OlympicIRL

It was at this contest when the infamous committee starting recruiting members. Interesting to see how it’s birth came about

Poblacht meaning “Republic” of course

The provisional schedule has been linked for now.

I'll post it tomorrow or Monday when I finalise it.

I booked 2 weeks off work for the Olympics this year. I planned my holiday time carefully, making sure it coincided with the Olympics and I was really happy after I scheduled the time off, knowing I could watch the whole Games without interruption. Now I have to pray that next year I will be able to do the same thing

The Nations of TISC Open 2013 Parade of Nations Voting Order 28 United Kingdom an Ríocht Aontaithe #UK 29 Canada Ceanada #CAN 30 Morocco Maracó #MAR 31 France an Fhrainc #FRA 32 Germany an Ghearmáin #GER 33 Malta Málta #MLT 34 Bulgaria an Bhulgáir #BUL

The Nations of TISC Open 2013 Parade of Nations Voting Order 22 India an India #IND 23 Greece an Ghréig #GRE 24 Egypt an Éigipt #EGY 25 Lithuania an Liotuáin #LTU 26 United States Stáit Aontaithe #USA 27 Mexico Meicsiceo #MEX

The Nations of TISC Open 2013 Parade of Nations Voting Order 15 Azerbaijan an Asairbaiseáin #AZE 16 Ireland Éire #IRL 17 Ukraine an Úcráin #UKR 18 Brazil an Bhrasaíl #BRA 19 Poland an Pholainn #POL 20 Czech Republic Poblacht na Seice #CZE 21 Croatia an Chróit #CRO

The Nations of TISC Open 2013 Parade of Nations Voting Order 08 Slovenia an tSlóivéin #SLO 09 Denmark an Danmhairg #DEN 10 Guyana an Ghuáin #GUY 11 Italy an Iodáil #ITA 12 Turkey an Tuirc #TUR 13 Romania an Rómáin #ROU 14 Slovakia an tSlóvaic #SVK

The Nations of TISC Open 2013 Parade of Nations Voting Order 01 Latvia an Laitvia #LAT 02 Sweden an tSualainn #SWE 03 Russia an Rúis #RUS 04 Vietnam Vítneam #VIE 05 Argentina an Airgintín #ARG 06 Serbia an tSeirbia #SRB 07 Kazakhstan an Chasacstáin #KAZ

Serbia with their 7 jury members at TISC Open 2014... that internal voting must have been absolute chaos

And TISC back in the day before hckosice

For anyone interested....

TISC Open 2013 Replay: Saturday, 18th July (GMT +1) The Grand Final of the first edition of the Totallympics International Song Contest took place on November 9th, 2013. 34 Nations competed at the inaugural contest which was staged in Ireland. As this edition of TISC was originally held on the "old forum", access to the original thread is no longer available This thread has been opened to allow users the chance to re-live the TISC Open 2013 Grand Final voting and will be archived to allow users to access this thread whenever they wish. I will be posting a full replay of the voting results and the evolving scoreboard as it was originally displayed. The replay kicks off at 14:00 (GMT +1) on Saturday, 18th July, 2020. Feel free to follow and comment during the replay and as I said, the thread will then be archived to allow users to access it at any time in the future. Totallympics Song Contest 2013 Grand Final Scoreboard TISC OPEN 2013 Lebanon 0 Latvia 0 Brazil 0 Sweden 0 Poland 0 Russia 0 Czech Republic 0 Vietnam 0 Croatia 0 Argentina 0 India 0 Serbia 0 Greece 0 Kazakhstan 0 Egypt 0 Slovenia 0 Lithuania 0 Denmark 0 United States 0 Guyana 0 Mexico 0 Italy 0 United Kingdom 0 Turkey 0 Canada 0 Romania 0 Morocco 0 Slovakia 0 France 0 Azerbaijan 0 Germany 0 Ireland 0 Malta 0 Ukraine 0 Bulgaria 0

Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2013 The Home of Olympic Sports Grand Final: Saturday November 9th, 2013 Venue: The O2, Dublin, Ireland Participating Nations Argentina (LDOG) Azerbaijan (Ilqar, AndyAnar) Brazil (vinipereira, titicow) Bulgaria (batbobi) Canada (Canada4thewin, olympicsfan97, juddy96, Intoronto) Croatia (crovitlaci, Deuce) Czech Republic (stepansevs) Denmark (Agger) Egypt (Dermatologist, thepharoah) France (Bohemia) Germany (catgamer) Greece (Janakis) Guyana (PrivateKnoll18) India (gvaisakh, gubchandrolai, dolby) Ireland (OlympicIRL) Italy (Henry.Leon, SteveParker, leli, Pablita) Kazakhstan (Ruslan) Latvia (vitaamiins) Lebanon (Roy) Lithuania (Werloc) Malta (Glen) Mexico (mrv86) Morocco (Amal) Poland (rybak, mati, mateusz00142, Adriano) Romania (vlad, yellowviper2001) Russia (vovanA) Serbia (pčelica, dareza, earth, smrča) Slovakia (JanMolnar) Slovenia (2007, mihamiha) Sweden (fabwin, Mango) Turkey (Euphoria) Ukraine (zhenya) United Kingdom (10ftTITAN, uk12points) United States (dezbee2008) Vietnam (DoPhuQuy) Official Schedule Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Final - Olympic Event Final Friday November 8th 14:00 Opening Ceremony Saturday November 9th 11:30 - 21:15 Grand Final Voting Order: GMT Time Local Time National Jury 12:00 14:00 Latvia 12:12 13:12 Sweden 12:24 16:24 Russia 12:36 19:36 Vietnam 12:48 09:48 Argentina 13:00 14:00 Serbia 13:12 19:12 Kazakhstan 13:24 14:24 Slovenia 13:36 - 14:30 - BREAK 14:30 15:30 Denmark 14:42 10:42 Guyana 14:54 15:54 Italy 15:06 17:06 Turkey 15:18 17:18 Romania 15:30 16:30 Slovakia 15:42 19:42 Azerbaijan 15:54 15:54 Ireland 16:06 18:06 Ukraine 16:18 13:18 Brazil 16:30 17:30 Poland 16:42 17:42 Czech Republic 16:54 17:54 Croatia 17:06 22:36 India 17:18 19:18 Greece 17:30-18:40 - BREAK 18:42 20:42 Egypt 18:54 20:54 Lithuania 19:06 14:06 United States 19:18 13:18 Mexico 19:30 19:30 United Kingdom 19:42 14:42 Canada 19:54 19:54 Morocco 20:06 21:06 France 20:18 21:18 Germany 20:30 21:30 Malta 20:45 22:45 Bulgaria Sunday November 10th 12:00 Closing Ceremony LIST OF NATIONAL SELECTIONS (34 Nations) *Click on the Flag to listen to that Nation's TISC Open 2013 entry Argentina Azerbaijan Brazil Bulgaria Canada Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Egypt France Germany Greece Guyana India Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Lithuania Malta Mexico Morocco Poland Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Sweden Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United States Vietnam TISC Open 2013 Replay Saturday, 18th July 2020

That's a great idea. I am sure they wouldn't mind helping out if needed! Also I must make it clear before any votes are received that I have decided to use the following system to decide the qualifiers among the 3rd placed teams in each group: The 2 best 3rd placed songs will advance automatically to the Round of 16 The remaining 3rd placed teams will play-off against one another to decide the remaining 2 qualifiers. These play-offs will be seeded according to the ranking of the best 3rd placed teams after the group stages. To determine the best third placed teams, the 3rd placed teams with the most points will be ranked highest. If tied on points, the teams with the best vote difference will be ranked higher. Also in case it wasn't clear, the system used for match points is similar to FIFA WC. 3 pts for win, 1 pt for draw, 0 pts for loss.

