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I select the songs i enjoy more, i dont care about the real chances of the song.

I just sent my vote,
I have to say I found voting a very tough job specially if you try to be responsible and not just vote randomly.
I'm in holiday these days because of the new year, still I spent enough time to listen to all of them at least twice (much more than that for my top 12) and my initial #1 ended up 7th ! and surprisingly for myself there are so many non English songs in top of my list !
 
btw I was curious how you guys selected your song, the one you enjoy more ? or the one you think has more chance to get more points in he contest ? personally I just picked what I like myself even though I knew there is a good chance for that song to finish last

RIP, very sad news
 
 
I'm quite sure our friend "thepharoah" will explain it much better but let me tell you that's because Arabic countries mostly don't follow the western naming system.(given name + surname) their names are usually consisted of 3-4 parts or more, sometimes they refer to the person wtih 1st part, 2nd part and 3rd part, sometimes the the part, the only consistent thing is the 1st part which is the given name. (the 2nd part is the father name)
 
for example, Egypt wrestling legend is worldwide known as Karam Gaber but I also read some Egyptian media know him as Karam Ibrahim.

UWW announced revolutionary changes in wrestling rules ! these rules will be applied from January 2018.
 
https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/ten-weight-categories-two-day-format-highlight-wrestling-improvements
https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/07_2018_changes.pdf
 
here is the summary of important changes
 
* They increased the number of weights from 8 to 10 ! the exact weight categories will be announced after the 2017 WC
* Finally they found out their current team ranking is not fair and changed it. now the champion will get 25 pts (instead of 10) and second place means 20pt (instead of 9) in old rules there was only 1pt difference between gold and silver medal !
* There will be a ranking system to seed top 4 wrestlers . wrestlers will get points for world and continental champs plus few selected international tournaments, this seeding system will be used also for the 2017 Worlds
* now we will competitions in two days instead of one ! repechage and finals will be held on the second day. they will test that in upcoming tournaments to make it official or not
* we will have weight-in in morning before the competition and once again in 2nd day morning with 2kg allowance for the 2nd day. this is the biggest change here, right now we have weight-in one day before the tournament which let the wrestlers cut 6-7 kilos . this is impossible now and will change so many things, I believe most of top wrestlers will move up one weight because of this rule.
* only after few months they regret their new Greco changes (I wrote about that in another thread) they are studying the situation to bring back the forced parterre. even though with adjustments, the current Greco format is terrible and boring. forced parterre was always a part of this sport.
* if a wrestlers tests positive for a team event, they will disqualify the entire team ! (to me this is not fair, they only have to disqualify that wrestler and his results)
* They also changed the format for competitions with 6 or 7 wrestlers, now we will have two groups of 3 or 4 wrestlers in round robin competition

hi guys, since the beginning of this contest, so many users contacted me to join here but I didn't, this time here I am
 
but first I want to be sure about my responsibilities here. I read the rules in first page but that was too long, and I'm not a fan of Eurovision to know its format. so in short I have to pick an Iranian song in next couple of days (I already have one or two in my mind) then I have to listen to all those selected songs from all countries to pick 12 and rank them from 1st to 12th. that's it ?

hi guys, since the beginning of this contest, so many users contacted me to join here but I didn't, this time here I am
 
but first I want to be sure about my responsibilities here. I read the rules in first page but that was too long, and I'm not a fan of Eurovision to know its format. so in short I have to pick an Iranian song in next couple of days (I already have one or two in my mind) then I have to listen to all those selected songs from all countries to pick 12 and rank them from 1st to 12th. that's it ?

hi guys, since the beginning of this contest, so many users contacted me to join here but I didn't, this time here I am
 
but first I want to be sure about my responsibilities here. I read the rules in first page but that was too long, and I'm not a fan of Eurovision to know its format. so in short I have to pick an Iranian song in next couple of days (I already have one or two in my mind) then I have to listen to all those selected songs from all countries to pick 12 and rank them from 1st to 12th. that's it ?

hi guys, since the beginning of this contest, so many users contacted me to join here but I didn't, this time here I am
 
but first I want to be sure about my responsibilities here. I read the rules in first page but that was too long, and I'm not a fan of Eurovision to know its format. so in short I have to pick an Iranian song in next couple of days (I already have one or two in my mind) then I have to listen to all those selected songs from all countries to pick 12 and rank them from 1st to 12th. that's it ?

hi guys, since the beginning of this contest, so many users contacted me to join here but I didn't, this time here I am
 
but first I want to be sure about my responsibilities here. I read the rules in first page but that was too long, and I'm not a fan of Eurovision to know its format. so in short I have to pick an Iranian song in next couple of days (I already have one or two in my mind) then I have to listen to all those selected songs from all countries to pick 12 and rank them from 1st to 12th. that's it ?

hi guys, since the beginning of this contest, so many users contacted me to join here but I didn't, this time here I am
 
but first I want to be sure about my responsibilities here. I read the rules in first page but that was too long, and I'm not a fan of Eurovision to know its format. so in short I have to pick an Iranian song in next couple of days (I already have one or two in my mind) then I have to listen to all those selected songs from all countries to pick 12 and rank them from 1st to 12th. that's it ?

hi guys, since the beginning of this contest, so many users contacted me to join here but I didn't, this time here I am
 
but first I want to be sure about my responsibilities here. I read the rules in first page but that was too long, and I'm not a fan of Eurovision to know its format. so in short I have to pick an Iranian song in next couple of days (I already have one or two in my mind) then I have to listen to all those selected songs from all countries to pick 12 and rank them from 1st to 12th. that's it ?

