Wanderer

very expected Semis here , Azarenka , Stephens and Ostapenko  but i'm really happy for the 3 especially the cutest on WTA Ostapenko 

So you're basically saying that @dezbee2008 and @Wanderer have not yet voted?

Who are you and what you have done with latewoodu?

Hahaha, great stats!  
I was surprised not to see Russia Annual 2017 on the list though  
 
And I loooove marmite   #marmiteclub  

Marmite Club
 
All these have received medals, if not golds from @Wanderer. Coincidence??

New page is up - National Records

Some interesting update from the Croatian representatives back at 2016 Annual. If anyone remembers, we were represented by a band called NORD, who performed a song "Play Restart". One of the members of NORD is my former highschool classmate.
 
In any case, it's very much the least (nationally) popular entry that we ever had. I guess you'd have to ask like thousands and thousands of people before stumbling on someone who heard about them. However, last I heard they were touring in China where they got randomly popular. From what I understand, such stories are common in Asia.
 
This is their Play Restart China Tour schedule.

 
 
 

After the host nation jury voting, all other nations can now send their votes for the Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2018. The voting is very simple: after listen to the songs in contention (which can be found in this list), the registered users in the contest must send their votes to me (@vinipereira) via private message, following the template below. Jury members will award points to their 12 favourite songs, which should be done no later than April 6th. You can find small excerpts of the songs in the recap videos above (we recommend to play them in HD). We thank you all for the participation!
 
 
TEMPLATE FOR VOTING
 
1st preference (12 points) = 2nd preference (11 points) = 3rd preference (10 points) = 4th preference (9 points) = 5th preference (8 points) = 6th preference (7 points) = 7th preference (6 points) = 8th preference (5 points) = 9th preference (4 points) = 10th preference (3 points) = 11th preference (2 points) = 12th preference (1 point) = alternate 1 = alternate 2 =  
 

as long as fat cats benefit from wars , wars will always exist , nothing more beneficial than trading weapons , that's it 

We have a new page thanks to @uk12points's suggestion.
 
Continental Records

Ireland claim the Grand Slam with victory in Twickenham
 
 

 
 
It was a historic St.Patrick's Day for Irish sport as the men's rugby team defeated England in Twickenham to add the Grand Slam to their Six Nations title.
 
In a controlled performance Ireland blasted out of the blocks with first half tries from Garry Ringrose, CJ Stander and Jacob Stockdale leaving England trailing 21-5 at half-time. England, unbeaten at home in the Six Nations since 2012 had tries in either half by Elliot Daly and a stoppage-time try by Jonny May was not enough to spoil the Irish party as they ran out comfortable 24-15 winners in the end.
 
It is just the third time in history that Ireland has claimed the Grand Slam and follow in the footsteps of the Irish heroes of 1948 and 2009. It is also Ireland's third Six Nations title in 5 years for Joe Schmidt's men, who now lie in second place in the world rankings behind the mighty All Blacks.
 
What A Day!!!! Grand Slam champions 2018    
 

 

 

 
 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 
 
The Final Standings of the 2018 Six Nations Tournament:
 

 

i think Gaudio winning RG , was one of the biggest surprises in history of the tournament , this final was also an epic one, Coria who was unstoppable on clay that time and made a very big tournament led by 2 sets and it was really obvious that he'll win , but then he suffered from an injury and everything went on reverse way , the 5th set was very tight , but Gaudio won at the end , i still remember this final , despite i was not very old , only 10  , but this's among my favorite GS finals ever 

5. August 28th, 2004 - In the same day Argentina wins two gold medals in men's football and basketball and breaks a curse of 52 years without the argentine anthem being played at the OG.
 
4. Roland Garros 2004 - 3 out of 4 semifinalists were  . Also it had dramatic final between Gaudio and Coria who didn't like each other that much. Gaudio winning was the ultimate underdog story since he was always seen as a guy that couldn't possibly win a major title, being a complete nutjob like he was.
 
3. Argentina-Brazil at football World Cup 1990 - Crazy epic victory over the neighbours with the team plagued with injuries and playing crap football. Resisted thousands of shots from the opponent for 80 minutes before Maradona placed a fantastic pass to score an unthinkable goal.
 
2. Argentina-USA at basketball world championship 2002 - The first loss of a USA team made up by NBA players (was holding a record of 55-0 since 1992). That was the day the whole world realised that they weren't invincible.
 
1. Argentina-England 1986 & world cup victory - Maradona's magnum opus, nothing else to explain.

Nah, not really. Although Gerard van Velde's gold in 2002 definitely would be in my list, but none of the gold medals this or last Olympics really 'did' something for me, it was mostly like "oh"  Probably because as a child I cared completely about simply wanting the athletes with the same flag to win  Whereas now I'm mostly interested in the athletes I actually like.
 
Tom Dumoulin winning the Giro d'Italia last year was absolutely huge, the Netherlands reaching the World Cup final in 2010 was the single biggest 'thing' in Dutch sports that I can at least remember from my lifetime. The Euro 1988 semi final against West Germany was arguably the biggest though: beating the (back then still very much 'hated') arch enemy, on their home soil....it was before I was born, but from what I heard our always quiet and calm neighbour was crying on his knees in front of the TV  The final was nice, but the win in the semi's was the main thing. 

The biggest battle is going to happen in my excel file. An eternal struggle with oneself.

I wish I could say the same  
 
 
 
Hahaha, just got in my mind:
 
Your eyebrows may be the best thing in town
I'd like to shoot 'em up and make 'em frown
hey listen, Jane, here's a hit from me
you're not the biggest catfish in the sea!
 
 

He might be behind all that Antarctica conspiracy

Hey duck. There is only room for one bird in this town....
 

 
 

I speak Hungarian, I study Hungarian language and culture at the univeristy, I write Hungrian-Polish-English sport dictionary, I support also Hungarian athletes, but I'm 100%

Medal tables and points tables from each contest are available from today.
 
Only 2014 Annual Points Table is missing sadly.

Meanwhile, Denmark enters a song with "Norway Norway Norway" lyrics.

I think this is the list of users who have competed in all 10 editions to date....
@LDOG @vinipereira @titicow @Agger @Bohemia @Janakis @OlympicIRL @Henry_Leon @Pablita @SteveParker @Werloc @Glen @mrv86 @rybak @DaniSRB @dareza @Wanderer @justony @uk12points and @dezbee2008
 
I hope I didn't leave out anyone.
 

Wow, Dolehide... heavy game, heavy boobs  

Novak brainfarting in the first set  It is a long road to come back. And ONLY if the elbow injury is a past....

Anisimova keeps winning, into R4 now! Petra was really bad, errors everywhere, but that doesn't diminish Amanda's success! I am very impressed with her hard hitting abilities. She wasn't that troubled with Petra's shots, was able to answer back with great angles, driving Petra from one corner to another, and to hit as hard as Petra did! One to watch!
 
Vondroušova also in 4th round  Two youngest players left in the draw are in the last 16!