Posted July 23, 20213 yr After the Olympic Opening Ceremony - which is due to finish at 3:30 but if you're free go watch that, that's what I'll be doing x The real start time will be at 5:00pm BST as with the semi-final results.
July 23, 20213 yr Emilie Adams is ready for that 23rd spot :cheer: (Jupiterdonia, Vülkyria & Quintessa hype)
July 23, 20213 yr I won’t be following as I desperately need to clean because my dad is coming to visit tomorrow and my house is a shit tip but I’ll check in. Fingers crossed for Rampampam!
July 23, 20213 yr The race for the win feels pretty wide open atm so interested to see how it shakes out! Not expecting my own entry to make a lot of noise, top 30 would be nice maybe x
July 23, 20213 yr I'm not around this evening so will catch up tomorrow, good luck everyone. Of the hyped entries I'm here for a Trifoski win. A couple of countries I enjoyed who I voted for the first time in aaaages to place well too please
July 23, 20213 yr I'm more interested in who's gonna win the battle of the retro top 40 hits :cheer: (my money's on Aeroche x), not got any expectations and will most likely tank here, but I'm very pleased to be in the final. Feel there's a good chance for one of my favourites winning here, but I'm not holding my breath. Was a really good final so hope to see some great results to reflect that.
July 23, 20213 yr Author Final Results Hello everyone, welcome to the final results, hosted at the Budokan Stadium in Ziadiz, Séyetana. Outside, on the race track, the competitors wait, ready to start running ahead as points are given to their entries. It’ll be a long race, so settle in. For tonight, you’re going to be treated to a simple Japanese lesson, simple of course is all I should be doing at my level. While for readability purposes, the scoreboard and your banner will be entirely in English, I have translated everyone’s country names into Japanese, and, just like the Parade of Nations that has just finished in the real Tokyo, we will be revealing the votes in Japanese “alphabetical” order, and this is how your country name will be written at the top of each voting post. A transliteration of the country name will be provided to help you read this alternate version, though for the most part this is just the country name pronounced phonetically. Japanese pronunciation: there are no sounds that change depending on what letters follow them in Japanese, so if you know vowel pronunciation, you’re going to be at least close – nothing like Chinese in that regard where half of the consonants have specific different pronunciations to get used to. A, U and O are mostly as you’d expect, though U is only a ‘u’ like ‘fun’ and not a u like ‘uni’, I sounds like ‘ee’ in ‘bee’, and E sounds like ‘e’ in ‘bet’ – make sure to pronounce the ‘e’ at the end of words, not like in English – sake (the Japanese rice wine drink :heart: ) is said ‘sa-keh’. As for vowel combinations, the main relevant one is ‘ai’ sounding like our ‘I’ in Iceland. Order: Vowels come first, in this specific order: AIUEO. Then is all the consonant pairs, each consonant pairs with each of those vowels, so after that is KA/KI/KU/KE/KO, as K is the first consonant, and so on. Some consonants, like K, in fact, have a ‘soft-voiced’ counterpart, so for K, that is G, and G occupies the same alphabetical order as K does. The order is, as those of you who watched the opening ceremony may remember: Vowels K/G S/Z T/D N H/B/P M Y R W N (lone consonant) All other letters are somewhere in there as irregular sounds, for instance, J is hiding in the Zs. Now, you may not start with the letter you’re expecting, as the transliteration will be based on pronunciation/how the Japanese would pronounce it based on their existing transliterations of similar names, and to that end I’ve tried to find records of how you guys pronounce your country names, for, you know, accuracy. Writing systems: Japanese has three writing systems, the hiragana, the katakana (these two collectively are kana), and the kanji which meld together in a beautiful and logical way. Hiragana is the main ‘alphabet’, here is its ‘na - な' and ‘no - の’, which I’ve chosen because they should be the only hiragana you’ll see tonight, performing as an adjectival-linking particle and possession particle respectively. It’s used for words of Japanese origin, which BJSC country names are decidedly not. The kanji are pictograms also used for words of Japanese origin, there is no alphabet to these, and they are used to make Japanese more readable, as the language has many homophones and doesn’t use spaces, reading a sentence full of kana is a nightmare. The main kanji word you’ll see tonight is 共和国, read as ‘Kyouwakoku’, which means ‘Republic’. So the main one we're using tonight is katakana. Every hiragana has a katakana counterpart. Katakana are used for loanwords and foreign words in Japanese script, and the closest thing I can think of is to imagine if every word in English that still doesn’t feel English was always written in italics. Most of your country names will be written entirely in katakana. One point to note is that in katakana elongated vowels are written with a long dash (ー) after the first vowel and are transliterated as a double of whatever vowel that is. For the contest, feel free to remind yourselves of the tracks everyone entered with videos embedded in their voting post, and there will be a scoreboard every vote up until the last few votes, where we’ll do a scoreboard freeze. I encourage you to take part and post about the latest changes of course, it’s going to be a fun one.
