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Anna Vissi - Se Periptosi Pou
 

Reminder to all: there are 11 days left to submit your song for the 2025 TISC Annual. Entries close at 21:00 GMT on Thursday, 20th November.
So far 4 nations have submitted their song entries.
 
At the moment we have 31 nations represented. Hopefully we can get at least one more to surpass TISC Annual 2015 as the TISC with the fewest number of nations participating (31).
 
We have 39 jury members registered. We have 6 multi-member juries as it stands with Italy leading the way as usual with 4 jury members.

I'll be joining again!

I'll be joining again!

I'll be joining again!

I’ll join as well to make sure our votes remain wonderfully eclectic.

I'm in 

I´m in Dannyboy, SLO is in for sure 

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Would love to see as many of you as possible take part in our contest this year. We are now accepting entries

I'm pleased to welcome entries for the 2025 TISC Annual
 
Songs from January 1st, 2024 - June 30th 2025 are eligible for this contest.
 
I haven't decided on a date for the Grand Final yet, likely it will be after the New Year but will leave that undecided for now to see how things go.
Feel free to tag the usual participants or anyone new, hopefully we will get enough interest!

It's already been a year since I went to my second Olympic Games (third if we count the 2018 Youth Games). 
Magical days in a truly beautiful city (as were Rio and Buenos Aires). Some few Games-related pictures below:
 

Scores from the compulsory dives in the prelim (round 1 and 3) are carried to the final and added to the scores from round 5 and 6.
 
Scores from round 2 and 4 count for qualification purposes, but are then discarded.

Netherlands and Serbia are travel buddies. I guess that's not an official term, but this is how I know it. I'll try to explain it below and hopefully it won't be very confusing.
 
In VNL, every team has a travel buddy and it goes in pairs, meaning you are your travel buddy's travel buddy too.
 
These pairs play on the same location every week, but they never face each other. 
 
Each week, a group consists of three travel buddy pairs, with the restriction that a pair can't be drawn with another pair more than once.
 
It's basically a way to make the draw simpler or maybe even feasible in the first place, given the chosen format. If you think about it, there are 12 matches played in each group. A full round robin format with six teams would have 15. The three matches missing would be travel buddies facing each other.
 
 

Gstaad Elite 16
 
Women
Gold-  Kristen Nuss/Taryn Brasher
Silver-  Anastasia Samoilova/Tina Graudina
Bronze-  Anouk Vergé-Dépré/Zoe Vergé-Dépré
 
Samoilova/Graudina, Nuss/Brasher, and Anouk/Zoe have been three of the top four teams this season IMO (along with Thamela/Victoria)

Anouk/Zoe’s medal was the first by a Swiss pair since Simone Kuhn and Nadine Zumekehr in 2012, 13 years ago. Surprising considering Switzerland’s history in this sport 
 
Also a shoutout to  Ittlinger/Grune, who recorded a surprise quarterfinals finish 
 
Men
Gold-  Cherif Younousse/Ahmed Tijan
Silver-  Jacob Hölting Nilsson/Elmer Andersson
Bronze-  Stefan Boermans/Yorrick de Groot
 
 
First of all, I wanted to give a shoutout to the young Swedes  Holting Nilsson/Andersson, by far the surprises of the week. I’ve watched them before and knew they had what it took to beat some of the top teams, but I didn’t expect it to happen this quickly 
 
Oh man, seeing  Andre come back from a 6 week long vacation to play in Gstaad, because Saymon didn’t have enough points to get George into this event and well… Gstaad, and get a 4th is super inspiring. 
 
