thepharoah

My votes:
 
12- Ireland
11-Slovakia
10- Lithuania
9- Egypt
8- Poland
7- Kazakhstan
6- Chile
5- Tunisia
4- Netherlands
3- Mexico
2- Italia
1- Great Britain
 
Reserves
1) Algeria
2) Denmark

IRELAND 12   SPAIN 11   HUNGARY 10   SLOVAKIA 9   CROATIA 8   LITHUANIA 7   FINLAND 6   EGYPT 5   POLAND 4   SERBIA 3   SWEDEN 2   KAZAKHSTAN 1  
    These were the votes of Argentina. Thank you all! 

Grand Final Scoreboard
 
   NETHERLANDS  194    BRAZIL 64    AUSTRALIA  172    MEXICO 63    SWEDEN  171    SLOVENIA 61    HUNGARY  167    LITHUANIA 59    UNITED STATES  127    KAZAKHSTAN 58    SPAIN 118    SLOVAKIA 57    NORWAY 113    TUNISIA  54     ROMANIA 110    GREAT BRITAIN 48    ALGERIA 109    ARGENTINA 47    PORTUGAL 98    INDONESIA  42     SERBIA 87    MOLDOVA 41    IRELAND  81    POLAND 39    FINLAND  81     CHILE 37    FRANCE  79     INDIA 37    CROATIA 78    GREECE  29     CANADA 74    EGYPT 28    MALTA 74    P. R. OF CHINA 25    DENMARK 73    NEW ZEALAND 20    ITALY  71       The Host Jury and the Organizing Commitee can now reveal the final scorboard for TOISC 2019. 
Top 3
1. The Netherlands
2. Australia
3. Sweden
A huge congratulations to the top 3!
 
Lastly, a big thank you to all entries and their delegations, national juries and of course the fans for have created an amazing atmosphere here in Arena Fyn, Odense, today.
 
 
Please notice me if there are any mistakes in the scoreboard. I will then fix them tomorrow. 
May you all have a good day, evening or night.  
I'm tired, so it's goodnight from me!

first time we got points from wandered since he was naturalized by NZL 

Again, huge congrats to @heywoodu and Netherlands on a very impressive victory  
 
And big thanks to the Danish hosts @Wumo and @Agger for all their hard work in organising another fantastic and entertaining contest!! And @Wumo time to take a breath now and enjoy a well deserved break after your fine hosting duties, you gave us all a very enjoyable day here on the forum 
 
 
Thanks so much to all who voted for Ireland, especially Argentina for the 12 points and Egypt for awarding a beautiful bronze . Very happy with our performance and again, thanks to all who at least enjoyed Moya Brennan's song on some level
 

Thank you very much Egypt!

Yesss!! Thank you @thepharoah !! Finally a medal

Kolding Station - Photo: S.Juhl - Wiki
With the Grand Final getting close, we can welcome @dezbee2008, @Olympian1010, @thepharoah and @DaniSRB to Kolding, hometown of Blaue Blume who competed at the 2015 Annual Contest.
Kolding dates to the second half of the 1100s and for most of the medieval times it was one of the most important cities of the country, including having the castle Koldinghus as an occasional Royal residence for a few hundred years. Due to wars and Plague the city suffered and had trouble growing due to taxes. During the Napoleonic wars, some Spanish mercenaries started a fire at Koldinghus by accident burning major parts down to the ground. Only in the 1890’s restoration of the castle began, finishing about a 100 years later. During these years the city grew steadily becoming the 7th largest city of our country.

Koldinghus - Photo: Hubertus - Wiki
Kolding is most known for its men’s handball team who has won the Danish Championships a record 14 times. Among the major athletes from the city, two-times Olympic Silver Medalist in heaveweight boxing, Søren Petersen and former Liverpool midfielder Jan Mølby.

