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And finally, I am not the one for big speeches, but congrats first of all to @heywoodu for holding everything together. Even at those times when Slovakia casted ILLEGAL votes. Kudos! Having to correct 30 templates on the day of Grand Final sounds like a nightmare.
 
Congratulations to Serbia and Canada, and of course Malta who belonged to my personal Top 3. Obviously congratulations to all the team medalists as well. Now we have more than 30 nations with various team medals, so the Team Challenge really represents a nice opportunity for a whole new level of fan engagement.
 
As for Croatia, I had no expectations for the first time ever perhaps. I watched H-8 at an outdoor cinema this summer, and when Sretan Put came along, I immediately picked it up for this Open. It was an interesting experience.

No idea what to do for the next editions. During Annuals it's both impossible to experiment and impossible to post a decent result (Top 15 - never happened). During Opens it's easier to get better results, but I usually end up not choosing the entries with most potential.

Congrats to Serbia and Malta for making TISC history, first ever Slavic win and the first small nation to reach the podium!
 
And I would like to thank the few who voted for us this time. I guess it's back to the drawing board for us to figure out what works at TISC. Not sure what to expect from us next time because there are only a few viable options for Annual thanks to COVID. Hopefully our former ESC national competition will give us something to work with. 

Congratulations to and @NikolaB for the win. Quite a nice discovery.
 
Also a big cheer for the other podium finishers: @intoronto, I'm sorry this time your entry only was a reserve, and @Glen I'm with @Werloc, each song, whether in the end they could get points from me, are enjoyable, bue in this ocassion you beat two heavyweights in my rank, which was an achievement.
 
@OlympicIRLsorry to not see you in the podium this time, I was almost sure this amazing song would get you another win, but 5th is not bad.
 
@Michal Hrochyours was the biggest mover and probably the greatest surprise in this contest Wish it had received more votes though, excellent entry.

What an epic contest, privileged to part of the drama right until the very end!
 
Huge conrgratulations to Serbia for their first TISC victory, a dominant win by all means! Ireland salutes Irish Stew of Sindidun
 
Congrats to Canada for their second medal of the year, a very impressive year for them with a gold and silver in both 2020 contests.
 
And finally, so delighted for Malta on making it onto the TISC podium for the very first time. A great achievement for the tiny island nation who now has a shiny medal in their cabinet! It was great to be part of this historic moment also
 
And finally, a big big big thank you to @heywoodu for all of his work in the last few weeks and for taking on the mantle of host. I have enjoyed every moment of this final, but throughout the whole edition, it has been a pleasure to be part of and thank you so much for your efforts! And now, you can take a breather and put your feet up for a well earned rest!
Thanks to @dcro also for those entertaining interviews and for all the other little stats and things that just helps make TISC even more enjoyable.
 
And as always, thank you to all who participated in the contest. I feel like we just keep getting stronger year after year, and it's great to see interest and enthusiasm is as high as ever.
 
Just a final thank you to all who placed votes in the Irish basket, especially to @Vektor for giving me a very nice surprise with that 12 points!
 
 
Enjoy the celebrations everyone!! Long live TISC
 
 
 
 
 

Congratulations to every country for the scores, specially to Serbia! ?????
@heywoodu is a great secret keeper, it was impossible to get him to tell me in advance who was the winner ?. Congratulations for the hosting, my dear ?
 

It was a good feeling to come back into the top 10 after a long streak of mediocre performances.
 
It was also really fun to break the 100 point mark.
 
If this song didn't succeed, I would probably question every single song choice into oblivion, because I was really starting to get lost whilst guessing what you would enjoy  
 
This makes it easier to send a song in Lithuanian for 2021, because I won't feel as bad if I can't repeat a top 10 and I have a really nice one ready for you, I just know that it's really a gamble not going for English every single time.
 
Congratulations to the podium, @NikolaB probably won't understand what happened, nice streak for @intoronto and a memorable experience for @Glen
 
Best wishes to everyone sharing the top 10 with me, a lot of the songs I really liked sneaked into it, so I'm pretty happy with the results overall. Expected a bit more love for Moldova, China, Great Britain, Brazil and Czech Republic, but I can't expect all of my favourites to make it to the top. 
 
