Griff88

and - what is that you don't understand?

Singapore's men's water polo team lost to Indonesia 7-5 earlier today. Their winning streak of 27 consecutive titles in the sport dating back to 1965 looks set to end tomorrow the 29th.
 
SEA Games: Champions since 1965, Singapore's water polo team in danger of losing gold, Sport News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

There is also this recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaRv21mr5cw
 

This is fun. 
Let the game be continued!! 

Now I have known that we have 2 new events for chess: online (like wtf) and ASEAN Chess
 
 
ASEAN Chess is like when you play Chinese chess with Western pieces and board
 

As I said before, media framing worked really well in these Games. They keep focusing the bad side in Manila as if the other host cities doesn't exist.
 
Venues in Clark are nice and overall running smoothly, halal food kitchen is ready, etc. But no one cares. Why? Because it won't appeal to readers...

Now I have known that we have 2 new events for chess: online (like wtf) and ASEAN Chess
 
 
ASEAN Chess is like when you play Chinese chess with Western pieces and board
 

This account below is worth to patrol since the admin seems to be a Filipino, might be easier to find such streams
 
https://twitter.com/sea_sports_news

Actually there is, have to click each sports for detailed stuff: https://rs.2019seagames.com/RS2019/Polo

They are reliable (the Indonesian version is also quite popular too).
 
Don't worry about the venues, I think they can't be worse than us in 2011, where all venues finished exactly a day before the opening

And now in the live stream, they used the code "INS" for Indonesia 

Yeah, my bad, I skipped her when I looked at the qualifier results.
 
The men's competition is running now. Perhaps you may see them on the links that I posted here

Or that basketball player with a female friend/partner/someone who turned out to be pregnant

Nope. Schengen Area countries are those who are allowed to visit Tuvalu without visa, even Australia or NZ citizens need visa to go there

Pretty much the same with what happened with Indonesian ex-ISIL fighters and their families. Some has returned with their own effort are accepted but excluded by the society, end up in certain regions known to be conservative and started "a new life" there. No matter what they do to be back in society, whether it is trimming beard for men or stop wearing niqab for women, no one wants to be near them. Even the children are worse, sometimes they got bullied (which I think might be setting of a new bomb).
 
And recently it is reported around 700 Indonesians who joined ISIL is still in Syria, hoping the government will help and fund their way back home

some mega ultra retro @ahjfcshfghb @Jan Linha
 
The ending jingle of Czechoslovak Television.  With this the Czechoslovak Television ended its broadcasting every day. Love the anthem the Czech part (the first one) showing beautiful lands and architecture, then starts the Slovak part and immediately they showed... Mountains
 
Oh dear, I want our country back
 

Melbourne - Stockholm distance: 15604 km
Paris - Tahiti: 15709 km NEW OLYMPIC RECORD

yes, rifle quota 10m women for Indonesia

Nope. It's the Women power. In 10m air rifle women. 

It’s just hard to appreciate a song I can’t understand. I to give quite a few points to foreign language entries, but in the case I just love Riptide and Liquid Lunch too much. 
 
Here’s my personal voting everyone, forgot to post it earlier :
 
 
12 pts:  I mean come on, one of the best songs of the decade
11 pts:  Very under-appreciated . Absolutely beautiful. Great choice @Vektor. Loved it from the minute I heard it.
10 pts:  This one grew on me. Totally didn’t expect it to be the Danish entry (I just used the playlist, so as too avoid making political decisions). Would have made @Wumo and @Agger day I think 
9 pts:  Great choice @heywoodu. Loved it from the minute I heard it (thought it was New Zealand at first). I just decided to award it a bit less than the others. Tone was perfect, lyrics were fun, and the voice had a good level of mastery.
8 pts:  @Manulete Another great entry. This is one of three songs to have made my main playlist from this TISC
7 pts:  (0 pts )
6 pts:  @Skijumpingmaster This is song is in my genre of preference, but it just didn’t have the wow quality of others. A good entry nonetheless. I fully didn’t expect it to get points, but it grew on me when it mattered.
5 pts:  best performance by an Arabic song @amen09. I could tell it was from the Arab Spring and Tunisia right away ?
4 pts:  @Griff88 unlike your voting, this song was not ass. The genre wasn’t my taste, but it definitely deserved points nonetheless. I agree with @Fly_like_a_don that the song punched under its weight (though I think the top 7-8 are correct)
3 pts:  @Belle You submitted my childhood. Road trips with a Mamma Mia! CD. I knew all the words, but honestly, I like the cover more. Still the song deserves points.
2 pts:  @IoNuTzZ For some reason I know this song well. Again, it just wasn’t as good as the top 6 or so, but another solid entry. 
1 pt:  @rybak I really liked this song, but in this case the language barrier killed you. As I said earlier, I enjoyed the risk you took.
R1:  (would have received 1 pt ?) @dcro Bold risk going with a instrumental song. I just couldn’t get myself to give it more points, though it fully deserved a better final ranking.
R2:  @Glen I know I haven’t given you a lot of points, but I love the songs you share. I eagerly await your annual entry.
R3:  @Fly_like_a_don Fully expected this song to be in my top 5, but in the end, it just didn’t click with me. Still very thankful that you shared your entry with us.
R4:  Qazakstan ?. Music video was a bit much for me. Surprising entry nonetheless.
 
A big thanks to @Wumo and @Agger for hosting a wonderful, albeit quite gaffed, edition of the TISC. Completely enjoyed my time on this thread.
 
Huge shoutout to all the participating juries. I love competing in this competition and learning through this cultural exchange. Honestly one of the best parts of the forum. Hope to see everyone participating again in the Spring.
 
In closing, Spain 12

The website never really opened in the 3rd session for me so couldn't post my vote. All other websites work fine but this doesn't open after 11.30pm and before 7am. Disaster! 
 
@Griff88 @Skijumpingmaster Both the songs were sure to be in 1st 2 after 1 listening.  
@hckosice  I listened to this 5-6 times. It was in 3rd position till last 2 hearing but then the last minute was sorta making it bored. Lyrics were good. 
@Vektor  I loved the instrumentals along with the music. 
@vinipereira @titicow A really interesting lyric video along with the music. 
@heywoodu The song wasn't bad, it wasn't a song it was a poem for me. And this getting the trophy is a disaster. 
If such good Indonesian entry can't earn at least 100 points I'm afraid any non -English song would ever do. 
 
My points were awarded pretty fairly with 30 points each for Music, Lyrics, Theme and 10 for something extra special. A total out of 100 was done. 
A suitable correction factor was applied
a. If song was in native language then score * 1.25
b. If score was in English, with the language not  spoken by more than 25% population  or it is not the main language used in government papers then score *1
 
 
Our song may not be the best buy if this song can't get in top 25 I really doubt about the jury members. The problem is favouritism + some users " like some nations " rather than song and give their points. 
 
Come on TOISC can be renamed Totallympics Open Eurovision contest and US and Australia can be invited. 
 

By the way, major applause for @Wumo. Might have made a mistake that kind of spoiled the total final result, but overall I think he did a great job and deserved a round of applause  

Netherlands didn't win Eurovision in ages, far before my lifetime. Never won any TISC contest.
 
2019: hold my beer

hey neighbors !