Kolding Castle Lake - Photo: Hubertus - Wiki
As you may have guessed, Koldinghus would be a place that we recommend to visit. Both to see the historic building in a new form but also due to its highly interesting exhibitions. Trapholt Arts museum, a look around in the historic center or by Kolding fiord are also worth the time. And how about bit of pizza? Kolding likes to call themselves Slice-town for a reason!!

yeah, I was not referring to Egypt when I wrote about North Africa dominating the event, rather to the very good results, way better than usual, for the other Countries of that Region (I mean, all the North African Nations, except for LBA, won at least 1 Gold and more than 1 medal, which is quite unusual to see in the other sports)...
 
and of course I agree on anything else...

I only reacted as sad because I wanted your post to have every reaction possible. 

That isis guy must have nine lives, he's being killed every year.

I'm sorry for the irish here but this whole sequence of events was absolutely  the "diving" stroke in the last second, the 3-1 penalty lead blown and finally the irish player crashing the ball into his own foot in the most decisive penalty. It's just too much.

Pantelis Hatzidiakos (AZ Alkmaar) after air crash with Konstantinos Mitroglou (PSV)
 

By now I've lost count of how many brazilian athletes complained about dubious judging/decisions. The one that probably was the most vocal about it is Caio Bonfim, who received a direct red card 20m away from the finish line in the 20km race walk:
 
 

At least Trump is honest about one thing: "We want to secure the oil"
 
 

Yeah for a statement about a terrorist leader killing himself together with three children, it's both sad and surprisingly hilarious the way he brings it and turns even this to 'I am amazing!!' 

North Korea became the newest FEI member.

Congrats to Bahrain, they deserved it more than anybody else here. I don't like some of Bahrain teams (in other sports, specially football) but their handball team is great for such a small nation. Bahrain's population is smaller than the city I live !
 
Korea had the lead for something like 40-45 minutes but Bahrain finally took the lead and never gave it back to Korea. I hope they play good at the Olympics and don't make a joke of Asian Handball
 
and South Korea has no chance in the qualification tournament, if it was Qatar (or even Bahrain) yes maybe but Korea no way.

Heywoodu comment next week: "I finally watched the final of the 2010 world cup, wow can't believe the chance Robben missed and that the dutch lost another final."

Our NOC announced that 5 of our lifters were caught doped in the last African Games without naming them but rumors says that Sara Samir is included in this list so it's officially over for our weightlifting the sport could even die here in Egypt,  Mohamed Ehab announced his retirement unless he can participate under Olympic flag or something which isn't available ofc this's what we got from conflicts in our federation I seriously started to hate Egyptian sport with this bunch of losers governing our federations 

Entry list...
 
South Africa
Laurienne Dittmann (Don Weltino K)
Gretha Ferreira (Lertevangs Lavinia)
Tanya Seymour (Ramoneur)
Nicole Smith (Chi La Rou)
 
So... This will be interesting. As long as they finish the competition, South Africans will be given a quota. There are many more riders actually entered, but nobody else from Group F except two Palestinians (Diana Al-Shaer and Christian Zimmermann), who obviously can't form a team.
 
Nevertheless, provided they finish the competition and obtain requirements, South Africans are on path to become the first ever African Olympic dressage team. And that is really cool, especially given that in 2016 they missed out on a team qualification by a ridiculously small margin of 0.06%!

KOREA
 
 
 
 

First ever gold medal for Brazil, and quite the news here since Maicon wrote on Instagram that he is proud to be black and the racist Bulgarians had to deal with his gold medal. 

Festival of Music begins! 
The member of the Egyptian jury couldn't wait, so let the Festival of Music begin!  For those who are new to TISC, Festival of Music is an opportunity for any TISC participant to present songs and artists from nations who are not represented at this year's TISC Open. All participants of TOISC 2019 can write a post about which nation or nations they would to like present in Festival of Music. Usually a TISC participant can present up to two entries from two different nations. Remember, the same rules apply to entries in Festival of Music as TOISC 2019. Artists must be from or associated with the nation they represent, and entries must have been released on or before December 31st, 2014. 
 
Enjoy the festival!  
 

Senegal 
 
Ismael Lo : Jammu Africa ( Peace in Africa )