Cobi

Thanks to everybody who voted for  and specially to @OlympicIRL for putting the effort to organize this edition!
 
Unfortunately I am in the middle of a job reallocation between continents (I have my flight tomorrow) and did not have time to attend the final, but I was not expecting at all to get a double medal.
 
Congratulations as well to my fellow teammates @Dnland @Glen for the team gold medal (what a rollercoaster! from 8th in the first split to gold medal) and the other medallists @OlympicIRL and Team  (@Gianlu33, @Henry_Leon, @Pablita, @SteveParker).
 
I hope we keep this wonderful tradition alive and hopefully I will be able to find time and host again in the future.

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Thanks to everybody who voted for  and specially to @OlympicIRL for putting the effort to organize this edition!
 
Unfortunately I am in the middle of a job reallocation between continents (I have my flight tomorrow) and did not have time to attend the final, but I was not expecting at all to get a double medal.
 
Congratulations as well to my fellow teammates @Dnland @Glen for the team gold medal (what a rollercoaster! from 8th in the first split to gold medal) and the other medallists @OlympicIRL and Team  (@Gianlu33, @Henry_Leon, @Pablita, @SteveParker).
 
I hope we keep this wonderful tradition alive and hopefully I will be able to find time and host again in the future.

Thanks to everybody who voted for  and specially to @OlympicIRL for putting the effort to organize this edition!
 
Unfortunately I am in the middle of a job reallocation between continents (I have my flight tomorrow) and did not have time to attend the final, but I was not expecting at all to get a double medal.
 
Congratulations as well to my fellow teammates @Dnland @Glen for the team gold medal (what a rollercoaster! from 8th in the first split to gold medal) and the other medallists @OlympicIRL and Team  (@Gianlu33, @Henry_Leon, @Pablita, @SteveParker).
 
I hope we keep this wonderful tradition alive and hopefully I will be able to find time and host again in the future.

Thanks to everybody who voted for  and specially to @OlympicIRL for putting the effort to organize this edition!
 
Unfortunately I am in the middle of a job reallocation between continents (I have my flight tomorrow) and did not have time to attend the final, but I was not expecting at all to get a double medal.
 
Congratulations as well to my fellow teammates @Dnland @Glen for the team gold medal (what a rollercoaster! from 8th in the first split to gold medal) and the other medallists @OlympicIRL and Team  (@Gianlu33, @Henry_Leon, @Pablita, @SteveParker).
 
I hope we keep this wonderful tradition alive and hopefully I will be able to find time and host again in the future.

Congrats @Cobi for the bronze.

Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2025 
 
Thank you all so much for the love and support you have shown throughout my organisation of this TISC. I am so grateful to be part of this community

It's also heartwarming to see TISC come back again after a hiatus and I hope we can keep the tradition alive.
 
 
Once again, congratulations to my fellow medal winners and on maginificent silver and bronze medals
 
A huge thank you to all who voted for Kingfishr and I am beyond happy to see how well this song was received and it truly exceeded any of my expectations. So thank you all so much 
 
But the biggest thanks is to all who participated in another TISC and allowed us to listen to music from across the world and have lots of fun along the way. I am so glad I am not the only one who thinks a TISC Grand Final Day is special.
 
I need a little bit of time now to catch my breath again. In the meantime, I leave you with your TISC Annual 2025 champions, Kingfishr
 
 

 
 
 
Kingfishr - Diamonds and Roses


 
 
 
 
 FINAL STANDINGS 
 
1  Ireland   173  18  Turkey   70  2  Italy   133  19  Poland   67  3  Spain   118  20  Guatemala   66  4  Canada   109  21  Ukraine   65  5  Argentina   109  22  Malta   65  6  France   108  23  Portugal   65  7  Mexico   106  24  Tunisia   63  8  Romania   105  25  Denmark   59  9  Germany   103  26  Bulgaria   59  10  Albania   95  27  Lithuania   58  11  Netherlands   89  28  Indonesia   54  12  Israel   86  29  Greece   53  13  Great Britain   83  30  China   45  14  Kazakhstan   83  31  Slovenia   42  15  Serbia   82  32  Brazil   33  16  United States   82  33  Slovakia   28  17  Sweden   73  34  India   23   

I will catch up on the comments in a little bit. Just need to stretch and get some air. Nothing as stressful as organising a TISC Grand Final but feels so rewarding too

I like the concept of this Festival of Music! I will also share a couple of Christmas songs from Spain's TISC Open 2024 representative David Bisbal.
 
The first one 'Los peces en el río' (The fish in the river) is a flamenco/pop cover of a traditional villancico originated in the 1500s and the second one 'Todo es posible en Navidad' (All is possible in Christmas) was relased last year.
 
Los peces en el río

 
Todo es posible en Navidad

 
I hope you like them and have a wonderful holiday season!

The first-half of voting nations have received their voting templates already. I will continue to work on the remaining templates for the second-half voting nations over the coming days  

Although I am a Christian, my family doesn't usually celebrate Christmas according to tradition (although it's my birthday, so I do celebrate something that day ).
However, even for me, it's impossible not to hear this song playing somewhere around this time of year: 
 

 
I'm going to change the second song because it reminded me of one I know:
 

I like the concept of this Festival of Music! I will also share a couple of Christmas songs from Spain's TISC Open 2024 representative David Bisbal.
 
