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First cases confirmed in Denmark and Estonia.

Norway with their first confirmed case now too.

Georgia now with a confirmed case also.

Algeria now with a confirmed case too.

Hi @MHSN, would be great to have you back! And yes, that song would indeed be eligible according to the rules so if you decide that’s the one you want it is fine to use that

Courtesy of worldometer, here is the current state of play in the Covid-19 medals table.... Country, Other Total Cases New Cases Total Deaths New Deaths Total Recovered Serious, Critical China 76,940 +652 2,443 +98 23,163 11,477 Diamond Princess 691 +57 3 +1 17 27 S. Korea 602 +166 6 +4 18 7 Japan 146 +12 1 22 6 Italy 134 +55 2 2 26 Singapore 89 49 5 Hong Kong 74 +4 2 12 6 Iran 43 +14 8 +2 Thailand 35 21 2 USA 35 6 Taiwan 28 +2 1 2 1 Australia 22 +1 11 Malaysia 22 17 Germany 16 14 Vietnam 16 15 U.A.E. 13 3 2 France 12 1 10 Macao 10 6 Canada 9 3 U.K. 9 8 Philippines 3 1 2 India 3 3 Russia 2 2 Spain 2 2 Belgium 1 1 Cambodia 1 1 Egypt 1 1 Finland 1 1 Israel 1 Lebanon 1 Nepal 1 1 Sri Lanka 1 1 Sweden 1 Iraq 1 Highlighted in green = all cases have recovered from the infection. Highlighted in grey = all cases have had an outcome (there are no active cases).

Most of my sports-related dreams are nightmares Every so often I have a dream where I realise that I have forgotten that the Olympics are taking place and I already missed 1 week of action. Crazy dream and not at all likely

Ireland is in of course!! Séamus and I are really looking forward to going to Croatia!

IRELAND After much deliberation, I am proud to announce the Irish entry for this year's TISC Annual 2020 in Croatia. Ireland will be represented at this year's contest by Limerick band Whenyoung. The trio consists of Aoife Power on lead vocals and base, guitarist Niall Burns and drummer Andrew Flood. The song entitled "A Labour of Love" featured on their debut album "Reasons To Dream", I hope you enjoy Whenyoung - A Labour Of Love Lyrics:

I’m obviously boycotting this edition

Ahh, that’s quite a gap I guess it’s hard to argue that this is new material from 2019 since it was first released in the first half of 2018.

What date in 2018 is the album from? And what date in 2019 was the single released? If they are close together I would be inclined to say ok you can use it.

Let’s just say I’m not focusing too much on the pronunciation at this time

Me too! I’m learning Danish.

For multi-member juries with 4 or more members, that jury can decide to allow each member to award points using the format 18-15-12-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 or they can choose to use the standard format of 12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. Before the voting period begins, the jury will discuss which format they want to choose and then post on thread to say which format will be used. Each member will then submit their votes to the host as usual and the scores will be combined as normal.

Oh I did. But @dcro had a bigger bribe

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are going to Croatia for TISC Annual 2020. Congrats @dcro . Commiserations @Olympian1010

Depends what direction we decide to move the decimal.

There's now a 12.5% chance of it happening again. @Olympian1010's chances have increased sharply from the 6.66% chance he had last time

Séamus will be in touch.

TISC Annual 2020 Announcement A random draw has been scheduled for tomorrow (18:00 GMT) where the winning ticket will be drawn, revealing the hosts of TISC Annual 2020. Croatia has 7 tickets and the United States have 1 ticket. Croatia - 7 tickets United States - 1 ticket Good luck to both candidates @dcro @Olympian1010 The link to the draw can be found here: https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=1564878JHKF8

Agreed. I can set the random draw for tomorrow even.

Actually Slovakia hosted as they came 2nd behind Germany and Germany turned down the hosting rights Oh wait, that was Denmark that hosted then. You are right lol I don’t remember how Slovakia got the hosting duties . They finished 4th and all top 3 declined maybe?

Ok so both candidates who entered the race to host this contest initially have said they are still interested. Therefore in my mind it is clear one of those users should host. So do we conduct a repeat of the random draw again like we had before except without bestmen this time of course. @dcro and @Olympian1010 do you agree to that format? You both have a designated amount of tickets like before? I think it’s fair to re-run the initial race.

@konig @KingOfTheRhinos @Function CR Lee @Manulete @Wumo @Agger @Bohemia @Benolympique @Janakis @Vektor @Ashton @Griff88 @OlympicIRL @Gianlu33 @Henry_Leon @Pablita @SteveParker @Dunadan @Glen @mrv86 @Khadidja Aisha @heywoodu @Wanderer @Skijumpingmaster @rybak @kungshamra71 @IoNuTzZ @DaniSRB @hckosice @Cobi @Belle @amen09 @Illya @dezbee2008 @NaBUru38 @dcro @Werloc @vinipereira @Olympian1010 @justony @Dnl As most of you know by now, TISC Annual 2020 has hit a major bump in the road. The host had to be removed from his duties after refusing the participation of another user. As such, I have locked the TISC Annual 2020 thread until we figure out where to go from here. First thing to say is that the contest will certainly go ahead. Secondly, I hope to have the contest back up and running sooner rather than later as we already have many nations with entries submitted. But the contest won't be rushed either for the sake of it. So we will allow a chance for any users who did not want to participate in the contest previously to now come onboard and take their place in the contest. Hopefully all of those who boycotted the event can now get behind the contest once again. The most important thing then is to decide what to do about hosting. @dcro and @Olympian1010 previously submitted bids for the contest. I don't know how interested any of you would be on taking up the mantle in such short notice. I also understand that hosts want time to prepare content to welcome us to their country so I would never want to make it feel like a host has to take a second hand experience of hosting. But I do feel it's the legitimate decision to at least give them a say on whether they want to take this over or not. I am also open to suggestions regarding the hosting and in general about how to get this ball rolling again. I will volunteer myself for hosting duties also if it is needed. Thanks for your understanding and I really would appreciate your guidance here. OlympicIRL