5 votes in so far (including my own)

The current standings are:

To final
? - 23
? - 21
? - 18
? - 17
? - 17

TMT 20 16-20
? - 16
? - 16
? - 14
? - 11
? - 11

Eliminated:
? - 9
? - 7
? - 6
? - 6
? - 3

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on Yesterday at 04:07:11 PM

Quote from: Glüc on Yesterday at 03:32:56 PM

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on Yesterday at 03:30:27 PMNaziun Cjovani is back! (We have til Saturday to change our roster, right?)

Yes! Its always possible to make changes to your team up until the deadline.

I consulted with my pal Donnie who is more knowledgeable than I am, and made some roster changes based on his suggestions.
Would non-Talossans be welcome to join the league? Donnie might be interested.

Sure. We'll just count him as Belacostan I guess

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on Yesterday at 03:30:27 PMNaziun Cjovani is back! (We have til Saturday to change our roster, right?)

Yes! Its always possible to make changes to your team up until the deadline.

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3QAHYdPpVnElXYd8h1yEpA

The Semifinal consists of one group of 15 songs (the third, fourth, and fifth place songs from each group in Round 3). The top five songs advance to the Final, the next five (in order) are #16 - #20 of the 2026 TMT20, and the last five are the final five songs to be eliminated.

The voting period will last until Tuesday, August 25rd at 12:00 PM, Talossan Daylight Time. (19:00 CEST)

Give your top eight songs 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 points, respectively. You must give points to exactly eight songs.

DO NOT POST YOUR VOTE HERE, SEND IT TO ME IN A PRIVATE MESSAGE!*

B-52's - Roam
David Bowie - Starman
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
House of Pain - Jump Around
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Men At Work - Down Under
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
The Beatles - Taxman
The Cure - A Forest
The Who - Baba O'Riley


Tiebreakers:
- Number of voters giving 10 points
- Number of voters giving 8 points
...
- Number of voters giving 2 points
- PPV in Round 3
- Rank in Round 3
- PPV in Round 2
- Rank in Round 2
- Last year's result (1 > 2 > ... > 20 > Round 4 > Round 3 > Round 2 > other)
- PPV in Round 1 (if applicable)
- Rank in Round 1 (if applicable)
- Year first nominated (special edition > earlier > later)
- Random chance

Tactical voting refers to either giving more points than you normally would to a song because it would make the difference between it going through or getting eliminated, or giving fewer points than you normally would to a song because it might kick a song you like even more out of the competition. This is hard to prevent, but my very strong request would be to not do it. Give points to the songs you believe deserve to go through, regardless of how others are voting. Doing otherwise reduces the value of votes that came before you, which is unfair to them. Remember that it's not a competition between voters, but a collective effort to make a nice list of songs we like. Thanks.

I did my best with all the links but there is always a chance some are broken or have a wrong version or bad audio quality. If a link is broken or you have a suggestion for a better link, please contact me or post the link in the thread. Officially, we are not voting on the YouTube link, but on the listed Artist + Title.

COMMENTARY ON THE PROGRESS OF THE GAME, THE RULES, WHAT SONGS YOU LIKE, ETC., IS VERY WELCOME.

* I will accept private messages on discord as well (also whatsapp or emails to my hotmail, for those who have access to those)

Pogacar or not Pogacar? He's 12 credits more than the next most expensive rider. Still requires some amount of bravery to skip him...

Quote from: Aryan Vaidya on August 11, 2026, 04:14:19 PMI would like to join the Talossan Cycling Association (TCA) how do I join?

name: Aryan Vaidya
age: 18

Not entirely sure, I think stating your desire to be a TCA member is probably enough to make you one. I think @þerxh Sant-Enogat created a strava group at some point. If that still exists you could probably ask him to join.

The main TCA activity now is the fantasy cycling contest called TCAT (Talossan Cycling Association Tour. Registrations for the next edition have just opened. If you want to participate you can have a look here: https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=5453.0

We have a pretty short deadline this time. Teams need to be in by saturday, so only three days to go!

Azul everyone, welcome back to season 5 of the Talossan Cycling Association Tour. The previous leg had a superclose finish with the Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis prevailing in the end, while Gordon Hiatus Support Team won the first leg and holds a sizeable season lead after the second. We now move on to the fellow micronation of Monaco for the third leg, which will of course end in Spain as usual.

