mrv86

Well, this is a classic song... whenever I hear it (or their English & Spanish covers) I just start to sing

12 pts  Thanks  @mrv86

Or possibly I'm not that bad

I discovered the Special Agent of Antartica that try to boycott the flag. He isn't very happy actually  

 
 

@heywoodu This is for you. World record on mass bagpiping  333 to be precise.
 
 

Grazie mille Italia!
 
Our second gold in this edition

Ireland to Canada..... "I will Runaway"
 
Canada to Ireland.... "I'm Gonna Run To You"
 

 

Thanks a lot to the Serbian jury! @DaniSRB & @dareza

CROATIA
 
 
 
Pozdrav od Hrvatske dragi članovi Totallympicsa! Zadovoljstvo je još jednom nastupiti u ovoj uistinu fantastičnoj priredbi i ovom prilikom bismo htjeli zahvaliti organizatorima na izvanrednom poslu. Kaunas je lijep grad i ovdje nam je super! No, da ne odugovlačimo previše, evo rezultata glasovanja Hrvatskog žirija...
 
Hello from Croatia dear members of Totallympics! It's a pleasure to participate once again in this really marvelous show and we would like to thank the organizers for an amazing job that they have done. Kaunas is a beautiful city and we love it here! Without further ado, here are the results of Croatian jury.
 
 
 
  CANADA
10   NEW ZEALAND
9   MEXICO
8   DENMARK 7   FRANCE
6   FINLAND
5   INDIA
4   UNITED STATES
3   BULGARIA
2   SERBIA
1  

ITALY
 
 
 
  MEXICO
12  
  CANADA
11  
  IRELAND
10   FRANCE
9   GREAT BRITAIN
8   MALTA
7   GREECE
6   LITHUANIA
5   FINLAND
4   SLOVAKIA
3   TUNISIA
2   COLOMBIA
1  
 
Grazie Lituania per questo fantastico evento, saluti dall'Italia
 
Thanks Lithuania for this amazing event, greetings from Italy

ITALY
 
 
 
  CANADA
11  
  IRELAND
10   FRANCE
9   GREAT BRITAIN
8   MALTA
7   GREECE
6   LITHUANIA
5   FINLAND
4   SLOVAKIA
3   TUNISIA
2   COLOMBIA
1  

Gracias por el punto! @LDOG & @konig

Congrats Mexico for their first ever TISC 12 point score!!

Wow, what a start!
 
Believe it or not, these are the first ever 12 points for Mexico in history of TISC! (only a few nations never had any)

BULGARIA
 
 
 
  MEXICO
12  
  LITHUANIA
11  
  COLOMBIA
10   CANADA
9   SERBIA
8   FRANCE
7   FINLAND
6   ROMANIA
5   BRAZIL
4   IRELAND
3   CZECH REPUBLIC
2   MOLDOVA
1  
 
С това завършва българския вот. Късмет на всички участници в конкурса!
 
This concludes the Bulgarian vote. Good luck to all participants in the contest!

Good morning everyone! Another TISC Grand Final day is here 
 
Best of luck everyone, I hope we all get some points and that we are in for an exciting show
 
As we all know, hosting a live 12 hour show is extremely daunting so I'd like everyone to offer full support to our Lithuanian friend today and show patience and understanding. Especially so since Werloc is operating from almost no sleep as he just got back from his own concert at 6am. As such, the scoreboards will be prepared as the proceedings go along so if everyone can just offer to keep a close eye on the calculations it would be a big help. 
Werloc has shown us huge dedication despite being extremely busy so I want to thank him now before the live show gets underway.
 
Once again, good luck everyone
 

Absolutely enjoyable, unique opening ceremony
 
I just gotta know Lithuania... it has some very beautiful places like Anykščiai, Trakai, Vilnius and of course Kaunas.
 
Great to know about some other performers out there in Youtube, and of course, the segment about former Lithuanian contestants.
 
I hope we can enjoy some of your music soon @Werloc/Gebrasy
 
Of course, good luck everyone. See you tomorrow!

Time to get back on track with our sightseeing

Let's check what the dark blue corner of Lithuania has to offer.
Here's a picture of Alytus

And now it's time for a pretty special city of Lithuania, where you can not only sight see, but also have some wonderful adventures and it also might attract the attention of our Slovakian friends.
It's the town of Druskininkai
 
 

 
Are you wondering why Druskininkai are called the town of adventures? Well, worry not, it has the biggest SPA center in Lithuania as well as a water park.

