Skijumpingmaster

A rather uninteresting start, but still manages to be 100 times better than Netta...

My vote goes to Italy

My vote goes to Italy

Finally caught up with this thread lol
 
Though it's not among our best efforts, as @Olympian1010 said earlier, we'll bounce back for the open (we do much better in the open contest anyways lol), but I want to congratulate @OlympicIRL for his win, by far my favorite song in this edition and it always makes me happy to see my 12 pointer win, even if my own entry fails (and now I need to know how many of my 12 pointers have gone on to win the contest because I believe that's an exclusive club right there lol)
 
Also, my thanks to several of you who gave us points, especially to @Memo and @KingOfTheRhinos for the 12 points, because honestly, I was worried that goal wouldn't be reached (and it was reached 11/12 contests or something like that), and I'll also add @Function CR Lee @stefanbg @Finnator123 @vinipereira @titicow @Damian to the list of those that had our back.
 
Also, I send congrats to @mrv86 for hosting this contest, though it wasn't easy, especially when you had internet problems, which is always the worst thing that can happen to the host jury, but you stuck it out in the end and made it all possible, and having hosted the last open contest, I could sympathize what you had to go through to make it work.
 
Also, congrats to @heywoodu and @KingOfTheRhinos for your 2nd and 3rd places. Both of you made to my second listen, but Australia made it to my reserves and Netherlands, unfortunately, missed out on it
 
Finally, my personal votes from the US east coast (since I saw while going through the pages that @Olympian1010 made a comment about being on the west coast)
12 --  Ireland
11 --  India
10 --  China
9 --  Bulgaria
8 --  Greece
7 --  Norway
6 --  Germany
5 --  Colombia
4 --  Chile
3 --  Romania
2 --  Spain
1 --  Great Britain
R1 --  Mexico
R2 --  Algeria
R3 --  Australia
R4 --  Lithuania
 
Yeah, funny how my top 2 is also the combined top 2

Here my votes for this TAISC  
 
12 points 
11 points 
10 points 
9 points 
8 points 
7 points 
6 points 
5 points 
4 points 
3 points 
2 points 
1 point 

Just some small numbers... a total of 29 countries (!!) had vote in the Italian Jury and the minimum for archive a points was a combined score of 14 (So, a country that do only a 12 wasn't in the italian scoreboard).

Special mention to the song that I voted and didn't reach the top 12:   and . I will reveal my points at the end of the contest, as usual  

Thanks @mrv86 for posting my votes !
 
It seems like this will be a terrible competition for Norway , I'm a little disappointed ofc as I really like that song and it has been popular in Norway. But given the 2th place last year , I won't complain. 

Thanks @mrv86 for posting my votes !
 
It seems like this will be a terrible competition for Norway , I'm a little disappointed ofc as I really like that song and it has been popular in Norway. But given the 2th place last year , I won't complain. 

Ryoyu Kobayashi thanks his todays 5th place wrote the history of his country, he became the first ever male ski jumping World Cup overall winner. Really surprising to see that any his countrymen did it before, the NR was until this season the 2nd overall place of Kazuyoshi Funaki in 1998 season

Ski Jumping FIS Raw Air Tournament 2019  
Multi-Stage Event - 8 March 2019 - 17 March 2019  
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As ski jumping is my favorite sport I'm a little bit disappointed . But given Norway's domination this WC I guess I have no reason to complain 

It's Vincenz, not Vincent  And yes, they are cousins but it's not close kinship.

Lol, that normal hill competition of yesterday (yeah, just finished watching  )
 
Nothing against Kubacki, Stoch and Kraft, but if ever someone was a lucky medalist....  

Ebba Andersson

Bit of both, I guess. He had very good conditions in first jump, but same as Romoeren and Vassiliev, who jumped right after him. In turn best ones (BIBs 40-50) couldn't count on wind and classification after first round was full of suprises. I remember that in second Malysz advanced ten posistions and Loitzl even more. In second round Benkovic jumped not so well (13th result) but it was enough to defend first place. Of course it's nothing compare with todays competition  

farse

And I thought that fans of sporting concpiracy theories are live only in Poland.

Poltoranin, Veerpalu, Tammjarv, Hauke.

Lundby wins by 0,5 point! Wind compensation made the difference and Althaus landing on two feet in the first jump.
 
Lundby utterly dominates the World Cup for the last two seasons so I doubt she's going anywhere given her age. She's like the Takanashi who actually wins the big events too! Althaus can't win anything since mid-December now

Poles often do not show their best in qualis this season. I think we'll get at least one medal tomorrow. Also Ryoyu will be in top free and Eisenbichler I think. 

Daniel Andre Tande will not travel to Seefeld because of injury. 

Some weeks he is having  

TROUBLE - CLMD 
 
 
 

officially become North Macedonia, now many sport federations must be struggling to update their website

is in !