Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020

[heywoodu 13,540]

Wonderful to have 35 nations, which makes for five equal sessions  

 

TISC Open 2020 - Voting Schedule

 

Position	Nation	Voting time (CET)	Voting time (Jury time)
1	Israel	09:00	10:00
2	Denmark	09:15	09:15
3	Italy	09:30	09:30
4	Slovenia	09:45	09:45
5	Poland	10:00	10:00
6	India	10:15	14:15
7	Spain	10:30	10:30
Coffee break
8	Moldova	11:00	12:00
9	China	11:15	18:15
10	Bulgaria	11:30	12:30
11	Brazil	11:45	07:45
12	Lithuania	12:00	13:00
13	Ireland	12:15	11:15
14	Slovakia	12:30	12:30
Lunch break
15	Great Britain	13:30	12:30
16	Tunisia	13:45	13:45
17	Romania	14:00	15:00
18	Argentina	14:15	10:15
19	Croatia	14:30	14:30
20	Portugal	14:45	13:45
21	United States	15:00	06:00/09:00
Snack break
22	Netherlands	15:30	15:30
23	Serbia	15:45	15:45
24	New Zealand	16:00	04:00
25	Germany	16:15	16:15
26	Egypt	16:30	17:30
27	Indonesia	16:45	22:45
28	Canada	17:00	11:00
Dinner break
29	France	18:30	18:30
30	Czech Republic	18:45	18:45
31	Hungary	19:00	19:00
32	Kazakhstan	19:15	00:15
33	Greece	19:30	20:30
34	Mexico	19:45	12:45
35	Malta	20:00	20:00

[Olympian1010 7,470]

 Quand C’est - Stromae

 

This isn’t originally the song I was going to present in this edition of the Festival of Music, but it was just impossible to pass on the opportunity. This song comes Stromae’s album Racine Carrée, and was later released as a single in 2015. Racine Carrée is, in my opinion, one of the greatest albums and musical works in history. Stromae really experiments with what electronic music can be. He takes electronic music/EDM, and mixes it with rap, pop, African rhythms/hymns, bossa nova, etc. He also provides stirring and provocative commentary on a multitude of social issues. This song, Quand C’est is a lament on cancer. The lyrics compare cancer to a serial criminal and visuals are reminiscent of video game depictions of grotesque/sci-fi type monsters.
 

 

[rybak 2,684]

@heywoodu I think New Zealand and Kazakhstan will need swap their positions with someone due rule of "reasonable hours". Same about Indonesia and Brazil.

[OlympicIRL 4,769]

17 minutes ago, rybak said:

@heywoodu I think New Zealand and Kazakhstan will need swap their positions with someone due rule of "reasonable hours". Same about Indonesia and Brazil.

Well let's see if those juries request a swap. @Wanderer @Ruslan @titicow your voting time has been scheduled outside of "reasonable hours" in your local time. If you wish to request a swap you can do so. However, if you are unlikely to deliver the votes yourself or if you are happy to stick to the current schedule then that's fine also. Please write on thread in the next 48 hours if you want to request a swap in order to give @heywoodu time to start preparing the scoreboard templates.

 

[dcro 10,179]

I believe the Kazakh jury resides in Prague these days? If so, that swap is unlikely.

 

Also, it would be desirable to keep the team compositions intact if the swaps do occur.

[Wanderer 1,597]

I don't need to swap as well so all is good  

[OlympicIRL 4,769]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

I believe the Kazakh jury resides in Prague these days? If so, that swap is unlikely.

 

Also, it would be desirable to keep the team compositions intact if the swaps do occur.

Yes we will keep nations in the same teams as they were drawn originally.

[mrv86 2,923]

Any ideas for the team competition?

[Cobi 947]

 URUGUAY 

 

Jorge Drexler - Todo se transforma

 

Uruguay has very prolific industry music considering that the population of the country is slightly below 3.5 million people. There are several authors from this country I usually listen to, but I have decided to present Jorge Drexler, one of my favorites cantautores in Spanish, with very ingenious lyrics. This particular song might not be the best one, but it was the first one I listened and probably the most popular one in terms of views on YouTube.

 

Side note: I totally recommend you to discover Montevideo Carnival and murgas. 

[dcro 10,179]

3 hours ago, mrv86 said:

Any ideas for the team competition?

We could have our own electoral college. Only instead of population, we use the number of participations / result history to determine who gets how many electoral votes for the Team Challenge.

 

Basically, Ireland would be our California, the Netherlands would be our Pennsylvania, while someone like Israel would be our Rhode Island.