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Ofc they want to win, but it's not a competitive game for them at this point, which is a big deal. For Spain this is a preparation match for the Games while Hungary is playing to survive. The gap between the two teams isn't that significant, Hungary beat Spain on a friendly match before Eurobasket, so if Spain isn't 100% on the field because they are already celebrating their quota, that can be decisive. But there's always a chance that the Hungarian team has a bad day and they crumble under pressure while Spain has a nice calm match and they win.

We will have to do it the hard way. Spain can decide how much they want to play properly or just let Canada to get eliminated.

Come on Canada, we don't want to eliminate you.

I have a feeling that Hungarians will be more friendly towards the Canadians than usual. Honestly dont know what to expect from Can v Jpn. I feel like Japan is more likely to pull this one off, but who knows.

Yes, that's true. But the European teams have the advantage of knowing how the other match went. Which means that Hungary or Spain might not fight that hard because they will already have the quota, which can help the other European team to qualify.

So basically or will qualify to Paris before they play their match. If wins against , will also qualify. If wins against , will also qualify. Bad news for and , because this means that or will play an unimportant match for them while the other will fight for quota in the final match.

Completely different Hungarian team today, they proved that they are quota worthy, regardless of what happens on sunday. Crazy final day ahead.

Oh boy Spain, what are you doing?

So the bracket is looking like... v or v or v or / v or Teams who haven't already qualified to Paris: I don't see any good reason to doubt that will qualify. I guess has a small chance for an upset.

didn't seem unbeatable against us at all, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if beats them today, which would be the end of our chances. Never had much faith in us anyway and based on the match against Canada this Hungarian team isn't on an Olympic level. The Olympic lineup will likely be...

likely qualified to Paris.

And I am more worried. I would be very surprised if we qualify.

Also, for reference here are my favorite songs so far, mostly the songs with 12 points and some runner-ups. Maybe after 9 editions you can guess where my highest points will go. (And yes, none of these songs won TISC. Only one of them was Top3.) Dulce Pontes - Canção do Mar Aldous Harding - Zoo Eyes Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly The Idan Raichel Project - Bo'ee Ashe & FINNEAS - Till Forever Falls Apart Evgenya Redko - Laikinai The Rumour Said Fire - The Balcony Kwiat Jabłoni ft. Julia Pietrucha - "Drogi proste" The Motans - În Golul Tău Asaf Avidan - Reckoning Song Jerry Heil, alyona alyona, Ela. - #KUPALA Toto Cutugno - L'italiano Μαρίνα Σάττι - ΜΑΝΤΙΣΣΑ

Since this is my 10th edition participating in this contest I tought I should look up what my current "all-time" ranking is since I joined in 2019. Fun fact: I have given 12 points to 9 different nations in the 9 editions I participated. Nobody repeated so far on the top. So after 9 editions, these are my Top10 nations... 1st 47 points - 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze 2nd 39 points - 1 gold 3rd 37 points 4th 36 points - 1 silver, 1 bronze 5th 33 points - 1 gold, 1 silver 6th 32 points - 1 gold 7th 32 points 8th 31 points - 1 gold, 1 silver 9th 30 points - 1 gold, 1 bronze 10th 30 points - 2 silver And now let's see which nations gave the most points to Hungary since I joined... 1st 51 points - 1 silver, 1 bronze 2nd 49 points - 1 gold 3rd 48 points - 2 gold, 1 bronze 4th 45 points - 1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze 5th 38 points - 1 silver, 1 bronze 6th 37 points - 2 silver 7th 35 points - 2 silver 8th 33 points - 1 gold, 1 silver 9th 33 points - 1 bronze 10th 32 points - 2 silver, 1 bronze

Hungary Azahriah - introvertált dal Lyrics

The groups are almost set in stone. I am expecting to qualify from the OQTs.

We are in the OQT by some miracle, despite the fact that our team still sucks. I wouldn't be surprised at all if qualifies to Paris instead of us from that group. OQT1 - OQT2 - OQT3 -

Of course the one time I pick an English language song we get our best result ever. Thank you everyone who voted for our song! First ever podium, 152 points, only 11 points from the win, this went beyond my expectations. @Olympian1010, thank you for organizing this event!

Great Britain and Hungary being more Irish than Ireland is turning out to be a winning strategy so far.

Huh, maybe I shouldn't go to sleep after all.

I will tell you in a PM because I don't want to publicly foreshadow how I will vote later.

Of all the TISC contests I have entered, I feel like this is the one where I am the most certain about which song will win in the end. But maybe I will be wrong, it happened before.

It seems Bulgarian football is imploding right before our match against them. UEFA should have done something about this, like moving the match to a neutral country or something, but instead we are getting a match behind closed doors or no match at all with a Hungarian 3-0 victory.

The real crime is that all of these sports get included, but tug of war is still not on the table. Bring back tug of war, you fools!

Hungary and GB being more Irish than Ireland. And GB even "stole" Saoirse Ronan! Now this is a proper TISC anniversary!