OlympicIRL

I am happy to announce a significant extension to the voting deadline. Jury members now have until 21:00 GMT, Friday, December 12th to submit their votes. This adds a full week to the existing deadline so will hopefully ensure anyone struggling with time to get some much needed extra space to listen to the songs and submit their votes Since the Grand Final won't take place until after the New Year, we have some room to move the deadline to make it easier for everyone to get their votes in

Yes I will certainly be extending the deadline into next week. The Grand Final won’t be happening this side of New Year so there is room to extend the voting deadline. Expect an update on Friday but for sure if you need more time to listen then you have my blessing that the deadline will be extended

I am pleased to announce that the host nation has submitted their votes. This means voting is now OPEN to all jury members For any new jury members, just sending a reminder on how this process works. Once you have listened to all songs and are happy that you know which 12 songs you want to vote for, send those votes by PRIVATE MESSAGE to the organiser, @OlympicIRL. All votes are kept secret until the Grand Final, so please don't indicate in chat who you voted for to keep the surprise element intact on the Grand Final. On many occasions the final vote has crowned the winner so that's why it's important to keep the suspense alive . Additionally, as well as voting for your 12 favourite entries and awarding points from 1 to 12, please submit a 1st, 2nd and 3rd reserve in case some nations withdraw. Please indicate the priority of your reserves also. I have included a voting template below which you can utilize to send your votes, if you so wish Jury members you have until 21:00 GMT on Friday, December 5th to submit your votes by private message, so plenty of time to get listening to those entries . @Erigert@konig@hoversaBR@Federer91@Topicmaster1010@Vic Liu@Agger@Wumo@Benolympique@Bohemia@catgamer@Dragon@maestro@Yannakis@Fer GUA@Fly_like_a_don@Roamingrover86@Griff88@Dnl@Gianlu33@Henry_Leon@Pablita@SteveParker@Ruslan@Bearas@Glen@mrv86@heywoodu@rybak@kungshamra71@IoNuTzZ@NikolaB@Bailer@hckošice@justony@Cobi@Belle@amen09@Memo@Illya@dezbee2008@Olympian1010 Rank Nation Points 1st Nation 12 2nd Nation 11 3rd Nation 10 4th Nation 9 5th Nation 8 6th Nation 7 7th Nation 6 8th Nation 5 9th Nation 4 10th Nation 3 11th Nation 2 12th Nation 1 13th Nation 1st Reserve 14th Nation 2nd Reserve 15th Nation 3rd Reserve

So we made it to 34 nations! I will update the table on the first page in the morning with all the entries and as the host, I will be submitting my votes some time before Monday. I will make an announcement here when we will open up the voting to all juries.

Thank you @Roamingrover86 for your gracious decision and yes I think it’s fair for you to have priority next time. Here is the official entry for India for TISC Annual 2025: INDIA

Hi @NikolaB! Come join the party, we are happy to have you, you made it just in time Serbia is in!!

So we added one more country bringing us up to 33 nations courtesy of joining. We are now just waiting for India to confirm their entry. I have contacted both users @Fly_like_a_don and @Roamingrover86 to give them until 18:00 GMT tomorrow to try to come to an agreement as to which song to enter for India. If we don’t have any agreement after that time, I have decided that the fairest solution will be to conduct a random draw to select their entry and the other user will have the priority to choose for the next contest. Thanks again to everyone for submitting your entries

Thanks for resubmitting a new entry and welcome to the contest again

Hi @Memo, From your description it sounds like this is not an original song but a copy of an original that is 60 years old? If so, unfortunately that is not eligible for the Annual edition as it is for original songs. If you can post a replacement within the next 24 hours then we will accept that providing it is also within the rules. Thanks

@Fly_like_a_don and @Roamingrover86 have both nominated different entries for India. I have opened a private message with you both. Can you please work together to decide on the Indian entry before tonight's deadline? Thanks so much

@Roamingrover86 has submitted an entry for India by private message which I will reserve as the Indian entry for now until I hear otherwise before the deadline. Once the deadline passes and if we have not heard from @Fly_like_a_don then I will go ahead and post the entry that has been reserved. It means all registered nations have now submitted a song . Still 24 hours left if any other nation wants to surprise us with a last minute appearance

Oh yes I remember that Also references the time when our federation asked FIFA to be the 33rd team at the World Cup in 2010 after the play-off controversy involving the Thierry Henry handball in extra time. Blatter laughed and made fun about it in public

Yes of course! @Fly_like_a_don also expressed interest so you may have to work together to decide on what song you want to represent India. Send him a private message so you can work on ideas together. However, in case he doesn’t show up before the deadline on Saturday, please send me your own preferred song for India by private message and if @Fly_like_a_don does not respond to you before the deadline, then I will submit that as the Indian song

The entry deadline is going to be extended for 48 hours to allow a chance for and to get their songs in. The new and final deadline will now be Saturday 22 November, 21:00 GMT. New countries are also eligible to join before that deadline, providing they submit their song before that time also

Shout it from the rooftops!