All Talossans are heartily invited to sign their teams up! Team registrations are now open, and instructions follow below.

Deadline

The deadline for entries to be submitted is 16:00 CEST (Cézembre Summer Time) / 09:00 (AM) TDT (Talossan Daylight Time) on Saturday August 22nd, 2026.


How to register

Step 1: Create a Velogames account

If you already have a Velogames account you can proceed with step 2.
You can create a Velogames account by going to velogames.com -> log in -> click here to register

Step 2: Register your team

While logged in to Velogames, go to the following page: https://www.velogames.com/spain/2026/entryform.php

Here you can submit your team. After submitting your team you can still make changes to your team up until the deadline! On your team page, which you can find by clicking visit team, you can also change your team name and jersey.

Step 3: Join the Talossan Cycling Association Tour

After you set up your team you can go to your team page (visit team) and under team management there should be a button called join league. There you can join the Talossan Cycling Association Tour by entering the following league code: 639289433

(You can access league scores and/or view who's signed up here: https://www.velogames.com/spain/2026/leaguescores.php?league=639289433)


Team information

Each team needs to consist of 9 riders, with a combined total cost of up to 100 credits. These need to include 2 all rounders, 2 climbers, 1 sprinter, 3 unclassified riders, and 1 wildcard (which can be any category).

Generally, the credits assigned to the riders are pretty close to the consensus expection of how these riders will perform. This means it is possible to do well without much research, though of course if you do want to research your team there are many resources online, such as ProCyclingStats, various preview sites, bookmakers, and the youtube channel Ow Do Cycling. It is possible to use less than 100 credits, but this is usually not advisable.

A full list of participating riders, categories and credits can be found here. These should be mostly definitive, but should any of your picks drop out before the deadline without you noticing, Velogames will autoreplace them.


Scoring & Rules

The rules for the competition can be found here. Note that we are only focused on the classic competition: 1 team that stays the same throughout the race.

The scoring system can be found here. Points are assigned daily for stage results, intermediate sprints, categorised summits, participating in breakaways, daily classification standings, and team assist points; and furthermore, a sizable chunk of points will be assigned based on the final classifications.

GROUP 4
1. Wuthering Heights - 14 _{(2 voters giving 6 points)}
2. Black Hole Sun - 14 _{(1 voter giving 6 points)}
3. Stairway to Haven - 11 _{(1 voter giving 6 points, 1 voter giving 2 points)}
4. Roam - 11 _{(1 voter giving 6 points, 0 voters giving 2 points)}
5. Starman - 11 _{(0 voters giving 6 points)}
6. You Give Love a Bad Name - 10
7. Crazy Train - 8
8. How Soon Is Now? - 6 _{(Round 2 ppv: 1.500)}
9. Layla - 6 _{(Round 2 ppv: 1.000)}
10. Paranoid - 5

GROUP 2
1. Telegraph Road - 15
2. Take Five - 13
3. The Mercy Seat - 10 _{(1 voter giving 6 points, 1 voter giving 4 points)}
4. Ring of Fire - 10 _{(1 voter giving 6 points, 0 voters giving 4 points, 1 voter giving 3 points)}
5. Jump Around - 10 _{(1 voter giving 6 points, 0 voters giving 4 points, 1 voter giving 3 points)}
6. Take Me Out - 10 _{(0 voters giving 6 points)}
7. Africa - 9
8. Blue Monday - 8
9. Psycho Killer - 6
10. Hurt - 5

A lot of last years top 20 songs ended up in group 4. How Soon is Now and Paranoid did not make it, along with Africa from group 5. As a result 12 out of last years top 20 are still in the running.

Take Five is back in the top 20 after 6 years. The last time was in 2020.

Jump Around would be debuting if it survives the semifinal.

1,5 hour left!

(When the deadline passes no votes will be accepted anymore, even if I probably won't be awake to officially call it.)

Unfortunately it does look like well be stuck on 6 votes again, unless we get some last minute votes. (þerxh perhaps?)


Tomorrow voting will open for this years Semifinal!

GROUP 4
6. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
4. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
3. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
2. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid


GROUP 5
6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
4. Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
3. New Order - Blue Monday
2. Johnny Cash - Hurt
1. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

18 hours left!

