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Lunch break is over, templates are fixed at least until the next break. @Dragon, please help us get underway with the afternoon and post the British votes

Lunch break - Part 2 The second part of our lunch is more straightforward, but definitely not more healthy: kibbeling! If you ever find yourself in the Netherlands, you absolutely do have to try this fried fish, which one can eat as snack or as meal, it really depends on your apetite. Kibbeling used to be made from Atlantic cod, nowadays it's made from all kinds of whitefish, which is cut up in small pieces, battered and then fried, before being served - usually with a garlic or tartar sauce. In most places, kibbeling will be served in a little snack box like this...take care, the inside is generally rather hot after being fried! One of the greats of Dutch cabaret will present our next musical item: Wim Sonneveld, star of the mid-20th century. His song 'Het Dorp' ('The Village') wasn't immediately a hit, but it grew into one of the most popular Dutch songs ever, nowadays still reaching high ranks in the annual 'Top 2000', with the 2000 best songs in history according to tens of thousands of voters. In the song, Sonneveld sings about how the village he grew up in used to be; a simpler life, the farms and the cattle, the high trees along the path of his father's house, "I was a child and didn't know better than that it'd never end". He goes on saying people were apparently living wrong, the village has been modernized and look how rich life has become: people living in their concrete boxes, with extra big windows so everyone can see your new sofa and big TV. It's not meant in a way to say "things were better back then", it's just a bit of personal nostalgia from the singer, something many people can identify with when their home towns change throughout the years.

Lunch break - Part 1 And with Slovakia's votes and a bit of a counting issue, we have reached the end of the morning. Canada is still in the lead, with especially Serbia and Malta following close and France having made a very notable move upwards since we had ourselves a coffee or hot chocolate break. Only one nation is left that has yet to get a point...while they wait, we're going on to the first part of lunch! Dutch lunch is generally really not very complicated and often the base is quite similar to breakfast. A lot of people simply eat bread during lunch, and that is indeed one of our choices here. The trick is in the topping, which can be something common like cheese or some sort of a meat product, but the black gold of Dutch lunches is nothing less than hagelslag, basically a kind of chocolate sprinkles. In the Netherlands they're not only used as decoration for one thing or another, here one fills a slice of bread with hagelslag and enjoys the pure goodness, which of course comes in a wide variety of chocolate tastes - hint: dark is the best! A slice of bread with hagelslag, the only right way to cover one's bread with it is to top it off with so much there's barely any bread visible anymore Apart from regular bread, we'll be serving a few other kinds of bread to have a bit of variety. There is the delicious 'suikerbrood', translated to 'sugar bread', which is a rather unhealthy but tasty bread people often eat on special ocassions...or just whenever one feels like it. There's small pieces of crystalized sugar inside of it, giving it a nice and sweet crunch. During Christmas there's the 'kerststol' or 'kerstbrood' ('Christmas bread'), which has raisins in it and is filled with a sort of almond paste, which one can smear across the bread. The exact same bread is sold around Easter, when it's called 'paasbrood' ('Easter bread') - the lack of creativity is more than made up for by the taste. A 'kerststol', the most common thing to top it off with is either powdered sugar or butter The musical note for the first part of lunch comes from the city of Nijmegen and the Frank Boeijen Groep, led by Frank Boeijen, famous in the Netherlands. The song is called Kronenburg Park, named after a park in Nijmegen which decades ago was known for it's open prostitution. Boeijen was driving past the park with some friends one night, and saw a woman standing in the light of the headlights. Much to his shock and sadness, he recognized her as a former classmate, who had become a prostitute addicted to heroine. The song is aimed at her, basically telling her to "Leave that world, stop it...at least the heroine." He also gives her a bit of advice that sometimes might still be good today: "And don't ask for directions, because everyone has lost the way."

After a bit of a mixup and certainly no voting fraud, we go into our lunch break a bit later than planned. Canada is in the lead, with Serbia and Malta following close behind and Poland still on the left side in this new and improved ranking. We've got half an hour for lunch, better scoreboards and a calm head! Juries voted so far: 14 / 35 Next jury: Great Britain TOISC - NETHERLANDS 2020 Germany 18 27 Canada 1 76 Spain 19 25 Serbia 2 74 Portugal 20 24 Malta 3 71 Croatia 21 23 France 4 57 Czech Republic 21 23 Ireland 5 56 Moldova 21 23 New Zealand 6 48 United States 21 23 Lithuania 6 48 Netherlands 25 22 Indonesia 8 47 Denmark 26 15 India 9 46 Greece 27 14 Argentina 10 44 Israel 28 11 Kazakhstan 10 44 Mexico 29 10 Romania 10 44 Slovenia 30 8 Brazil 13 39 Slovakia 31 7 Great Britain 14 38 Egypt 32 4 China 15 33 Tunisia 33 3 Italy 16 31 Hungary 33 3 Poland 16 31 Bulgaria 35 0

I had a whole "Thank you Slovakia, and with that, we're going on to lunch!" ready for after your second post

Right, the vote totals for Slovakia and Slovenia are correct, so there's that I think the biggest issue was with Poland and Portugal being so close to each other alphabetically, something probably went wrong in the sorting or something. Time to work on the scoreboards now.

I really don't think you're the one that needs to apologize here, I'm actually very glad you spotted the mistake now instead of at the end of the contest

The issue is rearranging 22 scoreboards But that shouldn't be too problematic, since mostly it will only affect positions directly around Portugal and Poland of course.

