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60 juries voting during the Grand Final would take the whole weekend

In the end South Korea didn't join us this time, but in answer to your question, TISC Open 2015 was the last time we had 3 debuting nations: Algeria, Moldova and Portugal joined the fold on that occasion. Significantly though, Albania and Guatemala are our newest debutants since Israel joined back in TISC Annual 2020. It took 4 years to find a new debutant so it's great to have them here

IRELAND Ireland has selected the band Picture This to be this year's representatives at TISC Annual 2024 with the song Get On My Love, a single from their 2023 album Parked Car Conversations. I hope you enjoy Picture This - Get On My Love

Sorry for the confusion. The rule is that if it is a copy then the original song must also have been released in 2023. This is only a rule for the Annual edition because we want brand new music. For example if a British artist produced a copy of Bohemian Rhapsody, it wouldn’t be eligible for Annual because the song isn’t original. Anyway thanks for understanding and looking forward to your first participation and hopefully the first of many. It’s a fun contest and hope you will get involved in all the fun discussion we have before and especially on the day of the final

Hi @Erigert, welcome to the contest, it is a pleasure to have Albania here for the first time About the song, it must be a brand new (original) song. Since this song was released a few years ago, you will need to choose a different song. We have another contest later in the year (Open contest) where we can choose older songs and you may select this song when that contest is opened. However for this contest, the Annual edition, you must find a new song that was released since Jan 1 2023. I’m sorry about that. Is there another song from 2023 that you can choose?

You can select the song, we have had similar instances in the past for other nations and it absolutely makes sense that this song should be allowed. There really wasn’t enough time for this song to have been selected for last year’s edition so in my mind it belongs in this year’s edition. Its also the reason I added the loophole about the album to help get some of these types of songs qualified by a rule. For others we have always used a little discretion. The fact that this song charted in 2023 is another indicator it belongs in this edition

If the song was released in an album in 2023 then it’s eligible. Also if it’s just 2 days before the cut off point we can make a rational decision to allow it. Essentially the song will have become known in 2023 and so it seems right it should be allowed. For the annual contest we will always have this weird situation with songs released at the very end of the year but in reality they became known to their audience throughout the months after that.

Bambie Thug won the Irish national final and will represent Ireland in Malmo with their song Doomsday Blue:

Ireland is in the Pro League so will have matches against the top nations which should help with Olympic preparation. What an achievement for this team to make it to the Olympics, they’ve had to completely rebuild in recent years and it all came good at the right time

Ireland is in

I found it here: https://onb.ilca.roms.ar/ilca6women2024/images/onbdocs/Fleet_Assignment_for_Monday_8th_January_2024.pdf At a quick glance it looks like 8 nations will battle it out in the Gold Fleet for the 7 Olympic slots:

That’s so sad, she was so young here too. I loved that performance as well, one of my favourite also.

I watched the entire PDC World Championships this year apart from a couple of sessions in the afternoon before Christmas when I was working. I’ve always been a massive darts fan

Famous athlete will pass away in 2024. Wow they are really showing their powers of prediction there.

Happy New Year everyone! I hope 2024 brings you health, happiness and peace in your hearts.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. I hope you have a wonderful time with your families and that you have a happy and healthy Christmas. And I hope you are spoiled with something nice to open and good food and drink.

Daniel Wiffen just smashed the oldest world record in the books (SC or LC) winning gold in the men’s 800m freestyle An impressive triple gold for Wiffen here (400/800/1500m free) and wonderful to see his twin Nathan join him in the finals too

I haven’t seen any of the coverage but I can only imagine it is a very good thing if swimmers are being held to account on their technique. If they performed an illegal turn then absolutely DQ them. They will learn to adjust their technique quick enough

How about combining the mixed category with the pairs and doubles to make it “Best Doubles / Pairs / Mixed Team Award”? Not sure if it fits but it is a way to capture all of the other non-individual events in one grouping.

Prince Andrew?

He really missed his opportunity with the 2026 Commonwealth Games which might actually be cancelled

Apparently the Tokyo Olympics never happened either. Or else your predictions were completely and utterly trash …..

I also was totally unaware of this song until TISC

Fionnuala McCormack has qualified for her 5th Olympic Games and becomes the 68th member of Team Ireland for Paris 2024. Fionnuala finished the World Athletics Platinum Label marathon in Valencia in a time of 2:26:19 hrs, inside the Olympic qualifying time of 2:26:50 hrs. IRELAND 68 Total Athletes 31 Men 31 Women 39 Total Events 9 Total Sports Full List of Team Ireland Qualifiers

Fionnuala McCormack has qualified for her 5th Olympics . She completed the Valencia Marathon in 2:26:19 hrs