Olympian1010 7,990 Posted May 5, 2022 #531 Share Posted May 5, 2022 @Vektor For those of us that have been busy this week, but would like to read these great city posts, could you link them to the first page of the thread or something? Makedonas 1 “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,210 Posted May 5, 2022 #532 Share Posted May 5, 2022 It will be interesting to find out whether any of the projected ranks will come to light. Surely there will be at least one. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicIRL 5,532 Posted May 5, 2022 #533 Share Posted May 5, 2022 Totallympics Annual International Song Contest - Top 40 Chart We are back with the Totallympics Annual International Song Contest Top 40 Chart and we take our first look at the songs that have made it to the Top 10. We have a full set of TISC medalists in our line-up tonight, including 3 TISC Champions among them. First up is the TISC Annual 2018 Winner from Italy, the 10th edition jubilee champion.... 10 Takagi & Ketra ft. Lorenzo Fragola & Arisa - L'Esercito del Selfie Edition: TISC Annual 2018 Placement: 1st Points: 188 points Points-Per-Jury Average: 4.70 pts Number of Juries That Voted For The Song: 24 / 40 (60.00%) Medals Won: 1 Gold, 4 Silver, 3 Bronze Juries Who Awarded Their 12 Points To This Song: Great Britain ************************************************************************* 9 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights Edition: TISC Annual 2021 Placement: 1st Points: 172 points Points-Per-Jury Average: 4.78 pts Number of Juries That Voted For The Song: 21 / 36 (58.33%) Medals Won: 2 Gold, 3 Silver, 6 Bronze Juries Who Awarded Their 12 Points To This Song: Finland, Argentina ************************************************************************* 8 Celeste Buckingham - Crushin' My Fairytale Edition: TISC Annual 2014 Placement: 2nd Points: 167 points Points-Per-Jury Average: 4.91 pts Number of Juries That Voted For The Song: 21 / 34 (61.76%) Medals Won: 6 Gold, 3 Silver, 0 Bronze Juries Who Awarded Their 12 Points To This Song: Kazakhstan, Poland, Bulgaria, France, Spain, Slovenia ************************************************************************* 7 Corson - Raise Me Up (Je Respire Encore) Edition: TISC Annual 2015 Placement: 3rd Points: 153 points Points-Per-Jury Average: 5.10 pts Number of Juries That Voted For The Song: 21 / 30 (70.00%) Medals Won: 2 Gold, 4 Silver, 1 Bronze Juries Who Awarded Their 12 Points To This Song: Greece, Sweden ************************************************************************* 6 Birdy & Rhodes - Let It All Go Edition: TISC Annual 2016 Placement: 1st Points: 173 points Points-Per-Jury Average: 5.24 pts Number of Juries That Voted For The Song: 20 / 33 (60.61%) Medals Won: 4 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Bronze Juries Who Awarded Their 12 Points To This Song: Lithuania, India, Kazakhstan, Chile ************************************************************************* maestro, Vektor, dcro and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,210 Posted May 5, 2022 #534 Share Posted May 5, 2022 Funnily enough, going through the Top 40 list, I have realized that I have always awarded either 0 points (3 times, odd years) or 9 points (3 times, even years) to the Annual champions. It's should be an amazing sign for my No. 4 then. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektor 3,326 Posted May 6, 2022 Author #535 Share Posted May 6, 2022 11 hours ago, Olympian1010 said: @Vektor For those of us that have been busy this week, but would like to read these great city posts, could you link them to the first page of the thread or something? I have updated the first post, you can now click on the names of the teams to read their posts. Olympian1010 and heywoodu 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektor 3,326 Posted May 6, 2022 Author #536 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Team Challenge Host City Tatabánya The lineup of the Falcons Hungary @Vektor Argentina @konig Brazil @titicow Israel @Dnl Our next stop is a city of 65 thousand people, West of Budapest. The name "bánya" means mine (as in the place where people go mining), while "tata" means... daddy? Uh, anyway, Tata is actually also a small city located next to Tatabánya, so you get two places for the price of one! The Turul If Tatabánya is famous for one thing, it's the Turul statue located at the top of the hill next the city. But what is the Turul? Well, for one it's depicted as a mythical creature similar to a falcon which is why I named this team the Falcons. Obviously the "Turuls" wouldn't have made much sense, it's one creature, not a spices. The origins of the Turul go back to the conquering Hungarians, it was a Hungarian military symbol during the Hungarian migration. And yeah, this statue made a big impression on me when I was a child because literally every time you travel to Budapest in the Northwest you will see it, even when you are on a train. Castle of Tata As far as other sighs go, you should visit Tata because it's an actual holiday destination. My freshman camp was located here and we had a great time. As you can see from the picture above we got another castle here because of course we do. Next to the castle you can find the Öreg-tó (Old lake), the oldest fishing lake in Hungary. This place is perfect for anyone who doesn't like the crowded vacation destinations like Lake Balaton and wants to spend some time at a quiet, peaceful little