Each voting period will last three days (72 hours). Votes cast after that will not be accepted, with the exception that we will always keep going until we have at least three votes per group.

Give your top five songs 6, 4, 3, 2, and 1 points, respectively. You must give points to exactly five songs.

GROUP 4
B-52's - Roam
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
David Bowie - Starman
Derek & the Dominos - Layla
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?


GROUP 5
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
House of Pain - Jump Around
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
New Order - Blue Monday
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Toto - Africa

Tiebreakers:
- Number of voters giving 6 points
- Number of voters giving 4 points
- Number of voters giving 3 points
- Number of voters giving 2 points
- PPV in Round 2
- Rank in Round 2
- Last year's result (1 > 2 > ... > 20 > Round 4 > Round 3 > Round 2 > other)
- PPV in Round 1 (if applicable)
- Rank in Round 1 (if applicable)
- Year first nominated (special edition > earlier > later)
- Random chance

Only 6 voters this time. With this round deciding which songs will be in the final I had hoped for a somewhat higher turnout.

GROUP 1
1. Under Pressure - 13
2. Street Spirit (Fade Out) - 12
3. Baba O'Riley - 11
4. Wish You Were Here - 10 _{(1 voter giving 6 points)}
5. A Forest - 10 _{(0 voters giving 6 points)}
6. Fix You - 9 _{(1 voter giving 6 points)}
7. Uprising - 9 _{(0 voters giving 6 points, 2 voters giving 4 points)}
8. Message in a Bottle - 9 _{(0 voters giving 6 points, 0 voters giving 4 points)}
9. Everlong - 7
10. Private Idaho - 6


GROUP 2
1. Sympathy for the Devil - 19
2. Have You Ever Seen the Rain - 12 _{(1 voter giving 6 points)}
3. The Sound of Silence - 12 _{(0 voters giving 6 points)}
4. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - 11
5. Taxman - 10 _{(1 voter giving 6 points, 1 voter giving 3 points)}
6. Mondscheinsonate, 3rd movement - 10 _{(1 voter giving 6 points, 0 voters giving 3 points)}
7. The Universal - 10 _{(0 voters giving 6 points)}
8. On Melancholy Hill - 8
9. Legal Tender - 2 (4th in round 2)
10. Such a Shame - 2 (5th in round 2)


GROUP 3
1. The Chain - 15
2. You Can't Always Get What You Want - 13
3. Paranoid Android - 12
4. Child in Time - 11 _{(2 voters giving 4 points)}
5. Down Under - 11 _{(1 voter giving 4 points)}
6. Voyage, Voyage - 10 _{(Round 2 ppv: 1.429)}
7. Nýfallið regn - 10 _{(Round 2 ppv: 0.833)}
8. Enjoy the Silence - 7
9. Haifisch - 4
10. Solsbury Hill - 3

Last years winner did not make it to the final directly and has a long way to go to repeating last years performance.

Message in a Bottle is the fifth song from last years top 20 to be eliminated.

Have You Ever Seen the Rain is a new nomination and immediately enters the top 20 as the highest scoring new nomination this year.

Child in Time and Taxman would also be debuting in the top 20 if they survive the semifinal.

For Street Spirit this is the first final, although it has made the top 20 before.

3,5 hours left!

Earlier I was asking Lüc whether pointing out that alongside the elections for the Cosa, election night will also see the reveal of this years Talossan Music Top 20, voting for which is currently underway in the chatroom, counts as election commentary. The answer apparently is yes, as long as I also encourage people to vote in the GE so eeh everyone go vote on the General Elections tomorrow (and on round 3 of tmt20 right now!)



As for my actual election commentary, I am kinda tempted to vote by post this time, but I have no idea who to vote for yet, because I haven't been paying attention as usual.

Yeah, looks great. Nice work Lüc.

Quote from: King Txec on August 14, 2026, 01:56:25 PM5

There are no 5 points, only 6,4,3,2,1. I will interpret this vote accordingly

As an aside I would like to do a broadcast of the results on discord on election night (which would be tuesday september first), but this may partially depend on how much interest/attendance there would be for that. I'd assume it would be starting somewhere around 14:00 TST/21:00 CEST on september first. How many of you think they might be able to tune in for a bit?