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I think people who watched "Game of Thrones" remember this quote "The North Remembers"
 
these days this quote is used in our football ! we had some problems (bloody street fights actually) in a match in our 2nd division league between two popular Northern clubs. (something like a derby) now the visiting team fans/players claim there will be blood if those two clubs meet again. here is how they showed their anger !
 
all 3 provinces south of the Caspian Sea are strongly considered as "North" in Iran. that's why they use this word "North". people from other parts of Iran like me rarely use any other word than "North" for those 3 provinces. so this really fits with "North of Westeros"
 

 
 

Hamid Hiraad - Shookhie Mage  
 

 
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Honestly I think it depends on the user. Since this is a "song" contest, the video shouldn't matter that much. Personally, I don't care one bit about the video.
 

I have one song in consideration that is audio only. Of course it doesn't matter if it has accompanying video or not, it is a song contest after all.

I will once again mention that i usually don't watch videos, just listen music when decide points

I personally don't care if there is a music video or not because I only listen to the songs so having a great video clip or only a picture of random landscapes or the singer won't influence me

A lyric video is fine, we got 5th in last contest with that and we normally rank low.
 
Personally I hate live concert videos. Unless it's something with only a small crowd, the audio is often awful

For someone it does matter, for someone not at all, really. Last edition I gave 12 to Lithuania, and their music "video" contained lyrics only, and since I wanted to know what the song was about I used Werloc's translation and watched in them while listening... until I learned them completely  So, the outcome wasn't affected by video at all. I still listen to that song from time to time, love it so much. Sometimes video can help, but sometimes in can have the opposite effect too. 

LOL. that's why me (and most of my friends) vote in Iran. we are just afraid of the worst didn't now that also applies to European countries

not even that just a picture of the singer
 
but I got your point. I will pick one of them, just hope to not finish last this time
 

the problem is mostly the management , for 2016 qualifiers, we couldn't use our best players (3 key players of our senior team at the time) because of that. U23 competitions in Asia usually don't fit with FIFA days and clubs here don't release their players for the training etc.
 
and we usually pick terrible coaches for this team last time our stupid coach benched his best player against Qatar (probably saving him for the next match), we lost to Qatar , finished 2nd in the group and got Japan in decisive quarterfinal match. (which we lost in extra time)
 
if you check the history, there is always a funny reason behind their failure, back in 2012 they used a non-eligible player (with two yellow cards) and got eliminated easily.
 
I lost hope in Olympic qualification in football, this is just not going to happen. we didn't even qualify for the 2018 AFC U23 championship losing to Oman (mostly because clubs didn't release their players for the qualifiers) but with that result, we won't be seeded for the next tournament which is the Olympic qualifier that makes thing even worse.

Apparently Aleksandr Chekhirkin who won silver in last year World Championship failed a doping test
 
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with this, Tamas Lorincz of Hungary will receive the silver medal and Fatih Cengiz from Turkey will get the bronze.
 
UWW already updated its database
https://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbfoeldeak/daten.php?wkid=79D3B4718F594E24B043E3036EB2C73B&gkl=4
 
by my calculation Turkey will get 2 extra points and will tie Iran in team ranking in 2nd place and they win the tiebreaker with having better medals. which means Iran goes to the 3rd place ! Russia still wins the team title by 1 point ! Ranking is, Russia 37, Turkey 36 and Iran 36

but yeah Iran was also TERRIBLE in Greco-Roman, winning only and only 4 medals out of 10 weights and finishing 5th in team ranking ! even though we missed some of our top wrestlers but still that was almost our A team in Greco-Roman (in freestyle only 2-3 from the A team) not long ago we won Olympic title in 55 and 60, lightest weights in wrestling but now our lightweight wrestlers can't even pass the first round in Asia !!
 
but Iran won't also dominate the freestyle competition, Iran wrestling is in turmoil right now, our federation president (who is also the freestyle team head coach) just resigned as well as half of the coaching staff and other federation members. we don't even know who will manage the team in the tournament here.   not sure if you guys remember that "Karimi-Russia" match in World U23 Champs when he lost intentionally to avoid Israel, that was very obvious with Iranian coaches screaming "Ali you should lose, you have to lose"
 
that match created so much controversy here UWW eventually banned him only for 6 months but our wrestling federation president asked for a change in this policy. he said if we really want to avoid them we have to scream that loud. not acting like a coward , creating funny excuses if not we better compete with them. he wasn't happy with the response he got from the government, that's why he resigned.

