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Antarctica, Swaziland, South Georgia Island Take the Spoils at WINTERFEST WINTERFEST Grand Final is over and done. But remember that we get to pick the winners this time... Choose your preference HERE.

Exotic WEG qualifications continue to flock in as Ismail Jilaoui secured his qualification after scoring 67% in Portugal. Looks pretty good for Tokyo qualiification as well.

Final Edition of WINTERFEST Officially Opened And the busy final week officially starts...

It's supposed to be a business trip, for crying out loud...

Camila Gallardo actually already has TISC experience, competed at 2016 Annual.

Julio Mendoza secured his WEG qualification, after scoring 67.630% at the WEG Test Event itself. He couldn't stop punching the air once the score was announced.

Next two stages are right in my home area (especially tomorrow's stage).

Yeah, it's one of the first Nations Cups of the season. Should have some good teams.

Şiutsou wins! That was epic. Rogina

Time for the climb.

It is streamed on FEI youtube channel. Dressage is currently in progress. Live results here: inidividual and team.

Would be surprised if Rasimoviciute continues again. Didn't she initially retire like ages ago?

Indeed, Mexico could threat Brazil for a team quota place at the Pan Ams next year, as they are working nicely on getting respectable big tour combinations in the mix. Turns out that replacing small tour with a mixture of small and big (Olympic level) tours at the Pan Ams has been a great success. Instead of participating at a couple of small tour internationals here and there, now all have some very good big tour combinations. are attempting to follow their steps, but their scores are not at the qualification requirements level yet. Also, I suspect that might too get some big tour combinations before the Pan Ams next year, so it could get quite intriguing Olympic qualification-wise. Thankfully the days when the likes of Colombia qualified a full team for the Olympics based on Pan Am small tour results are over. That happened before London 2012 and they ended up using 0/4 places as nobody was able to make transition and reach the minimum requirements during the short time frame.

Happy birthday to Bohemia! And happy belated birthday to rybak!

Fun fact, in the entire TISC history and between all participants, only one nation has managed to finish on the same position 4 times... And that was Ireland with its 4 wins. India randomly has three 34th positions, while everything else are 1s and 2s.

Medal tables page has two new additions: All-time Medal Table - for overall finishing positions Rankings Table - historic finishing positions for each nation There used to be other kind of "all-time medal table", but that one has been renamed to "All-time jury medal table". Hopefully it's not as incredibly confusing as it looks.

Well, I don't mind. They have some great combinations and would be a shame if they miss out just because they are not as good as USA. But then again, USA will qualify directly in Tryon at 99,9%, so this lobbying was more like a precaution.

Barbados eventers are competing at 1* level right now so it might be a tall order to both reach 3* level and earn qualification. Bermuda should take up a dressage quota so at least something will go to the region (aside from CAN/USA).

It's exactly the same as the final draft, surprise, surprise.

Chance is quite small. Right now she is not competing at the highest (Grand Prix) level as both of her current horses are too young/inexperienced. Maybe there is a small chance if she makes a transition with Fausto to Grand Prix next year, otherwise no chance.

Liechtenstein NazB Ft. Al Walser - Pay Day

In fact, only 12km of the climb were used last year as the higher parts were snowed in. Weather is thankfully much more pleasant this time around. And that is the average gradient, yes, though steepest parts are reportedly within last 10 km (last 3 km in particular).

It's 29 km long. Can't find the gradient info.

Well, it goes from basically sea level to 1800m.