"You figure it out on your own, bro. I'm gonna fill this ballot up real quick." Irene sat down at the kitchen table, pulled out a granola bar and proceeded to eat it one tiny bite at a time. As she was filling up the ballot, she managed to eat one fourth of it. "Damn it, I ate too much. I'll have to puke it out later."

"Ok, I absolutely don't have the fucking time to listen to all of this bullshit. Let's just play favorite. Icholasen, 12 points. The only thing better than sending an actually good entry is helping me in my petty pursuits. What the fuck are even these other countries?

Inquista gets none of my points, just like they get none of my Sahara.
Angleter also gets zero for being unfashionably late to this dinner. I understand the desire to avoid being in a room where there will be food, but come on.
Menmiriak or however you spell it.. Your country's name starts with the word men? One point, and only because there are worse contenders.
Conch Kingdom? Why not Queendom? Two points for this blatant lack of misandry in their name.
Union of Duchies? I've heard of celebrity kids who have better names, Three points.
No foaga? My name is no, my sign is no, my number is no, but my foaga? Four points.
Reitzmag and Austria... I'll give Reitz six and Austria five because if the German speakers go to war again, I'd rather side with the country whose name reminds of a dinner at the Ritz.
Ruthund? If it was Ruthbaderginsburg they'd get ten, but this way it's seven.
Fermet gets eight because I can actually kinda recognize this name.
Spain gets ten because they deserve a consoltation prize for dealing with that fat bitch El Trisha. And there we have it."

Irene sent her Eurovoice votes and then took a selfie she put on her Instagram story."Just finished listening to all the Eurovoice entries! I'm so inspired by all of this new music I just heard! #SoMuchTalent"

Celebrity Photo: IMAGE
Celebrity Name: Lidia Bastianich
Chosen Charity: Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, Caritas Internationalis

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Voting is now officially OPEN. It will end on the 2nd spookiest day of October, Tuesday the 13th of October.

Here are the confirmed entries:

Number Nation Song Artist Theme 1 Fremet Das Badeschloss Friedrich Liechtenstein REVENGE 2 Inquista Girls in the Hood & Savage (Medley) Megan Thee Stallion Both 3 Mennrimiak Devil Inside Me KSHMR and KAAZE (feat. KARRA) Halloween 4 Nofoaga Want You Yemi Alade Revenge 5 Austria The Curse Agnes Obel Revenge/Halloween 6 Spain Monsters Saara Aalto Halloween 7 Union of Duchies Zombie Cranberry Jam Halloween 8 Angleter An Eye For An Eye Nick Knowles Revenge 9 Reitzmag I'm an Albatraoz AronChupa Halloween 10 Red Croatia Calling All the Monsters Anne China That Bitch McClain Halloween 11 Ruthund Walpurgisnacht (or Valpurgisnokt in Ruthenish) FAUN Halloween 12 Nicoleizian Joint Eurovoice Team The Anaconda of the Opera Nicki Minaj Both 13 The Conch Kingdom Till It's All Over Tristam Revenge (this came 2nd in the Conch Kingdom's equivalent to Eurovoice. Can it win out here in the European Union? Or will it ROT in Nationstates RP Song Contest purgatory???!!!)

Scoring System:

(Top)
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10 -
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Send this to Spain and Icholasen on Discord !

And this is the provisional result:

Colgando en tus manos - Carlos Baute & Marta Sánchez: 21
Madre Tierra (Oye) - Chayanne: 12
Salvation - The Strumbrellas: 12
Bomba - King Africa: 20
Si Tú la quieres - David Bisbal & Aitana: 30
Mi luz - Pastora Soler ft. Blás Cantó: 6
Tengo un tractor amarillo - Zapato Veloz: 16
La Cintura - Álvaro Soler: 7
Que la detengan - David Civera: 22
Señorita - Abraham Mateo: 0

On the lead we have Si Tú La Quieres, followed by Que la Detengan in second place, Colgando en tus manos on 3rd place and Bomba on 4th! And this year, we will reveal the results without calling the autonomies, but revealing them now! So in 3, 2, 1...

Colgando en tus manos - Carlos Baute & Marta Sánchez: 2ND
Madre Tierra (Oye) - Chayanne: 7TH
Salvation - The Strumbrellas: 6TH
Bomba - King Africa: 3RD
Si Tú la quieres - David Bisbal & Aitana: WINNER
Mi luz - Pastora Soler ft. Blás Cantó: 8TH
Tengo un tractor amarillo - Zapato Veloz: 5TH
La Cintura - Álvaro Soler: 9TH
Que la detengan - David Civera: 4TH
Señorita - Abraham Mateo: 10TH

SI TÚ LA QUIERES wins the National Final! Congratulations! And that was all for tonight, we hope to see you soon in Spain Decides. Good night and please welcome to the stage David Bisbal and Aitana!!

