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This eliminated Spain, Slovenia, Ukraine, Argentina, Canada and, interestingly, Malta. Also Ireland, since they still have to vote. There's now 11 countries left in the theoretical race

Quoting this just to be sure.

Do you think everyone has SQL Studio with @OlympicIRL's databases on them open on their computers?

I hope Italy, for the sake of the competition

NED

Oddly, no new eliminations this time. Six voting rounds to go and still exactly half of the field with a (theoretical) chance to win

12 for GBR

The list of countries who are mathematically eliminated has grown quite a lot with this vote: China, Serbia, Moldova, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, USA, France, Romania and ironically the Netherlands are now all officially out of the race, leaving 19 countries in it.

Netherlands Calling! SWE - 12 Points HUN - 11 Points ITA - 10 Points GBR - 9 Points BRA - 8 Points CRO - 7 Points MLT - 6 Points ARG - 5 Points SLO - 4 Points ESP - 3 Points CHN - 2 Points GRE - 1 Points x That's it for the Dutch jury votes. We'd like to thank @Olympian1010 for fighting through the issues and organizing a TISC event that is as much fun as it always is in this great community!

Funnily, Italy's song is the one that's still stuck in my head the most I just thought Hungary and XXX were slightly better, but it was really a hard choice between especially those three.

Netherlands Calling! HUN - 11 Points ITA - 10 Points GBR - 9 Points BRA - 8 Points CRO - 7 Points MLT - 6 Points ARG - 5 Points SLO - 4 Points ESP - 3 Points CHN - 2 Points GRE - 1 Points

Hello, this is the Netherlands calling! We are here to present the votes of the Dutch jury, which has thoroughly enjoyed listening to all of this year's entries! Here we go. Netherlands Calling! ITA - 10 Points GBR - 9 Points BRA - 8 Points CRO - 7 Points MLT - 6 Points ARG - 5 Points SLO - 4 Points ESP - 3 Points CHN - 2 Points GRE - 1 Points

Chile, India and Indonesia are out as well, mathematically.

Right, feels like time to sleep

Arrived in Brazil last year, where it was consistently 30+ degrees, and I simply needed a cooler environment...so the aircondition in the hotel went on, no doubt. I knew the risk, and then felt physically shitty for almost a week

Don't think I've ever had it I did have a bag of kruidnoten with 'pumpkin spice' taste, which were....alright

Oh I know, but if it's those hot days where it just won't really cool down, it's like the one chance to at least feel a bit cool for a few minutes, so I'll take it

A nice airconditioned room, cold shower or icy water

I would like to state that I have an opinion on this..

We are matching as well as possible

Kazakhstan, Turkey and New Zealand have now also been mathematically eliminated in terms of chances to win.

I've kind of exaggerated and in the past month or so bought 40 or so bags with different tastes from different shops. Recently I found two bags with a specific taste from last year, which turned out to be great....but is a taste that's not sold this year anymore. I told myself "Never again!", so now I want to taste as many as possible before 5-6 December (which is when they are going out of the shops until next year), so I can buy some extra of the tastiests ones But yeah, then I exaggerated, made an Excel and everything. When I thought 'ok, this is fine', Bruna came from the shops with a bag absolutely filled with more different bags from other shops. It never ends

I'll help you out by opening yet another fresh bag of 'kruidnoten' (a kind of cookies we have in this time of year), probably with a chocolate layer around them

With the 26th set of votes, we also have the first country that's eliminated from the win: there's 120 points to win, Great Britain has 123 and Israel is still stuck at 0.

Like my grandma never used to say, because of course she had no idea what TISC is: the fun in TISC is not the result of your song, the fun in TISC is the fun you have along the way