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Here is how the draw will work in terms of the various grids: Grid 1: Choose a numbered tile to reveal a nation Grid 2: Choose an animal tile to reveal the voting position of the nation that was drawn from Grid 1. Gird 3: Finally, choose a sports-themed tile to reveal the team and location of the nation that was drawn from the first grid. I chose an animal themed grid in honour of our Antarctic guests. And a sports-themed one too as we are a sports forum after all . Also, you will notice that Brazil and Antarctica's tiles have already been revealed on the grids so we start from this point.

Totallympics International Song Contest - Live Draw Brazil 2018 Ladies and Gentlemen of the National Juries, distinguished guests, TISC fans from all over the world, I am delighted to welcome you to the Live Draw for the Totallympics International Song Contest 2018. Through this Live Draw, the competing national juries will learn their voting position in the Grand Final, their allocated team base in one of the 10 magnificent host cities and will find out which team they will be a part of for the inaugural TISC Team Challenge. There will be 4 members in each team, making a total of 10 teams, and although they won't be allocated to a specific team just yet, Brazil will play a special role in this event, possibly as a wildcard team member that surely all other teams will be looking to collect. More details on this Team Challenge will be drawn up in the coming days and weeks. In the meantime, there is still time to register your interest in taking part in the live draw by helping to choose the hidden tiles. So far we have this list of volunteers (and we will use this order of rotation for picks - if anyone is absent we will just skip to the next player): @mrv86 @hckosice @dcro @heywoodu @DaniSRB Enjoy the draw everyone and good luck for your preferred positions / locations!! Totallympics Annual International Song Contest - Brazil 2018 ALGERIA ANTARCTICA ARGENTINA AUSTRIA AZERBAIJAN BRAZIL BULGARIA CANADA COLOMBIA CROATIA DENMARK ESTONIA FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREAT BRITAIN GREECE INDIA INDONESIA IRAN IRELAND ITALY KAZAKHSTAN LITHUANIA MALTA MEXICO MOLDOVA NETHERLANDS NEW ZEALAND NORWAY POLAND PORTUGAL ROMANIA RUSSIA SERBIA SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SWEDEN SWITZERLAND TUNISIA UNITED STATES VENEZUELA Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2018 National Jury Voting Order 22 1 BRAZIL 23 2 24 3 25 4 26 5 27 6 28 7 29 8 30 9 31 10 ANTARCTICA 32 11 33 12 34 13 35 14 36 15 37 16 38 17 39 18 40 19 41 20 42 21 43 Brasília (DF) NATION NATION NATION NATION Cuiabá (MT) NATION NATION NATION NATION Fernando de Noronha (PE) NATION NATION NATION NATION Foz do Iguaçu (PR) NATION NATION NATION NATION Gramado (RS) ANTARCTICA NATION NATION NATION NATION Manaus (AM) NATION NATION NATION NATION Rio de Janeiro (RJ) BRAZIL Natal (RN) NATION NATION NATION NATION Ouro Preto (MG) NATION NATION NATION NATION Salvador (BA) NATION NATION NATION NATION São Luís (MA) NATION NATION NATION NATION

Nice, so we (Donegal) will perform after a Sandwich, that's sensible before a performance

Ok, things should be fine for the scheduled time - 12:00 Brasilia; 17:00 CET. I honestly don't know how long the draw will take. Be patient please

I don't know yet actually. Unfortunately there are things happening which I can't control meaning I don't know if the start will exactly then or at all. I will of course keep you all updated.

Wow, that's great. Good luck tomorrow Who needs Fireman Sam when we have Fireman hckosice

So who wants to help out with tomorrow's live draw? Please write here on thread if you are interested and the more helpers the better But I must caution everyone in advance to be very patient.... the draw is going to be a mammoth task this time with the various elements including the city / team allocation, so please be patient with my snail pace. Plus be prepared for lots of scrolling . Not sure if we will lose anyone yet, Turkey is looking a doubt. Totallympics Annual International Song Contest - Brazil 2018 ALGERIA ANTARCTICA ARGENTINA AUSTRIA AZERBAIJAN BRAZIL BULGARIA CANADA COLOMBIA CROATIA DENMARK ESTONIA FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREAT BRITAIN GREECE INDIA INDONESIA IRAN IRELAND ITALY KAZAKHSTAN LITHUANIA MALTA MEXICO MOLDOVA NETHERLANDS NEW ZEALAND NORWAY POLAND PORTUGAL ROMANIA RUSSIA SERBIA SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SWEDEN SWITZERLAND TUNISIA TURKEY UNITED STATES VENEZUELA Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2018 National Jury Voting Order 22 1 BRAZIL 23 2 24 3 25 4 26 5 27 6 28 7 29 8 30 9 31 10 ANTARCTICA 32 11 33 12 34 13 35 14 36 15 37 16 38 17 39 18 40 19 41 20 42 21 43 Brasília (DF) NATION NATION NATION NATION Cuiabá (MT) NATION NATION NATION NATION Fernando de Noronha (PE) NATION NATION NATION NATION Foz do Iguaçu (PR) NATION NATION NATION NATION Gramado (RS) ANTARCTICA NATION NATION NATION NATION Rio de Janeiro (RJ) BRAZIL NATION Manaus (AM) NATION NATION NATION NATION Natal (RN) NATION NATION NATION NATION Ouro Preto (MG) NATION NATION NATION NATION Salvador (BA) NATION NATION NATION NATION São Luís (MA) NATION NATION NATION NATION

