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Thanks I follow the event over the livestream. High jump is after all one of my favourite disciplines in athletics. (Mostly due to being a former high jumper myself in my youth.)

Bestmen didn't want to make an intro for you, so I thought this was a nice way to welcome you and Israel in TISC.

Isn't the easy solution just to sign out and never sign in again? Or you could write "mashed potatoes" under favourite sports.

Thanks for taking the time to answers some questions, @Werloc

So has bestmen ever been in a hosting draw or is this the first time? Earlier you wrote that you wished that a vote had been held about bestmen's eligibility to host, would this also apply to all future hosts? Or would you suggest that one or more former participants could politely request a vote on a host's right to host a TISC?

I do understand why some users have chosen not to participate this time. As someone who is quite new when it comes to TISC, I'm curious to know how you have solved the issue of hosting rights beforehand? Did you have some sort of vote on a host's eligibility to host based on his/her previous behaviour in TISC? Has no other previous hosting applicant shown any bad behaviour?

@RobtheAggie and others. This is a good source to see the teams for the WCHs: https://www.oasport.it/2020/02/biathlon-mondiali-anterselva-2020-tutti-i-convocati-minuto-per-minuto-nazione-per-nazione/

Update - Week 6 - February 3 to February 9 - 2020 Men's High Jump +1 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/tom-gale-311989 Men's Pole Vault +1 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/harry-coppell-276107 Men's Discus Throw +1 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/jamaica/chad-wright-254190 Women's 1500m +1 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/beatrice-chepkoech-293209 Women's Triple Jump +1 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/commonwealth-of-dominica/thea-lafond-263493 Qualified Quotas Overview Men (Total Quota: 472) Women (Total Quota: 461) A few comments about this week's update: Thea Lafond becomes the small island nation's first athlete to qualify for Tokyo. Harry Coppell jump of 5.80m in Rouen is not listed on WA's season lists. It's marked with an "UNC". I'm not sure what this remark means? However, British Athletics mention it as an Olympic standard, so I will include him on my list: https://www.britishathletics.org.uk/news-and-features/weekend-update-10-02-2020/ Lastly, as you can see, I still include Russian athletes in my updates and list. Currently WA doens't give ANA-status to any Russian athletes. If WA again begins to give ANA-status to some Russian athletes, it's not certain any former performances under flag will count. This could mean Morgunov would have to achieve the Olympic standard again to qualify. Nevertheless, I will continue to include any Russian athlete who achieves the Olympic standard in my updates and list. Bear in mind, my list of qualified athletes it's not a perfect resemblance of the final start lists for Tokyo.

I wonder if @Janakis and will once again be one of the last nations to submit their song, as he hasn't been online since January 2nd? @Ashton has also not been online since January 5th, so I wonder if will submit a song before the deadline? I remotely remember @Dolby might have shown an interest to participate, but I'm not sure about it?

I have a feeling you might hope to see her on the podium next year in January?

Maybe it would work. Otherwise, as I have just written in the post, those with a Spotify account or Facebook account should be able to listen to the song.

@bestmen Are you able to listen to the song now? I know it would be best option if it was a video, but there are not really any other studio versions of the song on Youtube.

DANISH ENTRY The Danish Jury is glad to announce the young music duo, Barselona, with their song, "Bankende Hjerter", will represent Denmark in TAISC 2020. "Bankende Hjerter" , "Beating Hearts" in English, is a tribute to friendship - to those who are there to help when life hits you hard, as the duo have described themselves. For those who can't watch the video, you can (hopefully) listen to the song here. : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7oZ5asBDqCYsf14Fy0c6ni If you have a Spotify account or Facebook account, you should be able to listen to the song.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8GvGrzJat3/

89% for Sanders and Warren. Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Delaney are right after with 88-86%. I think Trump have to do a lot of campaigning to convince me. 15% is still 5% more than I expected.

