Tagging some frequent contributors who may or may not be interested in nominating songs again

@Sir Lüc @Erschéveþ da Schir @Bråneu Excelsio, UrN @þerxh Sant-Enogat @xpb @Placiej @Munditenens Tresplet

(Of course I'm forgetting people and new participants are very much welcome too.)

I had written an update, but then I accidentally clicked something and then upsettingly, it was gone, so you get the short version:

There was a sprint. Kooij won, Kanter came second. Veistroffer was solo in front of the peloton for most of the day. De Lie already abandoned in stage 3.

GHST scored the most points. Menceis remain in the lead.

Standings after stage 5:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	2119	+187
2nd	(=)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	2024	+309
3rd	(+2)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	1983	+344
4th	(-1)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	1901	+249
5th	(-1)		Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)	1856	+216
6th	(=)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	1795	+205
7th	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	1687	+278
8th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	1343	+84
9th	(=)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	1290	+56

Tomorrow a big day for climbers and GC contenders: it's Tourmalet day!

We're still waiting for penalties between Colombia and Switzerland, but that won't actually affect the score for this round, which is as follows:

Points scored in Round of 32
Lüc 18
Glüc 12
Braneu 12
AD 6
þerxh 12
Danihel 15
Breneir 15

Overall score so far:
Lüc 79
Glüc 73
Braneu 71
AD 58
þerxh 73
Danihel 76
Breneir 74

This round turned out to be pretty decisive. At least for AD, who has no predicted semifinalists left, so 58 will actually be his final score. Because of the way the teams interact however it is also no longer possible for myself, Braneu or þerxh to win. It really comes down now to whether Spain makes it to the final, in which case Danihels Opta-based prediction wins. In almost every other case Lüc wins, except there is one particular scenario where the winner is a tie.'

Outlook (all rounds):
min-max
Lüc 79-128
Glüc 73-109
Braneu 71-94
AD 58
þerxh 73-104
Danihel 76-125
Breneir 74-97

1. Iron Maiden - Children of the Damned
Iron Maiden really know how to write an outro.

2. Cocteau Twins - Fifty-fifty Clown
Cocteau Twins are my new favourite thing to listen to this year. Mesmerizing.

3. Talk Talk - Such a Shame
Kinda wanted to nominate Time It's Time because that one really moves me, but I've tried nominating Talk Talk before, unsuccesfully,  and I'm not sure y'all are ready for 8 (somewhat repetitive) minutes of Talk Talk. Instead I went with a song that might have broader appeal (because it's so energetic and catchy).

Decided to add one more rule: no AI-generated music allowed.

Existing Nominations
3Teeth - Slum Planet
Aerosmith - Dream On
Alan Parsons Project - Sirius/Eye In The Sky
Apocalyptica - Stroke
Ásgeir - Nýfallið regn
Ásgeir - Sugar Clouds
B-52's - Private Idaho
B-52's - Roam
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' For You
Blur - The Universal
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
Boston - More Than a Feeling
Brinsley Schwarz - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Coldplay - Fix You
Dan Tyminski - Southern Gothic
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
David Bowie - Starman
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Depeche Model - Enjoy the Silence
Derek & the Dominos - Layla
Desireless - Voyage, Voyage
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Donkeyboy - Ambitions
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up to Boston
Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
Earth, Wind & Fire - September
Eiffel 65 - Blue (da ba dee)
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Falco - Der Kommissar
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Foo Fighters - Walk
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Gaelic Storm - One More Day Above the Roses
Ghost Hounds - Last Train to Nowhere
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
House of Pain - Jump Around
Jefferson Starship - Jane
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Justin Johnson - Ghost of the Mountain
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
Ludwig von Beethoven - Mondscheinsonate, 3rd movement
Madrugada - Majesty
Måneskin - Zitti e Buoni
Marty Robbins - Big Iron
Matia Bazar - Ti Sento
Matia Bazar - Vacanze Romane
Men At Work - Down Under
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Muse - Uprising
New Order - Blue Monday
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
Nolwenn Leroy - Tri Martolod
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Paul McCartney & Eric Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Peter Gabriel - My Body is a Cage
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Portugal. The Man - Live in the Moment
Prozac+ - Acida
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Queen - Innuendo
Queen - Killer Queen
Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Rammstein - Haifisch
Renato Zero - Triangolo
Robert Wyatt - Alife
Rush - Subdivisions
Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Stromae - Papaoutai
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Supertramp - Fool's Overture
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld - A Quiet Life
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
The Beatles - Taxman
The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
The Cure - A Forest
The Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
The Police - Message in a Bottle
The Police - Roxanne
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Tom Waits - Step Right Up
Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Toto - Africa
Toto - Hold the Line
Whiskey Myers - On The River

It is that time again: Talossas most succesful and longrunning cultural tradition is about to start!

For reference:
http://wiki.talossa.com/Talossan_Music_Top_20 _{(Unfortunately I notice the results from 2025 and the 2026 special edition aren't on the wiki yet. I don't have time to update these at the moment, but maybe later.)}
https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=3765.0

The past couple of years this has been very succesfully organised by @Sir Ian Plätschisch. However, after very quickly talking to him it appears I will be doing this one as Sir Ian is rather busy outside of Talossa. Of course we are all very grateful to him for all the past editions he's organised and I'm very much hoping for his participation in this edition as well.

