OlympicIRL

It’s the magic of TISC... complain that you are not receiving any points and bang, you get some nice points in the next turn. Ask about a song that has been missing for 5 years and bang, you find it the very next day. We have a magic lamp that grants wishes.

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Breaking news: we have finally tracked down the missing Romanian song from TISC Open 2013. I will post it later after work. You can’t believe how happy I am that we finally got it back after 5 years and to complete the full list of songs that have taken part officially in the history of TISC

Ok, I added a quick survey on the Discussion thread. No need to have a strict vote but just to make sure firstly that more people want to have this event than not and if so, what type of event....

Thoughts on a Special Contest this Summer? Now that the Olympics have been postponed this summer and with the lack of sporting events to keep us entertained, users have expressed an interest in holding a once-off special contest during the time Tokyo 2020 was due to take place this summer. As such, I would like to gauge opinions and come to an overall consensus about whether a special contest should take place and how it should differ from the standard TISC events. I will not set a deadline on this vote for now as this is just to generate ideas and not to make firm decisions. Also this survey is open to all members of the forum, not exclusive to users who have participated in TISC. If you want more questions or options to be added to this survey, please write on thread and we can add them. Like I said, this is not a strict vote, this is more a survey to see where opinions lie.... Question 1: Would you like to see a once-off special contest to be held this summer with the final being held at some point during the old Olympic schedule? (a) Yes (b) No Question 2: Would you like it to be a themed contest? For example (sports themed, movie themed, instrumental themed, talent show themed, any other themed)? (a) Yes (b) No Question 3: If we have a themed contest, which type of theme do you prefer? Please answer even if you answered "No" to Question 2. (a) Festival of Music style - representing the nations who have not participated in TISC (b) Sports themed (c) Movie themed (d) Instrumental themed (e) Talent Show themed (f) Dance Music themed (g) Dance themed (h) Other theme - please specify Comments: (please add all additional comments and opinions in the comment box below.

Yeah I agree with it being different in feel and format from the standard TISC. Hopefully it will attract a different audience too. If we agree then it would be more like a a contest endorsed by TISC but not a standard TISC event. And the rules can be changed up and indeed organised by someone different completely if needs be.

I will arrange a vote to see if users want a contest during the original Olympic dates and what type of contest.

Medal tables are one of the most interesting parts of the Olympics for me. Yeah probably boring if you are from America because you win hundreds of medals and you practically know where in the table you are gonna finish each time. But for the rest of the smaller nations it really means something when an athlete wins a medal. It’s a great feeling of achievement and the medal table is another aspect of this. And another reason why tables should only be sorted by number of golds won and not total medals because that way smaller nations can climb a bit higher. Fiji with their 1 gold medal beats another medium nation who only wins 3 silvers and 3 bronze. I love that However, all-time medal tables are indeed boring

I actually thought that Lithuania would win this time. I did not expect it to end up on the right hand side.

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