dcro

Fun fact, despite each team having 4 members + power-play + additional bonus, still only 4/10 teams scored more points than Zombie at 2014 Open.
 
Congrats to for breaking their personal bests both points and ranking-wise.
 
Also, congrats to for breaking or matching their rankings PB.
 
Some additional achievements:
broke 1500 points in their all-time TISC tally (1575)
all broke 1000 points

Fun fact, despite each team having 4 members + power-play + additional bonus, still only 4/10 teams scored more points than Zombie at 2014 Open.
 
Congrats to for breaking their personal bests both points and ranking-wise.
 
Also, congrats to for breaking or matching their rankings PB.
 
Some additional achievements:
broke 1500 points in their all-time TISC tally (1575)
all broke 1000 points

6th Place! Very nice result and thanks to all who voted for our song!
And a special thank you to @mrv86 and @Agger for awarding your 12 points to Hudson Taylor, it was a huge honour
 
And I wish Malta could have had a better result but I am happy I could at least award you my 12.
 
Italy, you were my first reserve.... not that you needed that extra point, but just so you know, I really enjoyed the song and big congratulations to Italia once more
 
@vinipereira Huge congratulations on a flawless show. You have been an amazing host and I hope that you get time for a breather now. Well done buddy
 
And also a big thank you to @dcro who has been the superglue holding things together, very often behind the scenes, but also here during the live event. Thank you my friend.
 
And finally, thank you all for spending the day with us here at TISC and adding to the fun. Thanks for your support over the years, we are blessed.
 
Long live TISC! It has been really fun
 

The fact that I only dropped out of the committee, because I placed the winner 13th last contest will spite me right until my grave

Last French top 10 was 7th place at 2016 Open.

My personal votes and little comments about each song:
 
12 points – Russia: the singer has an amazing and powerful voice, and the end of the song is so epic and powerful, it gives me goosebumps everytime I listen to it. 
11 points – USA: at first I wasn't charmed by Carrie Underwood's voice, and I hated the part with Ludacris (still hate it), but then after another listen I started loving it. I love this kind of empowering songs, they give so much energy. The rhythm is amazing. So even though I hate Ludacris' part, which is useless in my opinion and doesn't fit the rest of the song, I gave it 11 points.
10 points – Lithuania: I remember listening to the song when it was a contestant to represent Lithuania at the ESC, and the first time I heard it I found it kinda boring. But when it entered the TAISC I saw it in a different light. I like the singer's voice, it's sweet, and the way the song starts with a piano and then has a more modern touch is nice.
9 points - Brazil: the first time I listened to this song (and watched the video clip), I shed tears. There is a part near the end with traditional Irish music and those images of Ireland that made me feel so nostalgic of my time there that it made me want to cry... I remember that when I saw Brazil's choice I thought they were gonna win or at least be in the top 5. This song was higher in my list at the beginning but then, since I started liking some songs more and more after each listen, it lost a few points in my heart.
8 points – Finland: another song that I didn't like that much after the first listen  The strong part of this song is the chorus and that music part that makes me want to fight someone and it gives me so much energy all of a sudden, do you know what I mean? I don't know how to explain this  
7 points - Argentina: as I already said, this song is very catchy. I didn't really want to like it at first because this is not the kind I originally like, but there are always exceptions. I still listen to it.
6 points - Norway: at first I wasn't sure I was gonna give this song points because it was a time when I heard the song ALL THE TIME on the radio at work so I started to hate it even though a few weeks before I often listened to it on Spotify. But then I listened to it with my headphones on and it changed my opinion on the song once again. I started enjoying the music again and everything.
5 points - Sweden: this was the first song from this contest that I started listening to on a loop, even though it was never my favorite. But then I already started to get tired of it, and also in France they started to play it on the radio with a male singer singing a part in French (let me say that it's VERY BAD, do no listen to it)
4 points – Netherlands: I thought I had already heard this song before, or maybe it's just because we had already listened to Kensington's songs before in the contest  Anyway, this is the kind of song I like so of course I was going to give points to "les Pays-Bas", even though it lacked something for me to get more points.
3 points - Italy: wait, I only gave 3 points to Italy?  I thought it was more than that, but anyway. I think I know why. This is another of the songs that after my first listen I thought it was gonna be one of the favorites because of the lyrics and the style of the song. It's nice and catchy and has meaning. However after a few listens it started to have less and less effect on me so that must be why I only gave it 3 points in the end even though it was higher in my list at the beginning.
2 points - Bulgaria: another one that I shouldn't have liked, given my tastes. But after my first listen I liked it, I like the singer's voice and the song is catchy. Nice choice  
1 point - Croatia: I can't say why but I don't really like the guitar in the first 3 seconds  The strength of this song for me is the chorus, I didn't enjoy the verses as much, but the chorus is really nice.
 
My 2 reserves were Great Britain (a sweet song with nice lyrics but a little bit too simple) and Portugal (I wanted to give points to this one at the beginning, after my first listen I liked it a lot, I found the song calming and liked the music but, I don't know... the next listens, nothing happened when I listened to it :/)

A tie for second place, but Norway wins the silver because more juries voted for its song (22 vs. 20 of USA).
 
 
Congratulations Italy on the amazing song, a really great choice for this contest!
 
Today I had many many issues with the wifi, but I hope it wasn't too noticeable. Thank all of you for the participation, but I leave special thanks to @OlympicIRL and @dcro for helping me greatly with this event, never being bored by my five hundred questions. And also to @mrv86 just for being a great friend. Now, as I'm awake since yesterday's morning, excuse me that I'm gonna sleep til people think I'm dead.
 

Awesome getting silver in my first contest  , I had never tought that. Thanks to everybody who voted for the song ! 
 
