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So let's see which nation is hiding behind brick 9 and the voting position the cat is holding: Let's see what Nation was hiding behind the chosen block... 9 UNITED STATES Voting Position # 08

Ok @dezbee2008 since we need to get this part finalised in advance of the main draw, could you please choose a number and animal combo to determine where exactly the USA will be positioned in the voting order: Another Brick in the Wall 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 National Flags are randomly hidden behind the numbered bricks Voting Positions are randomly hidden behind the Animal tiles

Also here are some details of how the draw will take place (it sounds complicated but Parts 1-4 will all take place in advance of the main draw). The main purpose of the draw will be to complete the following: 1. Nations will be assigned a position in the voting order between 1-35. 2. Positions 1-35 will be pre-assigned to 35 different base cities which will host the 35 delegations. 3. The nations will be divided up into 7 teams of 5 for the TISC team challenge. Each team will be based in one of seven regions spread across the United States and each team member will be based within a different city in that region. 4. These team positions will be spread evenly throughout the voting order (voting positions 1-7 will contain one team member from each team and so on. 5. The 7 different regions hosting the teams are as follows: The Northeast (New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Burlington, and Atlantic City) Eastern Midwest (Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee) Western Midwest (Minneapolis, Omaha, Des Moines, Wichita, Kansas City) Atlantic (Orlando, Atlanta, Washington, Richmond, Baltimore) South (Little Rock, New Orleans, Dallas, Oklahoma, Nashville) Mountain (Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City) Pacific (Anchorage, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Portland) Note: The bold cities indicate the main team base for each team, and the nation based there will play the role of captain for their team. This idea will be expanded on later but it will essentially be used as one element of separating teams that are tied for position and has a role in a minor bonus available to each team. Plus, there is a certain amount of bragging rights to be had with being able to say you are the captain of the team So, how will this process take place? Part 1: USA is randomly assigned a position in the voting order (position 1-35). USA as host will be based in the host city of Orlando in the Atlantic Region. Part 2: Once USA is assigned to their voting position, we will know exactly the voting positions that the other 4 members of the Atlantic team will be voting (of course we don't know who those other 4 nations are at this point). Part 3: We then draw the order of the other remaining 6 Team Regions. After this, we will have a table showing us exactly where each team will be spread in the voting order. It will look something like this, for example: Jury Voting Order 18 NATION - Western Midwest 1 NATION - Atlantic 19 NATION - South 2 NATION - Northeast 20 NATION - Mountain 3 NATION - Eastern Midwest 21 NATION - Pacific 4 NATION - Western Midwest 22 UNITED STATES - Atlantic 5 NATION - South 23 NATION - Northeast 6 NATION - Mountain 24 NATION - Eastern Midwest 7 NATION - Pacific 25 NATION - Western Midwest 8 NATION - Atlantic 26 NATION - South 9 NATION - Northeast 27 NATION - Mountain 10 NATION - Eastern Midwest 28 NATION - Pacific 11 NATION - Western Midwest 29 NATION - Atlantic 12 NATION - South 30 NATION - Northeast 13 NATION - Mountain 31 NATION - Eastern Midwest 14 NATION - Pacific 32 NATION - Western Midwest 15 NATION - Atlantic 33 NATION - South 16 NATION - Northeast 34 NATION - Mountain 17 NATION - Eastern Midwest 35 NATION - Pacific Part 4: We will then reveal where each of the city bases will be assigned to each voting position. This will be pre-assigned so that the draw doesn't take an eternity to complete. So after this reveal, the table should look something like this for example, with (c) denoting team captains: Jury Voting Order 18 NATION - Des Moines 1 NATION - Atlanta 19 NATION - Nashville 2 NATION - Burlington 20 NATION - Las Vegas 3 NATION - Indianapolis 21 NATION - Portland 4 NATION - Minneapolis (c) 22 UNITED STATES - Atlantic (c) 5 NATION - Little Rock 23 NATION - Atlantic City 6 NATION - Phoenix 24 NATION - Chicago (c) 7 NATION - San Francisco 25 NATION - Wichita 8 NATION - Washington 26 NATION - Oklahoma 9 NATION - Boston 27 NATION - Albuquerque 10 NATION - Detroit 28 NATION - Seattle 11 NATION - Omaha 29 NATION - Richmond 12 NATION - New Orleans 30 NATION - Philadelphia 13 NATION - Denver (c) 31 NATION - Cleveland 14 NATION - Anchorage 32 NATION - Kansas City 15 NATION - Baltimore 33 NATION - Dallas (c) 16 NATION - New York (c) 34 NATION - Salt Lake City 17 NATION - Milwaukee 35 NATION - Los Angeles (c) Part 5: We will begin assigning the other 34 nations to their voting positions. There are no limitations in terms of how quickly team spaces will be filled. One team can have all it's team members assigned before another team has any assigned to them. It will be completely random. At this point we will also learn who the team captains will be for each team and the city each nation will be based in. As stated already, we will conduct part 1-4 in advance of the main draw so that everything can be ready to go for the main event,

