Cobi

Spain
 
 
 
 
 
¡Buenos días Hungría! Es un placer estar un año más compartiendo este día con toda la comunidad de Tottalympics. ¡Mucha suerte!
 
Good morning Hungary! It's a pleasure to be one more year sharing this special day with the Totallympics community. Good luck!
 
 
 
 
 
     3rd    Malta               
   4th    Hungary   5th    Brazil   
 
 
  Malta   10          Hungary   9    Brazil   8    Finland   7    Great Britain   6    Netherlands   5    Tunisia   4    Germany   3    Poland   2    Argentina   1   
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PUERTO RICO
 
 
Marc Anthony - Pa'lla Voy

Team Challenge Host City
Győr
 
 
The lineup of the Rivers
 Spain @Cobi  Greece @maestro @Makedonas @Yannakis  Kazakhstan @Ruslan  Turkey @Memo  
We have arrived to the Northwest of Hungary and its largest city, Győr, which is the home of 132 thousand people. Győr is called "the city of rivers" because it has three of them, the Moson-Danube, the Rába and the Rábca. The city is located on the main road between three capitals, Budapest, Vienna and Bratislava, which is why it's one of the richest Hungarian cities outside of Budapest. 
 

 
Győr has countless sights to visit, their most beautiful building might be the city hall, but as someone who haven't been there recently, the first thing that comes to my mind when Győr gets mentioned is the Audi factory, which is very important for the economy of Hungary. It's the symbol of Hungary's place inside the European Union as we provide cheap labor for one of the largest German brands. But as I said, we do have sights here, like Pannonhalma Archabbey, located south of Győr, which is one of the oldest historical monuments in Hungary, it was founded in 996. It's the second largest territorial abbey in the world. It has a library of 360 thousand volumes.
 

Pannonhalma
 
The women's handball team Győri Audi ETO is the most successful club of the city. They have won the Hungarian Championship 15 times and more importantly they have also won the EHF Champions League 5 times. It's safe to say that they were the most dominant, strongest female handball team in the world during the 2010s. 
 
 

Yay, we did it under 4 hours! Well done everyone!
 
@OlympicIRL @hckošice @Wumo @Cinnamon Bun @Cobi @NikolaB thank you for your participation!
 
And once again thank you @mrv86 for making the grids!
 
I will update the voting order with the local times tomorrow. Now if you will excuse me I will go to sleep, I am a bit tired.
 
 
  A B C D E F G 1 2 3 4 5 6        
 
  A B C D E F G 1 9 36 12 1 15 3 4 2 33 8 16 25 2 35 19 3 17 7 26 24 20 6 39 4 22 30 14 18 34 23 10 5 21 13 29 11 37 28 5 6 27   38   32   31

I have to leave, so this will be my last pick today: Tarta Pascualina and László Nagyl.
 
I can give my turn to @NikolaBif he wants.

A 2   G 5 5  
Provisional Voting Order
 
 Voting Order   Voting
Time 
Session 1 (09:30-11:18)    1    New Zealand  09:30     2     09:42   3     09:54   4    Bulgaria  10:06   5    Spain  10:18   6     10:30   7     10:42   8    Germany  10:54   9     11:06  Break (11:18-12:30)   Session 2 (12:30-14:30)    10     12:30     11     12:42   12     12:54   13     13:06   14     13:18   15     13:30   16     13:42   17     13:54   18     14:06   19     14:18  Break (14:30-17:30)   Session 3 (17:30-19:30)    20     17:30     21    Finland  17:42   22     17:54   23     18:06   24     18:18   25     18:30   26     18:42   27     18:54   28     19:06   29     19:18  Break (19:30-20:00)   Session 4 (20:00-22:00)    30     20:00     31     20:12   32     20:24   33    Indonesia  20:36   34     20:48   35     21:00   36     21:12   37     21:24   38     21:36   39    Slovakia  21:48   
 
Team Challenge
 
Budapest Capitals Debrecen Flowers  1    New Zealand  10     2     11     20     30     21    Finland  31    Miskolc Cavers Pécs Scholars 3   12   4   Bulgaria 13   22   32   23   33   Indonesia Győr Rivers Kecskemét Goats 5   Spain 14   6   15   24   34   25   35   Fehérvár Saints Szombathely Romans 7   16   8   Germany 17   26   36   27   37   Tatabánya Falcons Eger Heroes 9   18   19   29   28   38   39   Slovakia    

I can also help with some picks.

