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Damn. It's only the first round tho

Would it be possible that one of you would get as lucky as I did and get a ticket in your first turn?

And I thought I was going to be the one getting unlucky with 3 penguins like I had predicted yesterday. Let's see if I have the insane luck in the final.

Those penguins GG Poland and congrats Canada

At this point, I kinda feel bad to leave Canada and Poland fighting for the elusive silver ticket. But then again, I kinda am not, so...

Might as well bring popcorn to see how this is playing out.

I'm just chilling in Cedar Rapids here waiting for someone to get the other silver ticket

Thanks, and I usually have shitty luck with these things, so I'm stoked.

WTF!!!! I must be extremely lucky today.

Alright, let's go with 11

Oh, gee. Um... let's go with 52

I'm here.

Thanks. I'll support your bid even if no one else does

Welp, knowing my luck, I would end up with 3 penguins or skip two turns before getting the silver ticket, but I'm willing to risk this.

Look, @bestmen, my dude, you're cool and all, but I already got someone like you taking office in January I think I'm good.

I will be online for all 3 days so it wouldn't matter each way (as I have an online job, so definitely I'll be jumping in). Still I'm looking forward to the bidding process.

If you're going that route, then I can tell you that luck and I are strangers xD I was thinking about a knockout round which we have heats like so... Heat 1: Algeria, New Zealand, Tunisia Heat 2: Croatia, Poland, Serbia Heat 3: Canada, Mexico, United States Heat 4: The countries that came in second in their original heats (like a second chance round) Then hold 2 semi finals with the 4 remaining countries. The two winners will face off in the final and whoever has the most votes becomes the host (and all by polling. I recommend strawpoll.me for real time results, thought I was thinking we might make the results hidden for added suspense)

You know the interest in this contest is high when you have several countries (in this case, 9) bidding to host. This will be interesting, but tough.

Are we still in bidding season, because will make a bid too.

Yeah, my big congrats to @Werloc on staging this wonderful contest. It was totally worth waiting for. As for us, it's the second year in a row we have achieved our best placing ever (4th) and the US delegation couldn't be more prouder of Kelly, but damn, we thought we got the podium and I was so focused on beating the Netherlands that I forgot all about Canada, but it was well-fought battle, so no regrets. Once again, we thank the following countries for the 132 points we achieved this contest: 2 - 3 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 -

Nice!

Once again congrats to That's gonna be a tradition now. You know Ireland is going to win if we give them points, because we only contributed to 2 wins and both for Ireland.

The 12 isn't gonna be much of a difference, but... UNITED STATES MEXICO 12 BULGARIA 11 MOLDOVA 10 PORTUGAL 9 ROMANIA 8 GREECE 7 CROATIA 6 CANADA 5 FRANCE 4 SERBIA 3 IRELAND 2 ALGERIA 1 That's all from us, and we'll be the first to congratulate the 2016 TOISC winner (see scoreboard)

UNITED STATES BULGARIA 11 MOLDOVA 10 PORTUGAL 9 ROMANIA 8 GREECE 7 CROATIA 6 CANADA 5 FRANCE 4 SERBIA 3 IRELAND 2 ALGERIA 1

And at least for the second time in history I gave points to the winner