vinipereira

Hi guys! Unfortunately I had a crazy week at work (still having, to be honest), so I have to delay the Festival of Music for some hours, more precisely to tonight at 20h00 (Brasília time), because I'm still preparing some things. As usual, the Festival will stay on for days so you guys can post songs from nations that aren't participating at the contest this year. I'm sorry for the inconvenience but I promise this won't happen at the weekend of the song contest - as I won't be working at my office on Saturday and have resquested to be free at Friday from my other job. Thank you all.

Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia are moving on to the next phase.

And not only that, wins against Ecuador, which is really really bad here. What a debacle for a team which was at the last World Cup - granted, they were also bad there.

Fantastic gold for India in women's double trap!

No, and even for a nation that is hosting I don't think is THAT important (unless you're Bolivia and can really have an improvement over the last editions). But like @carivan said, the Pan Ams matter a lot, much more than the European Games, of course.

Well, there are pros and cons. As a sports fan, I would love if Brazil went ahead with our A team in most sports, but that's not realistic for this competition. So I think it's a good decision to send our best in sports where were are not that great (like Fencing, Field Hockey, Rugby, etc), and send young athletes (who can gain experience in a multi-sport competition) for the sports we have a better level.

Official recommendation from our Olympic Committee to all federations is to send young athletes to all sports, although that's not an obligation and some sports might send the "A" team (unlikely for the big sports except maybe Athletics), especially the ones where Brazil is not that good like Fencing. Our young Judo team was announced: Men's Robson Penna (-60kg) Michael Marcelino (-66kg) David Lima (-73kg) Tiago Pinho (-81kg) Giovani Ferreira (-90kg) Leonardo Gonçalves (-100kg) João Cesarino (+100kg) Women's Larissa Farias (-48kg) Larissa Pimenta (-52kg) Gabrielle Gonzaga (-57kg) Gabriella Moraes (-63kg) Bruna Campos (-70kg) Laislaine Rocha (-78kg) Luiza Cruz (+78kg)

and got the last spots for the upcoming Wheelchair Rugby World Championship. I have to say that the draw in this qualification tournament was pretty bad, since all teams from Group A have lost their semifinals/placing semifinals. But of course it also might be the fact that I'm still sad Brazil didn't qualify

While I appreciate @Memo's response, I've decided not to allow Turkey's votes in this edition. I have read all of the participants' inputs and it seems pretty divided wether to allow this participation or not, both by reasons cited here and by other concerns I have. When it was time to register the songs, there was some talk about allowing users with no (or very little) participation on the forum, but then I've decided to follow the rules and allow Turkey's entry, mainly because the user was registered on Totallympics long enough (more than a year, I think, even if it was with a different account). So now it only seems fair that I follow the rules again. One thing is to extend a deadline for someone who asks for it (for any reason) or give any indication that they will vote, other is to allow votes after some important post-voting things already happened. Allowing such votes would definitely change some placings in the final ranking, and while that would be good for some nations, it wouldn't make others very happy - even if this contest is all about fun. I have talked privately with Memo and invited him to take part in our Festival of Music next weekend and in the upcoming Open contest later this year, if he wishes so. I hope we can move forward and next week I think we will have all the templates ready to go (I'm having trouble with the logo, but it should be presented soon).

Actually, a GUEST user reported one of my posts and when I went to see the complaint, it was the votes (maybe they forgot the password again or maybe just general confusion about how the forum works?). Honestly, if they have sent his votes to me on time (and not to @amen09), it would have avoid this mess. But that was not the case and a few things happened in the mean time, including: the draw; counting the votes of everyone (pending Moldova's correction of a vote); starting working on the vote templates which are determined by the draw; and (spoiler) So yes, I'm all for the participation of different nations, but this is kind of a mess and to allow such votes now would mean that we'll have to restart some of the work that's already been done.

Better match today for Brazil, facing a weaker adversary - I thought Ecuador could give us some trouble, but sadly they were much better four years ago.

I honestly don't know how to respond to... any of that?

Thanks guys for the wonderful draw, especially @OlympicIRL and @dcro. I wasn't online for the most part, but I see now that was great fun

No, at least that I know of.

Also, I will contact people who voted for Turkey (if there was any) in order to correct their votes order.

Unfortunately we have to disqualify Turkey from the contest. In addition to not posting the votes on time, the user didn't answer any of the messages here and elsewhere about the contest, so it's unlikely they will send the votes if we extend the deadline. Moldova has a problem in the voting but it's accepted for now and will be a part of the draw, but will need to fix the issues soon. With Turkey out of the competition, we have 41 nations competing. In the end, only Turkey and 3 users from multi-member juries didn't vote.

No problem

Sure, there's still like 8 hours or so to vote

Only the ones marked in blue in the second post of this thread. So only 7 nations remaining, but we can actually say only 6 since Moldova voted but is pending a correction.

The problem is, it isn't simply a "bug", but something that will definitely change the final results. But in a conversation with the organizers we agreed that Moldova won't be disqualified if doesn't correct this problem today because he voted anyway. We will give some more days to fix this.

Yes, I can't find anything anymore Thankfully, I have all the votes saved.

I think @Sindo has contacted both @Il_qar and @Ionoutz24 on Facebook. @Janakis has contacted me and will send his votes on Facebook

Exactly

Brazil won but played very bad. I wonder if Colombia might have a chance to win this.

26 nations have voted, 16 remaining now. I'm worried about @Ionoutz24 who did sent his votes, but needs to fix something before they're accepted.