Thank you to everyone that voted for Lithuania, huge shout out to @titicow for that gold from Brazil, it means a lot. Honorary shout out for @Bohemia since it was top in her list as well. I think there was also a medal from team Denmark and I appreaciate that one a lot as well and if I remember correctly, that was the only medals and a perfect 1-1-1 set.
 
Another great contest and can't wait to hang out with you all in Canada.

Amazing contest! Thanks a lot to @heywoodu for great organization
Congratulation  like truly winner! The song has unique syntesis of world music. Good job! 
Finally, thanks all countries voting for  As a Music teacher at high school I wanted to choose a high-art level song. I hope I did it well....

Congratulations to @NikolaB on an impressive win from the Serbian delegation.
 
@intoronto snags another podium (Is Canada the Ireland of North America?)
 
Of course, a huge congrats to @Glen on Malta’s first podium.
 
I’ll post some more feedback and congratulations later this week.

congrats to  @NikolaB  for victory, @intoronto  for second and @Glen third place! Thanks @heywoodu for fantastic hosting! 

Huge victory for Serbia.
 
Great show @heywoodu

A word from our president
 
"First of all, many congratulations to Serbia, @NikolaB and Irish Stew of Sindidun on their first ever Totallympics International Song Contest victory and, as someone who awarded them the maximum score, I can only say it is incredibly deserved - a fact that's made even more clear by the overwhelming victory.
 
Second, huge congratulations to Malta, @Glen and Airport Impressions with a historic first ever medal, which goes to show that one should simply never give up...you never know what's possible!
 
Third, I personally owe a great deal of gratitude towards several people, who have helped me immensely in making the contest possible. I wasn't sure I could do it, mostly due to a severe lack of creativity, but exactly that is where mostly @Olympian1010, @OlympicIRL and @mrv86have been of fantastic value to me, and I definitely won't forget @dcro's efforts for the team competition!
 
Last, but most definitely not least, a big thank you to all who have participated in the contest. I'm amazed at the number of jurors who came here to post their own votes, which always shows a good deal of commitment - nothing against those who didn't, by the way, of course life does sometimes get in the way a little. It would not have been as much fun without each and everyone of you, so from the bottom of my heart: thank you all!
 
Now, lastly, but actually lastly: have a wonderful evening, and see you at the bar!"

So big congrats to  @NikolaB for winning contest at his debut, ESC 2007 result is repeat
 
Hopefully more Serbian users will compete in next year as host nation.
 
Congrats Canada for another top3 place and to Malta for their first podium, well deserved 
 
Thanks @heywoodu for hosting contest and another epic day on Totallympics
 
Now all goes to @intoronto and his contest in spring, good luck 
 
It's also first time that trick of complaining about lack of points didn't work for me 

So happy with my 7th place finish and big congrats to Serbia. That was a stunning performance from start to finish and you absolutely deserved it. This is a fantastic song ?

Congrats Serbia total domination 

Team Members R1
(1-7)
R2
(8-14)
R3
(15-21)
R4
(22-28)
R5
(29-35)
Staverden Ghosts 57 94 94 95 62 Ermelo Riders 72 76 94 127 107 Harderwijk Dolphins 68 58 Did not advance Elburg Botters 96 66 75 Did not advance Veluwe Vipers 35 Did not advance Apeldoorn Gorillas 105 78 95 50 DNA Nunspeet Wolves
113 89 87 65 96

And so we have reached ourselves a conclusion...points have been splintered, ties have been broken...and here we have it, the final standings of the 2020 Totallympics Open International Song Contest!
 