How appropriate, don't mind if I do

I think that's the name of the Donegal entry for Winterfest.

I am as a jober as a sudge! *hiccup*

I'm here, votes will be cast, panic not

Well for all I know there could be alien spacecrafts hovering above me as I speak, but with the thick blankets of grey cloud it is quite impossible to say. If our extra-terrestrials friends could shoo away some of those rainclouds then I would be grateful, thanks

The two-member team from Rio can have their score doubled since they have half the amount of members of the other teams. Are we happy with the colours chosen then?

Excellent idea and it would be nice to see a bond between the delegations who are based together

Gramado because of Antarctica? Or for another reason like Bruna? . Where is is she from?

Here is how the breakdown of where the delegations will be split up for our stay in Brazil and the number of delegations that will stay in each region. The locations of each delegation will be randomly assigned during the live draw next weekend. As you can see Antarctica will be housed in Snowland in Gramado and 4 other delegations will share the experience of Gramado with them. 9 other cities and regions will house 4 delegations each. Meanwhile, the hosts will be based in Rio and one lucky delegation will be based alongside the Brazilian delegation and will be their guest. Also, as a a once-off for the special jubilee edition, the hosts will deliver their votes first and is also a fitting continuation from the last edition in which the Brazilian jury were the final jury to vote. Brasília (DF) NATION NATION NATION NATION Cuiabá (MT) NATION NATION NATION NATION Fernando de Noronha (PE) NATION NATION NATION NATION Foz do Iguaçu (PR) NATION NATION NATION NATION Gramado (RS) ANTARCTICA NATION NATION NATION NATION Rio de Janeiro (RJ) BRAZIL NATION Manaus (AM) NATION NATION NATION NATION Natal (RN) NATION NATION NATION NATION Ouro Preto (MG) NATION NATION NATION NATION Salvador (BA) NATION NATION NATION NATION São Luís (MA) NATION NATION NATION NATION

Happy Easter Happy Easter to all who celebrate! And yes, that pic is an accurate representation of me today....

For the live draw, nations will not only learn their voting position, but also the draw will determine which delegations will go to which regions and cities

That's two of the equestrian commentators I grew up listening to gone in the last few years (Irish and British)

Breaking News: TISC-WINTERFEST Crossover Confirmed Historic agreement between TISC and WINTERFEST emerges. A quick summary includes: TISC official will travel to WINTERFEST TISC members will decide the winner of WINTERFEST Antarctica will be part of the Opening Ceremony of TISC As a gesture of goodwill Antarctica will be allowed to vote in the live show but their votes will not count and like Lebanon in the first edition, they will appear on the scoreboard as a "ghost-entry"! The full report can be found on the TISC-News website https://tisc-news.totallympics.com/?p=1090

Happy birthday @dezbee2008. Hope it's a good one

Oh come on, a Welsh man is definitely not going to be biased towards the English, if anything it would be quite the opposite .

Ireland claim the Grand Slam with victory in Twickenham It was a historic St.Patrick's Day for Irish sport as the men's rugby team defeated England in Twickenham to add the Grand Slam to their Six Nations title. In a controlled performance Ireland blasted out of the blocks with first half tries from Garry Ringrose, CJ Stander and Jacob Stockdale leaving England trailing 21-5 at half-time. England, unbeaten at home in the Six Nations since 2012 had tries in either half by Elliot Daly and a stoppage-time try by Jonny May was not enough to spoil the Irish party as they ran out comfortable 24-15 winners in the end. It is just the third time in history that Ireland has claimed the Grand Slam and follow in the footsteps of the Irish heroes of 1948 and 2009. It is also Ireland's third Six Nations title in 5 years for Joe Schmidt's men, who now lie in second place in the world rankings behind the mighty All Blacks. What A Day!!!! Grand Slam champions 2018 The Final Standings of the 2018 Six Nations Tournament:

I go to my local parade almost each year (most towns and villages have their own parades) but never been to the Dublin one. And yes, all parades all very loud

Inspiring words there from the presenter Blathnáid: "We need spiders as much as they need us"