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With another chance perhaps that song would climb to 8th?

I have finally settled on my votes, it was a tough battle, but I am very happy with what I've got. @heywoodu give me some sort of a heads up when you're ready to collect my votes and I'll send them to you.

Yeahhh, that moment when you see a song enter top 5 and you can't recollect a single note from that entry, so you run quickly to page 1 of the thread to listen to the song, thinking that perhaps you've made a mistake and quickly understand that the music taste in this place is just wildly wildly different

That's why you always give up on Group D. You're familiar with the system of my voting and it somewhat helps me save quite some time. Yeah, cool, this song is actually the best out of those that I disliked the most. Does it suck that I'll only listen to that specific song only once? Perhaps. But realistically, what chance does a song that starts from 28th position even have to get anywhere close to a top twelve? You can always identify a small portion of the songs that won't have enough growth to challenge the competition even after that singular listen. Usually it's only the top 20 that can do some damage in the long run and I tend to have that sorted after the second listen as I say goodbye to another 3 to 5 songs before the actual bloodbath starts.

It has forever and always been harder for me to rank songs that I like less than songs that I can clearly say why I like them above those other songs. The battle for 1 point is usually always the fiercest battle

I think I'll only need one final listen to hone in on my final result. Top 6 no longer shuffling, it's the 7-12 that I need to get a hang of.

There are definitely a lot of quality songs. I narrowed down the voting process to 16 and although I don't believe my top 12 will be breached by the reserves by now, I still give them a listen, because they have some bits and pieces of what I like in them. One thing that is entertaining for me, is that this competition is really close (at least in my top 12). Songs are shuffling in positions constantly and it hasn't been this unstable of a process in a long time. In fact, I'm starting to question my methods of judging hopefully I reach a satisfying conclusion, there are not that many listens left to do.

This is a completely new territory for me, but after the third listen, there were only three songs that remained in the same spot It was number 11, 12 and 16 The top songs rarely shuffle around for me, so yeah, don't know how will I reach a satisfying conclusion

I don't know how the voting period will look for us, but ideally, I would like to send mine before the 26th, because I'll be leaving for a week. If you won't be ready to accept votes by then, I guess I'll send them over to our neutral party here at Totallympics.

This story showed up in our media, legendary Serbian long-distance runner Olivera Jevtič got sabbotaged during the marathon. She was aiming to qualify for her sixth Olympic appearance. She did not get serious injuries, but she might not recover until the next scheduled marathon races. Here's a lovely 240p video to go along with that:

There are some really good ones this year, two listens in, I'm down to a top 20

Honestly, I'm shocked we're not having @vinipereira for the first time ever.

Now that you've said it, it makes sense, I immediately remembered both of the songs as well as the fact that they were not doing too hot. Thanks.

The punishment for Egypt is deserved

Woah, I really expected to see Lithuania in the red here. Makes me wonder which country took last place when I awarded points to them.

If the remix is derrived from a song that's outside of Germany, I would assume so.

Germany is online, so I'm hoping for the best

Did you get inspired by our political election when you decided to draw the winning song by chance, rather than choosing a candidate yourself?

Ooooh, someone is still keeping track of the eligibility of songs I'm actually glad, because I kinda gave up on tracking these things myself. Though, I hope Germany can still join the contest with a different entry.

Somehow @Glen always finds a way to join us at the very last possible moment. I'm not giving up just yet

Three countries to go Haven't heard much from Moldova or Malta though

I think I've listened to them for a good two to three years before I actually found out that there was a movie It's 2020, I still haven't watched the film

What a nice surprise, Lithuania actually went away with a medal in the men's fours

I'm just glad that it wasn't my favourite song from them that was used against me

Czech Republic being mega represented this year