July 23, 20213 yr Author and let's get off this first page as while I do not regret overindulging on that banner it is RATHER large and stretchy
July 23, 20213 yr What I hope for: an actual hit since it’s been a hot minute What I think will happen: the complete opposite
July 23, 20213 yr Author 01/63 - ファーク - Faaku IKBn4sO0jvQ 18 bhangra 15 skall 13 n dntn 12 varake 11 trifoski 10 rep of adonia 09 seyetena 08 hedinia 07 aeroche 06 ultraviolenceland 05 new lexico 04 cor lupus 03 #00274e 02 mulgracia 01 botanikka 1 - 18 - Bhangra - Rat City & Isak Heim - Rather Be 2 - 15 - Skall - Burial - Space Cadet 3 - 13 - N DNTN - Kelly Lee Owens - Re-Wild (Breaka Remix) 4 - 12 - Varakë - ONINO - Колёса 5 - 11 - Trifoski - DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ - Try Not To Be Afraid (feat. Delilah Brao, Luke Markinson & Anyelisax) 6 - 10 - Republic of Adonia - Magdalena Bay - Chaeri 7 - 9 - Séyetana - BABYMETAL - Road Of Resistance (feat. Herman Li & Sam Totman) 8 - 8 - Hendinia - Peking Duk - Chemicals 9 - 7 - Aeroche - Motiv 8 - Break The Chain 10 - 6 - Ultraviolenceland - Daya - The Difference 11 - 5 - New Lexico - La Rappresentante Di Lista - Amare 12 - 4 - Cor Lupus - Sibewest & Ytho - Energy 13 - 3 - #00274E - Louisahhh - In My Veins 14 - 2 - Mulgracia - SHAED - Colorful 15 - 1 - Bøtanikkä - RAJA - ZORA 16 - 0 - St. Burbia - Faouzia - Hero 17 - 0 - République d'Áskorza - Minelli - Rampampam 18 - 0 - Persephonia - Japanese Television - Moon Glider 19 - 0 - Niceland - Stereo Honey - The Bay 20 - 0 - The Actual Republic of Bellamia - Greyson Chance - Nobody 21 - 0 - Cumulonimbia - Rare Facture - Verse Girl 22 - 0 - Aquafina - Ewan McVicar - Tell Me Something Good 23 - 0 - Land of DW - Maduk - Poison (feat. Gid Sedgwick) 24 - 0 - Lotunia - Faun - Gaia 25 - 0 - Sovarasma - Matisse & Sadko - Heal Me (Extended Mix) (feat. Alex Aris) 26 - 0 - Quintessa - Karolina Stanisławczyk - Cliché 27 - 0 - Summericia - AJA - Red Button 28 - 0 - FARC - Mad Circuit - Move With Me 29 - 0 - Rolloland - Yeah But No - Run Run Run 30 - 0 - D'yermak'er - YARO & Trilane - Unlove You (feat. EEVA) 31 - 0 - Terra Avium - Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours 32 - 0 - Jadakissnia - YEИDRY - YA 33 - 0 - Vülkyria - Samuel & Francesca Michielin - Cinema 34 - 0 - Lookylion - Babet - No One Else 35 - 0 - POPHub - Emilie Adams - Monogamy 36 - 0 - Hushkanukia - YouNotUs & Amber Van Day - Papa 37 - 0 - Kylienips - FLETCHER - Healing 38 - 0 - Suedeonia - McAlmont & Butler - Falling 39 - 0 - Danæviia - Ashley Wallbridge - Golden Hour 40 - 0 - Jupiterdonia - Majid Jordan - Waves Of Blue 41 - 0 - FSR Rontvia - thisisNAMASTE - I Like Your Face We start with defending champions FARC (closest analogy I could get to Greece and therefore the one break with alphabetical order), and let them open with an 18 to Bhangra and a very welcome assurance that the hosts will be on the scoreboard early!