And why would it be attractive for Slovakia? It has the only indoor skiing center in our country. It is a highly rated infrastructure as quite a few Olympic teams come to train here as well as there are FIS competitions held.

Who gets it right?
 
The World is already counting hours to the next edition of TISC, which will be held in Kaunas, Lithuania this weekend. Nations from all around the World are gathering as we speak. Some are hoping for a win, some are hoping to get as many points as possible and break their personal bests, while some others are mostly here to enjoy the show.
 
As we approach the Grand Final, we've been wondering which nations usually give points to the winner, and how many points each nation usually gives to the top 3 finishers. To sum it up - we want to see which nations get it right.
 
We start by looking at how often each country gives at least one point to the eventual winner. If you are looking to get a win, you should keep an eye on votes of Canada, Denmark, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Tunisia and Turkey. These 7 nations have always given points to the winner. Denmark, Italy and Lithuania competed in every edition of TISC, which makes their ability to pick the winner even more amazing. Which nations are on the opposite end of the scale? Indonesia, USA and Romania. Indonesia never gave any points to the winner, however they competed only once. USA on the other hand competed in every edition, but they gave points to the winner only once out of six times! That was at the 2015 Annual contest, when USA interestingly gave maximum 12 points to the winning Irish song. Romania gave points to the winner only once in four participations.
 
This map shows tendencies of each nation to pick the winner. Dark blue nations usually don't award points to winner, light blue nations are around 50-50 in that respect, light red nations give points to the winner most of the times, while red nations always do. Only nations competing in this edition are shown on the map.
 

 
The second criteria we look at is how many points each nation usually gives to the top 3 finishers. Note: if a nation finished in top 3 at some contest, then a nation that finished 4th at that contest counts as a top 3 finisher. Switzerland (two-time participant) is on the top of the list with an average of 25.00 (33 is the maximum, 12+11+10). They are followed by Denmark (22.83), Italy (22.67), Australia (20.50), Egypt (20.20) and Russia (19.75). Nations that usually give the least number of points to the top 3 finishers are Algeria (4.00), United States (5.83), Portugal (9.50), Colombia (10.67) and Croatia (11.00).
 
Following map shows tendencies of each nation regarding the average number of points that they give to the top 3 finishers. All nations are included. Nations in dark red tend to give considerable amount of points to the top 3 finishers, those in light red usually give a good number of points, those in light blue tend not to give that many points while those in dark blue don't give many points to the top 3 finishers. Note that whole South America as a continent doesn't really give that many points to the highest ranked finishers. Also, Portugal seems to be quite an exception in predominantly red Europe.
 

 
However, if we have to choose one nation that gets it right the most, then that would be Denmark. Apart from the fact that they gave points to each of the previous winners, they also usually give a lot of points to the eventual top 3 finishers, making Denmark the ultimate TISC trend setter.
 
Special thanks goes to @OlympicIRL who provided most of the data
 

Truly shameful, either be on Slovakia or anywhere else... here in Mexico you only see sessions full, at both national and state chambers, when it's time to assign themselves Christmas and Holiday bonusses on taxpayers money 

Sounds really nice , Good luck, I´ll cheer for all mentioned athlets to achieve their dream

I think that this time we have a good prospect of having more than 1 competitor for the first time since Salt Lake City.
 
Schleper is the strongest card to qualify in Alpine, but sthe spot could also be taken by Jocelyn McGillivray who competed this year in YOG.
 
For the first time we have a decent competitor in Freestyle, Robby Franco who came 6th in Sloepstyle at the last World Championships. Sandra Hillen could try to qualify again in this discipline as well as Fernando Soto in Snowboard Cross.
 
Also we could the return of a Mexican figure skater, with Donovan Carrillo showing great improvement at this year's Jr. Grand Prix competitions.
 
 

So today is the day, piece of crap VS piece of shit in the US elections  

Since we don't have funny photos/pictures thread I decided show this picture here 
 

There's only Trump and Clinton to choose sadly...that's like asking if you want to have pizza with shit on it for dinner or if you prefer a pancake with shit on it...both are just really shitty choices 
 
I would have clicked on any 3rd party candidate if they had given them a chance