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Pretty bad start... If asked, I would have been cautiously optimistic about both Ireland and Romania.

Bang, bang, bang. Everyone delivering for the team except us.

We better speed up a bit, otherwise there will be no breaks.

Romania is next, very different jury than Ireland. Let's just say it would be worrying if the rest of us stay at zero (well, certainly if Moldova did ).

To be updated periodically... TEAM CHALLENGE - SEEDING ROUND (VOTES 1-9) TEAM MEMBERS TOTAL Toruń Gingerbreads 21 0 9 0 12 (0) Hel Grey Seals - 0 0 0 0 0 Malbork Knights - 1 1 0 0 0 Masurian White Storks - 11 0 0 0 11 Leszno Speedway Racers - 13 8 0 0 5 Drawno Otters - 23 7 0 10 6 Tatra Chamois - 2 0 0 2 0 Podlasie Bisons - 4 0 0 4 0 Baltic Cods - 3 0 0 0 3 Qualification rule: 1st to 8th -> Quarterfinals, 9th -> Repechage

Side-effects can include, An ability to invoke 12 points for your song with a simple rant.

I'll be bold and predict points for Lithuania and Mexico. Let's see if I have learned anything about Dan.

Interesting approach. I have been very active in the garden this season, but have booked an off day for today.

Hope to have more users tuning in this morning.

Technically, are also in it, but are taking a sabbatical...

Anyways, here is hoping for an exciting Grand Final (but expecting one or two runaway songs).

Team Challenge 6. (a) Each edition of the Totallympics International Song Contest will feature a Team Challenge competition. The main purpose of this team element is to further enhance the community spirit that is an integral feature of TISC events and to provide another means of encouraging users to interact with one another. Looking ahead to the Tokyo Olympics, for this edition we felt it would be fitting to base the Team Challenge around an elimination bracket tournament format. Team Challenge will consist of four (4) different stages: Seeding Round Quarterfinals Semifinals + Repechage Finals Each new stage will start with the team totals set at zero (0) points. The teams totals will be calculated by adding up scores of its four (4) members. Since Torun Gingerbreads have five (5) members, their lowest score of the stage will be discarded. Seeding Round: Votes 1-9 1st to 8th -> Quarterfinals, 9th -> Repechage Quarterfinals: Votes 10-18 Teams are seeded in accordance with the seeding results. Winners -> Semifinals, Losers -> Repechage Semifinals + Repechage: Votes 20-28 Semifinals: Winners -> Gold Medal Match, Losers -> Bronze Medal Match Repechage: 1st -> Bronze Medal Match, 2nd to 5th -> OUT Finals: Votes 29-37 Gold Medal Match will consist of two teams (SF Winners). Bronze Medal Match will consist of three teams (SF Losers + Repechage Winner). Template for the Seeding Round... TEAM CHALLENGE - SEEDING ROUND (VOTES 1-9) TEAM MEMBERS TOTAL Toruń Gingerbreads 0 0 0 0 0 (0) Hel Grey Seals - 0 0 0 0 0 Malbork Knights - 0 0 0 0 0 Masurian White Storks - 0 0 0 0 0 Leszno Speedway Racers - 0 0 0 0 0 Drawno Otters - 0 0 0 0 0 Tatra Chamois - 0 0 0 0 0 Podlasie Bisons - 0 0 0 0 0 Baltic Cods - 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification rule: 1st to 8th -> Quarterfinals, 9th -> Repechage And for the elimination stage...

Detailed rules for the Team Challenge will be unveiled tomorrow (early) morning. Basically, it will be an elimination bracket tournament with some added twists.

Not a great fan of football, but I watched this one live and it is impossible to forget... C: Marco Materazzi

Shout-out to @Werloc who responded that time to @bestmen with this song. Everything else is history.

Now I know how Matt felt.

Hey, I think you can eliminate B at once. Timok, Yantra, Jiu sound nothing like 'East of Oder' rivers. I would confidently exclude A too. This leaves Star Wars species and Zen rituals. I hardly know a thing about the Star Wars, and even less so about Zen rituals. Still, I would pick D I guess, because all these words sound extremely unfamiliar.

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Told you it was Holland, @heywoodu.

Hope I am not the only one who found out just now that Chopin is not French.

Yap, this song randomly appeared on the radio today as well. Randomly because I can't even remember the last time it was on.

It's worth mentioning that FEI could again change the minimum eligibility requirements, following the EHV-1 event cancellations. Feasibly, they may allow everyone with MER to their name, irregardless of the date when it was achieved (this however would not include the likes of Mirza and Khan).