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No worries! Sorry to hear that and hope you feel better soon!

Covers are fine! This is just a celebration of music so no rules in this festival

Festival of Music For this year’s Festival of Music I thought I would change it up a bit. Since we are approaching the festive holiday season, I want you all to post some festive songs from your country. If you don’t celebrate Christmas then perhaps some other song that has a special place in your heart during an important celebration. I’m going to start with a Christmas song from Ireland’s TISC Annual 2023 representatives Picture This. Picture This - This Christmas

So the voting draw has been completed. Here is the provisional voting order. Once a voting schedule for the Grand Final has been created we will look to see if there is any nation eligible to request a swap. Denmark will be opening the voting followed by their Scandinavian neighbour Sweden. will close the voting on the Grand Final day TISC Annual 2025 - Provisional Voting Order 1 Denmark 18 Israel 2 Sweden 19 Serbia 3 Slovakia 20 Romania 4 Indonesia 21 Brazil 5 Great Britain 22 Poland 6 Italy 23 Mexico 7 Spain 24 Netherlands 8 Kazakhstan 25 China 9 Ukraine 26 Slovenia 10 Bulgaria 27 Turkey 11 Germany 28 Albania 12 United States 29 Malta 13 France 30 Ireland 14 India 31 Argentina 15 Tunisia 32 Lithuania 16 Portugal 33 Guatemala 17 Greece 34 Canada

I have scheduled the voting order draw for later today. I will be using a random generator to auto-generate the results. If anyone is interested, I have posted a ticket of the scheduled draw. There is no result available yet but will appear once the draw has passed the scheduled time. https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=4047191GXV9CAS4M2

has just delivered their votes which means that all nations have now voted and we have no disqualifications this year The voting window will officially end tomorrow (Friday) at midnight GMT after which I will post details about the voting order draw. It’s likely going to be a random draw from a random generator site to save time in this busy period. I will schedule the draw and post a ticket so users can view the result after the scheduled time. More to come on that on Saturday. Thanks again to all participants

votes have been received For any other multi-member jury member who hasn’t yet voted you still have until midnight tomorrow to vote if you so wish. I know @Gianlu33 said he was busy with exams this time so had to withdraw. So just @Roamingrover86 and @Olympian1010 who we didn’t hear from so tagging in case they still want to submit their votes by tomorrow Update: Roamingrover86 has now voted too

We are waiting on just and to vote now. @Glen @Illya Glen has been in touch to say he needs another 24 hours to get his votes in which is fine! I am hoping to receive all votes by this Friday at the latest as I need to start my preparations for the voting templates.

Right now for me, no. But it’s still coming and going for me as well.

Yes same here. It seems to sporadically go slow at some parts of the day to the point where it’s hard to use the site. Then later it will be fine and after a while back to the same issue.

Yes and @heywoodu voted this morning as well. Appreciate everyone’s effort to get their votes in at this busy time of year.

Yes that’s no problem! Enjoy your vacation

Ireland would be in Group A but of course I am not even contemplating them being there for a second. As a half Scot I’m just delighted are back for the first time since 1998!

Brazil Morocco Scotland…. we go back to 1998!! Hahaha Come on Scotland!!

Iran never qualified out of their group but are in pot 2…. I know it’s based on ranking but still.

Where’s Will Smith when you want him?

Dear FIFA, For reference for future draws, please see links below. Thank you! https://randomizer.uk https://www.randomresult.com

I don’t think even Lauryn Hill cared.

Half-time at Super Bowl looks like a real treat compared to this

Lauryn Hill to the audience: ”Make some noise!!”

God this is tedious!

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.