I'm in the process of sending out everyone's voting cards now with the list of songs. Hopefully will have them sent out to everyone by the end of today and no later than tomorrow!

I am also planning on showing a TISC Open 2013 replay. I'm not sure yet when to hold it. I was planning on holding it on one of the weekends during the contest but the first weekend is going to have "Super Saturday" and so then I thought maybe hold it during one of the days designated as a"Voting Day". But I probably need my full attention on that day to keep gathering the votes and sending reminders so that's a non-starter. So maybe I will hold it this Saturday instead as a kick-starter before the contest begins on Wednesday. If nothing else, the TISC 2013 replay will give new users an opportunity to re-live a contest that is no longer available since it was opened on the old forum. I will be able to create a new thread on this forum with the TISC Open 2013 replay to allow users to at least re-live the grand final scoring, jury by jury. None of the first 5 contests (TISC Open 2013 to TISC Open 2015) are available to find on the new forum so there's no way for new users to re-live them the way they can with the later contests as there are threads on this forum for each of those later editions. But I would love it if at least a few users could gather to watch the TISC 2013 Replay and post along as the votes are revealed. It could be fun. There's no need for it to be the usual full day long TISC Grand Final. It will of course be a sped up version but with sessions, mirroring the actual voting order that day. Any thoughts on this if I were to hold it this Saturday?

Okay so I have completed the allocation of judges. The breakdown of the judging guidelines are as follows: Each judge will adjudicate in a minimum of 16 matches and a maximum of 17 matches in the group stages. Judges cannot adjudicate in matches within their own group. Judges will adjudicate at least one match involving each song in the group stages. Judges will judge a song a maximum of 2 times in the group stages. Judges will judge a minimun of 3 matches and a maximum of 4 matches in each group (except for their own group). There will be 8 judges allocated to each group match. I will take a look over it tonight and tomorrow morning to check for any obvious errors and then I will begin sending out private messages to each participant to let them know the list of songs they will judge. Everyone will be encouraged to vote as early as possible to allow the votes to be gathered and counted in good time. I will probably set the deadline for Monday night, 20th July. Tuesday will be used to validate and count the votes and draft in replacement judges in case someone doesn't turn up to vote. So I ask of you all to listen to the songs now as much as you can, even before you receive the list of matches you will be involved in because it will take me a little bit of time to release all the info to each judge.

Okay, I think I am getting somewhere now. Halfway there, hopefully by tomorrow I will have the judging allocation completed and sent out to everyone by mid-week

Well I definitely don't want anyone judging the same song more than twice in the group stages. We want more diversity in the judging. I think I will try with discarding the criteria about spreading the judging across the days. As long as they judge each song once and no more than twice then I guess it makes no difference. I will see how that goes then. If not then I am just going to throw my laptop in the air, see where all the fragments land and read the signs from there

Man, allocating the judges to matches is an absolute nightmare My criteria for allocating judges are as follows: Judges cannot judge in any match in the same group as their own song 8 judges per match means each judge will be allocated to 16/17 matches. Cannot judge more than 4 matches within a specific group. Must judge at least one match of every song, except those within their group. Cannot judge the same song more than twice. I am so far trying to avoid things like someone judging 2 matches within the same group in a single matchday. I am also spreading the judges matches out as much as possible between the days. The problem is though, while adhering to those rules, it means I am often finding the same judges alongside each other in various matches Before I continue on, does anyone have any ideas on how I can allocate the judges in a better manner?

I know having best runner-up system is probably the neatest way and I am considering it. But then again, I always really dislike that system of advancing teams who are best runner-up of certain groups. Because it's definitely much easier to do well in easy groups and for a team coming 3rd in a tough group, it's much harder to score points. So a best 3rd placed team is very rarely the best 3rd placed team in reality. It's still the most likely option I am considering, I just want to rant about my pet peeve