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Home Nation: Bundesrepublik Lella (en. Federal Republic Lella)
Chess Federation Name: Lellascher Schach Bund (en. Lellan Chess Ferderation)
Chess Federation Logo: LELLASCHERSCHACHBUND-logo
Chess Federation President: Kurt Gödel
LELLASCHERSCHACHBUND-president
Coach: Richard Teichmann
LELLASCHERSCHACHBUND-logo
Will join the European Chess Club Cup 2020: YES
Does your chess federation have a women's branch?: YES
If yes, are you interested on them taking part in International Competitions?: YES

La Tomatina de Buñol

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The last Wednesday of August, la Tomatina de Buñol takes place. The tomatina's participants throw tomatoes and get involved in a tomato fight purely for entertainment purposes and it takes place in Buñol's streets, which is a town of Alicante, Comunitat Valenciana. La Tomatina Festival started the last Wednesday of August in 1945 when some young people spent the time in the town square to attend the Giants and Big-Heads figures parade. The young boys decided to take part in a parade with musicians, Giants and Big-Heads figures. The energy of jovialities caused one participant's Big-head to fall off. The participant flew into a fit of rage, began hitting everything in his path. There was a market stall of vegetable that fell victim to the fury of the crowd. People started to pelt each other with tomatoes until the local forces ended the fruit battle.

The Tomatina was banned in the 50s, with the Francisco Franco's dictatorship. In 1957, there was a demonstration in which the residents carried a coffin with a huge tomato inside. The parade was accompanied by a music band which played funeral marches. The protest was successful. La Tomatina Festival was finally permitted and became an official festival. In 2002, La Tomatina of Buñol was declared Festivity of International Tourist Interest by the Secretary Department of Tourism due to its success.

Retrovoice Results Show

And so that was the the results show. As we now know, all the 12s Inquista got acted as daggers into the heart of Nicoleizian communism and lead to its downfall. But, we rose again against the capitalists, the Inquistans, the billionaihs. We'll be ready to reckon with the Inquistans at Eurovoice 39.......

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DAY 3: RESULTS NIGHT

Eurovoice: You Decide 2020 Theme Plays

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And yes, finally we're back here at the National Arena for the final results of Eurovoice: You Decide 2020. And now, for the suspense part...let us invite to our stage Mr. Peter Tansley, CBC Director of Internal Audit, to announce the winner. But before that, let us show our results slowly...and here comes the results for the votes from the Foreign Jury:

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And wow! It looks like ILIRA is leading this night with 33 points from the judges. And she is followed by Trevor Daniel with 28 points, just 3 points ahead of Charlie Puth with 25 points. And now, for the final score...

Peter Tansley takes over

And the winner of Eurovoice: You Decide 2020 who will represent the Kingdom of Reitzmag in Eurovoice 39 in Icholasen. Congratulations to....

ILIRA!

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Mr. Tansley gives the trophy to ILIRA

Well, Congratulations to ILIRA...she is followed by Charlie Puth with 26 points from the public and a grand total of 52 points and Trevor Daniel with 9 points from the public and a grand total of 37 points.

Thank you so much everyone for being here, see you all at the next season. Goodnight!

The results are in. With one single vote from Inquista, let's head to Saint Dominico to find out who will represent the European Union in Tacovision!

In last place with 1 point...

Isleym!

In 8th place with 2 points...

Celine Dion!

In 7th place with 3 points...

Chet Faker!

In 6th place with 4 points...

She Drew the Gun!

In 5th place with with 5 points...

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds!

In 4th place with 6 points...

Kacey Musgraves!

In 3rd place with 8 points...

Sham Rock!

In 2nd place with 10 points...

Kane Brown!

That means our winner is George Ezra!

We look forward to George Ezra representing the European Union in Tacovision! Let's bring home the victory from the 10,000 Islands, George!

The window was but a few meters away, the light of the moon cast through it.

But how could Vaien truly know that it was the light of the moon? How could he know whether the window truly was a window to the outside world and not a sham?

Certainly, he could simply go outside; but even then, how was he to know whether his memory of the moon 'outside' was correct?

How was he to know, for that matter, that what his eyes showed him was real? It was simply an interpretation of the outside world; how could he know whether the outside world really was like what he was shown?

How could he know that his voice was his voice, that others' voices were their voices, that the floor was a floor, that the wall was wall?

The world was a world of shams; everything was a lie. The truth could be revealed; but only through destruction. Fire, ievonuia; all of it had that same underlying force of destruction.

The destruction was not earthly destruction; it was heavenly; that is, it appeared to be destruction but actually was revelation and a construction.

This duality was in everything holy; yet it could not be understood for it was perhaps an aspect of God (the Holy Spirit, perhaps), and God, how great and magnificent He was, could not be understood by the imperfect human mind.

Yet even then the school was shadowed even from any basic understanding. The destructive creation and revelation of fire, the primeval force, would banish these shadows, destroy the facades that concealed everything, and leave only the truth of God which lay in everything.

Then they would all know; they would all know.

But even then, fire was, like all things on Earth, corrupted by the Fall. While primeval and thus the holiest of all earthly things, it could not induce the revelation of all things as the Holy Spirit could.

