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Wolves eat the rest, so there's that.

Hello Slovenia?

With more than one point, even.

Brazil jumps into the lead, together with Ireland, which may have taken the lead for the first time in at least half a year! It's a close race though and we've already got 25 countries with at least one point. Juries voted so far: 3 / 35 Next jury: Slovenia TOISC - NETHERLANDS 2020 Moldova 18 6 Brazil 1 19 Netherlands 18 6 Ireland 1 19 Denmark 20 4 Great Britain 3 17 China 20 4 Canada 4 16 Czech Republic 22 3 Lithuania 5 14 Italy 22 3 Malta 6 13 Germany 24 2 Indonesia 7 12 Mexico 25 1 India 7 12 Bulgaria 26 0 Spain 9 11 Egypt 26 0 Kazakhstan 10 10 France 26 0 United States 10 10 Greece 26 0 Argentina 12 9 Hungary 26 0 New Zealand 12 9 Israel 26 0 Croatia 12 9 Portugal 26 0 Romania 12 9 Slovakia 26 0 Serbia 16 8 Slovenia 26 0 Poland 16 8 Tunisia 26 0 Slovenia is our next voting nation, @justony, let 'm fly!

I know I haven't seen it since I participated and basically since the first time it was my biggest wish to change if I'd ever host

Yes, because Ireland is known to always fade away and finish poorly in TISC.

Thank you Denmark! Lithuania takes over the lead and India occupies a medal position for the first time in it's entire TISC history...it's early days yet, but could it be a sign of what's to come? Juries voted so far: 2 / 35 Next jury: Italy TOISC - NETHERLANDS 2020 Italy 17 3 Lithuania 1 14 Germany 19 2 Great Britain 2 12 Mexico 20 1 India 2 12 Tunisia 21 0 Malta 2 12 Denmark 21 0 Spain 5 11 Serbia 21 0 United States 6 10 Slovakia 21 0 Indonesia 6 10 Moldova 21 0 Romania 8 9 Egypt 21 0 Croatia 8 9 Bulgaria 21 0 Canada 8 9 Slovenia 21 0 Ireland 11 8 France 21 0 Poland 11 8 Argentina 21 0 Brazil 13 7 Hungary 21 0 New Zealand 14 6 Kazakhstan 21 0 Netherlands 14 6 Greece 21 0 China 16 4 Portugal 21 0 Czech Republic 17 3 Israel 21 0 Italy is next, @Pablita, enlighten us with the votes of the Committee leaders please!

I only see a consistent scoreboard where the competition is actually easy to follow without always having to count how many nations have more points than one's favourite

Right, there is Agger!

Thank you Israel! We take a look at our first scoreboard and with that we already see the first bit of TISC history in the early morning: Malta is in the lead for the very first time! Juries voted so far: 1 / 35 Next jury: Denmark TOISC - NETHERLANDS 2020 Argentina 13 0 Malta 1 12 China 13 0 Spain 2 11 Portugal 13 0 Indonesia 3 10 United States 13 0 Canada 4 9 Denmark 13 0 Poland 5 8 Serbia 13 0 Brazil 6 7 New Zealand 13 0 Netherlands 7 6 Moldova 13 0 India 8 5 Egypt 13 0 Croatia 9 4 Bulgaria 13 0 Lithuania 10 3 Slovenia 13 0 Germany 11 2 France 13 0 Italy 12 1 Czech Republic 13 0 Ireland 13 0 Hungary 13 0 Slovakia 13 0 Kazakhstan 13 0 Great Britain 13 0 Greece 13 0 Tunisia 13 0 Mexico 13 0 Romania 13 0 Israel 13 0 Next up is Denmark , @Agger, @Wumo, may we please have your votes?

The first thing I do when installing Windows anywhere: use Internet Explorer to download Chrome

I think I can say I like Chrome for literally everything other than copying things on Totallympics

Thank you Israel for the points I do notice that copying is a bit problematic in, I think, Google Chrome? Somehow I've had the same issue, Firefox solves it

It's 09:00 CET and as expected, we are getting underway right now! @Dnl, may we have the votes of Israel please?

Nope, not in Dutch

That is definitely not called Veluwe here

You are playing with fire here...

And those that do are greatly respected

Calling the Netherlands Holland? Ouch, this hurts my non-Holland heart

08:00, the sun rises on the Veluwe...rise and shine people, one hour to go!

Known here as 'Engelse drop', which obviously means 'English drop'. Long ago since I ate this, I should get me some since these are definitely tasty as well

It will be mentioned tomorrow, but since nowadays even the mention of it is so sensitive, I tried to avoid any pictures showing the sides that are most 'discussed' (not really discussed, it's really more fighting than discussing, but alright), just to avoid a sense of "omg that's so offensive!" that would make my skin crawl (and the whole discussion about that which has really been held enough in the Netherlands, let alone an international forum) The story is mostly right by the way, although the most commonly told origin of the 'helpers' is that they were slaves who were bought and then immediately freed by the bishop, who (by their own choice of course) then employed them for actual payment and such.

Drop comes in so many forms and variaties, it's just impossible to say it's either all good or all bad There are kinds I very strongly dislik, whereas there are others I very much like

Oh that is cruel

She is being called queen. It's not 100% official, it's what she is called (according to the Royal Family's website, which I'd say is the authority on the people of the Royal Family). She has kept her personal titles, Princess of the Netherlands and Princess of Orange-Nassau. Nobody, including me, will stop you or anyone from calling her queen though, I call her queen myself