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Final map of the participating nations Returning countries (3) (O2017), (O2019), (O2019) Countries who participated at the previous Annual edition and didn't return (6)

And the documentary will end with the TISC win because obviously that's the peak of his career.

Nice, @heywoodu can finalize with playlist with and . And also with because I think that song is also missing from the playlist.

So... is there any official word on what the extended deadline is? @Glen was active on the site today so I am guessing we are getting a song from him soon, but the Moldavian jury has been inactive in the last couple of days.

Crazy, we won again. I mean, I didn't watch it because nobody cares about the NL, but still. this post-COVID break period is going rather well for the NT.

Whoa, Lorde sure has changed a lot since the last time I saw her.

At least now I think I will finally watch Once. Somehow I never got around to watch that movie despite all the accolades it got. On a more important note: if Ireland beats Slovakia, does that mean CZE wins the Czechoslovak trophy by proxy?

I am not joking, I was just listening to a couple of Oscar winning songs a few days ago, and I was thinking about who will submit Falling Slowly eventually for a TISC, Ireland or the Czech Republic. Well, I guess now I know.

Well, based on this first half, even if we will somehow win today, Iceland will beat us quite easily.

No idea what to expect from us, I guess the National League matches were somewhat promising? But UEFA fucked us hard when they let the RB Salzburg players to get infected by Maccabi, we don't have Szoboszlai...

I have one more suggestion, or more like an idea. During the last two Grand Finales I was thinking that the one thing missing is a table showing the progress of the voting, how the ranking changes. After I made that table for the TISC "overall ranking" I realized that it sort of works for this as well. I have added point gaps between each country to show... well, the point gaps. This is only just a "prototype table", using the results of the first session of Annual 2020. I am not sure if this would be useful or not, or if it's worth it for the host to mess with yet another table when they are already busy with the scoreboard and many other stuff. I guess it can be just a thing that gets posted at the end of each session. Or it can work as a replacement of the Provisional Top5 ranking (but it's certainly takes more time to make this table than the usual Top5 one). Anyway, I just thought that this might be an idea worth sharing, no hard feelings if you don't like it. #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 1st gap 1 0 4 1 7 5 11 11 14 18 2nd gap 1 0 2 1 3 2 2 2 1 4 3rd gap 1 - 1 2 1 3 2 1 0 1 4th gap 1 1 - 1 1 1 3 1 1 2 5th gap 1 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 1 6th gap 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 7th gap 1 - - 2 1 3 0 1 0 1 8th gap 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 9th gap 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 10th Out of the Top10

I was thinking about calculating an "overall ranking" of the nations in TISC and show how it changed after each contest, because this will be the 15th contest, so why not. I have decided to just simply use the Eurovision Top10 point system for each year (so the winner of a contest gets 12 points, the runner-up gets 10, and then 8, 7, 6, etc.). The table below shows what the overall ranking of the nations was according to these Top10 points after each contest. As you would expect, the ranking becomes more stagnant as we move forward in time, and a certain nation is almost unreachable after 14 contests with their 89 points, the second nation behind them has 57 points. That's a 32 points lead, which is.. a lot, if we keep in mind that Ireland has a 12/14 success rate at getting Top10 placements. O2013 A2014 O2014 A2015 O2015 A2016 O2016 A2017 O2017 A2018 O2018 A2019 O2019 A2020 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Out of the Top10 I wanted to mess with this a bit more so I used a really simple method to show some trends over time, giving the more recent contests a higher weight. Instead of just calculating the sum of the points I have multiplied the points of the most recent contest by 8, the one before that by 7, the one before that by 6, and so on. So only the points of the last 8 contests count with the most recent contest having the highest multiplier. Why 8? I wanted to go with the length of an Olympic cycle, 4 years. And as you can see, even with this method Ireland dominates. Duh. O2013 A2014 O2014 A2015 O2015 A2016 O2016 A2017 O2017 A2018 O2018 A2019 O2019 A2020 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Out of the Top10

I mean... it can be hilarious if everyone predicts their own song to win TISC.

I have been thinking about something for TISC: did you ever think about adding a prediction contest for TISC? Like, giving every juror the opportunity to send to the host what they think the Top10 will be. And then you can reveal during the closing ceremony who were the closest to predict the Top10 correctly. But obviously this would be a lot of additional work for the host because they are the only ones who can collect the predictions and calculate the results.

Yeah, it's definitely worth a shot to send PMs because we have a lot of inactive users (9 users, to be precise) who participated in the previous Annual edition and they are much more likely to respond to a PM (thank to the email that comes with it by default) than to a mention.

One week left until the deadline... I think we are approx. 9-10 nations short of what we usually have for TISC. Most notably we are missing Brazil, Malta and Greece, they have participated in every TISC so far. Returning countries (1) (O2017) Countries who participated at the previous edition and haven't confirmed the participation yet (11)

@hckosice Your video is blocked in some TISC countries, Serbia, China, Moldova, Kazakhstan, etc. This one works everywhere: @kungshamra71 Your video is also blocked in some TISC countries. This one works everywhere:

Holy shit, the original US video is blocked literally everywhere except the US. @Olympian1010 The second video that you posted is available everywhere, you should replace the original video with that in your announcement post. Edit: Oh, wait, we are directly linking the YT videos in the "Participating Nation" table, not the announcement posts. In that case... you can ignore this post.

FYI to everyone, you should check if your video is blocked somewhere, this site can help: https://watannetwork.com/tools/blocked/ For example, you can see where the submitted Mexican video is blocked: https://watannetwork.com/tools/blocked/#url=9z5PU9H-b28

@Olympian1010@mrv86 This should work everywhere:

What amazes me is that you have a playlist in English. It's near impossible to find songs in English that were written and performed by Hungarians, they never appear on the charts. Hungarian artists either can't sing in English or know that the only way they can get on the charts in Hungary by writing Hungarian songs.

I was actually thinking about how the users who have been submitting songs for Open for many years now are at a disadvantage if they are from a smaller country. This doesn't apply to countries like the US or the UK where they literally have an endless supply of songs that can win TISC. I will eventually run out of Hungarian songs that I like and have a good chance (in my opinion) to get at least a somewhat decent result in a song contest. When I will reach that point, that's when I will start sending some truly weird entries for TISC.

Or maybe this is a reaction to what happened at the Special Edition.

Since I have joined TISC I had the intention to submit a song that represents the Hungarian electronic music scene, and while I was searching for the candidate to fill this role I have decided to go with a song that the peers of this genre of music respect and cherish. The song I have chosen has been called by Hungarian publications as the "Hungarian speed garage anthem of the 90s" and has been remixed by various artists many times. An entire album of the remixes was released on the 20th anniversary of the song's publication to celebrate it. Speed garage is a subgenre of electronic dance music, so if anyone of you are familiar with the genre, or electronic dance music in general from the 90s, I think you would expect a fun dance song from Hungary. Well.... you would be wrong because in true Hungarian fashion "'68" is a somber, melancholic peace of music from Anima Sound System, inspired by the events that took place in 1968 all over the world. I have made the decision to send this song for the next Open edition in 2019, and while it was waiting for a whole year to finally be announced as the Hungarian entry for TISC, the protests of 2020 have made the song timely again. HUNGARY Anima Sound System - '68 Lyrics in English (Translated by me... I tried my best. The lyrics are short so hopefully I didn't mess it up too much. I mostly did a literal translation.)

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