Not that surprised at the result. It's interesting to see that the majority of the candidates thinks prisoners should only be able to vote after their release.

It has been confirmed. The B-sample was also positive. Fransson will no longer be part of the Swedish Olympic team. Additionally, she will no longer be part of the Swedish sports support program "Top and Talent". https://sok.se/pressmeddelanden/2020-02-07-doping-bekraftat---jenny-fransson-plockas-bort-ur-os-truppen.html

Luge FIL World Championships and Bobsleigh & Skeleton IBSF 2020 Prediction Contest is now open Notice! Users can change their predictions for the IBSF Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Championships after the Provisional Standing of the last day of the FIL Luge World Championships has been published.

You MUST hide your post. To do that, you have only to delete the space between the bracket "[" and the text "hide" in "[ hide]" at the beginning of prediction post. Do the same at the end of prediction post with "[ /hide]" too. PREDICTION DESIGN - START COPYING HERE ---> [ hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Doubles' Sprint Luge Day 1 February 14th, 2020 Tristan Walker/Justin Snith Toni Eggert/Sascha Benecken Robin Geueke/David Gamm Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt Any Athletes from Italy Oskars Gudramovics/Peteris Kalnins Andris Sics/Juris Sics Wojciech Chmielewski/Jakub Kowalewski Aleksandr Denisev/Vladislav Antonov Vladislav Yuzhakov/Iurii Prokhorov Any Other Doubles Women's Sprint Luge Day 1 February 14th, 2020 Madeleine Egle Anna Berreiter Julia Taubitz Andrea Voetter Any Athlete from Latvia Viktoriia Demchenko Tatyana Ivanova Ekaterina Katnikova Summer Britcher Emily Sweeney Any Other Athlete Men's Sprint Luge Day 1 February 14th, 2020 David Gleirscher Wolfgang Kindl Jonas Mueller Felix Loch Johannes Ludwig Dominik Fischnaller Inars Kivlenieks Semen Pavlichenko Roman Repilov Tucker West Any Other Athlete Doubles Luge Day 2 February 15th, 2020 Tristan Walker/Justin Snith Toni Eggert/Sascha Benecken Robin Geueke/David Gamm Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt Any Athletes from Italy Oskars Gudramovics/Peteris Kalnins Andris Sics/Juris Sics Wojciech Chmielewski/Jakub Kowalewski Aleksandr Denisev/Vladislav Antonov Vladislav Yuzhakov/Iurii Prokhorov Any Other Doubles Women's Singles Luge Day 2 February 15th, 2020 Madeleine Egle Anna Berreiter Julia Taubitz Andrea Voetter Any Athlete from Latvia Viktoriia Demchenko Tatyana Ivanova Ekaterina Katnikova Summer Britcher Emily Sweeney Any Other Athlete Men's Singles Luge Day 3 February 16th, 2020 David Gleirscher Wolfgang Kindl Jonas Mueller Felix Loch Johannes Ludwig Dominik Fischnaller Inars Kivlenieks Semen Pavlichenko Roman Repilov Tucker West Any Other Athlete Team Relay Luge Day 3 February 16th, 2020 Austria Canada Germany Italy Latvia Poland Russia Slovakia United States Any Other Nation 2-Women Bobsleigh Day 4 February 22nd, 2020 An Vannieuwenhuyse Christine de Bruin Mariama Jamanka Laura Nolte Stephanie Schneider Mica McNeill Andreea Grecu Nadezhda Sergeeva Martina Fontanive Kaillie Humphries Any Other Athlete 2-Men Bobsleigh Day 5 February 23rd, 2020 Justin Kripps Romain Heinrich Francesco Friedrich Richard Oelsner Nico Walther Brad Hall Oskars Kibermanis Rudy Rinaldi Alexey Stulnev Michael Vogt Hunter Church Any Other Athlete Men's Skeleton Day 6 February 28th, 2020 Nathan Crumpton Any Athlete from China Alexander Gassner Axel Jungk Felix Keisinger Any Athlete from Great Britain Martins Dukurs Tomass Dukurs Nikita Tregubov Alexander Tretiakov Yun Sung-Bin Any Other Athlete Women's Skeleton Day 7 February 29th, 2020 Janine Flock Kim Meylemans Jane Channell Mirela Rahneva Anna Fernstaedtova Sophia Griebel Tina Hermann Jacqueline Loelling Elena Nikitina Marina Gilardoni Megan Henry Any Other Athlete 4-Men Bobsleigh Day 8 March 1st, 2020 Benjamin Maier Justin Kripps Dominik Dvorak Francesco Friedrich Johannes Lochner Nico Walther Oskars Kibermanis Any Athlete from Russia Won Yun-Jong Michael Vogt Hunter Church Any Other Team Mixed Team Event Day 8 March 1st, 2020 Austria Canada China Germany Any Mixed-NOC Team Russia United States Any Other Nation [/hide] ---> PREDICTION DESIGN - STOP COPYING HERE

