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Yep, the amount of emergency services I heard at some point was a little extreme (for our little town), so I checked what was going on and saw they were all being called to a specific location. Until then I thought maybe it was part of a parade of trucks and agricultural vehicles that was on it's way from the next town over, decorated with lights and stuff.
 
Since I knew it was on the parade route, I was sure one of those big vehicles had hit people somehow (there were, besides the many vehicles, also two helicopters on the way, meaning it certainly wasn't about a single victim).
 
We picked our bikes and went to take a look, absolutely chaos in the area. Never saw so many services combined together, fire trucks from 20km away, ambulance after ambulance came racing by, people frantically trying to make way for them (the roads weren't really closed yet).
 
While there we heard someone who had been close say that the parade hadn't arrived yet and what seemed to have happened was that a car from the other side came onto the roundabout and simply never turned. "It's a massive drama over there, unbelievable", he said.
 
Quite quickly rumours started spreading of course, the first one turned out to be true: a middle aged (local) woman was behind the wheel and seems to have become unwell. Local security camera showed the car going at high speed right before the roundabout.
 
Plenty of rumours going around in terms of who were involved of course, and people keeping each other up to date to see if they know this or that family and such...
 
Never expected my little town to be big news in the Netherlands, even including some breaking broadcasts, live reporters and everything, damn. By far the biggest thing to happen here in my memory
 

This is the home town of our very own @heywooduand @brunamoura
 
 

Shocking news 😔 We just saw him competing 2 days ago in Annecy. 

I've been under the weather for much of the week, so sadly I had to pass on voting this time around. I'll still commenting and following, of course.

So the voting draw has been completed. Here is the provisional voting order. Once a voting schedule for the Grand Final has been created we will look to see if there is any nation eligible to request a swap.
 
Denmark will be opening the voting followed by their Scandinavian neighbour Sweden.
will close the voting on the Grand Final day
 
 
 
TISC Annual 2025 - Provisional Voting Order
 
1 Denmark 18 Israel 2 Sweden 19 Serbia 3 Slovakia 20 Romania 4 Indonesia 21 Brazil 5 Great Britain 22 Poland 6 Italy 23 Mexico 7 Spain 24 Netherlands 8 Kazakhstan 25 China 9 Ukraine 26 Slovenia 10 Bulgaria 27 Turkey 11 Germany 28 Albania 12 United States 29 Malta 13 France 30 Ireland 14 India 31 Argentina 15 Tunisia 32 Lithuania 16 Portugal 33 Guatemala 17 Greece 34 Canada  

Youtube playlist
 

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C4eM8gAOTw&list=PLN60GSVGaQ_yTcaGX12c6fo7xAevRD7-7
 

I have scheduled the voting order draw for later today. I will be using a random generator to auto-generate the results. If anyone is interested, I have posted a ticket of the scheduled draw. There is no result available yet but will appear once the draw has passed the scheduled time.
 
https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=4047191GXV9CAS4M2

Voted  Thank you for extending the deadline and allowing me to vote once my exams are over. @OlympicIRL

has just delivered their votes which means that all nations have now voted and we have no disqualifications this year  
 
The voting window will officially end tomorrow (Friday) at midnight GMT after which I will post details about the voting order draw. It’s likely going to be a random draw from a random generator site to save time in this busy period. I will schedule the draw and post a ticket so users can view the result after the scheduled time. More to come on that on Saturday.
 
Thanks again to all participants  

Yay for no disqualifications! Thanks @OlympicIRL for all the work! Getting close. 

https://x.com/GWR/status/2000618825088131506 
 
@hckošice

votes have been received  
 
For any other multi-member jury member who hasn’t yet voted you still have until midnight tomorrow to vote if you so wish. I know @Gianlu33 said he was busy with exams this time so had to withdraw. So just 
@Roamingrover86 and @Olympian1010 who we didn’t hear from so tagging in case they still want to submit their votes by tomorrow  

Update: Roamingrover86 has now voted too  

I'll done the votes this evening, sorry for such a delay

We are waiting on just  and  to vote now. @Glen @Illya
 
Glen has been in touch to say he needs another 24 hours to get his votes in which is fine!
 
I am hoping to receive all votes by this Friday at the latest as I need to start my preparations for the voting templates.

I will vote this evening! Sorry for delay! 

GB votes are in

One normal Thursday in  parliament.
 
Dear lord ! And I pay them with my taxes 
 

 

 

I will send my vote today

About to send my votes
 
- German votes are in

In Chile, the rigth-wing candidate Antonio Kast defeat the communist candidate Jeannete Jara and is the new chilean president.

voted!
 
Its almost end of time! @Erigert @Vic Liu @catgamer @Dragon @Fly_like_a_don @Roamingrover86 @Dnl @heywoodu @Cobi @Illya

Done with the voting.  As with every contest i re-arranged the placing numerous times before reaching a conclusion. 

Killing inocent people to avenge something, anything... Got it. 
Slight off topic - forum members from Western countries - remember the word jizya. Pretty much summarize the integration, coexistence in minds of your immigrants. Not all of them but rest assured - many, many of them.
Good luck, you will need all the luck you can get. 
In 2023 - getting killed while listening some music, 2024 lunatic driving car through the Christmas festvities in Germany... Getting stabbed in the middle of the day in UK...
And so on...
 
 
 
 

Poles and their new friends: