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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

Ireland, Malta, Moldova and New Zealand are the only songs that are missing? I might have lost track of some entries, so this is just a wild guess Edit: oh, India as well.

@Wanderer is picking Lorde this year, that's why he's waiting for the final day.

For a moment there I got completely baited and thought that Wild Child is actually a Danish band, but it wasn't meant to be I saw the title in the video frame first and thought what an interesting song name choice to go with "Savage Rose", I don't think I've heard that one from them

A lot of bad things are happening to our rowing behind the scenes, so I'm actually not expecting anything from Lithuania, perhaps a final for M2x We won't even have our women's pair not even sure what's happening over there, perhaps one is injured, but that wouldn't explain why the other one wouldn't start in the single-sculls.

I have a lot of horror stories from my hosting it was a pretty rough time since I balanced my job and October was midterm season at uni and also the fact that the job directly interfered with the grand final date, gosh was that embarrassing. If I ever end up hosting this again, I would be more prepared, I just don't think that I would volunteer to do it, it would have to be a win again that pushed me to take this on. One thing that I can say was the best decision in my hosting year was the draw where @OlympicIRL created a game, in which you had to micromanage 3 sets of tables, if I remember correctly and he asked if he should host to which I insisted that I'll do it myself. That was the training montage that prepared me for the actual grand final and without that experience it would've been one hell of a mess probably