This guy might have Iranian heritage but he is not Iranian. Italy can take this one too

He got married after Rio and since then he is a bit "softer" on his opponents
 
yes he moved up to 97kg for the worlds and lost the final to Snyder but even before that he almost lost the Russian Championship final. but refs saved him. with UWW adding two more non-Olympic weight classes. he moved back to 92kg. which is more fit for him, he is still the best wrestler in the world but he is not as dominant as he used to be.
 
the question is which weight he will pick for Tokyo 2020. 86 or 97 ?!

I just read in the news that an Italian team was training in Iran national wrestling camp (they call it "Wrestling House") and that Cuban guy was among them. apparently he had few tough training sessions with one of our best guys in this weight and made him pissed off the expert analyst  considers him "someone very tough but still not a treat since he doesn't know pure wrestling techniques yet. but when he learns more he will be a medal contender"
 
I assume this is him , in "Wrestling House"

 
he just won a silver in Ukraine but had to say he didn't face a qualify wrestler and got teched in the final, so our expert is probably right about him. on other hand Kudiamagomedov also finished 3rd after losing to one of our guys Ghasempour  but Kudiamagomedov is a very good wrestler, Sadulaev at peak of his career (when he was eating everybody alive) had a tough match vs him in Russian nationals before the Olympics. for whatever reason he always had problems with Iranian wrestlers (unlike Chamizo) so I'm fine with him wrestling for another country but Kudi will be a medal contender for sure but I always thought he is a bit overestimated in international wrestling.

I just read in the news that an Italian team was training in Iran national wrestling camp (they call it "Wrestling House") and that Cuban guy was among them. apparently he had few tough training sessions with one of our best guys in this weight and made him pissed off the expert analyst  considers him "someone very tough but still not a treat since he doesn't know pure wrestling techniques yet. but when he learns more he will be a medal contender"
 
I assume this is him , in "Wrestling House"

 
he just won a silver in Ukraine but had to say he didn't face a qualify wrestler and got teched in the final, so our expert is probably right about him. on other hand Kudiamagomedov also finished 3rd after losing to one of our guys Ghasempour  but Kudiamagomedov is a very good wrestler, Sadulaev at peak of his career (when he was eating everybody alive) had a tough match vs him in Russian nationals before the Olympics. for whatever reason he always had problems with Iranian wrestlers (unlike Chamizo) so I'm fine with him wrestling for another country but Kudi will be a medal contender for sure but I always thought he is a bit overestimated in international wrestling.

The draft published by FIE confirms what you are saying for all team events

Hi guys, you can count me too,
 
hope to not finish almost last this time

I don't know how much you guys are familiar with Harry Potter books and that so-called sport Quidditch but this mass start events remind me of that
 
why ? because in that game, you have to score goals but they don't really matter , because you have to catch the "Golden Snitch" to win the match, (10 pts for each goal and 150 pts for the snitch)
in this mass start. those sprint points are just for fun, after all the top 3 finishers in last lap get the podium
 
 

so you are telling me that Quidditch rules make more sense than ISU Mass start rules ? yeah but was supposed to be a rare thing. scoring 15 goals more than your opponent.
 
You know I had this discussion with my friend (who introduced me to those books and was a die hard fan) million years ago when I was at high school. the whole thing was fiction but the only thing I was questioning was those Quidditch rules.   even when I was reading a fiction book I was still a sport fan.

I don't know how much you guys are familiar with Harry Potter books and that so-called sport Quidditch but this mass start events remind me of that
 
why ? because in that game, you have to score goals but they don't really matter , because you have to catch the "Golden Snitch" to win the match, (10 pts for each goal and 150 pts for the snitch)
in this mass start. those sprint points are just for fun, after all the top 3 finishers in last lap get the podium
 
 

and probably the Olympics. this World Cup is the main qualifier for the Olympics and the Olympic qualifying tournaments.
 
Croatia still can gather a better team to beat Romania and Netherlands to at least make it to the second round.
 

for the World Cup ? no wild card this time. all 32 teams (31 + host China) have to qualify themselves.

no because of blatant cheating they always do
 
still I support them (like other Asian countries)  when they don't host