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Just now, dcro said:

 

I guess it is. But I don't know if the Latvian women will be obligated to hold purses on Opening ceremonies.

I assume not

15 minutes ago, dcro said:

And I guess these are for the Opening ceremony.

 

Is that a purse the woman is holding?

Seems out of place for an Opening Ceremony, where the athletes will surely be holding flags and cameras rather than purses

The outfit does look lovely though.

Wait, isn't @dezbee2008 from Florida? (GMT +5).... so her voting time would be 08:45 local time? Or am I mistaken?

11 hours ago, Bohemia said:

 

What a coincidence, I listened to this song for the first time two days ago and I loved it!

What can I say, great minds and all that

It's a bit tricky for sure this time. Let's for example just say we start at the top and work down:

- Canada could swap with New Zealand (a nice idea too since NZ ended the last TISC, would be kind of nice if they then opened the voting in the next one)

- Colombia could swap with Indonesia

That leaves Mexico and the United States as the 2 remaining problematic postions. As Agger rightly said, Azerbaijan are in a little bit awkward time.... they could swap with Mexico / USA.

That would leave only Mexico / USA to resolve..... Croatia could hold the key as @dcro was hoping for an earlier slot in the voting order.

All of those juries should be contacted I guess and if everything seems fine then we could go with that.

Just now, bestmen said:

12th yes  that means i have much 12 points 

Seems like we have a North African voting segment in the middle of the voting order with Tunisia and Algeria announcing their votes one after the other.

So we have the result of the draw http://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=81304XXVQX

Canada kicks off proceedings and Slovenia will conclude the voting

4 mins until the draw!

4th for Fiona Doyle, so close

5 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

 

you're TISC rules expert.. I wanted to nominate some artists for Cuba (their father is Cuban of Yoruba decent, Miguel Anga Diaz, they were bron in Paris though, but spent few years in Havana and are often travelling there) but I am not sure they are eligible... 

Absolutely buddy, from what you say it seems they have a close association with Cuba so it would be no harm at all.  I'm sure nobody would have any objection with that especially since the Festival of Music is for fun and can easily be more flexible given that it is in the best possible spirit you want to present this music

1 minute ago, Wanderer said:

 

I completely missed that part. Though, I presented three other songs I considered for this game, guess I fulfilled the quest then

Indeed you have.... telepathy is a glorious thing

Sorry hckosice, I just realised you asked for 2 songs and for each jury to represent two other songs from their country.

I will present therefore 2 of the 10 songs that made it to the final of the Irish National Selection which was eventually won by Enya:

Markus Feehily - Love is a Drug:

Gavin James - 22

Norway

Aurora - Running With the Wolves

It was hard to choose between this song and Conqueror as I like both but I went Running With the Wolves in the end

1 minute ago, hckosice said:

 

reserved

 

you still can chose one more

Done (I added another)

I'd like to reserve Norway . And since I am supporting them in the in the exotic nations Olympic thread, I will try to find something from Cote d'Ivoire also

I vote for no after the user's last response that he doesn't care about the contest.

Back for the evening session

Just now, dareza said:

Katinka 4:30 in qualification.

She looked like she already recovered too by the time the camera focused on her at the end of the race

So who's watching the European Championships or am I the only one?

2 minutes ago, lapaj said:

Italy.

Thanks. Italy back with the big boys

34 minutes ago, hckosice said:

Following Nations Have Qualified for IIHF Men´s Ice Hockey World Championships 2017 (Partial)

• Canada
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Finland
• Germany
• Latvia
• Norway
• Russia
• Slovenia
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United States
• TBD
• TBD
• TBD
• TBD

 

 

Following Nations Have Qualified for IIHF Men´s Ice Hockey Division I Group A World Championships 2017 (Partial)

• Kazakhstan
• TBD

 

Who else got promoted besides Slovenia?? Two go up, two go down?

44 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Looks like we share this disaster. We also don't make Rio after competing at every Olympics since 1992 in slalom.

Hopefully we will share in some success next time buddy rather than disaster.

Very sad moment for our sport, first time in our history we will not be represented in canoe slalom at the Olympics. We were represented in men's canoe slalom in every Olympics and almost always in women's too.....now, absolutely no representation at all, and not even close. Pathetic really, you would swear we have no natural resources in this country to develop good canoe slalom courses and programmes..... but of course we have no facilities.... absolutely pathetic