 Mol/Sorum have an off week with two consecutive losses in the round of 12 and quarterfinals 
 
Full Results

Warmia Mazury Challenge 
 
Women’s Tournament
Gold-  Maryna Hladun/Tetiana Lazarenko
Silver-  Linda Bock/Luisa Lippmann
Bronze-  Aline Chamereau/Clemence Viera
 
Men’s Tournament
Gold-  Marco Krattiger/Leo Dillier
Silver-  Michał Bryl/Bartosz Łosiak
Bronze-  Paul Henning/Leo Wüst
 
Full Results

Alanya Challenge
 
Women’s Tournament
Gold-  Anouk Vergé-Dépré/Zoe Vergé-Dépré
Silver-  Reka Orsi Toth/Valentina Gottardi
Bronze-  Aline Chamereau/Clemence Viera
 
Men’s Tournament
Gold-  Ondrej Perusic/David Schweiner
Silver-  Teo Rotar/Arnaus Gauthier-Rat
Bronze-  George Wanderley/Saymon Barbosa
 
Full Results

2025 European Championships in Funchal
 
Duet Free:
1. Italy
2. Spain  
3. Germany  
4. France
5. Ukraine
6. Slovakia
7-14.         (DNS)
 
Duet Technical:
1. Austria  
2. Spain
3. France  
4. Germany
5. Slovakia
6. Ukraine  
7-15.          
 
Team Free:
1. Spain  
2. Italy  
3. Israel  
4. Czech Republic
 
Team Technical:
1. Spain  
2. Ukraine  
3. France  
4. Italy  
5. Greece  
6. Israel  
7-8.   
 
Mixed Duet Free:    
Mixed Duet Technical:    
Acrobatic Routine:    
 
Full Results

The Dutch pair isn't sure they'll continue their career, they have at least made the choice to sit out 2025.

Frist medal ever for Georgia in the World Cup
Maria Alavidze on the second place in the solo free, defeating  Lamothe and  Tio Casas. 3rd place for  Hoevertsz

Frist podium ever for a Thai athlete 
Not a sensational routine, but they managed to exploit the mistakes of Italy, which was a total disaster, Kazakhstan and a Spanish pair.

2nd day results...

 
 FINA World Cup 2025 - Soma Bay
 
 
Mixed Duet Tech:
 Spain 207.3858  China 196.1908 Italy 186.5899 Women's Duet Free:
 Russia 256.0388  Japan 248.0671 Spain 236.0830 Team Free:
Spain 276.2168  Russia 266.4899  Japan 260.5267

Frist day results...

 
 FINA World Cup 2025 - Soma Bay
 
 
Women's Solo Tech:
 Klara Bleyer 238.2966 Daria Moshynska 234.3666  Vasilina Chandoška (BLR) 232.5733 4th place for San Marino, ahead Russia, China and a lot of others interessing atletes 
 
Men's Solo Tech:
 Muye Guo 224.5450  Ranjuo Tomblin 218.7650  Eduard Kim 211.2383  
Women's Duo Tech:
 Russia 268.0551 Ukraine 261.6125 Canada 256.2900 Team Free:
 Spain 317.8093  Japan 285.4332  Russia 278.8447

FINA World Cup 2025 - Paris 
 
Team Acro:
United States 183.4100  France 174.6150 Israel 164.1551 Team Tech:
 Spain 273.7066  Japan 257.2774 United States 255.9350 Team Free:
 Kazakistan 167.6538  Czech Republic 129.6150

FINA World Cup 2025 - Paris 
 
Women's Duo Tech:
 Spain 281.7383  Japan 265.4225  France 264.8292 Women's Duo Free:
 Japan 214.9546  Switzerland 201.4163  Greece 182.1747 Mixed Duo Tech:
 Great Britain 182.9325  Spain I 170.2192  Spain II 167.4617 Mixed Duo Free:
 Greece 206.2708  Kazakistan 194.7620

FINA World Cup 2025 - Paris
 
Women's Solo Tech:
 Iris Tió 240.0167  Xu Huiyan 239.1651  Vasilina Chandoška 235.7242 Women's Solo Free:
 Klara Bleyer 211.9176  Vasilina Chandoška 200.0726  Kyra Hoevertsz 184.7163 Men's Solo Tech:
 Ranjuo Tomblin 214.3966  Eduard Kim 213.8167 Jordi Caceres Iglesias 213.5992 Men's Solo Free:
 Viktor Druzin 127.2000  Marios Kritsas 126.6701  Stylianos Koukouselis Fouskis 123.9413