Yes please, or just edit them instead of reposting them.

Post your 12 points, so all posts before lunch are done, meanwhile I'll go and adjust the scoreboards and hopefully when the next session starts, all is well again Before adjusting those though, I'll recount the total of every nation just to make sure there's not another mistake like this

Checked the final result and compared it with all the votes that came in, Poland does indeed miss 9 points in the final result, whereas Portugal has 9 too many. Luckily there's a lunch break to adjust ALL the scoreboard templates. What a bright idea it was to have them all ranked in order.

It is not a joke, no.

Ooooh boy. That is indeed listed as Poland in the Excel where I kept track of all votes coming in, but as Portugal in the sheet where I made calculations

KEY RACE ALERT!

They did spend money on TISC, but after buying those glass cases, would they really give that away by giving their rivalbro's a big advantage?

Malta takes a solo lead ahead of Canada and Serbia, whereas Ireland's voting round drops them below France. Slovenia has doubled it's points, bringing them to the lead in the Slovranking. Juries voted so far: 13 / 35 Next jury: Slovakia TOISC - NETHERLANDS 2020 Spain 18 25 Malta 1 67 Portugal 19 24 Canada 2 66 United States 20 23 Serbia 3 62 Croatia 20 23 France 4 57 Moldova 20 23 Ireland 5 55 Netherlands 23 22 Lithuania 6 48 Poland 23 22 India 7 46 Czech Republic 25 16 Indonesia 8 44 Greece 26 14 Kazakhstan 8 44 Israel 27 11 Romania 8 44 Denmark 28 10 Brazil 11 39 Mexico 28 10 New Zealand 12 37 Slovenia 30 8 Argentina 13 36 Slovakia 31 7 China 14 33 Egypt 32 4 Great Britain 15 32 Hungary 33 3 Italy 16 31 Tunisia 34 1 Germany 17 27 Bulgaria 35 0 We ask yet another veteran participant to provide us with their set of votes; @hckosice, what has the opinion been of the jury of Slovakia ?

You also had a 1st reserve place in the Italian jury, although to be fair, that would not have moved Lithuania up in the total Italian standings Israel and Germany were still ahead, Germany being tied with Malta there and losing out on the single point due to the tie breakers.

Slovenia doubling their points total in one single post

Thanks to Lithuania, we've got Malta back in the lead...which the tiny nation has to share with the slightly bigger Canada. There's a lot of close battles all across the board and especially the middle is absolutely packed. Juries voted so far: 12 / 35 Next jury: Ireland TOISC - NETHERLANDS 2020 Portugal 18 24 Malta 1 66 Moldova 19 23 Canada 1 66 Croatia 19 23 Serbia 3 62 Netherlands 21 22 Ireland 4 55 Poland 21 22 France 5 45 Czech Republic 23 16 Indonesia 6 44 Greece 24 14 Kazakhstan 6 44 Spain 24 14 Romania 6 44 United States 26 13 Lithuania 9 39 Israel 27 11 India 10 38 Denmark 28 10 Brazil 11 36 Mexico 28 10 Argentina 12 34 Slovakia 30 7 New Zealand 13 32 Egypt 31 4 Italy 14 31 Slovenia 31 4 Germany 15 27 Hungary 33 3 China 16 26 Tunisia 34 1 Great Britain 16 26 Bulgaria 35 0 We're one third down the road already and with that, we'd kindly like to ask Totallympics Archmaester @OlympicIRL to show us the Irish votes!

Interesting that right before lunch, we've got like half of the backbone of Totallympics following each other in voting

Hold on a minute...

The fight for the podium positions remains fierce, there is a bit of a clear top-3, but they are not separated by much, while 11th place could immediately jump up to 4th! Juries voted so far: 11 / 35 Next jury: Lithuania TOISC - NETHERLANDS 2020 Poland 16 22 Canada 1 66 Great Britain 19 21 Serbia 2 62 New Zealand 20 20 Malta 3 60 China 21 16 Ireland 4 46 Greece 22 14 Indonesia 5 44 Spain 22 14 Kazakhstan 5 44 Moldova 24 12 Romania 5 44 Israel 25 11 France 8 41 Denmark 26 10 Lithuania 9 39 Mexico 26 10 India 10 38 United States 26 10 Argentina 11 34 Czech Republic 29 9 Italy 12 31 Slovakia 30 7 Brazil 13 28 Egypt 31 4 Germany 14 25 Slovenia 31 4 Portugal 15 24 Hungary 33 3 Croatia 16 22 Tunisia 34 1 Netherlands 16 22 Bulgaria 35 0 We go to one of the staples of TISC history and humbly ask @Werloc to present the votes of the Lithuanian jury!

BRAZIL Lithuania 12 Croatia 11 Malta 10 France 9 Portugal 8 Argentina 7 Italy 6 Canada 5 Serbia 4 India 3 New Zealand 2 Israel 1 Esses foram os votos brasileiros, muito obrigado e boa sorte a todos para o resto do dia! Those were the Brazilian votes, thank you very much and we wish everyone good luck for the rest of the day!

Yep, they mentioned this too, 'because Brazilian Portuguese has more of a 'singing' intonation', which is of course true and is one of the reasons I prefer Brazilian Portuguese Apart from European Portuguese just sounding....'off' to me, just like European Spanish

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