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GREECE 12 UNITED STATES 11 NETHERLANDS 10 BRAZIL 9 SWITZERLAND 8 AUSTRIA 7 ITALY 6 SLOVENIA 5 VENEZUELA 4 ARGENTINA 3 MEXICO 2 SWEDEN 1 These were the votes of Germany. Thank you all!

UNITED STATES 11 NETHERLANDS 10 BRAZIL 9 SWITZERLAND 8 AUSTRIA 7 ITALY 6 SLOVENIA 5 VENEZUELA 4 ARGENTINA 3 MEXICO 2 SWEDEN 1

Good morning Totallympics, this is Germany calling! These are the results of the votes of the German National Jury: NETHERLANDS 10 BRAZIL 9 SWITZERLAND 8 AUSTRIA 7 ITALY 6 SLOVENIA 5 VENEZUELA 4 ARGENTINA 3 MEXICO 2 SWEDEN 1

I will post them

Now, we're going to Germany! Can we have your votes, @catgamer?

BRAZIL 0 RUSSIA 0 GERMANY 1 1 CROATIA 0 ARGENTINA 5 5 MOLDOVA 0 ESTONIA 8 8 SWITZERLAND 3 3 INDONESIA 10 10 GREAT BRITAIN 4 4 SWEDEN 0 AUSTRIA 0 ITALY 6 6 GREECE 0 IRAN 0 VENEZUELA 0 UNITED STATES 0 SLOVAKIA 7 7 ANTARCTICA 0 SLOVENIA 0 INDIA 0 DENMARK 0 CANADA 0 FRANCE 0 SERBIA 0 NORWAY 12 12 FINLAND 0 IRELAND 0 AZERBAIJAN 0 NEW ZEALAND 0 ALGERIA 0 POLAND 0 PORTUGAL 11 11 TUNISIA 0 MEXICO 2 2 ROMANIA 0 BULGARIA 0 KAZAKHSTAN 0 COLOMBIA 0 MALTA 0 LITHUANIA 0 NETHERLANDS 9 9 PROVISIONAL TOP 5 AFTER 01 OF 42 NATIONS HAS VOTED NORWAY 12 PORTUGAL 11 INDONESIA 10 NETHERLANDS 9 ESTONIA 8

NORWAY 12 PORTUGAL 11 INDONESIA 10 NETHERLANDS 9 ESTONIA 8 SLOVAKIA 7 ITALY 6 ARGENTINA 5 GREAT BRITAIN 4 SWITZERLAND 3 MEXICO 2 GERMANY 1 Estes foram os votos do Brasil. Agradecemos a participação de todos vocês e esperamos que seja o início de um belo dia de celebração da música! These were the votes of Brazil. We would like thank you for the participation and hope this was only the start of a great day of music celebration!

Damn, your statistics are VERY specific. Well done, sir

PORTUGAL 11 INDONESIA 10 NETHERLANDS 9 ESTONIA 8 SLOVAKIA 7 ITALY 6 ARGENTINA 5 GREAT BRITAIN 4 SWITZERLAND 3 MEXICO 2 GERMANY 1

Bom dia membros do Totallympics! É uma grande honra sediar esta edição e iniciar o anúncio dos votos nesta manhã. Sem mais, aqui estão os resultados dos votos do júri Brasileiro: Good morning Totallympics members! It is a great honour to host this edition and start the voting announcements today. These are the results of votes of the Brazilian National Jury: INDONESIA 10 NETHERLANDS 9 ESTONIA 8 SLOVAKIA 7 ITALY 6 ARGENTINA 5 GREAT BRITAIN 4 SWITZERLAND 3 MEXICO 2 GERMANY 1

Good morning and welcome ladies and gentlemen! It is a honour to host the Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2018 Grand Final! We hope this will be a great day of fun and we bet all the participants are very excited to see the votes. Without further ado, let's start the day with the voting of the home nation, Brazil!

The Grand Final will start in about 20 minutes. Just some things to remember: Voting order and schedule was posted at the first post of this thread HERE. I won't be breaking ties in the Provisional Top 5 table. If two (or more) nations have the same score, they will be listed in alphabetical order - so if some nations share the provisional 5th place, only the first one in the alphabetical order will be at the table. Only by the end of the contest tiebreakers will be used (if necessary). Until Vote 32, Team Challenge tables will be updated each time a Team ends its 3 turns of power-play. HERE are the Team Challenges rules.

After a night of music and celebration, it's time to end the ceremony with the lighting of the TISC Flame. And for such occasion, the Organizing Committee is proud to invite TISC president @OlympicIRL - for who the contests owes a great deal. Without him, We're sure things wouldn't be the same! With beautiful fireworks, we say goodbye to the Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2018 Opening Ceremony, but also make an invitation for the Grand Final tomorrow at the Olympic Park. We hope everyone enjoyed this event and thank you all for the participation. Long live TISC!

