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Damn, I haven't received any templates this year.

I'm actually watching the high-jumping in Slovakia via livestream. All I can say is that the male high-jumpers have a very bad music taste and Adrijus Glebauskas is also guilty of this picking something from our awful hip-hop scene. Airinė dropping out without reaching 1.90 is a good indication she is not yet recovered after her injuries.

Would that be rejecting the nation of Algeria, or rejecting a person that quit the contest that he was hosting due to his political beliefs?

Well, I think it is safe to say that we will be having the contest, we just need to sort out the formalities. There's no reason to ruin this beautiful tradition.

Well, fuck

Yup, I just wanted this to be over with so I could wait for Autumn Now there's a whole mess if we change the host, do we open a new thread with re-registrations and other formalities.

or it can bounce back to The Netherlands, ooooor a new candicacy for host can be run. It is usually a spring contest after all, so we still have time. I'm waiting for an official statement from @OlympicIRL

I can honestly say, that it is hard to disagree with you on this point. In a perfect world, every person is made from sugar & spice & everything nice so that everyone can be a candidate with the same chances of hosting the contest. Although we still need to make sure the contest runs smoothly and that makes it difficult to take chances on people that have shown endless and endless examples of unreliability.

He literally tried to deny a country its right to participate in TISC. I know you love bestmen and all, but there has to be a point where this affection becomes unhealthy

Candidacy works when people are actually voting, so you're mixing two very different concepts. We're talking about a random chance game, deciding something important. And you fully know what I meant. We don't need to scrutinise every candidate, because not a single soul said a single word against any other host in the past, but bestmen was a controversial figure that has done harm to the contest's integrity in the past.

It's either a Rick Roll or a virus

I'm waiting for a random 12 Spain right now.

Not gonna celebrate, because this retirement just causes more chaos than it does good... But gosh is that not the outcome that I thought might happen due to his unreliability.

Well, I said "if", so perhaps I didn't remember correctly. There were certainly discussions on the topic though.

bestmen has been in the hosting draw every single time we had an open bid, although if I remember correctly, he was once disqualified from bidding, due to an outrage of users disapproving of it. and yes, the second option, some participants could politely request a vote, though I don't think that would be necessary, unless he plans to bid more than once, I don't really see that many other users that people would have a problem with bidding.

Well, usually the winner hosted the contest and if the winner declined then we looked for replacement hosts. Before bestmen, we had Slovakia, Denmark, Serbia, Ireland, Lithuania, Mexico, Brazil, USA, Great Britain, Tunisia host (hopefully, I did not forget anyone ???) With Germany, Italy and Sweden having declined their hosting rights in the past. There were never really huge problems with hosting rights and hosts were selected through OlympicIRLs mini-games when the winner declined hosting rights. The only controversial hosting moment started from the time that bestmen aggressively campaigned to host the contest, verbally trashing every other host before him and he did it since fucking 2016. Edit: if my memory serves me correctly, on one occasion we did vote? But then it was decided that it is not a fair system. Or perhaps that was proposed, but declined due to the forum wanting to avoid a popularity contest.

Sorry, edited. My mind probably slipped since Canada has previously skipped one or two contests in the past.

Well, I wouldn't even be angry at all, if we would have had at least a prior vote before accepting his hosting candidacy, but everything was swept under the rug. He got denied hosting rights before due to his behaviour and if you ask me, his behaviour did not change in the slightest. Such a thing would never slide if it was a candidacy from that controversial German user or the user from India that bought a ticket on the drama train after the previous contest, but bestmen was overlooked due to his skillset with media and animation. He mocked not one, not two, but at least five or more contests during his participation period and had multiple instances of questionable behaviour regarding following the rules of this contest and even his own contest now. If there are more than 5 users that are skipping this contest that have been here with all of you since the very first one on the old forum, that means there was a huge problem that was not at all addressed. No Brazil, no Croatia, no Canada, no Great Britain, no Lithuania, no Slovenia. Some of the old users participating not that they want to, but to hold their participation record and that would have never happened with a different host or at least if things were handled differently.

He's also heavily talking about rules, but is the only host that closed the registration to the members, but everyone that registered after that set deadline were allowed in, because they were offline previously He also spat a lot of nonsense of making the contest attractive to newcomers and then turned on Israel like that

Filming a video tomorrow, not yet released Sidenote: One thing that I just thought about, is that you're not allowed to enter songs from Eurovision, but the contest is so early, that you could send a song and it could still qualify to Eurovision after the fact

In 15 days, Lithuania will already have their representative as the 1st semi-final is going to be broadcast tomorrow, followed by the 2nd one on the 8th and the final in Žalgiris Arena on the 15th of February.

I kinda expected more users to join. I'm a bit disappointed that things had to turn out this way, because now I won't be getting my two songs per year from Brazil, since they decided to not go along with this as well. @vinipereira and @titicow PM me a Brazilian song from 2019, you have amazing music tastes I have time for a Croatian song as well @dcro Anyways, have fun with the GIFS and I guess see you in The Netherlands, may the best Ireland win

Well, personally, me and my good friend were both expecting a top 10 from these guys, but Fomin wasn't looking too good today on the skis and Romanov needed to step up a bit more.

That was not a biathlete on the shooting range, he was not thinking at all. He hit the first target, then rapid fired the next 4 missing all of them. You can stop, adjust your sights, adjust your position, anything. He just went rapid fire 'whatever' mode and then even missed everything with the spare rounds. I don't know if he himself knows what he was doing there, but yeah.

As seen in the picture above, Comola even threw away nearly 50 seconds on shooting time to Baserga as well.