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So, to avoid further delay and start the procedings this will be the order to pick: @hckošice @Cinnamon Bun @Cobi Are we ready? @hckošice please pick the first pair

So we have @hckošice here, and since @Cobi doesn't know the contents behind the panels, he might join as well. Anyone else? While we give 5 more minutes, let's reveal the panels. Ladies and Gentlemen, behold Spain and its culture! A B C D E F G 1 2 3 4 5 6 A B C D E F G 1 2 3 4 5 6

Hola Totallympics! Welcome to the Draw for the Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2023 With less than a week before the event begins, I have once more the pleasure to help with the draw of this edition hosted by our fantastic organizer @Cobi. As per usual, the draw is to be conducted by revealing the contents behind two panels, with the first one some fine paintings of Spanish artists hiding the ordinal number that will determine the time slot for the juries to reveal their votes. The second panel shows some of UNESCO’s World Heritage sites and cultural patrimony of the host country, which in turn conceal the flag of each national jury, thus letting us know the exact place to cast the vote and will also assign the contests to one of the nine teams for the Team competition, which in this edition are: Teams Voting Positions TOLEDO EAGLES 1 11 20 30 PAMPLONA BULLS 2 12 21 31 MURCIA FLAMINGOS 3 13 22 32 BARCELONA DRAGONS 4 10 14 23 33 ZARAGOZA STORKS 5 15 24 34 MADRID BEARS 6 16 25 29 35 GRANADA LYNXES 7 17 26 36 MALLORCA DOLPHINS 8 18 27 37 VALENCIA TORTOISES 9 19 28 38 As we continue in a few moments, let me hear from my volunteers. Are you there: @Cinnamon Bun @hckošice @heywoodu?

Good afternoon everyone. I’m finishing the last touches, so I might 5 additional minutes.

Any other volunteers for the draw tomorrow at 15:00 CET? You don’t have to be present the whole process, but I’d appreciate as much hands as possible.

Same here. BTW, as our host already said I’m looking for volunteers for the draw this Saturday, starting at 15:00 CET, so please make your interest known.

Let me guess

Mexico not getting a single gold medal at the PanAm Jr/Cadet championships, but a Mexican getting a gold representing another country, really tells something about how rotten Mexican fencing federation is, going so far as to fake a positive doping result for their thorn in their shoe.

Surprise medal for Brit born Prisca Awiti. I don’t recall Mexico getting a medal in a Grand Slam for some time, if not ever.

Not only that, they played back to back on the same court. So I guess some spectators were really confused when the aanouncenment came.

Already on my third complete listening, as I’m able to identify each song with its country and make some individual notes. Ranking will start tomorrow, then a couple of cuts/rearrangements and votes will be sent Monday/Tuesday next week.

Puerto Rico also goes to World Cup

Mexico qualifies

And still no one is safe, very tight games.

Which is going to happen later today.

Santiago Gonzalez gets his 19th ATP title in doubles, a couple pf days after turning 40, with partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin at Marseille’s 250.

Well Brazil can defeat USA “D” team. I’m more worried about Mexico being overconfident and losing in Montevideo.

Well you can always follow the often silly IG adventures of team Mexico: Biathlon Team Mexico (@busthlon.team.mexico) Raul Figueroa (@thetacotales) Chris Gomez (@chris_gomez_m)

Great to see @brunamoura back in action, I know I'm not the only one in the forum cheering for her. Also good to see Mexico decided to send some competitors in Cross Country, hoping some of them get decent results, although I'm not expecting them to qualify.

Oh, absolutely it makes sense, unlike some previous taxes in Mexico for having a dog or too many windows (both in the period between the US and French Third Empire invasions). However the tone of the article that hckosice read, gave the impression Mexican artists, and of course anyone doing a painting, could get a general tax exemption.

Well is not completely true, but I’m glad you ask something I like to present to the rest of the forum, so welcome to Mexican Tax Law 101. As I suppose it’s the case in most other countries, tax legislation has many elements: one of them is the subject (that is the person who’s legally obliged to pay) and another one is the object (the act or activity which originates the obligation of the subject to pay). So, under Mexican law, artists (the subject) must pay Income Tax only if they profit from their artistic production (the object), meaning that only when they earn money by selling their paintings to collectors, galleries and general public. So in that regard, they must determine and pay the authority every year from said earnings. However, starting from the mid seventies according to a quick research, they can actually pay the Income Tax “in kind”, that is by donating their pictures to the state, instead of doing it with actual money, subject to some conditions. In short, and I have some previous experience myself, Mexican Tax authority is one of the most vicious (yet rather efficient) in the World, so sadly, no matter how much paintings I produce, I’ll continue with my obligation to pay

First Olympic quota for Mexico

Amazong result for Mexican Kevin Peraza at the first stop of the Freestyle world cup, earning 7th place

M E X I C O Hello Totallympics! It's a pleasure to be once again part of the Annual International Song Contest, this time travelling to Seville, once the main link city between Spain and Mexico. I'm proud to announce this year we had our first official festival to pick the Mexican entry for this edition (with the complete set available for your consideration after national juries have sent their votes). Just like last year, Mexico will be present with a collaboration between Los Rumberos, a duet formed in 2013 by Lito de la Isla & Paul Sefchovich, and have brought back the traditional Cuban rumba and son styles, combined with folk Mexican and pop rock sounds, pleasantly fused with the urban style of Sabino, a "soft" hip hop artist that made his debut in 2012, whom now present a song in which a man is seeking the advice of his close friends about dumping and getting back with an ungrateful lover. Here for Totallympians to enjoy, I leave you with Sabino & Los Rumberos No me vuelvo a involucrar Lyrics in Spanish Lyrics in English H

Mexican selection will be made public tomorrow night