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And rumour has it that Israel has been invited to replace them in The Committee.

By the way, who survived in The Committee this time and who received the cement shoes treatment?

By the way, another interesting stat is that this contest was the first time ever that Australia finished outside the top 10

@Wanderer ruined your streak. He awarded 12 points to your song in the 2017 Open and crashed your streak

ISRAEL AT THE TOTALLYMPICS INTERNATIONAL SONG CONTEST Continent - Europe Population: 9.05 million Capital: Jerusalem TISC Appearances 7 TISC Open Appearances 3 TISC Annual Appearances 4 National Records Overall Best Finish 7th National Record Points 110 pts National Record Average 3.06 PPJ National Record Points Streak 4 National Record Medal Streak 2 National Records Open Best Finish 17th National Record Points 77 pts National Record Average 1.93 PPJ National Record Points Streak 3 National Records Annual Best Finish 7th National Record Points 110 pts National Record Average 3.06 PPJ National Record Points Streak 4 Overall Medals 0 0 0 Israel - List of All TISC Entries Edition Contest Artist - Song Rank Points #1 TISC Open 2013 Did Not Participate - - #2 TISC Annual 2014 Did Not Participate - - #3 TISC Open 2014 Did Not Participate - - #4 TISC Annual 2015 Did Not Participate - - #5 TISC Open 2015 Did Not Participate - - #6 TISC Annual 2016 Did Not Participate - - #7 TISC Open 2016 Did Not Participate - - #8 TISC Annual 2017 Did Not Participate - - #9 TISC Open 2017 Did Not Participate - - #10 TISC Annual 2018 Did Not Participate - - #11 TISC Open 2018 Did Not Participate - - #12 TISC Annual 2019 Did Not Participate - - #13 TISC Open 2019 Did Not Participate - - #14 TISC Annual 2020 Eliad - Journey 21st 75 pts #15 TISC Open 2020 Idan Raichel - Boiee 30th 39 pts #16 TISC Annual 2021 Dennis Lloyd - Alien 7th 110 pts #17 TISC Open 2021 Baaz Sharabi - Halevai 35th 9 pts #18 TISC Annual 2022 Ran Danker - Beyt Meshuga'im 36th 42 pts #19 TISC Open 2022 Asaf Avidan - Reckoning Song 17th 77 pts #20 TISC Annual 2023 Full Trunk & Jimbo J - Chilling In The Kibbutz 38th 11 pts Most Successful Israeli Entry

Correct

Hands up who knows how to represent 10000 in Roman numerals

I wonder will we ever see a tie for position (truly tied after all criteria have been exhausted). I guess it's more likely to happen with low scoring songs and even then it's still not that likely to happen.

There was no theme, the contest in the latter part of the year is always the Open edition. Therefore the only restriction is that the song cannot come from the most recent 5 years. It can come from any year before that.

TISC XIV - TISC Annual 2020 (Croatia) Totallympics (Annual) International Song Contest 2020 Venue: Zamet Hall, Rijeka, Croatia  PARTICIPATING NATIONS 38  *Click on the Flag to listen to that Nation's TISC Annual 2020 entry Argentina Australia Brazil Bulgaria Canada China Croatia Denmark France Germany Greece Hungary India Indonesia Iran Ireland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Lithuania Malta Mexico Moldova Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Tunisia Ukraine United States Uruguay Grand Final: Saturday April 11th, 2020 JURIES VOTED: 38/38 UNITED STATES 86 NEW ZEALAND 76 SPAIN 114 PORTUGAL 47 MOLDOVA 26 URUGUAY 7 AUSTRALIA 75 MEXICO 88 LITHUANIA 63 BRAZIL 72 INDIA 79 SWEDEN 101 INDONESIA 102 POLAND 97 SERBIA 54 ITALY 94 KAZAKHSTAN 51 CHINA 140 ISRAEL 75 SLOVENIA 61 TUNISIA 35 GREECE 84 GERMANY 93 BULGARIA 68 UKRAINE 63 IRAN 46 CANADA 151 IRELAND 112 NORWAY 119 CROATIA 63 DENMARK 119 MALTA 84 HUNGARY 102 NETHERLANDS 77 ROMANIA 28 FRANCE 131 ARGENTINA 25 SLOVAKIA 56 1 CANADA 151 20 NEW ZEALAND 76 2 CHINA 140 21 ISRAEL 75 3 FRANCE 131 22 AUSTRALIA 75 4 NORWAY 119 23 BRAZIL 72 5 DENMARK 119 24 BULGARIA 68 6 SPAIN 114 25 UKRAINE 63 7 IRELAND 112 26 CROATIA 63 8 HUNGARY 102 27 LITHUANIA 63 9 INDONESIA 102 28 SLOVENIA 61 10 SWEDEN 101 29 SLOVAKIA 56 11 POLAND 97 30 SERBIA 54 12 ITALY 94 31 KAZAKHSTAN 51 13 GERMANY 93 32 PORTUGAL 47 14 MEXICO 88 33 IRAN 46 15 UNITED STATES 86 34 TUNISIA 35 16 MALTA 84 35 ROMANIA 28 17 GREECE 84 36 MOLDOVA 26 18 INDIA 79 37 ARGENTINA 25 19 NETHERLANDS 77 38 URUGUAY 7 TISC Annual 2020 Winner Shawn Mendes - If I Can't Have You

