APELDOORN - Personal issues have made for a bit of a delay to the Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020, but we've received word that the ball is rolling once more, so to speak. Our neutral party has received the votes of the Dutch host delegation. A word from our president: "We'd like to extend our sincere apologies for the delay, sometimes life throws you a curveball and you just have to focus on more important things for a bit. This week we started to feel like the situation was well enough to give all songs a good listen and a fair chance to compete for points, and boy, they did. Some songs were more to our liking than others, some songs got better after more listens. Interestingly, the top-2 stood tall after the first round of listening and remained high above the rest, it was only a matter of careful consideration to choose the twelve and eleven points. Anyhow, we're happy to announce the Dutch votes have been sent and we are now entirely open for everyone else to send in their votes. A handful of juries have already done so, but a sense of honour and justice made sure nobody in the Dutch delegation opened any of the messages yet."
A change in the schedule to give everyone appropriate time to send in their votes will be announced today, not to worry. From the entire Dutch delegation: "May we have your votes please?"