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So yeah, since last night I have had fever, headache, soarness in my muscles and ligaments and a runny nose. I haven't had any respiratory issues. My symptoms are not that severe at the moment. I slept around 3 hours last night and today around noon I slept for 3 hours. According to our health authoritiesl I shouldn't call them unless my symptoms get more severe in the upcoming days or I get any respiratory issues. I hope I haven't caught covid-19... Nevertheless, at least for the next 14 days I'm in self-quarantine in my apartment.

Has anyone heard from @Wanderer? He hasn't been online much lately.

As most of the world of sports are on hold and the last juries are about to send their votes to this year host in TISC, I have recently grown an urge to listen to some of the former entries of TISC. I found out some of the TISC playlists on YT have a few songs who have either been blocked, made private or been deleted. I have spend the last couple of days "updating" the playlists. Everybody should be able to watch/hear almost all entries now. Of course if your experience a video is blocked in your country, then let me know. I will try to fix it, so you can hear the entry. Only entries who have participated in the TISC Grand Final are included in the playlists. Entries which got disqualifed before before a Grand Final are not included. TOISC 2013 - 1st Edition of TISC* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvdtl-hKe0ETQtUxFSNk94UO TAISC 2014 - 2nd Edition of TISC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvf-OK-lITHCFnSEqKMo921L TOISC 2014 - 3rd Edition of TISC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvcEmXlA_ULImZpQ_buxjj1F TAISC 2015 - 4th Edition of TISC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvcIGNRHjRaImRiRzdgS3pxJ TOISC 2015 - 5th Edition of TISC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lveIvbZq_bPD4kETr__PE79a TAISC 2016 - 6th Edition of TISC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvdDk5QHNpptIMiLjjH3r9sS TOISC 2016 - 7th Edition of TISC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvcAgJXPQZtaF8JRtFQ2P-dI TAISC 2017 - 8th Edition of TISC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvfKHgdQ4XNXpirjVbWwdlwE TOISC 2017 - 9th Edition of TISC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvdOPHsa5BAYzCB65CVyEknj TAISC 2018 - 10th Edition of TISC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvfiDKLaqCp0_YLR8tx-0qSY TOISC 2018 - 11th Edition of TISC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvfyWB8oa7fY8OYgv9CQENOF TAISC 2019 - 12th Edition of TISC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvcXLzMcbz4o2EF_sWFp2Kj_ TOISC 2019 - 13th Edition of TISC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvdw959yveHEjqXULcvFml7I TAISC 2020 - 14th Edition of TISC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvfdMT3zIiu37qJ6hMK5lBOD *I couldn't find any information about the and entries, so they have not been included in the playlist. Maybe @OlympicIRL can provide some help?

Final Standing available here Federer91 Dunadan toulousain The champion of the first season of Totallympics Biathlon Manager Games is @Federer91. He was far behind before the last World Cup stage, but by using the transfer point system, he took the overall lead and retained it over the stage. Congrats, @Federer91! Due to a strict budget there is no fancy prize other than the honor of calling yourself the champion of Totallympics Biathlon Manager Game 2019/20. It long looked like @Dunadan would take the title, but unfortunately for him he was overtaken in the last WC stage. He has had a great season, so despite of not winning the title he can look back on successful season in BMG. @toulousain ended up 3rd. Overall a good season for him. Many of his biathletes did a great job throughout the season, so they could likely expect to be called back for next season. I hope most of the managers have enjoyed this first/test season of BMG. I have already spotted some issues with some of the systems which need a change for the next season. About the next season. To be honest, it has often been very stressful to be both prediction contest manager and running this at the same time. I don't see myself manage this alone for next season, as I will likely move to Slovenia to begin my Master's at University of Ljubljana this autumn. Therefore, I would like to ask if one or two users would like to be co-managers for the next season? It would be great if the co-manager/s could take half of the races. So the co-manager/s would help updating the biathle points and the overall manager standing after a race have been completed. Co-manager/s will of course have influence on any new ideas/systems for the next season. I think that's was all from me on this season of BMG. Let's hope we wil have another season of BMG when the 2020/21 IBU Biathlon World Cup season begins. By the way, thank you very much, @africaboy, @toulousain, @heywoodu, @brunamoura, @Dunadan, @Federer91, @Vojthas, @Monzanator @hckosice, @IoNuTzZ, @Henry_Leon, @Agger, @RobtheAggie, @Kirkpatrick, @Olympian1010, @Ufilov for participating.

