【七・二・十一祭】NSC 222 SEMIFINAL RESULTS 10月18日

[takeru]

第二百二十二回「ネイション・ソング・コンテスト」歌合戦
Nation Song Contest 222
準決勝戦　結果発表
Semifinal Results Show
「七・二・十一祭」
Shichi-ni-juichi Matsuri

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Event Programme

１．16:00~17:00 CEST LIVE DJ (NSC Music hour)
2. 17:00~19:00 CEST 六十人一首大会 (Semifinal Results)
3. 19:00~20:00 CEST Just Missed Out Awards 222




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[takeru]

七・二・十一祭

Welcome to the Shichi-ni-juichi festival!

As we introduced in the semifinals, this is a celebration of 'just missing out", running up, being the bridesmaid, however you wish to call it.

For today's semifinal results, we of course want to celebrate those who miss out! So unfortunately, that means 22 unfortunate nations will fail to achieve this great honour and qualify to some grand final or something. What a shame for them!!

六十人一首

The game we are going to play is a traditional Yaponesian NSC game called "Karuta", which in turn is based on the sixty poems from "60nin Isshu". This game has its roots in the Japanese card game of the same style (but they have 100, we only have 60.)

The game is played by reciting poems and finding the matching picture card out of all the ones scattered on the floor. The one who finds it wins the card. In this NSC version, all the poems and pictures are somehow related to the nation's NSC 222 entry and/or their 'just missed out' entry. See if you can figure out who is who?

 

[takeru]

As an echsample of how we're going to play today, here's a first poem:

The lizards EndedUp as fake reptile spam.
Die nicht echten Eidechsen...

The answer is...

EchseNam
(thematically, and also notice the rhyme)

By the way, for this Shichi-ni-juichi festival, Yaponesian schoolchildren from Solaare Gakuen Junior and Senior High School provided the wonderful graphics you see featured in this karuta set. (true story!)

 

[Sabrewulf238]

I feel like the sixth one on the top row is probably Dalisska. The eyes in the dark (shot in the dark) plus the person with the guts(?) on the right...

 

[takeru]

We're almost ready to go!
Please post guesses for who you think the qualifier is, either here in the thread or in the discord chat!
The first qualifier will be posted in about 5 minutes...

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!
頑張ってください！

 

[takeru]

FINALIST #1

Dusty darting donkeys dancing at a disco
Musty marching monkeys romancing in...

 

[esc87fan]

That's definitely Calypso

 

[takeru]

...Calypso

FINALIST #2

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words just make me woozy.

 

[takeru]

...Tuzi

FINALIST #3

The dogs imparted wisdom from Athena

 

[takeru]

...Konthena

FINALIST #4

Caught in the headlights, the girl had gone to Venus and　
...wait that's not how you pronounce it?

 

[takeru]

...Pen Island

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FINALIST #5

Focus pocus, nearer to here.
Extraterrestrial

 

[theditz83]

?

 

[takeru]

...Svobodnia

FINALIST #6

Waiting for you is a lonely big area.
The ground gets higher.

 

[takeru]

...Cydoni-Gibberia

FINALIST #7

Hold your breath in hand,
Underwater

 

[takeru]

...Effiland

FINALIST #8

Introverts may feel hollow, but have potential to be great.
While extraverts just follow

 

[Sabrewulf238]

This one is New Bander State

 

[takeru]

...New Bander State

FINALIST #9

ズィーナはピエロが好き

 

[theditz83]

Omg is this Akatsuki?

 

[takeru]

...Akatsuki

FINALIST #10

Cats and dogs, night and day, despair and joy

 

[theditz83]

Tcher-Racoi