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Poland's song sounds rather Irish

Time for Polska

Not one of their finest entries

They made a Spanish flag using tomato ketchup and mustard from a hot dog

Duran Duran "Yesterday"

No matter about the songs, even if they are good or bad, it's funny how the singers back then could actually sing! Nowadays there are very few good vocal performances at ESC.

The Eurovision channel is showing a full re-run of the 1998 contest tonight. The contest was held in Birmingham on this day 22 years ago. Malta was my favourite from this year. It starts in 10 minutes from now (21:00 CET) if you want to watch: https://twitter.com/EurovisionAgain/status/1259192347285487618?s= https://twitter.com/EurovisionAgain/status/1259192347285487618?s=2

Barbers and hairdressers won’t open here til July. I have no choice but to do just get the clippers out and do some self maintenance Although there is now a large black market exploding with some people offering hairdressers large sums to secretly attend to their hair

Singapore has more than 20,000 cases but only 18 deaths. That seems like an absurdly low death rate.

There doesn't seem to be much interest in the 2013 TISC replay then so I think I will save myself the effort of re-creating all those templates

Lockdown has been extended here until May 18th.

By the way, this was the first ever voting schedule 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

I might slightly alter the scoreboard template to make it look "high definition" whilst keeping its rustic look. The templates were really restricted on the old forum as it was not possible to format tables in the way we can now. So let's see the high definition of the original clunky scoreboard Totallympics Song Contest 2013 Grand Final Scoreboard NEXT JURY VOTING 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

The answer is yes, the scoreboard can be recreated as you can see below. The templates is another story. I don't have the original templates but I do remember the heading for each template. it coontained a spinning flag and 4 templates... Points 1-9; 10 Points; 11 Points and 12 Points. Totallympics Song Contest 2013 Grand Final Scoreboard NEXT JURY VOTING 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

I was thinking of borrowing an idea from the Olympic and Eurovision channels and have a replay of the very first Totallympics International Song Contest (TISC Open 2013). The early editions of TISC were hosted on the old forum so it's not possible to re-live them by accessing a thread. So might be a nice idea to post a full re-run of the voting results allowing us to re-live how the voting unfolded in that crazy edition and allowing new users to live it for the first time. Obviously it wouldn't last as long as a normal TISC live show and is not a true replay but might be nice to gather for a couple of hours to re-live a bit of TISC history. Any thoughts?

I guess that must be Gianmarco Tamberi? Edit: or heywoodu taking inspiration from him

In relation to the song contest, if the voting takes place prior to the Games and if songs are divided into groups, then you could have it spread over a number of days as a tournament. I am all for making it very different from standard TISC anyway so that might not be a bad thing. Plus there might be scope for having matches. For example, Song A vs Song B. There could be a set number of jurors for each match, for example 10. So you can have a win, draw or loss. You could have a mini league or group format with knock-outs. And all the while it remains hidden who chose which entries. This is just a quick thought I had and lots of detail would still have to come, but thought it might be worth throwing out there. Makes it seem more like a sport and very distinct from TISC that way.

Probably just down to his time-travelling again.

Didn’t you see my old beloved dog Benny in my profile?

Not sure what it was called but a background photo at top of the profile page.

I see the cover photo on my profile page has also disappeared.

We used to hold curling tournaments between Totallympians on flyordie.com. It may not be a summer sport but would seem silly to discount it for that reason alone.

According to the latest update Ireland now has a recovery rate of 57.6%. That's up from 0.07% in the previous update Moral of the story, reporting sucks

ANTARCTICA AT THE TOTALLYMPICS INTERNATIONAL SONG CONTEST ANTARCTICA Continent - Antarctica Population: 0.001 million people Population: 12.00 million penguins TISC Appearances 0 TISC Open Appearances 0 TISC Annual Appearances 0 National Records Overall Best Finish - National Record Points - National Record Average - National Record Points Streak - National Record Medal Streak - National Records Open Best Finish - National Record Points - National Record Average - National Record Points Streak - National Records Annual Best Finish - National Record Points - National Record Average - National Record Points Streak - Overall Medals 0 0 0 Antarctica - 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 Boycotted - - #4 TISC Annual 2015 Boycotted - - #5 TISC Open 2015 Boycotted - - #6 TISC Annual 2016 Boycotted - - #7 TISC Open 2016 Boycotted - - #8 TISC Annual 2017 Boycotted - - #9 TISC Open 2017 Boycotted - - #10 TISC Annual 2018 Did Not Participate - Invited as Special Guest - - #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 Did Not Participate - - #15 TISC Open 2020 Did Not Participate - - #16 TISC Annual 2021 Did Not Participate - - #17 TISC Open 2021 Did Not Participate - - #18 TISC Annual 2022 Did Not Participate - - #19 TISC Open 2022 Did Not Participate - - #20 TISC Annual 2023 Did Not Participate - - Antarctica's 2018 WINTERFEST entry

Probably representing nations would be a bit more fun to watch.