 0 5 159,0 795 36 Ufilov 0 6 130,2 781 37 Pavlo 0 6 126,3 758 38 Matteo92 0 4 187,0 748 39 Federer91 0 6 119,2 715 40 De_Gambassi 0 5 139,4 697 41 uk12points 0 5 139,0 695 42 bestmen 0 6 112,8 677 43 Werloc 0 3 224,3 673 44 Barcago 0 4 166,5 666 45 FC Mezhgorye 0 6 107,7 646 46 AlFHg 0 6 106,2 637 47 crovitlaci 0 4 146,8 587 48 pjwasz 0 6 92,3 554 49 justony 0 6 91,0 546 50 mihamiha 0 3 179,3 538 51 Domcal 0 3 161,3 484 52 hoversaBR 0 6 75,3 452 53 titicow 0 5 89,8 449 54 SteveParker 0 5 82,4 412 55 Crolympic 0 3 135,0 405 56 vlad 0 5 75,8 379 57 Vojthas 0 6 60,3 362 58 Dmitry 0 1 360,0 360 59 KhanBeaver 0 5 70,6 353 60 orangeman 0 3 115,0 345 61 Bohemia 0 2 168,5 337 62 Gigs 0 4 84,0 336 63 NikolaB 0 1 330,0 330 64 Dolby 0 5 59,4 297 65 PeterN 0 2 147,5 295 66 Hipooo 0 5 53,4 267 67 SalamAkhi 0 3 87,0 261 68 Shiffrin 0 1 188,0 188 69 Nathy 0 2 81,5 163 70 Finnator123 0 1 146,0 146 71 Kirkpatrick 0 3 46,3 139 72 wpwells 0 3 31,3 94 73 SzG 0 2 37,5 75 74 ArK 0 1 51,0 51 75 Rdbc 0 1 43,0 43 76 monte88 0 1 23,0 23 77 traddles27 0 1 19,0 19 78 Майкл 0 1 17,0 17  
 
Team General Standing
Updated as of February 26th, 2018
 
Rank Nation Points +/- User 1 Points
User 1
User 2 Points
User 2
User 3 Points
User 3
1 Italy 7456 0 Dunadan 2772 Pablita 2668 stamura84 2016 2 Germany 6205 0 OlympicsFan 2365 EselTheDonkey 1920 chrischi08 1920 3 Brazil 4183 0 juliosilva 1856 Herberth N. B. S. 1528 vinipereira 799 4 Poland 3457 0 GoPoland 1440 suchyy7 1167 Monzanator 850 5 Romania 3375 0 ady48 2006 africaboy 990 vlad 379 6 United States 3115 0 Jahiegel 2467 pjwasz 554 wpwells 94 7 Canada 2681 0 Topicmaster1010 1245 Nate River 1091 orangeman 345 8 Croatia 2592 0 dcro 1600 crovitlaci 587 Crolympic 405 9 France 2056 0 toulousain 1022 De_Gambassi 697 Bohemia 337 10 Russia 2055 0 tigersay 1049 FC Mezhgorye 646 Dmitry 360 11 Great Britain 1696 0 MCMXC 1001 uk12points 695 - 0 12 Switzerland 1556 0 Morgan 1393 Nathy 163 - 0 13 Netherlands 1347 0 heywoodu 1296 ArK 51 - 0 14 Slovenia 1272 0 justony 546 mihamiha 538 Shiffrin 188 15 Denmark 1224 0 Agger 1224 - 0 - 0 16 Slovakia 1068 0 hckosice 1068 - 0 - 0 17 New Zealand 999 0 Wanderer 999 - 0 - 0 18 Tunisia 828 0 tuniscof 828 - 0 - 0 19 Mexico 795 0 mrv86 795 - 0 - 0 20 Bulgaria 715 0 Federer91 715 - 0 - 0 21 Algeria 677 0 bestmen 677 - 0 - 0 22 Lithuania 673 0 Werloc 673 - 0 - 0 23 Serbia 347 0 NikolaB 330 Майкл 17 - 0 24 Austria 336 0 Gigs 336 - 0 - 0 25 India 297 0 Dolby 297 - 0 - 0 26 Czech Republic 267 0 Hipooo 267 - 0 - 0 27 Finland 146 0 Finnator123 146 - 0 - 0  
 
Individual Medal Count
Updated as of February 26th, 2018
 
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Pablita 2 0 0 2 2 Dunadan 1 0 1 2 3 Herberth N. B. S. 1 0 0 1 3 OlympicsFan 1 0 0 1 3 Morgan 1 0 0 1 6 stamura84 0 2 0 2 7 juliosilva 0 1 0 1 7 dcro 0 1 0 1 7 phelps 0 1 0 1 7 GoPoland 0 1 0 1 11 EselTheDonkey 0 0 2 2 12 Albe 0 0 1 1 12 ady48 0 0 1 1 12 Jahiegel 0 0 1 1   Total 6 6 6 18  
 
Team Medal Count
Updated as of February 26th, 2018
 
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Italy 3 3 2 8 2 Brazil 1 1 0 2 3 Germany 1 0 2 3 4 Switzerland 1 0 0 1 5 Croatia 0 1 0 1 5 Poland 0 1 0 1 7 Romania 0 0 1 1 7 United States 0 0 1 1   Total 6 6 6 18  

GB is in!!