September 11, 2024Sep 11 Oh my at those graphics! *.* Loved following the thread and the tense Top 15 reveal - fantastic hosting blacksquare - thank you for the efficient and entertaining compèring.. and esp great to have another new winner as well as two new names achieving a podium finish. Congrats Lindsey on the win!! Justice required for Sudan Archives tho : ( Edit- and an 18 from the host, tysm!
September 11, 2024Sep 11 not usually do i get thru a semi that confidently and then not get a lot of points on top in the final! mothertopia 12th!
September 11, 2024Sep 11 Big congrats Lindsey, amazing to see you win after all this time! Sorry we underrated it a bit but the odds were almost impossible this month and I can see why with that closeness and low overall scores at the top. And a fab result for Mothertopia too - we got that position correct at least! Amazing to see Zanmatony on the podium for the first time, a beautiful track. And I'm really pleased that my two clear favourites in Summericia and Altyr did manage to make the top ten, even if down the other end. As I said, I'm absolutely fine with 24th and a relatively safe Q there after the DNQ predix, I expected nothing more than bottom ten really. Thank you to all the voters, it seemed to have a good spread of support and obviously points wise wasn't miles behind the pack. Thank you so much blacksquare, a fantastic couple of weeks and final reveal in the end, and what a tense final, we could so easily have ended up with a tie at the top this month!
September 11, 2024Sep 11 Congrats on the long-awaited win, Lindsey! Decent song and certainly sounded a lot like Dua Lipa so I guess that figures, didn't really get the fuss with COY but it's performance is no longer in doubt after all those vetoes! (and great to see an all new top 3) I only voted for two of the top 10 but it was my 18 and 15 so that's pretty great *.* Knew that Vitesse X song was onto a hit, not miffed at all I didn't try it x Thank you for the wonderful hosting, blacksquare, the graphics/videos were absolutely beautiful :heart:
September 11, 2024Sep 11 Author Thank you everyone, and congrats to Lindsey! THANK YOU again to Brer — an angel. leww and uhsting as well <3 Apologies if it felt rushed — I had bigger plans for this but didn't have the time to fully commit. Too much work and my holiday tomorrow made it difficult. : ( I'm quite happy with 35th tbh. I went with something I knew would struggle to qualify for the sake of enjoying the AQ — one of my favourite records of the year. Back to basics next month *.* p.s never want to see a spreadsheet again x
September 11, 2024Sep 11 Loved the video element blacksquare, very well presented and hosted from start to finish! Very polished ^_^
September 11, 2024Sep 11 Well done on the win Lindsey, my 9 pointer so happy with that winner and I knew Mothertopia's sounded like a biggun too so congrats on getting 2nd especially after not being in the contest long so far! Happy for Zanmatony too. A really nice track that did grow more on another listen. Great top 10 results for Bøtanikkä, Sandénia too. The former must've given Jack entry envy!! I'm fine with 10th too, probably did expect a tad higher but honestly the majority of the top 10 there are fab so no complaints and whilst I looked at PJSC after having confirmed I noticed it came 10th there too so it must be it's destiny. Yay at Séyetana top 20. My favourite across the entire contest <3 would've liked Lookylion and Scotland 2 there as well but nevermind. Really strong entries from both! Surprised to see Pixey so low considering she went top 3 earlier in the year :o Thanks for hosting blacksquare, top effort with the videos that kept up the suspense!
September 11, 2024Sep 11 yeah the hosting has been brilliant, the videos were tense in the semis but had sweaty palms earlier tonight thank you blacksquare!!
September 11, 2024Sep 11 Made a couple of small tweaks to the final scoreboard post with permission from blacksquare x (just East Rukahavian's 10 points being transferred from Aesthetica to Séyetana, with the effect of pushing the latter up 4 places (leapfrogging POPHub, Jupiterdonia, Lotunia and Cumulonimbia) and the former down 1 place (behind Singerpurear)). Also New Lexico's score amended to round down instead of up (the pre-rounding score is 133.45), but doesn't change their position. Jupiterdonia stealing Séyetana's video slot :cheeseblock: Tiebreaks were all correct anyway but for the details: Dobago 27 votes / Bronzil 24 votes Cor Lupus 22 votes / FSR Rontvia 19 votes Lookylion 20 votes / Terra Avium 19 votes Aesthetica 12 votes; 2 18s; 1 15 / Harmonica 12 votes; 2 18s; no 15s
September 11, 2024Sep 11 Author I knew I would make a silly but somehow big mistake x Séyetana I’ll be editing in a video for you tomorrow *.*
September 11, 2024Sep 11 Pretty sure thats more votes than I got last month in 10th (just lower average points of course). SEVEN times finishing 24th including twice in the last four contests, but I've never finished 22nd or 23rd!
