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I think the fact that nobody touched this at all for over 9 days is a pretty good indication that we don't need to rush into another contest. It was just the annual post-contest hype.

Perhaps random people determine being kicked from the A team at 31 yo is the end

Yup, that's why I'm not particularly trusting Wikipedia, unless Stenersen himself updated that page

Apparently, Wikipedia has him in the retired section, so perhaps that's why Although an article I've google translated from Swedish just said that he's kicked from the A team and nothing about his retirement.

Would that mean that when registering you would have to contact the host of that particular event and tell them which country you want? And then they would also have to post the song for you, to not give away the country you're representing?

I don't know if the Italian team are suffering from financial issues, though it would be hard to believe seeing their recent successes. But I was always angry that the teams had additional quotas to use and chose not to give their other athletes any chances. They didn't bring back Oberhofer and she retired, they didn't give a World Cup chance to Runggaldier and now she retired too. Next target is possibly Gontier, since the Italian team chose to run Sanfilippo + Carrara without using up their extra spots on the women's side.

Honestly, they can fuck off with all of their relays

I believe they just got lazy from all those easy victories and started feeling content. They'd step up if we get the Czech Republic back into the contest.

Okay, crazy idea, not at all sure if it's actually even plausible, because most users are always late or leave their votes for the final day, but I'm going to try to set an example. So our special TISC spinoff edition could be sports related not in the term of theme, but in the way that the songs compete. Example: 36 songs in the competition are divided in six groups of six in these groups, every single song faces each other. Every user gets three points to distribute in every match, so the score can be 3:0 or 2:1 between the songs and they are all then tallied up to find out the winner of that specific match, points difference matters in case of ties. Different users could even be in charge for different groups to share the workload. Let's say that 3 songs from every group survive to form two groups of 9, the top 3 songs from Group A fight against B and C, the same for D, E, F and after that single round robin, 4 songs from each group advance and are seeded into the quarterfinals, semis and the final to find out the winner. For quarters, semi's and finals I think everyone should get 5 points to distribute, to add in some variety, 5-0, 4-1, 3-2 would be the options. PROBLEMS: This would have to be run a bit similarly as a prediction contest, people would need to vote actively and more frequently than just that single time that you do for TISC Multiple people running the show would mean more people have access to the results and that might be a worry in regards of fair play No guarantee that with this system the best song wins

I honestly just don't want us getting sick of these lovely contests. And after we're done with the summer one, it will be nearly time for the Open in Autumn. Not to mention the fact that there would have to be somebody that organises and works on this contest, so it's easy to vote yes when you're probably not the one doing everything. It feels that we're all acting that covid killed the entertainment industry, but there is still plenty of stuff to do out there.

Question 1: (b) no, in all honesty, I would like for the Summer to remain contest free Question 2: (b) no, themes restrict smaller country abilities in choosing an okay song Question 3: (a) I would like this spinoff to be as far away in similarity to TISC as possible, so the inability to represent your own country would probably be healthier for the contest's integrity.

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If we're actually holding another contest before the one in the Netherlands, I at least hope that we do an off-brand one with some weird rules. It can be something fun to kill time as long as it's not canon to the statistics and history of TISC.

I'll be happy if they submit anything at all

Are you giving me the green light on the 7 minute FOJE song that I shared yesterday?

Honestly, there's a really cool way to cook them with some bellpeppers and chicken, cover with sweet & sour sauce and serve it with rice.

Someone please say something about TISC, the Corona thread is alive again

and here in Lithuania we're not too big on conspiracies, I guess, because the only stories that we have are the general updates of Covid in our country, updates of Covid from border countries, health specialists discussing the measures that should be taken to defuse the spread of the virus, a lot about economical repercussions and nothing about bats, labs, bio-weapons etc. The new Resident Evil remake is already released, don't need to hype it up more.

Are we writing the script for the next big Netflix show now?

Well, having 100mil plays on ONE song on Spotify already means that she is fucking famous between the teens. Can't imagine a lot of older people listening to her, but she is definitely at that place where she can coast with her career even as a digital artist. Unless of course she doesn't write her own music and has 0 writing credits. Then she's making a lot of money for other people

OMG. Find An Island is such a BOP, I can't

You got to be kidding me, because I was about to go for a kiwi joke

I honestly thought it was pop

Okay, I've found one song that I'll probably use for TISC when the opportunity arrives. But now I feel bored, having mapped out Lithuanian entries for 2020 and 2021 already

Here you go, this is actually the FOJE song that reached the biggest commercial success in Lithuania. It's 7 minutes long, so you could even say that I gave you two songs. And if you need a translation, hit me up through private messages