 
Final Scoreboard
TOISC - NETHERLANDS 2020 China 18 67  Serbia 1 237  Portugal 19 67  Canada 2 165  Indonesia 20 62     Malta 3 143  United States 21 62  Ireland 4 143  Italy 22 57     France 5 124  Denmark 23 56  India 6 124  Poland 24 48  Germany 7 118  Spain 25 44  Lithuania 8 109  Croatia 26 44  Kazakhstan 9 99  Slovenia 27 41  New Zealand
10 91  Egypt 28 40  Netherlands 11 85  Tunisia 29 39  Romania 12 85  Israel 30 39     Argentina 13 85  Slovakia 31 36  Brazil 14 82  Greece 32 35  Moldova 15 79  Mexico 33 35  Czech Republic 16 77  Hungary 34 23  Great Britain 17 75  Bulgaria 35 14   
There can, however, be only one winner and with an overwhelming performance, that honour goes to Serbia! Please turn up the volume and make way for a final performance of the TOISC 2020 champions:
 
Irish Stew of Sindidun - Lady of New Tomorrow!
 

MALTA
 
 

Serbia 11
Germany 10 India 9 Indonesia 8 Netherlands 7 Lithuania 6 Italy 5 China 4 Spain 3 Ireland 2 Argentina 1

MEXICO
 
 

Serbia 11
Argentina 10 Ireland 9 Czech Republic 8 France 7 New Zealand 6 Moldova 5 Romania 4 Kazakhstan 3 Egypt 2 Portugal 1

GREECE
 
                                                                                                                    
Hello fellow Totallympians, this is Greece calling!
 
Here are the votes of the Greek National Jury:
 
 

Portugal 10 United States 9 Serbia 8 Canada 7 Netherlands 6 Romania 5 Brazil 4 Egypt 3 Ireland 2 China 1

CZECH REPUBLIC
 
 
Posílám pozdrav z České republiky. Doufám, že budete s mými body spokojeni. Jste připraveni? Jdeme na to!
 
 
Greetings from the Czech Republic. I hope you will be satisfied with my voting. Are you ready? Here we go!
 
 

Malta 10 Serbia 9 Germany 8 Kazakhstan 7 Canada 6 Moldova 5 Slovakia 4 India 3 Denmark 2 Great Britain 1

FRANCE
 
 

Serbia 12
Kazakhstan 11
Lithuania 10 Romania 9 Bulgaria 8 China 7 Portugal 6 Netherlands 5 Ireland 4 Spain 3 New Zealand 2 Denmark 1  
Looks like Serbia has now a very comfortable lead ! I personally wanted to thank all juries for choosing so many amazing songs for this contest, it was very hard to choose only 12 songs and I wish I could’ve given points to more. Enjoy the rest of the contest !
 
On dirait que la Serbie a désormais une avance confortable ! je voulais personnellement remercier tous les jurys pour avoir choisi autant de superbes chansons pour ce concours, c’était très dur de ne choisir que 12 chansons, et j’aurais voulu donner des points à plus de chansons. Bonne fin de concours !

INDONESIA
 
 

Serbia 12
India 11
Brazil 10 Canada 9 Netherlands 8 Argentina 7 Lithuania 6 Malta 5 China 4 Germany 3 France 2 Kazakhstan 1
Dan itu dia hasil pilihan juri kami, selamat malam dan selamat menikmati acaranya!
 
And those are our jury's choice, good evening and enjoy the show!

EGYPT
 
 
 
مساء الخير جميعاً ، نأمل أن تكون جميعكم بخير. إليكم أصوات لجنة التحكيم المصرية!
 
 
Good afternoon everyone, we hope you're all doing well. Here are the votes of the Egyptian jury!
 
 
 

Serbia 10 Tunisia 9 Argentina 8 Mexico 7 Germany 6 Kazakhstan 5 Romania 4 Brazil 3 Great Britain 2 Poland 1

GERMANY
 
 

Serbia 12
India 11
Canada 10 Malta 9 Italy 8 Moldova 7 Ireland 6 Spain 5 China 4 Denmark 3 Greece 2 New Zealand 1  
Concluding Comment:
This is the verdict of the German jury.  Thanks for so many great songs from all over the globe and thanks to our fantastic host @heywoodu for organising this marvellous extra-vaganza. See you next year.

NEW ZEALAND
 
 
Kia Ora Totallympians!
Here are the Kiwi votes:
 

Croatia 10 Portugal 9 Serbia 8 Slovenia 7 Argentina 6 Brazil 5 France 4 Hungary 3 Great Britain 2 Malta 1