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Welcome to the opening ceremony. It's now closed. Have a wonderful year. Sincerely, Brazil.

From what I learned, @vinipereira likes to open things. He must love Christmas

The fact that I only dropped out of the committee, because I placed the winner 13th last contest will spite me right until my grave

Anyways, it doesn't seem that I missed a lot points wise and if my memory serves me right, after 40+ pages of reading, I have to thank @dcro @justony @Agger and @Bohemia I think I did it right? Congratulations to Italy, it will be extremely interesting to see how the biggest team hosts TISC in 2019 As for the Lithuanian result, well, i honestly thought this song had more of a commercial success and now I think that I'll be retiring songs in Lithuanian for a bit

Anyways, before I'm leaving for the next 4-5 ish hours, I have a couple of words to say: The quality this year was amazing and as I've said, some of the songs that didn't score this year, would have easily made it into points in other contests. Firstly, Bulgaria @stefanbg you were in 13th for the longest time, I tried to think of ways how I could give this song a point, but the others kept edging you out in every listen. I also had Slovakia @hckosice in 14th, very nice, simple song, but I guess lacked a little bit that distinctiveness in order to edge out other songs. Algeria @bestmen you were 17th, I really liked the harmonies in your song. New Zealand @Wanderer you were up there too, but this time the NZ magic wasn't enough, but I give you points more often than I don't @heywoodu it's a little bit ironic, how the 1st time Kensington appeared, they were my twelve points, the second time in the middle of the pack with 6 points and now it just wasn't enough. And finally, the songs that did somehow get those points from me, it was an extremely tough battle and you've all sent lovely songs, good luck to you in the 3rd session

did I comment something like that? I don't remember.

GERMANY 12 GREAT BRITAIN 11 ITALY 10 SWEDEN 9 CROATIA 8 BRAZIL 7 NORWAY 6 SWITZERLAND 5 MEXICO 4 IRELAND 3 ESTONIA 2 PORTUGAL 1 < Atsiprašau, aš šiandien labai nekūrybingas > Anyways, the interesting story with my twelve points is that I actually spam listened to this song on Spotify before it was ever on TISC and I was surprised it was German. Had to stop listening to it, in case Bohemia stalked me on last.fm again Anyways, very glad to have catgamer back in our little family

Does anybody have any guesses for my twelve points?

Also guys and gals, mind explaining to me why you're abusing Great Britain?

GREAT BRITAIN 11 ITALY 10 SWEDEN 9 CROATIA 8 BRAZIL 7 NORWAY 6 SWITZERLAND 5 MEXICO 4 IRELAND 3 ESTONIA 2 PORTUGAL 1

Anyway, can I just have a moment to say that ITALY, this is the music that I have been waiting to hear from you for such a long time. I remember in early contests how I always voted for Italy, so I was extremely happy when I heard your song

< Sveiki visi, smagu vėl Jus matyti čia susirinkusius šiame TISC konkurse. Sėkmės visiems, linkėjimai iš Lietuvos! > Good afternoon Totallympics, this is Lithuania calling! These are the results of the votes of the Lithuanian National Jury: ITALY 10 SWEDEN 9 CROATIA 8 BRAZIL 7 NORWAY 6 SWITZERLAND 5 MEXICO 4 IRELAND 3 ESTONIA 2 PORTUGAL 1

Wait, do I need to be called out or can I start with my votes?

Anyways, before starting to reveal my votes, let me just say that I am extremely surprised (in some cases) how this contest is shaping up.

That's why you don't hurry with your votes and take ages and ages before you finally decide on the ranking. That's how I avoid guilt-tripping myself

Woah, that's unexpected Thank you Colombia and @carivan The dream continues with: 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 9 + 12 Also, it's an EPIC move for our team.

I'm a lucky girl, I'm a lucky lucky girl To add to the fire.

I'll take a piñata full of candy

I love how PP can stand for both power plays and pity points

But will you be able to protect Mexico alone?

Way to not help the team @mrv86

Also, I was considering, perhaps we could make Mariah Carey - Emotions the official anthem of TISC?

Or go in with the likes of Ed Sheeran or Adele. Even better yet, get them together to make a duet and look at your 1000 points at the end of the day

The problem with Azerbaijan is that when you're not online, you can't use the good old "cry for votes" technique, which I think is one of the major reasons why Azerbaijan is in trouble on the scoreboard.

@Wanderer should look in to this