September 11, 2024Sep 11 Anyways :jump: thanks blacksquare for the wonderful hosting, the video aesthetic may haunt my nightmares for a while but I have to stan the theming x Hiipe for a potential Taahino hosting of a main contest for the first time next month! (not counting the UVland co-host x) Thanks from the last batch of voters to Jacob giving me my biggest points this month (no medal positions at all oops!) + Nate and hinterland throwing some points my way as well! I see I only qualified because of Daehun not voting *_* This happened once last year as well with Black Belt Eagle Scout saved by Mulgracia's non-voting! Living dangerously :cheeseblock: suppose the last place in the final makes all the sense then especially as semi 1 was actually a favourable draw, 7 of the 13 countries who voted for me in the final were in my semi including 2 of my 3 biggest final pointers in Aelandor and Skall. Shame 'Liebhaber' regressed so much from its semi result </3 meanwhile COY not even making the top 10 in the semi but boosted enough by semi 2 pop fans to come within a whisker of winning!
September 11, 2024Sep 11 Also... we have a new YTD #1 once again :o taking advantage of relatively low finishes for both Aeroche and Hendinia, Bøtanikkä have snuck up to the top spot, but it remains very tight between the whole top 3. As I think Jim is still on holiday for a few more days (and he wasn't promising to post this every month anyway x) here's a full basic update from me again for once ~ (I'm not going to list the movements from last month sorry but refer here for the positions last month and try not to notice how I've fallen on the YTD two months in a row despite getting 2 qualifiers) 1 1507 Bøtanikkä 2 1499 Aeroche 3 1481 Hendinia 4 1418 Danæviia 5 1343 Kathaldazia 6 1294 Trifoski 7 1261 FSR Rontvia 8 1195 Taahino 9 1171 Greenfroze 10 1169 Bronzil 11 1143 Kluminican Republic 12 1139 POPHub 13 1110 Abeltesfayeton 14 1067 Jadakissnia 15 1031 Zanmatony 16 1028 Dobago 17 1011 Sovarasma 18 1007 Fljótavík 19 1001 Cor Lupus 20 983 Cumulonimbia 21 974 Neliönoir 22 955 Summericia 23 914 Persephonia 24 912 Altyr Muunilinst 25 908 Séyetana 26 887 Cadelicia 27 878 République d'Áskorza 28 870 Singerpurear 29 859 Skall 30 857 FARC 31 811 Terra Avium 32 784 Jupiterdonia 33 703 Ajanaeda 34 677 Land of DW 35 675 New Lexico 36 671 Harmonica 37 664 Mothertopia 38 641 Pestolia 39 613 Ben's Sanctuary 40 592 Lookylion 41 544 Ojnoj 42 497 Ingermanlandia 43 475 Scotland 2 44 444 Utopia 45 434 The Spodic Empire 46 413 Aelandor 47 398 Cheiron 48 383 Suedeonia 49 347 Thelonia 50 321 Conoria 51 316 East Rukahavian 52 300 Tartford 53 297 Quintessa 54 294 Lotunia 55 292 Eastovka 56 285 Elëdan 57 274 Aesthetica 58 252 Freedonia 59 249 Yobnedorica 60 208 Sandénia 61 193 Hinterlandia 62 190 Herbilore 63 188 St. Burbia 64 172 Kyriatine 65 159 Pagasa 66 144 Mulgracia 67 141 Holland-Oats 68 138 Hushkanukia 69 135 Varakë 70 104 Kylienips 71 103 Rolloland 72 92 Daehun 73 87 Freidland 74 86 Oslol 75 58 Niceland 76 33 Republic of Adonia
September 11, 2024Sep 11 this year has SUCKEDDDDDDD, I need a few hits to salvage it otherwise I’m looking at my worst performing year since 2016… keep it :drama:
September 12, 2024Sep 12 2nd in my semi too?! :o so chuffed x congrats Taahino on the victory and tyvm Nelionoir for hosting xx
September 12, 2024Sep 12 Congrats Lindsey, first time winning after all this time must feel amazing. So happy for you!!! And congrats to Mothertopia, Zanmatony and everyone else for reaching new all time peaks :wub: Blacksquare, thank you for putting an amazing contest. It was truly one to remember :wub: And omg 6th!!! I woke up and started going through the thread and I was like oh wow, bottom three here I come lol…and then suddenly scrolling through the pages, jumped to Top 20 to Top 10 to eventually peaking Top 6…amazing stuff. Thank you all for your votes and especially those 18’s, 15’s and 13’s :wub: Oh and the pressure of #1 YTD :drama: I don’t think I’ve ever touched that lol. Leww and Rob breathing down the back of my neck :wub: Edited September 12, 2024Sep 12 by Addy!
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