Do you really want to phrase it like that

I am reading and listening to all viewpoints. I don't want to write too much as I'd like the conversation to keep flowing, that way more ideas can be generated. I was thinking though, maybe this should also be a more Totallympics-wide discussion. I mean it would be nice to replace the Olympics void with something new and different. It wouldn't just have to be a TISC event. I guess there could be ideas about any type of event to bring us together during that time. And it could be a single event, or a range of events spanning the 16 days or so (more if you count the days pre-Opening ceremony) that the 2020 Olympics would have been held.

That may well happen in future as their sound is very much to my liking

Had no idea they were a thing outside of Ireland

I posted the final shortlist of songs from the Irish national selection on the Music Thread. Labour of Love was the easy winner amongst the final list.

Here are the other 15 songs from the Irish National Final shortlist for TISC Annual 2020. Max of 2 songs per artist. Song 1: ELM - Fear Song 2: Whenyoung - The Others Song 3: The Academic - Aftertaste Song 4: The Script - Run Through Walls Song 5: Dermot Kennedy - Outnumbered Song 6: SOAK - Déjà Vu Song 7: Walking On Cars - Monster Song 8: Áine Cahill - Dislocated Song 9: Moncrieff - Ghost Song 10: Picture This - One Night Song 11: Inhaler - Ice Cream Sundae Song 12: ELM - Paris Song 13: Dermot Kennedy - Power Over Me Song 14: Lenii - Yellow Song 15: Niall Horan - Put A Little Love On Me

Sure, go ahead.

I think it's a nice idea. It would mean having to involve a neutral party which I am sure we will be able to find helpers and having ways to make sure people are not nominating the same country. It would also mean that members of our usual multi-member juries in TISC would be free to compete on their own for a change.

Sure, we can discuss about the possibility of that on the TISC Discussion thread. @Vektor already added your idea there and I responded on my initial thoughts.

Sure, we can discuss it, there is no harm in that. If users want a special once-off edition because of the year we are having with the virus and Olympics being cancelled then we can of course follow that wish IF it is the wish of the community. We would also want to discuss what it would involve. TISC Open 2020 in Netherlands will still be the milestone 15th TISC edition, so this would be seen as a special one of a kind type edition, separate from the mainstream editions. Also it might be fun to make it one where we represent the nations who are absent from TISC or Totallympics in general. But that can also be decided upon. It would first need to be shown that there is an appetite for it (at least a few users showing interest), and then there would be a vote and finally a discussion about the format.

As the next host I am sure you will have a bag of statistics prepared, after all it's a milestone edition (the 15th TISC) *Don't worry, the TISC stats team will be on hand

Did we get a final medal table or did I miss it?

Ok, so just a few words now that the votes have been counted and we have found our new champion. Big congratulations to Canada for a historic victory. First win for Canada, first non-European win, and to do so in a final vote showdown is extra exciting @intoronto Congratulations to China on a wonderful silver medal, a first-ever medal for Asia @Vic Liu And well done also to France, bouncing back to claim another podium finish for the first time in a while. Another bronze to add to the collection. I am sure it's a very sweet feeling for French jurors @Bohemia and @Benolympique A huge round of applause and word of thanks for our wonderful host @dcro. The hosting has been impeccable and it was a high quality edition from start to finish in every aspect, right until the very last vote cast. Take your well earned breather now And finally thank you to all who voted for the Irish song. It was uplifting to see that other connected with the song and a special word of thanks to @kungshamra71 and @dcro once again for awarding the 12 points. It was an honour . And thank you of course to @Werloc and @heywoodu for the 10 points and to every country who gave "Labour of Love" some love. And most of all, thank you all for making this a wonderful day and keeping the contest a unique and enjoyable experience. I am really grateful you all spend your time helping to make this contest strong. I can't wait to do it all over again in the Netherlands for TISC Open 2020!!

I am already imagining there is going to be an alternative committee being formed in the shadows and there is going to be an almighty battle soon

We should post our national finalists in the Music Thread over the next couple of days for when TISC leaves a big hole in our lives again