Prediction Contests Are Just-For-Fun Games You don't need to be an expert to take part in a Prediction Contest. If a mistake penalizes you, always keep in mind that everyone is in good faith. Competition Details City Sochi and Altenberg Start Date February 14th, 2020 End Date March 1st, 2020 Participants 31 Gold Dolby Silver Monzanator Bronze Speedy Instructions In order to post your predictions, you have to do the following: Select with your mouse specified content of the Post named Prediction Contest Design Copy the selected content Go to Reply Box at the end of the Page, click on "Reply to this topic" Paste the copied content ( When information "You have pasted content with formatting" appears at the end of the Reply Box, ignore it, it will disappear eventually. DO NOT click on "Remove formatting" under any circumstances) Once you have specified content in new Post, start making your predictions according to the Rules To post your predictions, click on "Submit Reply" button Rules For this Prediction Contest you are predicting medal winners for each event of the Prediction Design. For Athlete/Nation you are predicting to win Gold Medal, write X in the Cell which belongs to the Gold Medal Column. ForAthlete/Nation you are predicting to win Silver Medal, write X in the appropriate Cell and do the same for a Bronze Medal winner. Do the same for each Event of the Prediction Design. Example Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Sprint LugeDay 1February 14th, 2020 Madeleine Egle Anna Berreiter Julia Taubitz X Andrea Voetter Any Athlete from Latvia Viktoriia Demchenko x Tatyana Ivanova Ekaterina Katnikova Summer Britcher x Emily Sweeney Any Other Athlete Points will be awarded as follows:- For right predicted Gold Medal Winner - 4 points.- For right predicted Silver Medal Winner - 3 points.- For right predicted Bronze Medal Winner - 2 points.- For right predicted Athlete/Nation but wrong place/medal - 1 point.- Bonus points: 1 bonus point will be awarded to predictor who predicted all medalists correctly, regardless of the order (1-2-3, 1-3-2, 2-1-3, 2-3-1, 3-2-1, 3-1-2). If you (by mistake or on purpose) picked two or more Athletes/Nations for the same place in one event, and if the total number of picked Athletes (options) for that event isn't over three, you'll get exactly 1 Point for each of them NO MATTER WHICH POSITION (and one bonus Point if you predicted all top 3 Athletes/Nations). If the total number of picked Athletes/Nations in one event is over three, you'll not get any Points for Athletes/Nations picked for the same position. The first physical medal presentation is binding. Example Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Sprint LugeDay 1February 14th, 2020 Madeleine Egle Anna Berreiter Julia Taubitz X Andrea Voetter Any Athlete from Latvia Viktoriia Demchenko x Tatyana Ivanova Ekaterina Katnikova Summer Britcher x Emily Sweeney Any Other Athlete Results: 1. Viktoriia Demchenko - 4 Points 2. Summer Britcher - 3 Points 3. Julia Taubitz - 2 Points Bonus Points: - 1 Point Your Total: 10 Points 1. Viktoriia Demchenko - 4 Points 2. Julia Taubitz - 1 Point 3. Summer Britcher - 1 Point Bonus Points: - 1 Point Your Total: 7 Points 1. Viktoriia Demchenko - 4 Points 2. Tatyana Ivanova - 0 Points 3. Summer Britcher - 1 Point Bonus Points: - 0 Points Your Total: 5 Points 1. Viktoriia Demchenko - 4 Points 2. Anna Berreiter - 0 Points 3. Tatyana Ivanova - 0 Point Bonus Points: - 0 Points Your Total: 4 Points TB Rules If two or more contestants have the same number of points at the end, Tie-Break