Again congratulations Italy  and congratulations to USA with bronze  
 
Thanks to @vinipereira for a great contest this was really fun ! And thanks to @konig for convincing me to join the contest. 
 
And  finally thanks to everyone for great songs and a wonderful contest.

Sao Luis took Brazil and its 50 extra points They take bronze.with that.
 
Gold for Brasilia
Silver for Foz do Iguacu
Bronze for Sao Luis
 
So Colombia still gets a podium despite its poor performance.
 
Diplomas additionally go to Manaus, Ouro Preto and Gramado.

Sao Luis took Brazil and its 50 extra points They take bronze.with that.
 
Gold for Brasilia
Silver for Foz do Iguacu
Bronze for Sao Luis
 
So Colombia still gets a podium despite its poor performance.
 
Diplomas additionally go to Manaus, Ouro Preto and Gramado.

Final hit map

 
Thanks for the contest @vinipereira, amazing work! See you tomorrow for the closing ceremony!

Sao Luis took Brazil and its 50 extra points They take bronze.with that.
 
Gold for Brasilia
Silver for Foz do Iguacu
Bronze for Sao Luis
 
So Colombia still gets a podium despite its poor performance.
 
Diplomas additionally go to Manaus, Ouro Preto and Gramado.

Well, 8th place was much better than what I imagined with this average song. 3rd best performance, very close to the 2nd best by 2 points i think (with this same singer, in a different band).

Awesome. Team silver and individual bronze (thus tying with Open 2017 for best result ever)

By the way @dcro , Croatian song is so good although i have no idea what she says  

BRAZIL   130    RUSSIA   82    GERMANY 10 148    CROATIA   77    ARGENTINA   118    MOLDOVA   60    ESTONIA   88    SWITZERLAND 12 98    INDONESIA   31    GREAT BRITAIN 6 64    SWEDEN   69    AUSTRIA   66    ITALY   188    GREECE   59    IRAN   14    VENEZUELA   4    UNITED STATES 8 161    SLOVAKIA   98    ANTARCTICA   0    SLOVENIA   36    INDIA   63    DENMARK 4 53    CANADA   25    FRANCE 5 108    SERBIA   44    NORWAY   161    FINLAND 11 104    IRELAND 7 121    AZERBAIJAN   10    NEW ZEALAND   72    ALGERIA 2 87    POLAND   110    PORTUGAL 9 120    TUNISIA   95    MEXICO 3 72    ROMANIA   69    BULGARIA   42    KAZAKHSTAN   40    COLOMBIA   17    MALTA 1 36    LITHUANIA   54    NETHERLANDS   104   
 
 
FINAL TOP 10
AFTER 42 OF 42 NATIONS HAVE VOTED
  ITALY 188   NORWAY 161   UNITED STATES 161   GERMANY 148   BRAZIL 130   IRELAND 121   PORTUGAL 120   ARGENTINA 118   POLAND 110   FRANCE 108  

Sao Luis took Brazil and its 50 extra points They take bronze.with that.
 
Gold for Brasilia
Silver for Foz do Iguacu
Bronze for Sao Luis
 
So Colombia still gets a podium despite its poor performance.
 
Diplomas additionally go to Manaus, Ouro Preto and Gramado.

Sao Luis took Brazil and its 50 extra points They take bronze.with that.
 
Gold for Brasilia
Silver for Foz do Iguacu
Bronze for Sao Luis
 
So Colombia still gets a podium despite its poor performance.
 
Diplomas additionally go to Manaus, Ouro Preto and Gramado.

Sao Luis took Brazil and its 50 extra points They take bronze.with that.
 
Gold for Brasilia
Silver for Foz do Iguacu
Bronze for Sao Luis
 
So Colombia still gets a podium despite its poor performance.
 
Diplomas additionally go to Manaus, Ouro Preto and Gramado.

Sao Luis took Brazil and its 50 extra points They take bronze.with that.
 
Gold for Brasilia
Silver for Foz do Iguacu
Bronze for Sao Luis
 
So Colombia still gets a podium despite its poor performance.
 
Diplomas additionally go to Manaus, Ouro Preto and Gramado.

If you've got drinks and good meat for me to eat while telling the story, you've got it.

Nice that there is someone else with a good taste in music 

@heywoodu We are the only ones who gave 12 to

Ok, TISC-News would like to reserve the rights for that story.

SWITZERLAND 12  
  FINLAND 11  
  GERMANY 10  
  PORTUGAL 9   UNITED STATES 8   IRELAND 7   GREAT BRITAIN 6   FRANCE 5   DENMARK 4   MEXICO 3   ALGERIA 2   MALTA 1  
Dat waren de Nederlandse stemmen. Een belangrijke mededeling: Nederland heeft de bewuste keuze gemaakt om uit het Comité te stappen. Binnenkort zal meer informatie naar buiten komen over het handelen binnen deze exclusieve club, die meer te vergelijken is met een cult, en waar Nederland geen deel meer van uit wenst te maken. Aan de leden van het Comité: misschien kom je erachter dat het bankaccount leeg is, net als de parkeerplaats. Ik heb alles meegenomen. Alle anderen wensen we een fijne ochtend, middag, avond en nacht en tot de volgende keer!
 
That's it for the Dutch votes. We're closing with an important note: the Netherlands has made the conscious choice to leave the Committee. Soon we will release more information about the dealings inside this exclusive club, which is better comparable with nothing less than a cult, and of which the Netherlands did not want to be any part any longer. To the Committee members: you may find the bank account to be empty, as well as the parking lot. I took it.To all others, we wish you a wonderful morning, afternoon, evening and night and we'll see you next time!