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It looks good. Maybe only something along these lines could be added beyond the first spoiler, as an introduction for each match-up? However it would take time to design something more proper looking than this, so it's fine either way. K E H UZBEKISTAN vs NAMIBIA A C F B M

I wonder if anyone else gets these weird 'T's (when bolded)?

Margaret McIver (dressage, 1984). https://www.eurodressage.com/2020/07/21/margaret-mciver-passed-away Incidentally, she coached Usman Khan, who is supposed to become the first ever Pakistani Olympic equestrian next year.

One last thing. Since we are going with a sports theme, how about using dressage arena lettering to denote various judges? It would be as follows: Judge K Judge E Judge H Judge C Judge M Judge B Judge F Judge A (does not exist in practice, but would be a logical continuation) This could make for a smart design too ( @OlympicIRL would design it better I'm sure ). K E H Antarctica v. Greenland A C F B M 7 spoilers later... Would have to be changed once the number of judges per match increases (following the group stage).

Ok, can we at least then have all group fixtures available in one place where they would be updated on a daily basis? In the opening post for example? While I can get the idea of users wanting some suspense, I do believe there should be a place where everyone can easily get full overview of the results, without having to scroll through pages and pages of posts just to compare standings between various grops etc.

To be fair, it's something we are very much used to as sports fans. Opening up a link and having the suspense resolved all at once. Tbh waiting for a link to open / page to refresh is already like waiting for a spoiler to open. But alright.

Regular TISC editions have like 150 result posts, counting all voting templates and scoreboards. 480 result posts for a group stage would be bizzare given that this edition is supposed to be more casual.

Couldn't we just get half-time and full-time results for each match? If not, I still feel like getting results instantly would be better than having to open all those spoilers.

Wouldn't such approach make this thread incredibly cluttered? 8 posts for each match would create 480 (!) posts for the group stage alone. I honestly thought we would have a daily reveal of results and that would be it.

To be fair, we do get a lot of new users when the Olympic fever strikes. Now, whether or not they are here to stay, that's a different question.

And i guess Totallympics would have been exploding with new users/posts at this point.

Question 1: Are you a 'crook'?

The alien being Chris Froome...?

Breaking news! @heywoodu has summoned a special press conference in regards to the recent Heywoodgate allegations. It is unclear why nobody seems to be wearing a mask.

Heywoodgate! I'm calling it already.

We all know that was an involuntary muscle spasm.

How many judges have voted?

Well, five years on and they will take the title + full control of the Committee.

Lebanon!

I guess at this point it's just rubbing it in for the losing side.

Started the Slovak song... Oh boy. Not surprised they got stuck on 0 for that many turns.

Sweden is just spamming these templates.

My final decisions are in. It's strange not having to wait 3 weeks before we get any results.

The what?

Meanwhile, I think I can guess what 1-3 users have picked, but mostly I'm in the dark regarding that respect.