rule will be applied to break the tie. Number or perfect predictions throughout the contest will be compared for the involved contestants. If they are still tied, number of correct Gold Medal Winners will be compared, then number of Silver Medal Winners and at the end number of Bronze Medal Winners. If players are still tied, answer on TB question will be taken into consideration. Contestant with closer answer on the question wins the Tie-Break. Example Contestant 1: 6x10, 12x4, 10x3, 7x2 Contestant 2: 6x10, 12x4, 8x3, 8x2 Contestant 1 will be placed ahead of Contestant 2. Contestant with most points wins the competition. The Ranking is determined by the Sum of Points the Contestant scores in all predicted Events. You can enter the Contest whenever you want. In order to earn points from the start, you should post your predictions before the start of the first Event of Luge FIL World Championships - February 14th, h. 09:00 (GMT +3). You can EDIT your predictions whenever you want until the start of the first event of the Prediction Design Post. Notice! Users can change their predictions for the IBSF Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Championships after the Provisional Standing of the last day of the FIL Luge World Championships has been published. If you want to comment on this Prediction Contest, please use Prediction Contests - Discussion Thread. If you have problem with the format, you can post your predictions in simplified format. Make sure your predictions are understandable. For instance, 1 - Viktoriia Demchenko, 2 - Summer Britcher, 3 - Julia Taubitz, mean Viktoriia Demchenko wins gold, Summer Britcher wins silver and Julia Taubitz wins bronze. And please, write your Totallympics username, so the contest manager can know who actually sent the predictions. Every contestant MUST HIDE own predictions. To do that, you have only to delete the space between the bracket "[" and the text "hide" in "[ hide]" at the beginning of prediction post. Do the same with "[ /hide]" at the end of prediction post too. The hidden content will appear to other users as follows: You cannot see this If you have any other questions concerning this prediction contest, problems with format, editing etc... please, contact the contest manager via Personal Message

@africaboy, @toulousain, @heywoodu, @brunamoura, @Dunadan, @Federer91, @Vojthas, @Monzanator @hckosice, @IoNuTzZ, @Henry_Leon, @Agger, @RobtheAggie, @Kirkpatrick, @Olympian1010, @Ufilov A reminder to every manager. The transfer window is now open. It closes February 13th, 14:45 (CET) Notice! The transfer window closes when the Mixed Relay starts. Remember! Only 2 transfers per window and 12 in total are allowed. If a manager violates the rules, he or she will lose points according to 3f in the BMG rulebook. For more details on specific dates and times, see the calendar in the first post of this thread.

These are the suggested contests for March: Short Track Speed Skating ISU World Championships 2020 (13-15 March) Women's Curling WCF World Championship 2020 (14-22 March) Figure Skating ISU World Championships (16-22 March) Table Tennis ITTF World Team Championships (22-29 March) If you have any other suggestions, please suggest them here in the discussion thread before February 13th.

From what I can see, gets the quota in 49er, as has already won a quota. I think the quota in 49erFX and Nacra 17 will be reallocated to (49erFX) and (Nacra 17) from the 2019 World Championships, as and have already won quotas and they are the only nations from Oceania competing.