Final Standing (42/42 races) Place Manager Overall Points Transfers Used and Points 1 Federer91 12791 Transfers: 6 Points: +1827,5 2 Dunadan 12371,5 Transfers: 9 Points: +921 3 toulousain 11100,5 Transfers: 10 Points: +56 4 Henry_Leon 10994 Transfers: 10 Points: +164,5 5 brunamoura 10869 Transfers: 5 Points: -332 6 heywoodu 10480 Transfers: 4 Points: +50,5 7 hckosice 10408 Transfers: 6 Points: +71,5 8 Vojthas 10394 Transfers: 6 Points: -154 9 Kirkpatrick 10215 Transfers: 5 Points: -100,5 10 africaboy 9996,5 0 11 Agger 9003,5 0 12 IoNuTzZ 9003 Transfers: 4 Points: -726,5 13 Monzanator 8872 Transfers: 5 Points: -823,5 14 RobtheAggie 8616,5 Transfers: 4 Points: -588 15 Ufilov 8004 Transfers: 2 Points: -98 16 Olympian1010 7965,5 Transfers: 1 Points: +119 Updated Biathletes Points: BMG Biathlete Points .xlsx Notice! Managers' Overall Points includes points lost or earned from transfers

I'm really sorry to show you this, @hckosice... World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in Minsk have been postponed. https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-race-walking-team-championshi/news/world-athletics-corona-measures-2020

Badminton "The BWF announced late this evening, Kuala Lumpur time, that it had taken the necessary step to suspend all HSBC BWF World Tour and other BWF-sanctioned tournaments from Monday 16 March until Sunday 12 April 2020. Tournaments affected include the YONEX Swiss Open 2020, YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2020, Orléans Masters 2020, CELCOM Axiata Malaysia Open 2020, and Singapore Open 2020, as well as a number of international Grade 3 tournaments. A number of the tournaments impacted as a result of the suspension fall within the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games qualifying period. BWF will make a further announcement on regulations related to Olympic qualification points at a later date". https://corporate.bwfbadminton.com/news-single/2020/03/13/bwf-sanctioned-tournaments-suspended-16-march-12-april/ Tournaments affected:

Overall Standing of BMG after WC 8 Women's Sprint (40/42 races) is available here

Standing after WC 8 Women's Sprint (40/42 races) Place Manager Overall Points Transfers Used and Points 1 Federer91 12325 Transfers: 6 Points: +1827,5 2 Dunadan 11830,5 Transfers: 9 Points: +921 3 toulousain 10558,5 Transfers: 10 Points: +56 4 Henry_Leon 10474 Transfers: 10 Points: +164,5 5 brunamoura 10323 Transfers: 5 Points: -332 6 hckosice 10016 Transfers: 6 Points: +71,5 7 heywoodu 9987,5 Transfers: 4 Points: +50,5 8 Vojthas 9917 Transfers: 6 Points: -154 9 africaboy 9745,5 0 10 Kirkpatrick 9702 Transfers: 5 Points: -100,5 11 Agger 8675,5 0 12 IoNuTzZ 8628,5 Transfers: 4 Points: -726,5 13 Monzanator 8446 Transfers: 5 Points: -823,5 14 RobtheAggie 8153 Transfers: 4 Points: -588 15 Olympian1010 7605,5 Transfers: 1 Points: +119 16 Ufilov 7588 Transfers: 2 Points: -98 Updated Biathletes Points: BMG Biathlete Points .xlsx Notice! Managers' Overall Points includes points lost or earned from transfers

Handball Men's and Women's OQTs have been postponed to June. https://www.ihf.info/media-center/news/ihf-tokyo-handball-qualification-tournaments-postponed-after-re-evaluation

Yesterday, IHF wrote that the women's OQT will go ahead as planned. The men’s OQT in Germany and Norway will be played without spectators. However, as people travelling from Republic of Korea are currently not allowed to enter Norway, the organiser of the men’s tournament in Norway will need to provide a solution or the tournament will be re-allocated. In France, the current restrictions, which would not allow the tournament to be held with spectators, are valid until 15 April. https://www.ihf.info/media-center/news/ihf-tokyo-handball-qualification-tournaments-be-held-scheduled

And the stage in Quebec has been cancelled, so now the season is also over in the Cross-country WC. https://www.fis-ski.com/en/cross-country/cross-country-news-multimedia/news/2019-20/fis-cross-country-world-cup-races-in-quebec-can-cancelled

Table Tennis - ITTF suspends all activities provisionally until end of April. The suspension comes into effect from Monday 16th March 2020 and relates to all ITTF sanctioned events, High Performance and Development activities and ITTF Foundation activities that had been due to start between the above date and the end of April 2020. https://www.ittf.com/2020/03/13/ittf-suspends-activities-provisionally-end-april/ So these Olympic Qualification events will be postponed: Asia Qualification Event (April 6–12) in Bangkok, Thailand Latin America Qualification Event (April 15–19) in Rosario, Argentina Oceania Qualification Event (April 19–20) in Brisbane, Australia