July 23, 20213 yr Author Also, btw, the '63' is just because we will be stopping off at the non-voting nations as they go past, there are 59 valid votes in this final x
July 23, 20213 yr Author ア - A 02/63 -アイセチカ - Aisechika lFXcKbuW6LE 18 quintessa 15 seyetana 13 cor lupus 12 #00274e 11 trifoski 10 dyermaker 9 n dntn 8 sovarsma 7 farc 6 pophub 5 suedonia 4 hendinia 3 lookylion 2 land of dw 1 aeroche 1 - 24 - Séyetana - BABYMETAL - Road Of Resistance (feat. Herman Li & Sam Totman) 2 - 22 - N DNTN - Kelly Lee Owens - Re-Wild (Breaka Remix) 3 - 22 - Trifoski - DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ - Try Not To Be Afraid (feat. Delilah Brao, Luke Markinson & Anyelisax) 4 - 18 - Quintessa - Karolina Stanisławczyk - Cliché 5 - 18 - Bhangra - Rat City & Isak Heim - Rather Be 6 - 17 - Cor Lupus - Sibewest & Ytho - Energy 7 - 15 - #00274E - Louisahhh - In My Veins 8 - 15 - Skall - Burial - Space Cadet 9 - 12 - Varakë - ONINO - Колёса 10 - 12 - Hendinia - Peking Duk - Chemicals 11 - 10 - Republic of Adonia - Magdalena Bay - Chaeri 12 - 10 - D'yermak'er - YARO & Trilane - Unlove You (feat. EEVA) 13 - 8 - Sovarasma - Matisse & Sadko - Heal Me (Extended Mix) (feat. Alex Aris) 14 - 8 - Aeroche - Motiv 8 - Break The Chain 15 - 7 - FARC - Mad Circuit - Move With Me 16 - 6 - Ultraviolenceland - Daya - The Difference 17 - 6 - POPHub - Emilie Adams - Monogamy 18 - 5 - New Lexico - La Rappresentante Di Lista - Amare 19 - 5 - Suedeonia - McAlmont & Butler - Falling 20 - 3 - Lookylion - Babet - No One Else 21 - 2 - Mulgracia - SHAED - Colorful 22 - 2 - Land of DW - Maduk - Poison (feat. Gid Sedgwick) 23 - 1 - Bøtanikkä - RAJA - ZORA 24 - 0 - St. Burbia - Faouzia - Hero 25 - 0 - République d'Áskorza - Minelli - Rampampam 26 - 0 - Persephonia - Japanese Television - Moon Glider 27 - 0 - Niceland - Stereo Honey - The Bay 28 - 0 - The Actual Republic of Bellamia - Greyson Chance - Nobody 29 - 0 - Cumulonimbia - Rare Facture - Verse Girl 30 - 0 - Aquafina - Ewan McVicar - Tell Me Something Good 31 - 0 - Lotunia - Faun - Gaia 32 - 0 - Summericia - AJA - Red Button 33 - 0 - Rolloland - Yeah But No - Run Run Run 34 - 0 - Terra Avium - Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours 35 - 0 - Jadakissnia - YEИDRY - YA 36 - 0 - Vülkyria - Samuel & Francesca Michielin - Cinema 37 - 0 - Hushkanukia - YouNotUs & Amber Van Day - Papa 38 - 0 - Kylienips - FLETCHER - Healing 39 - 0 - Danæviia - Ashley Wallbridge - Golden Hour 40 - 0 - Jupiterdonia - Majid Jordan - Waves Of Blue 41 - 0 - FSR Rontvia - thisisNAMASTE - I Like Your Face First up in true alphabetical order is Aesthetica, who are the first non-qualifying vote, and their votes do something very important, they give the hosts an unexpected lead! Even if I were someone who doesn’t know the results I’d be telling you not to expect this to last but for now I’m going to enjoy being the first one to not lead by default, as Trifoski and N DNTN bunch up behind me looking a lot more threatening.
July 23, 20213 yr helping to get us off page 1 xox Neat coincidence that you're using an alphabetical order translated into Japanese on the same day as the Olympic opening ceremony doing the same thing.
July 23, 20213 yr Pretty intriguing concept and I think my country name is quite Japanese-friendly in translation I suppose?
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