Ievonuia, the secondary primeval force, had the same flaw, but through its blessing and its connection to the Holy Spirit as an emanation of it, was more perfect, although not entirely so.

The two together, however, would induce the seeing of the whole truth.

The great folkloric tradition of the Apostolic Church affirmed this, he remembered.

He touched his pocket, which still contained the little lacquer box which itself contained the bottle of ievonuia.

Vaien realized that there had been someone standing in front of him throughout his entire reflection. "I am very sorry for keeping you, I am prone to this," he said in a crisp, practiced voice. He shook the outstretched hand, taking care not too grip too lightly or firmly, not to shake too vigorously or lightly. All of these now concerned him; but it was all so tedious.

Throughout this entire short ordeal, he was smiling as though someone had forced him, threatening the most painful of deaths, to do so.

He let go of the other's hand. "Hello," he said, in the same practiced, polished, stiff voice that he had used before. "My name is Vaien Ueliohen. How has your day been?"

CISAU SCUJLOURÀ MALBORYA? #01 - CHLÖE HOWL

The broadcaster, 4x, has internally chosen Chlöe Howl to represent Malborya at the 39th edition of EuroVoice Song Contest.
Viewers have the chance to vote three out of six songs listed below:

01 | CHLÖE HOWL - WORK
02 | CHLÖE HOWL - PAPER HEART
03 | CHLÖE HOWL - DO IT ALONE
04 | CHLÖE HOWL - MILLIONAIRE
05 | CHLÖE HOWL - MAGNETIC
06 | CHLÖE HOWL - RUMOUR

There are no juries this edition.
YouTube and Spotify playlists aren't available due to some tracks missing from some platforms (e.g. Paper Heart is not available on Spotify)

Recap of all six songs can be found here! It is a two minute watch.

And finally, you can vote here! The voting ends on 1st of August, 2020. Have fun! The voting has ended. Results here

Team Stars present:
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Beluga Caviar
A dish made with caviar, beluga meat and some Rice. Shrimp is included in the dish. On the side we have a lovely salad. A perfect Bargonian dish.

Sham Rock all came onto the stage - including the man who played the piano. Anne Barrett, the lead singer, took to the stage, draped in a UNSR flag.

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"It is really an honour to win Eurovoice. You know, I think everyone here in the audience is the belle (or beau!) of Neomantua city! I'm glad I could bring a little bit of folk to Eurovoice. Who doesn't love folk? It seems in the audience there's a disturbance, he is not handsome, he is not pretty and he definitely is not the belle of Neomantua city... Sad! But onto the main speech. I'd like to thank Angleter for this amazing show. The graphics were stunning, and really improved on those at Eurovoice 35 in Icholasen! It's also great to have so many nations here, and that's really a credit to the draw of Angleter as a European cultural powerhouse. New Birmingham and all cities across Angleter produce great artists. Such as,' she checks her notes, 'Drake Bell! I'd also like to extend my thanks to Peter Montford. What a man.' She purred and winked at the Big Cheese. 'What. A. Man. Without him,' the Inquistans in the audience roared with applause, 'what would Eurovoice be?' Anne Barrett continued despite the applause. 'Montford, otherwise known as 'Beefcake Supreme' and 'The Lion of the EUBC', has done so much good work for Eurovoice. It'll be great to see who his successor is, and how they will build on his great work. And so finally, I'd just like to say thank you!! I love my country. Next time in Cesae Vauvra!" There was a mixed reaction from the crowd.

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LEAGIO WINS THE EURO 2020!!!!

Race 1 horse: Apostolo
Race 1 owner: Silas Kligenberg
Race 1 Jockey: David Calvus

Race 2 horse: El Caballo
Race 2 owner: Juan-Bernardo Fernandez-Velasquez
Race 2 Jockey: Riccardo Martinez

Race 3 horse: Sanctus
Race 3 owner: Silas Kligenberg
Race 3 Jockey: Julian Lucilius

Romanov Derby horse: Prancer Prince
Romanov Derby horse owner: Mikaela Kligenberg
Romanov Derby horse Jockey: Nathaniel Nerva

@Ottoman-Empire,

We have made the necessary arrangements with the AA and convention centre. We look forward to seeing your Ottomans in Trondheim!

Heidi Bakken
Director of Special Projects, FKEM

Nation: Red Croatia
Biological Woman 1 -
Photo in drag: https://images.app.goo.gl/USHv1maoSo2FqShh6
Photo out of drag: X
Name: Red Chachki
Age: Eternally 13
City: Citizen of the world

Nation Name: The Malboryan Republic

Artists and The Song Line-up:

1 - SHE DREW THE GUN - Russian Doll, Trouble Every Day, Since You Were Not Mine

She Drew The Gun's Message to the Global Poverty Project: Music is an international language that can resonate with so many of us. We are using this opportunity to shoutout all the ones, sleeping on the streets, because of failed policies, that are still in force, all around the world.

2 - SIGRID - Home To You, In Vain, Strangers

Sigrid's Message to the Global Poverty Project: Heya! I believe in a better world where we can make a difference for the better! We are one! Woo!