The Official Logo
 

 
Dear users of Totallympics, the wait for the official logo of the 2022 Totallympics Annual International Song Contest is finally over, just in time for the draw! The logo is the work of our great @vinipereira, thank you so much for your contribution! 
 
The inspiration behind the logo were Hungarian folk motives which very often feature birds and flowers. And there was one particular interpretation of our folk motives that we used as the main inspiration. It's the title card of a well-known Hungarian animated TV series which has adapted 100 Hungarian folk tales over the last 4 decades. The melody of this TV intro is firmly embedded in my head, it was probably one of the first things I saw on TV when I was a child, and the same must be true for many Hungarians. Both its design and melody are timeless and represent our traditions.
 

 
  

VENEZUELA 
 
Carlos Baute (ft. Chenoa)  - El chisme
 

I will pick  and .

It is quite annoying (and funny at the same time tbh) to see the same topic over and over again. Algeria will not go to the World Cup and it doesn't matter how much you want to cry about it.
 
Cameron won. Get over it.

It is quite annoying (and funny at the same time tbh) to see the same topic over and over again. Algeria will not go to the World Cup and it doesn't matter how much you want to cry about it.
 
Cameron won. Get over it.

It is quite annoying (and funny at the same time tbh) to see the same topic over and over again. Algeria will not go to the World Cup and it doesn't matter how much you want to cry about it.
 
Cameron won. Get over it.

It is quite annoying (and funny at the same time tbh) to see the same topic over and over again. Algeria will not go to the World Cup and it doesn't matter how much you want to cry about it.
 
Cameron won. Get over it.

Thanks!!, Agustin doesnt let us to sleep too much but that is normal for babies 
 
Thanks to @Cobi @mrv86 @hckošice for the messages 
 
 

Judith Forca and Elena Ruiz are enough to beat Greece 13-9 with a lot of new players in the team. Spain qualifies to the semifinals of the World League against Hungary.

Congrats!

I just sent my votes! I knew my top3 from the 1st listening, but I had doubts about the order until the last minute, so maybe I will have regrets during the Final 

Happy Easter!
 
The host of the 2022 Totallympics Annual International Song Contest wishes you a very happy Easter holiday if you are fortune enough to live in a country that celebrates this quite strange event where we commemorate the resurrection of Christ with... bunnies who bring eggs? Don't question it!
 

 
Huh, that bunny looks a bit strange. But I am told it can lay eggs, perfect for the holiday!
 
Here in Hungary we have the usual stuff for Easter, children hunting for eggs and all that, but we also have a custom called "sprinkling" (locsolkodás). I am now looking up the English Wikipedia to see what the official English name for it is and it's... um... Dyngus Day? And here I though this custom couldn't get any more silly. For anyone not living in Central/Easter Europe, this strange celebration is an excuse for boys to yeet a bucket of water on girls. Before they do such an act they have to ask the girls for consent with a poem. Today people usually use perfume, but some still do it the traditional way as this video shows...
 

 
 
Do you have any strange Easter traditions in your country? And what do you eat? In Hungary we eat eggs, ham and an Eastern European bread called "kalács". I am consuming some kalács with homemade rosehip fruit spread right now as I write this post, it's indeed very tasty. 
 
 
 

Gallego!!!!! I love Galicia: nice people, beautiful language, delicious food.... :D 

ESPAÑA 
 
Tanxugueiras - Terra
 

 
My pick for this year is "Terra", a song that took the 3rd place in Benidorm Fest, our National Final for Eurovision. This is going to be the first time that Spain will be represented in TISC by a song in a co-official language, in this case Galician (although the song also includes a sentence in Basque, Catalan and Castilian/Spanish).

Apparently the user has participated in TISC before under a different username, or at least that's what I am being told. @Memo
 
And I totally did not forget about this rule at all when I made my previous post. Nooo, not at all. 
 
(Lesson learned, take a break from organizing an event when you are distracted by an ongoing election in your country.  )

The user has previously participated as @Memo, so yes.

ESPAÑA 
 
Tanxugueiras - Terra
 

 
My pick for this year is "Terra", a song that took the 3rd place in Benidorm Fest, our National Final for Eurovision. This is going to be the first time that Spain will be represented in TISC by a song in a co-official language, in this case Galician (although the song also includes a sentence in Basque, Catalan and Castilian/Spanish).

Finally Spain for WOG, i've been saying it for some time now  Though SOG would be equally as good, i wonder who is the dumb IOC's favourite? They are not even hiding it at this point and directly say "don't even bother applying"