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France with 28 golds and Netherlands with 18 seems like a wild prediction

So it seems like the dramatic announcement was all to say she is trying out a new hydration drink this year

Are Netherlands competing in the Europeans? I heard the commentator on the world rowing feed say they were taking a week break now and skipping Europeans.

Wonderful to see Georgia make it

won the contest last year. No official confirmation yet but I think @Cinnamon Bun originally showed interest in hosting so we’ll have to wait their final decision. There is no immediate need to confirm right now though

Here are some of the other songs that were part of the Irish national selection final shortlist. I was so close to choosing either of the "Heaven" songs by Cian Ducrot or the one by Niall Horan but in the end went for Picture This. Picture This - Leftover Love Cian Ducrot - Heaven CMAT - Stay For Something Good Niall Horan - The Show Gavin James - White Noise Cian Ducrot ft. Matteo Romano - Part Of Me Jazzy - Giving Me Niall Horan - Heaven CMAT - California @Olympian1010 this would have been a good entry for the TISC Open last year in California.... "I'm heading to California, don't say I didn't warn you )

We have had a couple of finals on a Sunday already as chosen by the hosts and even one across 2 days, Saturday and Sunday. Whatever suits the host is all that matters and same goes for how they present it and organise it. I have no input whatsoever but am there to help if they want a hand.

Apologies to @Henry_Leon for not being there yesterday for the show. I was traveling home from my vacation and was only able to get caught up now. What an amazing show it was. Huge congratulations to our hosts and deserving champions on their 3rd TISC victory!! @Henry_Leon@SteveParker@Gianlu33@Pablita Well done to our other medalists @Wanderer and @Belle for a great result Finally I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who voted for my entry at this contest. Really glad you enjoyed it @catgamer@NikolaB@Cobi@Vic Liu@justony@Hipooo@maestro@Makedonas@Ruslan@Belle@Bohemia@Benolympique@vinipereira@Cinnamon Bun Thanks so much to @dcro and @Glen for awarding your silver medal to the Irish song and to @Wumo and the Italian jury @Henry_Leon@SteveParker@Gianlu33@Pablita for awarding your 12 points to Ireland this year Thanks as always for everyone for continuing to participate and make this show interesting and entertaining for us all

I honestly don't know what you mean by this and think this is an unfair statement. Every single host can tell you that they have complete control over the scheduling and what days and times they want to host. I always tell the host they have full control to organize as they would like and that it's their show.

Welcome to the forum Book. Great to have you here

I will be flying home from a holiday on the day of the Grand Final so I may miss most of it and also my voting time. But I will be travelling home from the airport by bus (4 hours) so it will be a good way to pass the time by catching up on all the fun

Hi @Vektor, I'm just going out to the St.Patrick's Day parade but will give this more consideration later when I get home. I think I would be more willing to allow it as long as the song is sung by the same artist as the original and if it doesn't differ too much musically from the original. Might be a good one to put to a vote after this contest so we have an answer before the next Open edition.

Today is our national holiday, St.Patrick’s Day. Each city, town and village will have their own parade today to celebrate. I will be going to my local parade at 3pm The Dublin City parade is starting now if anyone is interested to watch: https://www.rte.ie/player/onnow/66546216066

Having a look through the schedule here is some of the big days for Team Ireland Included a few outside chances here that probably unlikely to medal but not without some realistic chance. On the otherhand I have not included outside chances that may yet come to fruition, for example boxing could have more chances when the team is finalised, men's road race cycling and other outside chances in equestrian (individual jumping). Overall it looks most likely we will win our first medal on Day 4 or 5 and then with a lot of chances coming on the middle weekend. Our first gold could possibly be on Day 7 in the men's lightweight double sculls. Day 1: Saturday, 27 July RUGBY SEVENS - Men's MEDAL MATCHES Day 3: Monday, 29 July SWIMMING - Women's 100m Breaststroke FINAL (Mona McSharry) Day 4: Tuesday, 30 July RUGBY SEVENS - Women's MEDAL MATCHES SWIMMING - Men's 800m FINAL (Daniel Wiffen) Day 5: Wednesday, 31 July BOXING - Women's -60kg Quarter-Finals (Kellie Harrington) Day 6: Thursday, 01 August BOXING - Men's -92kg Quarter-Finals (Jack Marley) ROWING - Women's Double Sculls FINAL ROWING - Men's Double Sculls FINAL Day 7: Friday, 02 August EQUESTRIAN - Team Jumping FINAL ROWING - Men's Pair FINAL ROWING - Women's Pair FINAL ROWING - Women's Lightweight Double Sculls FINAL ROWING - Men's Lightweight Double Sculls FINAL Day 8: Saturday, 03 August BOXING - Men's -57kg Quarter-Finals (Jude Gallagher) BOXING - Women's -60kg Semi-Finals (Kellie Harrington) ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - Men's Pommel FINAL (Rhys McClenaghan) Day 9: Sunday, 04 August BOXING - Women's -57kg Quarter-Finals (Michaela Walsh) BOXING - Women's -75kg Quarter-Finals (Aoife O'Rourke) BOXING - Men's -92kg Semi-Finals (Jack Marley) GOLF - Men's Individual Stroke Play FINAL (Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry) SWIMMING - Men's 1500m FINAL (Daniel Wiffen) Day 11: Tuesday, 06 August BOXING - Women's -60kg FINAL (Kellie Harrington) Day 12: Wednesday, 07 August BOXING - Women's -57kg Semi-Finals (Michaela Walsh) TAEKWONDO - Men's -58kg (Jack Woolley) Day 13: Thursday, 08 August BOXING - Men's -57kg Semi-Finals (Jude Gallagher) BOXING - Women's -75kg Semi-Finals (Aoife O'Rourke) Day 14: Friday, 09 August ATHLETICS - Women's 400m Final (Rhasidat Adeleke) Day 15: Saturday, 10 August ATHLETICS - Women's 1500m FINAL (Ciara Mageean) BOXING - Women's -75kg FINAL (Aoife O'Rourke) GOLF - Women's Individual Stroke Play FINAL (Leona Maguire)

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