hi guys, since the beginning of this contest, so many users contacted me to join here but I didn't, this time here I am
 
but first I want to be sure about my responsibilities here. I read the rules in first page but that was too long, and I'm not a fan of Eurovision to know its format. so in short I have to pick an Iranian song in next couple of days (I already have one or two in my mind) then I have to listen to all those selected songs from all countries to pick 12 and rank them from 1st to 12th. that's it ?

hi guys, since the beginning of this contest, so many users contacted me to join here but I didn't, this time here I am
 
but first I want to be sure about my responsibilities here. I read the rules in first page but that was too long, and I'm not a fan of Eurovision to know its format. so in short I have to pick an Iranian song in next couple of days (I already have one or two in my mind) then I have to listen to all those selected songs from all countries to pick 12 and rank them from 1st to 12th. that's it ?

This is the medal table of the AWG whitout China, South Korea, Kazakhistan and Japan. The medals between the white flag can't be assigned.
 
 14 15 2
 7 5 1
 7 0 1
 6 5 6
 4 8 3
 3 3 3
 3 2 0
 2 2 1
 2 0 1
 1 1 4
 1 1 0
 1 0 0
 0 1 5
 0 1 2
 0 0 1
 0 0 1
 0 0 1
 0 0 1
 12 21 27

Iran had a 5th place finish in men's slalom, not far from a medal but they needed two more DNFs. or a bit better performance.
 
and North Korea finally won a medal here, good to have another country beside those 4 in the medal table

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani one of the most important persons in the history of Iran died yesterday at 82.
 
He was number 2 (or maybe even the real number 1) for so many years, 30 maybe. he was a key person in 1979 revolution and that bloody 8 years Iran-Iraq war, actually the one who ended the war. so many secrets and stories die with him. for years he was the most hated person in Iran and since life is unpredictable (and so the politics in Iran) he eventually died as a "good man" and people are actually mourning for him. Good or bad, his death will be a big blow for Hassan Rohani
 

UWW is considering a new qualification system for the 2020 Olympics, if confirmed they will use a ranking system, based on world and continental championship and few selected international tournaments. this is just a proposal for now but UWW is seriously working on it.

The mastermind of Kazakhstan Dopinglifting is now resigned ! this is his interview . you probably remember this guy "Alexey Ni" with his celebrations "Kazakhstan Number 1" !!
http://www.inform.kz/en/alexey-ni-my-resignation-is-a-sign-of-solidarity-with-my-team_a2973588
 
I still can't believe how come they let Kazakhstan participate in Rio in this sport ! almost their whole squad from 2008 and 2012 failed the test and they also had a big number of positive tests from 2015 Worlds ! beside that almost their whole 2016 squad had a history of doping suspension ! you can't find a country with a doping record worse than this in any sport ! Kazakhstan is indeed "number one" but in doping.

news from today say that he is disqualified from 2008 and 2012

oh yeah it's hard to believe once I used to cheer for them as an Asian team yeah they were an interesting team back in 1994 with their "boneless" keeper Al-Deayea and that guy Owairan, who dribbled the whole Belgium team to score !
 
you are right about that, but the hatred in football field started even before that !

I can write a book about this, and of course I'm biased here but when they play in Asia, dubious calls usually go in their way, (before today, they scored 3 goals, all of them penalties dubious calls included) since they have money, they think they own everything, when they didn't want to go Thailand, they told AFC to arrange groups and not putting them with the same group as Thailand, now they don't want to play in Iran, they simply call AFC/FIFA and tell them to play in neutral venue. they forced Iraq to play them in Malaysia !! (since Iraq can't host its own matches, they named 2-3 countries to FIFA but Saudis rejected them all to play in wherever they want) and they also play dirty, they are famous for grassrolling and etc.
 
as for being an Iranian, there are so much hatred between us and Saudis, it's not a "rivalry" like Brazil-Argentina , simply hatred. and the current political tension between two countries makes it even much worse. Saudi Arabia was the only team I wanted to avoid before the draw, only because of this.and there is still a chance to play them in 5th place play-off.

This is a fantastic research
 
for years, decades, centuries, we knew that, everybody who watches wrestling a bit and understands the rules knew two specific countries always benefits from questionable calls, people mention Uzbekistan less because they were not that good in wrestling to win so many medals, (Taymazov was good enough to win without ref helps)
 
I'm glad they mentioned our Yazdani several times in the article, even though it was also sad, reopening the old wound   these guys should never be around any wresling mat, to be honest they should be in jail by now.

No, we had another tie break in case of equal body weights, now it will most probably applies to the whole compettion without caring about the bodyweight.
 
whoever lifts first stays first. which mean if your opponent lifts 200kg for example before you , you have to lift 201 to take his place.

Ladies and Gentlemen Iran just kicked Brazil out of the competition !!
 
they improved match by match but still it was impossible to think they can knock out Brazil ! what a great match against the best team in the world.  I was pretty much convinced that this was going to be an early exit and this would be the last day of the competition for Iran.

After tonight, I know watching Greco-Roman wrestling is not good for heart, back in London we had different set of rules. luck was a big factor in close matches, but now they changed the format which was very good in first place but with this they unleashed the monster , they gave a deadly weapon to the hands of their corrupt referees , they can give cautions whenever they want to whoever they want, it doesn't matter who is really active. they will caution whoever they want. there were so many controversial calls here, SO MANY. two of our wrestlers lost matches they should won only because they were "more" active. thanks to stupid UWW rules.