2026 TMT20 Nomination Rules

Nominations are now open. Everyone (including guests and prospective citizens) is invited to nominate songs to make up the 2026 edition of the Talossan Music Top 20.

The competition will consist of 150 songs. 100 songs have qualified automatically based on their performance in the 2025 TMT20. Additionally 6 songs are nominated based on this years special edition. Therefore, there will be a total of 44 new nominations.

We have somewhat of a tight schedule this time. For now we will start with 3 nominations per person. If we don't have enough songs by Noon TST on July 11th, everyone will be free to nominate one new song every 12 hours.

We are voting on the written combination artist (or composer) + title, rather than the specific version that is being linked to, in case people do not like that version.

If you can, please include a link to YouTube or some other video or audio file of the song. Otherwise I will find a link myself, but I might not always find the best version.

All genres of music are welcome. Nominating an entire classical symphony is probably not a good idea, however, because it doesn't really work with the song-format and some voters may decide to skip it.

Do not worry about nominating songs because they are not popular enough (or because they are too mainstream). You do not get a prize if your song wins. If you get someone to listen to a song or genre he did not know or like before, that is nice too. We all seem to love our 70s rock classics, and if your all time favorite song happens to fall in that category, go for it! But if it does not, adding some diversity to the list is just as good. Just nominate whatever song you think deserves to be in the list for whatever reason.

Stage 3   »   Granollers  ›  Les Angles

TCAT crossed the border into Spain today. There was a break including Baudin (GHS/CHX), Pedersen (REX/VFL/MMM), Van Mechelen (CFA) and Cort (CFA), with Baudin especially scoring a lot of points on the way, but in the end everyone was caught by the peloton. The pure sprinters were dropped on the climbs along the way, but with a lot of riders still remainining in the reduced peloton, but a pretty steep uphill finish, the result was some sort of uphill reduced bunch sprint, which perhaps unsurprisingly was won by Pogacar (CFA/CJO/BDC/GHS/MMM/CHX) who also took the lead in GC and yellow jersey.

Also in the top 10: Vingegaard (BDC/VFL/EVC), Carapaz (CJO/BDC/CHX), Seixas (CFA), T.H. Johannessen (GHS/VFL), Lipowitz (REX/GHS/CHX), Evenepoel (CFA/CJO/REX/VFL), Del Toro (REX/GHS/VFL/MMM/CHX/EVC) and Ayuso (REX/EVC)

The result is a stagewin for Cyclohexane, who climb to 3rd place in standings. GHST also did well and are now in second place, while the Menceis keep the lead overall.

Standings after stage 3:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	1584	+591
2nd	(+1)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	1550	+707
3rd	(+3)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	1523	+761
4th	(-2)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	1495	+573
5th	(+2)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	1338	+671
6th	(-2)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	1305	+495
7th	(-2)		Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)	1286	+494
8th	(=)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	1172	+570
9th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	1153	+586

Sidenote: corruption in football isn't a new, but the way FIFA is currently rigging the tournament in favour of the US at the request of orange dictator guy is really quite something else.

Updated outlook:

Outlook (all rounds):
min-max
Lüc 76-128
Glüc 67-109
Braneu 68-97
AD 52-87
þerxh 70-107
Danihel 70-125
Breneir 68-97

Lüc's prediction is starting to look really good. If we get a semifinal between Spain and France that may well decided whether Lüc or Danihel wins.

Standings after stage 1:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	255	+255
2nd	(=)		Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)	210	+210
3rd	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	205	+205
4th	(=)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	170	+170
5th	(=)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	160	+160
6th	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	145	+145
7th	(=)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	140	+140
8th	(=)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	135	+135
9th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	65	+65

Points scored in Round of 32
Lüc 26
Glüc 26
Braneu 24
AD 18
þerxh 24
Danihel 24
Breneir 24

Outlook (all rounds):
min-max
Lüc 64-128
Glüc 64-120
Braneu 62-126
AD 52-114
þerxh 64-115
Danihel 64-128
Breneir 59-100

I thought the deadline was 16:00 cezembre time (now) but apparently its been moved to 17:00, so theres still an hour to go for late entries.

(Submitting a team doesnt take long, so you can easily read this now and register way before the deadline!!!)

Somewhat randomly tagging some more previous participants who may be interested:

@Baron Alexandreu Davinescu @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be @Audrada Roibeardet @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP @Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat

Of course anyone is welcome to submit a team

Only one day left to register!

Friendly reminder for @Sir Ian Plätschisch @xpb @Iason Taiwos because you all missed the deadline last time, but here's another chance to participate.


(Also Ian, is it time for regular TMT again?)

I'd participate if there was another edition of this (or any other chess related event), but I don't think I will organise again.

Many congrats Sir Iason!

Updated outlook:
min-max
Lüc 49-128
Glüc 51-120
Braneu 49-126
AD 48-116
þerxh 53-115
Danihel 51-128
Breneir 51-102