Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020

[Gianlu33 4,527]

Malta is leading the Mediterranean Trophy after 14 juries. Here the standing:

 

Malta 71

France 57

Italy 31

Spain 25

Croatia 23

Greece 14

Israel 11

Slovenia 8

Egypt 4

Tunisia 3

 

 

[Dragon 1,839]

7 minutes ago, Agger said:

[rybak 3,179]

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

Czechoslovak Trophy (40% votes in)

 

76.7%

23.3%

And Ireland? Where is Ireland ???

[Gianlu33 4,527]

Just now, Gianlu33 said:

Malta is leading the Mediterranean Trophy after 14 juries. Here the standing:

 

Malta 71

France 57

Italy 31

Spain 25

Croatia 23

Greece 14

Israel 11

Slovenia 8

Egypt 4

Tunisia 3

 

 

Here a bit of context, about podium in the last TISC

 

 

[heywoodu 14,940]

Lunch break - Part 1

And with Slovakia's votes and a bit of a counting issue, we have reached the end of the morning. Canada is still in the lead, with especially Serbia and Malta following close and France having made a very notable move upwards since we had ourselves a coffee or hot chocolate break. Only one nation is left that has yet to get a point...while they wait, we're going on to the first part of lunch!

Dutch lunch is generally really not very complicated and often the base is quite similar to breakfast. A lot of people simply eat bread during lunch, and that is indeed one of our choices here. The trick is in the topping, which can be something common like cheese or some sort of a meat product, but the black gold of Dutch lunches is nothing less than hagelslag, basically a kind of chocolate sprinkles. In the Netherlands they're not only used as decoration for one thing or another, here one fills a slice of bread with hagelslag and enjoys the pure goodness, which of course comes in a wide variety of chocolate tastes - hint: dark is the best!

 

A slice of bread with hagelslag, the only right way to cover one's bread with it is to top it off with so much there's barely any bread visible anymore

Apart from regular bread, we'll be serving a few other kinds of bread to have a bit of variety. There is the delicious 'suikerbrood', translated to 'sugar bread', which is a rather unhealthy but tasty bread people often eat on special ocassions...or just whenever one feels like it. There's small pieces of crystalized sugar inside of it, giving it a nice and sweet crunch. During Christmas there's the 'kerststol' or 'kerstbrood' ('Christmas bread'), which has raisins in it and is filled with a sort of almond paste, which one can smear across the bread. The exact same bread is sold around Easter, when it's called 'paasbrood' ('Easter bread') - the lack of creativity is more than made up for by the taste.

 

A 'kerststol', the most common thing to top it off with is either powdered sugar or butter

The musical note for the first part of lunch comes from the city of Nijmegen and the Frank Boeijen Groep, led by Frank Boeijen, famous in the Netherlands. The song is called Kronenburg Park, named after a park in Nijmegen which decades ago was known for it's open prostitution. Boeijen was driving past the park with some friends one night, and saw a woman standing in the light of the headlights. Much to his shock and sadness, he recognized her as a former classmate, who had become a prostitute addicted to heroine. The song is aimed at her, basically telling her to "Leave that world, stop it...at least the heroine." He also gives her a bit of advice that sometimes might still be good today: "And don't ask for directions, because everyone has lost the way."

 

[Vektor 3,326]

Top 5 of the 1st session:

 

1.  43p

 

2.  40p

 

3.  40p

 

4.  36p

 

5.  33p

 

 

Top 5 of the 2nd session:

 

1.  47p

 

2.  38p

 

3.  34p

 

4.  34p

 

5.  33p

[hckošice 14,787]

meine reservoires ehm reserves I mean

 

Reserves:

[Werloc 3,161]

1 minute ago, hckosice said:

meine reservoires ehm reserves I mean

 

Reserves:

Did we sign some sort of mutual agreement to not give points to each other somewhere down the line? 

 

I don't think I remember points from Slovakia ever and I checked my all time table and I gave Slovakia points three times, but the last one was 2015 

[Vojthas 949]

6 minutes ago, Werloc said:

Also, can someone please explain why 4 countries that got votes from me are sharing 21st place right now? 

Black Jack

[Griff88 1,950]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

A slice of bread with hagelslag, the only right way to cover one's bread with it is to top it off with so much there's barely any bread visible anymore

 

 

My mom will be mad if I did that to my bread, but she is alright when we ordered martabak