Quote from: Iason Taiwos on August 19, 2026, 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.

Naziun Cjovani is back! (We have til Saturday to change our roster, right?)

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)

Cézembre Fieschā is in the starting blocks, ready for success as usual

I am back! Well prepared for another last place finish! Good luck everyone!

It thankfully seems like we're back to normal, so it seems like a good moment for the first turnout update; we're at 40 voters, or 29.2% turnout, with 13 days 8 hours left to vote.

We're a bit more than one fifth of the way into the election; last time, at this point into the election, 45 votes were cast (33.1%). It seems we're a little behind schedule, but this was also true of the last election, and yet it ended up being the election with the highest percentage turnout in post-Ben Talossa, and highest absolute turnout since July 2018, although in that one we had almost 50 more citizens.

Quote from: Glüc on August 19, 2026, 07:28:13 AMPogacar or not Pogacar? He's 12 credits more than the next most expensive rider. Still requires some amount of bravery to skip him...

He is ridiculously expensive. But how can you not? You would just be giving up some days on purpose.

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