Now that we finally presented our logo, we have the honour of continuing another TISC tradition, unveiling the scoreboard that will be a fundamental part of our voting all day tomorrow. Ladies and gentleman, the official scoreboard of TISC 2018! BRAZIL 0 RUSSIA 0 GERMANY 0 CROATIA 0 ARGENTINA 0 MOLDOVA 0 ESTONIA 0 SWITZERLAND 0 INDONESIA 0 GREAT BRITAIN 0 SWEDEN 0 AUSTRIA 0 ITALY 0 GREECE 0 IRAN 0 VENEZUELA 0 UNITED STATES 0 SLOVAKIA 0 ANTARCTICA 0 SLOVENIA 0 INDIA 0 DENMARK 0 CANADA 0 FRANCE 0 SERBIA 0 NORWAY 0 FINLAND 0 IRELAND 0 AZERBAIJAN 0 NEW ZEALAND 0 ALGERIA 0 POLAND 0 PORTUGAL 0 TUNISIA 0 MEXICO 0 ROMANIA 0 BULGARIA 0 KAZAKHSTAN 0 COLOMBIA 0 MALTA 0 LITHUANIA 0 NETHERLANDS 0 PROVISIONAL TOP 5 BRAZIL 12 BRAZIL 11 BRAZIL 10 BRAZIL 9 BRAZIL 8

Continuing with the South American theme this night, the Organizing Committee is proud to finally unveil the logo for the Totallympics Annual International Contest 2018. The main figure for this logo, the arara-vermelha (Red-and-green macaw) is a large species widespread in the forests and woodlands of northern and central South America, especially in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. However - in common with other macaws - there has been a decline in its numbers due to habitat loss and illegal capture. With the use of its image here at the logo, we hope to raise awareness to this fact, but also celebrate its beauty. In the logo, the bird is combined with musical waves (to bring a music element) that also resembles the Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio. Ladies and gentleman, the official logo of TISC 2018:

I've been listening to this song for months

I'm hoping I'm not forgetting another south american nation

As the first ever Totallympics Contest held in South America, nothing more natural that having a segment paying homage to our friends of Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela present at this year's contest (and Chile, Guyana and Uruguay, which all participated in the past), but also the people from Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Suriname. For this south american portion, we invited Uruguayan singer and songwriter Jorge Drexler to perform the beautiful song Al Otro Lado del Río from the movie The Motorcycle Diaries, for which he won the Oscar back in 2005.

In January, the TISC world mourned the passing of Dolores O'Riordan, the Irish musician, singer and songwriter that led the rock band The Cranberries from 1990s. O'Riordan, who was born in 1971, auditioned and won the role of lead singer of the alternative rock, band, which rose to international fame in the 1990s with their debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? The Cranberries have sold over 40 million records worldwide and the band achieved four top 20 albums on the Billboard 200 chart. Of their most famous records, "Zombie", a protest song released in 1994, won the the title at Totallympics Open International Song Contest back in 2014, with an impressive mark of 333 points (no song has ever come within 100 points of that). Now, we remember that hit written by O'Riordan, but also pay tribute to her incredible carreer. Singer Josh Groban will be joined by other artists from this year's contest for a beautiful rendition of the classic song You'll Never Walk Alone. RIP Dolores O'Riordan (1971 - 2018)

In celebration of the 10 editions of Totallympics International Song Contests, for the first time ever we will have a Contest Oath - to be taken by a competing artist, by a jury member, and by a member of the host organizing committee. For the Brazil 2018 contest, the members selected were: NABILA DALI "In the name of all competitors, I promise that we shall take part in this Contest, respecting and abiding by the rules that govern TISC - committing ourselves to a competition that values respect and the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of music and the honor of our nations!" @rybak "In the name of all the jury members, I promise that we shall adjudicate in our deliberations at this Contest with complete impartiality, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern TISC in the true spirit of sportsmanship!" @titicow "In the name of all the organizers, I promise that we shall organize this Contest, respecting and abiding by the rules that govern TISC - committing ourselves to overseeing a competition that values respect and promotes the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of music and the honor of our nations!"

Now is finally time for the home delegation Brazil, the first ever nation from South America to host one edition of the Totallympics International Song Contest! As music choice, the beautiful regional song A Vida do Viajante, by Luiz Gonzaga - also a theme at the Rio Olympics. My life is to wander across this country to see if one day I can rest happy Keeping the memories of lands I have traversed travelling through the interior and of friends I left behind.

Now our friends from Antarctica enter the stadium for the absolute delight of the crowd! It's their first ever participation in a Totallympics International Song Contest. As music choice for the Antarctic delegation, led by Tristan Icecapade and Eve Snowflake, nothing better than the funny children's song "O Pinguim", composed in 1970 by Vinicius de Moraes and here performed by popular brazilian singer Toquinho. The song's chorus reads as follows: Good morning, Penguin Where are you going? In a such a hurry? I'm not mean Don't be scared Afraid of me.