We'll say 16:00 GMT for now but it could possibly change to be a bit later. @Olympian1010 @dcro @mrv86 @heywoodu @Agger are currently signed up as helpers, still time to join the volunteer team if anyone wishes. @rybak will be in the team too if he found someone to do his shift at work for him

I am very much looking forward to my long weekend (Monday is a public holiday) so I won't be going to work for you, me or anyone else

Oops, forgot that the voting order draw is scheduled for tomorrow. Who wants to participate in the helping to choose the picks?

I really hope so, any medal would be lovely. I saw a report (I think on the news) recently where they were talking to Max Whitlock and it was showing some clips of his pommel in training and his routine was looking very good.

I'm really nervous and excited to see what Rhys can do here. I've always been fascinated by gymnastics so to finally have an Irish gymnast be able to compete at this level is something really awesome for me

Callum Beattie - Man Behind The Sun Blossoms - How Long Will This Last?

I still don't know what Séamus' role was, he seems to think it was only to drink and party with the tourists. He probably has as much memory of the contest than Jazzu to be honest.

How can she forget her trip to Ireland, and Séamus, and her final vote victory, and Séamus, and and

Whiskey is actually called "uisce beatha" in Irish which means "water of life"

Speaking of milk, we had this ad in Ireland and the UK in the 90s trying to encourage kids to drink milk. I am still not sure what that "thing" is . Do you remember this @Dragon? And P.S. I love milk too

My rankings are jumping all over the place. I am on something like my 7th listen by now of my top 16 and there is still a heap of movement. The top 3 are the only real stable positions

Haha, yes that's the original one

@tuniscof can surely compete. As long as the national jury is already registered then there is no problem with that and has happened on many occasions before where there has been additional jury members (or even replacements ) after the registration deadline. Sorry if anyone was confused by that.

The penguins are back?

We've only just found this new sport and already you are suggesting we PED our way to victory. Definitely potential in this sport.

That has potential for a new Olympic sport, it definitely sounds urban and youthful enough!

I have a photgraphic memory. Alternatively, it could be because I kept the records to preserve the history

@Werloc So here are the gaps filled in for you in your voting history.... TISC Open 2013 TISC Open 2014 10 pts, 9 pts TISC Annual 2015 TISC Open 2015

I have the history of the Lithuanian votes so if you give me some time, I can fill in those gaps for you

Actually A R Rahman has 3 appearance too so he is also very much in that battle. And you could say he has had 4 appearances since another Indian entry had music by Rahman.

If only Inna, Kensington and Eddy Grant actually knew that in our parallel world of TISC, they are locked in a three-way battle to be the most represented artist in history

I think that at TISC Open 2016, there also was no debuting nation. Edit: see dcro's answer above