Olympian1010

I can’t really say much, but I will preface our votes with “prepare to have your mind blown”

I discovered it was French after thinking about entering on behalf of the US last year

Thanks for the points !

Spain

Points? It’s been ages...

The only similarity between Egypt and Portugal is that they’re traditional music. Maybe some of the singing is done in a similar gravely voice, but that’s definitely it.

Czechoslovakia Trophy is very close right now!

Yeah, I’d never experienced that before

Canada and Ireland battling for the win. Why do the rest of us even bother entering at this point?

@hckosice thank the powers that be for Canada, Malta, and Spain

Oh, I’m guilty of that as well.

You can always count on @Vojthas to go the extra mile. One of the best qualities you can ask for in our line of work.

No, you’d eliminate the team whose 4 team members have the worst score of the two. You throw out the highest scoring member of each team, and then recount the scores using only the 4 remaining team members.

Spain 12.

Personally, I’d be in favor of #1

Couple suggestions: 1) eliminate the highest scoring nation for each team, re-tabulate the score using the four remaining team members 2) team with the lowest scoring nation is eliminated 3) advance both team, eliminate two teams at the next leg if possible

Stop it you sorcerer

Spain 12

First points for the US! Thanks @Wumo and @Agger.

US and Slovak delegations are thankful for the free ride

00:00 for me, so it’s good morning everyone from me too

@dcro will Poland still be anti-establishment after @Vojthas debut as a juror?

Did we establish clear format for the team event? Are we going with I suggested? Is someone keeping track of that?

Right, probably a similar meaning then. My guess is that Hindustan is an endonym in the Central Asian languages. The reason those people in those countries call India “Hindustan” is because they’ve had contact with India for hundreds of years. As where the name for the United States is probably an exonym in their languages, since they didn’t have contact with Americans before last hundred years of so probably. Plus, those languages were highly “Russified” during Russian and Soviet rule. The Soviets even made attempts at killing those languages (you kill a language, you kill a lot of that culture. If someone’s not connected to their identity as a Kazakh, then they can easily become a Soviet culturally.) I don’t think I quite used endonym/exonym right in this context, but what I’m trying to say is that “Hindustan” is the traditional, historical name for India in those languages. It’s most likely always been the name in those languages, so there wouldn’t be a need/point to changing the name. As where, those languages never had a name for the United States, so instead coming up with a name in the traditional style, they most likely just burrowed a name from the Russian language or just used a name that sounded similar to the English version. I’m sure you didn’t need, nor want, all this explanation/theory, but I have a tiny, little interest in language, culture, and communication

“Stan” roughly translates to “home of” or “land of”, I believe.