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We had an issue with Moldova's vote so until it's solved (hopefully very soon) I can't count them. With Estonia, we're at 24/42.

With exactly 4 days to go, 20/42 nations have voted. Will I need to extend the deadline?

As today we celebrate the 1-month-to-go mark for the Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2018 Grand Final, we are proud to announce the cities and venues that will host the music competition. Around the five major regions of Brazil, a total of 10 cities will be the home for the 42 delegations: our capital Brasília (DF), Cuiabá (MT), Fernando de Noronha (PE), Foz do Iguaçu (PR), Gramado (RS), Manaus (AM), Natal (RN), Ouro Preto (MG), Salvador (BA) and São Luís (MA). In addition to those cities, the contest itself will take place in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), home of the 2016 Summer Olympics. The legendary Maracanã stadium will be the venue of unforgettable Opening and Closing ceremonies, while the Olympic Park will have the honour of hosting the contest. Having recently received the Rock in Rio festival, the Park not only will be the main stage for the Annucal TISC, but host a number of events in celebration of our 10th overall contest, such as: the World Music street, in which international artists from our Festival of Music will perform; the Brazilian Roots street, a stage for contemporary and classical artists from the home nation; the TISC Official Exhibition at the Carioca Arena, celebrating the achievements and history of the contests; and last but not least, the Winterfest Special Presentation at the newly refurbished Aquatics/Ice Centre, giving fans a taste of the music from our friends of the south. We hope you will join us in Brazil 2018!

From this day on, I hope to do a series of posts showing the progress and preparations for the contest in Brazil. Today, I will start with the cities and venues, hope you'll enjoy!

Today we had the Prêmio Brasil Olímpico for the best brazilian athletes of 2017. The nominees were: Best Female Athlete Ana Marcela Cunha (Marathon Swimming) Ana Sátila (Slalom Canoeing) Mayra Aguiar (Judo) Best Male Athlete André Stein/Evandro Gonçalves (Beach Volleyball) Caio Bonfim (Athletics) Marcelo Melo (Tennis) The winners were Mayra Aguiar and Marcelo Melo (the first award for the sport since Guga Kuerten in 2000). Caio Bonfim won "Atleta da Torcida" (popular vote). Here is a complete list of the best brazilian athletes from each Olympic sport in 2017.

I hope everyone votes on time While there wasn't any problem with the deadline to register the songs, now there's only 10 days left for 31 nations to send their votes.

Just a quick announcement regarding a schedule change. The Voting Oder Draw, that was previously scheduled for Sunday April 8th, will happen Saturday April 7th. @OlympicIRL will direct the proceedings, for which I'm already grateful. The Festival of Music, that was previously scheduled for that day, has been pushed back a week to Saturday April 14th.

The level is very good this year, most people are having trouble to figure out their top 12, which is good I think

Which I'm not gonna do. Just teasing something to see if more people send their votes

Well, there's 31 nations still to vote, so it's unlikely that this fact holds to the end.

After the voting of 10 nations, 5 songs still haven't received a single point.

Angélica Kvieczynski (Rhythmic Gymnastics), 6-time Pan American medallist and probably our best individual athlete at this sport, has announced her retirement this week.

Chance of medal for Brazil

That was great!

I literally have no idea what you guys are talking about

So what about this throw that happened Wednesday in brazilian league? It's already being considered one of the greatest buzzer beaters of all time.

Nice reception for Cristian Ribera back in Brazil

Most volleyball players still play for years in our nation league after leaving the national team, that's why we don't hear a lot about them. For instance, Fofao (Hélia Souza) left the NT after the gold in 2008, but played until 2015 for the Rio team - the same team that, to this date, has in its roster the libero Fabi Oliveira (which left the NT after the 2012 gold). I think that's also the case with Dante, who played until 2012 in the NT. So it's kinda a common thing among the top players.

Dante Amaral (Volleyball), Olympic champion in 2004 and silver medallist in 2008 and 2012, announced his retirement today.

I will never get excited about world championships happening just after the Olympics. It's like, we already watched this, give it a rest!

Women's Individual Events

Men's Individual Events

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Nations and users who already voted are now marked in blue.

After the host nation jury voting, all other nations can now send their votes for the Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2018. The voting is very simple: after listen to the songs in contention (which can be found in this list), the registered users in the contest must send their votes to me (@vinipereira) via private message, following the template below. Jury members will award points to their 12 favourite songs, which should be done no later than April 6th. You can find small excerpts of the songs in the recap videos above (we recommend to play them in HD). We thank you all for the participation! TEMPLATE FOR VOTING 1st preference (12 points) = 2nd preference (11 points) = 3rd preference (10 points) = 4th preference (9 points) = 5th preference (8 points) = 6th preference (7 points) = 7th preference (6 points) = 8th preference (5 points) = 9th preference (4 points) = 10th preference (3 points) = 11th preference (2 points) = 12th preference (1 point) = alternate 1 = alternate 2 =