Skijumpingmaster

Norway
                      Tix 
             Kaller på Deg
 
 
 
 
 
From Tix , the guy who will represent Norway at ESC. This is the type of song he usually make. The song is in Norwegian. 

I'm in 

Norway is in

No there’s still plenty of time. You just need to post your entry by Sunday, February 16th 

you were not online previously so you have the right to join
 
welcome to the Contest , your Intro is
and your Character
 
and being the 25th Nation to join ,you unblock the Red & the last  Joker
so your Username will be engraved somewhere in the Ceremony
 

 
 

Hosting an Olympics is very expensive. I understand that many politicians oppose them.

The website never really opened in the 3rd session for me so couldn't post my vote. All other websites work fine but this doesn't open after 11.30pm and before 7am. Disaster! 
 
@Griff88 @Skijumpingmaster Both the songs were sure to be in 1st 2 after 1 listening.  
@hckosice  I listened to this 5-6 times. It was in 3rd position till last 2 hearing but then the last minute was sorta making it bored. Lyrics were good. 
@Vektor  I loved the instrumentals along with the music. 
@vinipereira @titicow A really interesting lyric video along with the music. 
@heywoodu The song wasn't bad, it wasn't a song it was a poem for me. And this getting the trophy is a disaster. 
If such good Indonesian entry can't earn at least 100 points I'm afraid any non -English song would ever do. 
 
My points were awarded pretty fairly with 30 points each for Music, Lyrics, Theme and 10 for something extra special. A total out of 100 was done. 
A suitable correction factor was applied
a. If song was in native language then score * 1.25
b. If score was in English, with the language not  spoken by more than 25% population  or it is not the main language used in government papers then score *1
 
 
Our song may not be the best buy if this song can't get in top 25 I really doubt about the jury members. The problem is favouritism + some users " like some nations " rather than song and give their points. 
 
Come on TOISC can be renamed Totallympics Open Eurovision contest and US and Australia can be invited. 
 

It’s just hard to appreciate a song I can’t understand. I to give quite a few points to foreign language entries, but in the case I just love Riptide and Liquid Lunch too much. 
 
Here’s my personal voting everyone, forgot to post it earlier :
 
 
12 pts:  I mean come on, one of the best songs of the decade
11 pts:  Very under-appreciated . Absolutely beautiful. Great choice @Vektor. Loved it from the minute I heard it.
10 pts:  This one grew on me. Totally didn’t expect it to be the Danish entry (I just used the playlist, so as too avoid making political decisions). Would have made @Wumo and @Agger day I think 
9 pts:  Great choice @heywoodu. Loved it from the minute I heard it (thought it was New Zealand at first). I just decided to award it a bit less than the others. Tone was perfect, lyrics were fun, and the voice had a good level of mastery.
8 pts:  @Manulete Another great entry. This is one of three songs to have made my main playlist from this TISC
7 pts:  (0 pts )
6 pts:  @Skijumpingmaster This is song is in my genre of preference, but it just didn’t have the wow quality of others. A good entry nonetheless. I fully didn’t expect it to get points, but it grew on me when it mattered.
5 pts:  best performance by an Arabic song @amen09. I could tell it was from the Arab Spring and Tunisia right away ?
4 pts:  @Griff88 unlike your voting, this song was not ass. The genre wasn’t my taste, but it definitely deserved points nonetheless. I agree with @Fly_like_a_don that the song punched under its weight (though I think the top 7-8 are correct)
3 pts:  @Belle You submitted my childhood. Road trips with a Mamma Mia! CD. I knew all the words, but honestly, I like the cover more. Still the song deserves points.
2 pts:  @IoNuTzZ For some reason I know this song well. Again, it just wasn’t as good as the top 6 or so, but another solid entry. 
1 pt:  @rybak I really liked this song, but in this case the language barrier killed you. As I said earlier, I enjoyed the risk you took.
R1:  (would have received 1 pt ?) @dcro Bold risk going with a instrumental song. I just couldn’t get myself to give it more points, though it fully deserved a better final ranking.
R2:  @Glen I know I haven’t given you a lot of points, but I love the songs you share. I eagerly await your annual entry.
R3:  @Fly_like_a_don Fully expected this song to be in my top 5, but in the end, it just didn’t click with me. Still very thankful that you shared your entry with us.
R4:  Qazakstan ?. Music video was a bit much for me. Surprising entry nonetheless.
 
A big thanks to @Wumo and @Agger for hosting a wonderful, albeit quite gaffed, edition of the TISC. Completely enjoyed my time on this thread.
 
Huge shoutout to all the participating juries. I love competing in this competition and learning through this cultural exchange. Honestly one of the best parts of the forum. Hope to see everyone participating again in the Spring.
 
In closing, Spain 12

Thanks for all the votes to Norway !
 
Congratulations to @heywoodu

Good description of this voting round.
 

NORWAY 
 
Morten Harket - Brother
 
 

Norway is considering to apply for 2030 olympics . The counties of Trøndelag , Telemark , Oppland and Hordaland wants have the olympics . Rogaland might also join.
 
If they get the government and stuff on board then Norway might apply. 
 
It will be a decentralized game with the events spread out on the various counties. 
It was mentioned having cross country in Trondheim , alpine skiing on Lillehammer , ice sports in Bergen and freestyle events on Voss. There's also talk of including a ski flying event in Vikersund.
 
IOC member Gerhard Heiberg said that in the future host nations might include new events that fits with that nation's games . Int that case Norway might include Telemark , ski orientering , bandy and dog sled racing. 
 
Lillehammer wanted to apply for 2026 games , but it didn't get support. 
 

Norway is in

Norway is in

Boooooooo.

Yeah, I remember the yodelling got a lot of televotes too, so I'm not very surprised actually. Still doesn't really change the fact that the song had an awful conception as was somewhat shown by the low score from the jury.
 
I loved Norway in 2014, adored Norway in 2015 and loved Norway again in 2017. Last year it was Rybak with the worst lyrics of 2018 (and that's in a year where we had songs like Gucci gang), so I am really really hoping Norway can make this right with a wonderful song in 2020, because I miss enjoying your music.

Actually, I like this voting sequence better than the one they had previously. I was pleasantly surprised that Norway won the televote, but shocked that North Macedonia with its sleeper ballad did so well with the juries. Of course it was inevitable that the Netherlands would win, but I cheered for them anyway.
 
Also, why y'all gotta do Malta like that tho?

By the way, you got 12 Points from German televoting.
 
And thanks Europe for the well deserved 0 points in Televoting. It's the deserved punishment for broadcaster NDR who did nothing to promote the Songs or singers in the last months or to help them in any way.

Well the popular votes clearly shows that the jury votes are fucked up , just look at NM , Sweden and Czech . And Norway was very popular with the televotes , but only received 47 from the jury. 

Couldn't this Russia dude play his piano before going live?

Dutch commentator: "This was scandalous. If you get paid one million euros and this is what you deliver, you are simply not worth being on a stage like this. Ridiculous, this was worse than any of the songs in the competition." 
 
Agreed.

Ok, now to vote for the nation least likely to employ a celeb cameo act for the interval act next year....

I kind of like Spain's entry

I think Swiss wins tbh.

Nah, the last place is always reserved for someone from the big five.