WBSC Baseball Americas Qualification Event has been postponed. https://olympicbaseball.wbsc.org/en/2020/e-2020-americas-baseball-olympic-qualifier/news/americas-olympic-baseball-qualifier-postponed Climbing: IFSC European Championships in Moscow (RUS), initially scheduled to take place from March 20 to 27 has been postponed. The competition is now scheduled from June 15 to 22. Postponement of the IFSC World Cup in Meiringen (SUI), initially scheduled to take place from April 3 to 4, and the IFSC World Cup in Seoul (KOR), initially scheduled to take place from May 8 to 10; both competitions will likely be held between September and October. Postponement of the circuit of IFSC Europe cups and IFSC Europe youth cups that were scheduled to take place in April and May; the IFSC Europe Sport Department is working closely with each event organiser in order to establish a new calendar for the competitions affected by this issue. Two IFSC World Cup competitions initially scheduled to take place in Wujiang (CHN) and Chongqing(CHN) in April have been postponed. Relocation of the IFSC Asian Championships initially scheduled to take place in Chongqing (CHN) from April 25 to May 3. https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/news/319-update-on-ifsc-competitions

Damn it! I'm starting to fear we won't have any prediction contests in the next month or so...

Overall Standing of BMG after WC 8 Men's Sprint (39/42 races) is available here Well, @Federer91 really took advantage of the transfer point system.

Standing after WC 8 Men's Sprint (39/42 races) Place Manager Overall Points Transfers Used and Points 1 Federer91 12197 Transfers: 6 Points: +1827,5 2 Dunadan 11640,5 Transfers: 9 Points: +921 3 toulousain 10409,5 Transfers: 10 Points: +56 4 Henry_Leon 10388 Transfers: 10 Points: +164,5 5 brunamoura 10084 Transfers: 5 Points: -332 6 hckosice 9920 Transfers: 6 Points: +71,5 7 heywoodu 9861,5 Transfers: 4 Points: +50,5 8 Vojthas 9703 Transfers: 6 Points: -154 9 Kirkpatrick 9556 Transfers: 5 Points: -100,5 10 africaboy 9540,5 0 11 IoNuTzZ 8520,5 Transfers: 4 Points: -726,5 12 Agger 8506,5 0 13 Monzanator 8266 Transfers: 5 Points: -823,5 14 RobtheAggie 8019 Transfers: 4 Points: -588 15 Olympian1010 7535,5 Transfers: 1 Points: +119 16 Ufilov 7461 Transfers: 2 Points: -98 Updated Biathletes Points: BMG Biathlete Points .xlsx Notice! Managers' Overall Points includes points lost or earned from transfers

"The World Athletics Council today fined the Russian Athletics Federation $10 million for breaching the sport’s Anti-Doping Rules, and, while reinstating the Authorised Neutral Athlete process for Russian athletes, has capped at 10 the number of Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) allowed to compete in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and other specified World Athletics and European Athletics senior events. There is no restriction on the number of ANA athletes that can compete in international one-day events around the world, once they have been granted ANA status by World Athletics Doping Review Board. However, the ANA process will be suspended if $5 million of the $10m fine is not paid by 1 July 2020. The remaining $5 million of the fine will be suspended for two years, to be paid immediately if during that period RusAF commits a further breach of the Anti-Doping Rules or fails to make meaningful progress towards satisfying the reinstatement conditions set by Council. The ANA application process remains broadly the same, with strengthened criteria to be issued by the Doping Review Board on behalf of Council within the next week". https://www.worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/world-athletics-sanctions-rusaf-breach-anti-d

On a press conference, the Finnish Government has recommended all public events with more than 500 spectators should be cancelled until the end of May. Notice, it's only a recommendation! However, this could affect the WC stage in Kontiolahti.

The last stage of the biathlon WC in Oslo has been cancelled. https://holmenkollenskifestival.no/biathlon/ibu-bmw-world-cup-biathlon-in-holmenkollen-cancelled/

The last stage of the biathlon WC has been cancelled. https://holmenkollenskifestival.no/biathlon/ibu-bmw-world-cup-biathlon-in-holmenkollen-cancelled/

According to this statement from IFSC, it looks like the Asian Championships and European Championships will likely be postponed. https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/news/317-official-statement-from-the-international-federation-of-sport-climbing-ifsc-europe-and-ifsc-asia

International fencing competitions have been suspended for the next 30 days due to coronavirus. FIE is going to ask the IOC to extend the qualification period. https://www.federscherma.it/homepage/media/news/14-news/top-news/30939-covid-19-la-fie-sospende-per-30-giorni-l-attivita-internazionale-rinviate-le-tappe-di-cdm,-il-gp-fie-ed-i-mondiali-giovanili.html?fbclid=IwAR3ZcyUIKy9BdTmAPgLOJdLQXaDwEKFkPPmc4zSn_R7oD9Kf_IulvXnh-uE

And the season is over...

I'm looking forward to TWU #10, where we will have @Olympian1010 reading a VERY long list of postponed and cancelled events and @Vojthas will have to sit silently for a very long time. I feel sorry for both of them.