The first one 'Los peces en el río' (The fish in the river) is a flamenco/pop cover of a traditional villancico originated in the 1500s and the second one 'Todo es posible en Navidad' (All is possible in Christmas) was relased last year.
 
Los peces en el río

 
Todo es posible en Navidad

 
I hope you like them and have a wonderful holiday season!

I like the concept of this Festival of Music! I will also share a couple of Christmas songs from Spain's TISC Open 2024 representative David Bisbal.
 
The first one 'Los peces en el río' (The fish in the river) is a flamenco/pop cover of a traditional villancico originated in the 1500s and the second one 'Todo es posible en Navidad' (All is possible in Christmas) was relased last year.
 
Los peces en el río

 
Todo es posible en Navidad

 
I hope you like them and have a wonderful holiday season!

Festival of Music

 
For this year’s Festival of Music I thought I would change it up a bit. Since we are approaching the festive holiday season, I want you all to post some festive songs from your country. If you don’t celebrate Christmas then perhaps some other song that has a special place in your heart during an important celebration.
 
 
I’m going to start with a Christmas song from Ireland’s TISC Annual 2023 representatives Picture This.

 
 
Picture This - This Christmas
 

So the voting draw has been completed. Here is the provisional voting order. Once a voting schedule for the Grand Final has been created we will look to see if there is any nation eligible to request a swap.
 
Denmark will be opening the voting followed by their Scandinavian neighbour Sweden.
will close the voting on the Grand Final day
 
 
 
TISC Annual 2025 - Provisional Voting Order
 
1 Denmark 18 Israel 2 Sweden 19 Serbia 3 Slovakia 20 Romania 4 Indonesia 21 Brazil 5 Great Britain 22 Poland 6 Italy 23 Mexico 7 Spain 24 Netherlands 8 Kazakhstan 25 China 9 Ukraine 26 Slovenia 10 Bulgaria 27 Turkey 11 Germany 28 Albania 12 United States 29 Malta 13 France 30 Ireland 14 India 31 Argentina 15 Tunisia 32 Lithuania 16 Portugal 33 Guatemala 17 Greece 34 Canada  

I have scheduled the voting order draw for later today. I will be using a random generator to auto-generate the results. If anyone is interested, I have posted a ticket of the scheduled draw. There is no result available yet but will appear once the draw has passed the scheduled time.
 
https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=4047191GXV9CAS4M2

Yes and @heywoodu voted this morning as well. Appreciate everyone’s effort to get their votes in at this busy time of year. 

I sent my votes on Friday 

Considering the Grand Final will take place in January, I think it would be nice to push the deadline to next week to give more time. I just finished my first round of listening but would be great to have some more time.

I am pleased to announce that the host nation has submitted their votes. This means voting is now OPEN to all jury members
 
For any new jury members, just sending a reminder on how this process works. Once you have listened to all songs and are happy that you know which 12 songs you want to vote for, send those votes by PRIVATE MESSAGE to the organiser, @OlympicIRL.
 
All votes are kept secret until the Grand Final, so please don't indicate in chat who you voted for to keep the surprise element intact on the Grand Final. On many occasions the final vote has crowned the winner so that's why it's important to keep the suspense alive . Additionally, as well as voting for your 12 favourite entries and awarding points from 1 to 12, please submit a 1st, 2nd and 3rd reserve in case some nations withdraw. Please indicate the priority of your reserves also.
 
I have included a voting template below which you can utilize to send your votes, if you so wish
 
 
Jury members you have until 21:00 GMT on Friday, December 5th to submit your votes by private message, so plenty of time to get listening to those entries .
 
@Erigert@konig@hoversaBR@Federer91@Topicmaster1010@Vic Liu@Agger@Wumo@Benolympique@Bohemia@catgamer@Dragon@maestro@Yannakis@Fer GUA@Fly_like_a_don@Roamingrover86@Griff88@Dnl@Gianlu33@Henry_Leon@Pablita@SteveParker@Ruslan@Bearas@Glen@mrv86@heywoodu@rybak@kungshamra71@IoNuTzZ@NikolaB@Bailer@hckošice@justony@Cobi@Belle@amen09@Memo@Illya@dezbee2008@Olympian1010
 
 
 
Rank Nation Points 1st Nation 12 2nd Nation 11 3rd Nation 10 4th Nation 9 5th Nation 8 6th Nation 7 7th Nation 6 8th Nation 5 9th Nation 4 10th Nation 3 11th Nation 2 12th Nation 1 13th Nation 1st Reserve 14th Nation 2nd Reserve 15th Nation 3rd Reserve  

ESPAÑA 
 
Gabry Ponte, Vicco - Viento

 
The song is a collab between Italian DJ Gabry Ponte and Spanish singer Victoria Riba 'Vicco' (3rd place at Benidorm Fest 2023)

Basketball already published an article explaining their proposal (Men: https://about.fiba.basketball/en/our-sport/basketball/national-team-competition-systems/olympic-mens-basketball-tournaments / Women: https://about.fiba.basketball/en/our-sport/basketball/national-team-competition-systems/olympic-womens-basketball-tournaments), as well as volleyball (https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1138613/fivb-los-angeles-2028-calendar). No full proposal known yet from hockey, but at least we know that FIH Pro League will give one quota each season.

is in.
 
I hope I can find time to participate.