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Burundi is now the only nation with no votes against.

In terms of voting, I can confirm that none of my picks were on the winning side this Super Saturday.

In terms of W/L record and vote difference, our hosts are dead-last following the Super Saturday.

Thanks. Now I can't unsee that.

That long dance segment was amazing.

They also have the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.

They bounced back in style!

Commrade Brezhnev

Tchaikovsky was not too Russian Empire for them?

Watch out for the Mozambique flag.

Group B has four songs with 150,000,000+ views on Youtube... and Kiribati.

0/2 wins and -12 vote difference. Good luck with that.

What drama to start the day.

Super Saturday!

Funny story, Berlin 1936 introduced the torch relay. IOC should scrap it immediately and make a Twitter apology.

Surprisingly (or not), I am not feeling anything about the Olympics being supposed to start tomorrow. Rio 2016 was top of the line stuff for me. Both with exciting competitions in general, and an enjoyable, record-breaking medal haul for Croatia. Waking up early every day for Pyeongchang 2018 already felt like a job, especially towards the end. So maybe I'm just getting over my usual fever...

Keeping up with our scoring theme... In 2012, Hiroshi Hoketsu became the 3rd oldest athlete ever to take to the Olympic stage (video). Right now he is sneakily aiming/hoping to bridge Tokyo 1964 and Tokyo 2020...

Tokyo Story - Yasujirō Ozu Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari, 1953) is, without a doubt, one of the finest movie pictures ever created. Its author Yasujiro Ozu is known for his signature style; static camera and minimalist story-telling. Fun facts on Yasujiro Ozu... Almost exclusively filmed with a static camera, positioned just a few feet above the ground. His characters tend to look directly into the camera during dialogues. Recurring themes of Ozu are changes in post-war Japanese family and society. Sometimes dealing with Westernization of Japanese values. All his films take place in Tokyo. All his films feature moving trains, even if only for a second and somewhere in background. They represent a passage of time. Ozu died on his 60th birthday.

A bit of prejudice, isn't it? There are only 5 million people in Rep Congo so I don't believe they have a large problem with standard of living. Some of the most developed African states have low population (Botswana, Gabon, Namibia, Cape Verde).

Well, if Spanish songs continue their winning ways, then we can probably expect them to bomb out in the Heywoodulands. We don't really like surprises around here, and when they do happen, then retaliation is coming sooner rather than later.

Spanish songs can do no wrong.