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Also, I can admit now that I was a part of that Rihanna 0:7 fiasco. And, no, my aim was not to manufacture a surprise, but to choose a better song.

My favorites were (in no particular order). Followed by , most of all... South Korea grew on my quite a bit, funnily enough.

Congrats @OlympicIRL ! It's all bittersweet here. Feels a lot like 2018 World Cup, when our miracle run ended in the Final. But losing to the worthiest competitor of them all ain't that bad either. And then again, Costa Rica was easily my Top 3 from the start. Comparing that to CIV and MKD, which are certainly not my cup of tea (like, at all), I certainly got more than I bargained for.

There you go. Finally got my first Top 10 at TISC! It only took me 11 attempts and one special edition created in midst of the Olympic cancellation, so..... Follow your dreams, kids. And thanks everyone who did NOT rain on my parade in this final. Certainly feels like the @OlympicIRL-vibe around the song may have turned away some voters. Oh the irony.

I can't even.

Also, we now need to find a Costa Rican user.

Should be 2024 though.

Corrected it for you.

Are we going to have users revealed in bulk again or?

Now the real suspense.

Yes, for a while it looked like would win again (and make your nightmare real apparently ).

Aaaand it is over. Congrats Costa Rica.

Which users are left anyway?

Gibraltar fights back with pi-pa transitions.

Surprised about Mali, Kiribati, Kosovo.

I already planned to bet money on that...

@mrv86 is M.I.A.?

Dead.

I don't buy it. My theory is that @Werloc picked that particular song so that 2014 Open would no longer be his worst result.

And she is a daughter of Grace Kelly.

Yeah, this is tug-of-war.

Judge Emperor turned out to be Japan... Judge Woyceck turned out to be Vojthas... Nice.

I have got to say. There are some shockers here! @Werloc was Japan??

Incidentally, you can find the reverse order here... Gold Silver Bronze North Macedonia 4W-3D-1L (47-36) 4th Cote d'Ivoire 5W-0D-3L (42-41) 5th Albania 4W-1D-1L (31-15) 6th Barbados 4W-1D-1L (29-17) 7th Burundi 4W-0D-2L (26-20) 8th Sri Lanka 3W-1D-2L (25-21) 9th South Africa - 4W-0D-1L (22-17) 10th Cape Verde - 3W-1D-1L (26-13) 11th Somalia - 3W-0D-2L (24-15) 12th Cuba - 2W-2D-1L (18-21) 13th Guinea - 2W-1D-2L (23-16) 14th Angola - 2W-1D-2L (21-18) 15th Puerto Rico - 2W-1D-2L (18-21) 16th Guatemala - 2W-0D-3L (17-22) 17th Belarus - 3W-2D-1L (45-31) 18th Kosovo - 3W-0D-5L (40-43) 19th Jamaica - 3W-1D-3L (30-29) 20th Zambia - 2W-1D-4L (24-35) 21st Kiribati - 3W-0D-3L (21-25) 22nd Mali - 2W-0D-3L (17-22) 23rd Hong Kong - 1W-1D-4L (20-26) 24th Monaco - 1W-1D-4L (16-30) 25th South Korea - 1W-0D-4L (14-25) 26th Iceland - 0W-2D-3L (15-24) 27th Iraq - 0W-1D-4L (15-24) 28th Chinese Taipei - 0W-1D-4L (14-25) 29th Belize - 0W-0D-5L (9-30) 30th Japan - 0W-0D-5L (8-31)

Japan voted for Costa Rica? Belize for Gibraltar? Belize is following the New Rules it seems.