city. konig, Dnl, maestro and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektor 3,326 Posted May 6, 2022 Author #537 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Team Challenge Host City Eger The lineup of the Heroes Italy @Henry_Leon @Pablita @SteveParker United States @dezbee2008 @Olympian1010 Slovakia @hckošice Last, but not least, we have arrived to the tiniest Team Challenge host city, Eger, which has the population of 51 thousand people. But don't be fooled by its size, this is one of the most well-known locations in Hungary and you will soon find out why they are the heroes. Eger and its castle There aren't many victories in Hungarian history that we can be proud of. Especially our recent history has been full of loses, we lost even our two revolutions that we celebrate (1848, 1956). And there are other great tragedies like the 150 years long Ottoman occupation and the Mongol invasion. But we celebrate our small victories and the most legendary out of those is the Siege of Eger in 1552 where 2-3 thousand Hungarians, led by István Dóbó, repelled the advances of the large Ottoman army. The victory was seen at that time as a sign of hope which Hungarians needed after the fall of Buda. The siege reached legendary status thanks to the novel Eclipse of the Crescent Moon (Egri csillagok), which was written by Géza Gárdonyi, and was published in 1899. It's arguably the most popular Hungarian novel ever, every Hungarian must have read it at least once. Eger minaret But even our small victories sometimes turn into failures eventually, the Ottomans captured Eger in another siege at the height of their power in 1596. The reminder of that is the minaret located in Eger, it's one of the most northern minarets left from the Ottoman rule in Europe. It's 40 meters high, and let me tell you now, I am afraid of heights. When little child me climbed the narrow steps of this tower and then stepped outside, I almost shit my little pants. Have you ever climbed a minaret? I find it a really interesting, weird structure because of how narrow it is for this kind of a height. Pablita, Henry_Leon, maestro and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 14,910 Posted May 6, 2022 #538 Share Posted May 6, 2022 58 minutes ago, Vektor said: Have you ever climbed a minaret? No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicIRL 5,532 Posted May 6, 2022 #539 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Totallympics Annual International Song Contest - Top 40 Chart It's the day of the Opening Ceremony of the Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2022 and as we look forward to new chapters of TISC history being written in Hungary this weekend, it's time to conclude our TISC Annual Top 40 Chart series. It's time to countdown the Top 5 songs which includes 4 previous TISC winners, but also one TISC silver medal winner whose points-per-jury average rivals and surpasses many TISC winners from other years. We begin however with the #5 song on the chart, it's the TISC Annual 2017 winner who had the honour of claiming the TISC Title on home soil.... it's Rag'n'Bone Man with his winning entry "Human".... 5 Rag'n'Bone Man - Human Edition: TISC Annual 2017 Placement: 1st Points: 186 points Points-Per-Jury Average: 5.47 pts Number of Juries That Voted For The Song: 25 / 34 (73.53%) Medals Won: 4 Gold, 4 Silver, 0 Bronze Juries Who Awarded Their 12 Points To This Song: Slovenia, Finland, Tunisia, Italy ************************************************************************* 4 George Ezra - Listen To The Man Edition: TISC Annual 2015 Placement: 2nd Points: 172 points Points-Per-Jury Average: 5.73 pts Number of Juries That Voted For The Song: 22 / 30 (73.33%) Medals Won: 2 Gold, 3 Silver, 5 Bronze Juries Who Awarded Their 12 Points To This Song: Czech Republic, Poland ************************************************************************* 3 Adel Tawil - Lieder Edition: TISC Annual 2014 Placement: 1st Points: 200 points Points-Per-Jury Average: 5.88 pts Number of Juries That Voted For The Song: 25 / 34 (73.53%) Medals Won: 5 Gold, 3 Silver, 6 Bronze Juries Who Awarded Their 12 Points To This Song: Denmark, Argentina, Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia ************************************************************************* 2 Kodaline - Shed A Tear Edition: TISC Annual 2019 Placement: 1st Points: 229 points Points-Per-Jury Average: 6.19 pts Number of Juries That Voted For The Song: 25 / 37 (67.57%) Medals Won: 5 Gold, 5 Silver, 4 Bronze Juries Who Awarded Their 12 Points To This Song: Germany, Italy, United States, Brazil, Egypt ************************************************************************* 1 The Script - Superheroes Edition: TISC Annual 2015 Placement: 1st Points: 216 points Points-Per-Jury Average: 7.20 pts Number of Juries That Voted For The Song: 26 / 30 (86.67%) Medals Won: 5 Gold, 4 Silver, 4 Bronze Juries Who Awarded Their 12 Points To This Song: United States, Netherlands, Germany, Malta, Canada ************************************************************************* Vektor, Bohemia, maestro and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,210 Posted May 6, 2022 #540 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Ah yes, the Superheroes and their super-human, untouchable, -esque record. Shed A Tear and Superheroes do have quite a similar sound though. Almost uncanny. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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