Quote from: Sir Lüc on Today at 11:40:42 AMThe Electoral Commission has been contacted to proceed with certification of the election results. I will update the citizenry on certification status as necessary.

Because of the large winning margins, I advise @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu , @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be and @Eðo Grischun to start making arrangements about paying the $5 Senate winner's fee to the Treasury, so they can be seated immediately after the election is certified.

I have made a $10 "donation" via the main website's donation function. 
Payment should appear in the Kingdom's PayPal from my English name on 2 Sep.

Standings after stage 11:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	4629	+308
2nd	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	3871	+278
3rd	(+1)		The Manilows (MAN)	3586	+280
4th	(+1)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	3573	+284
5th	(+1)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	3451	+178
6th	(-3)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	3425	+96
7th	(=)		Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	3303	+87
8th	(+1)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	2637	+94
9th	(-1)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	2546	+0
10th	(=)		Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)	2455	+78
11th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	2370	+30

One short additional remark: The number of present votes seems unusually high. I am wondering what can be gleaned from it. Besides the two royal abstentions per tradition does this mean higher than normal "none of the above" constituency.

The Electoral Commission has been contacted to proceed with certification of the election results. I will update the citizenry on certification status as necessary.

Because of the large winning margins, I advise @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu , @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be and @Eðo Grischun to start making arrangements about paying the $5 Senate winner's fee to the Treasury, so they can be seated immediately after the election is certified.

@Xheralt Del'Encradeir , you should have received your ballot and all reminders at your x****@y****.com email address. If you prefer another address you check more often to be used, contact me to update your contact settings.

This is the best thing I've read on Witt in quite some time. I'm so glad to hear Litz is doing better. Hopefully she can get back on Witt soon (but yeah, I would say we should try to get Chris on as well. He sounds like a delightful person.)

Huh. Rather than a coin flip, can I just step aside in favor of @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be ?

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Today at 09:53:22 AMOof, this is brutal.

Yeah, and unfortunately it's not gonna get better. With your strongest riders having abandoned (or in the case of Almeida: being in very poor form) you basically have no point scoring opportunities anymore. And the assist point strategy doesn't really work when there's no one to assist. At this point this edition is basically over for the Menceis  and it's only a matter of time until they drop to last place (unless some crazy miracle happens).

Quite a big change from last edition when the same strategy got you the win! I guess it must be high risk, high reward.

I'm so glad to hear this update. Thank you, Chris, for keeping tabs on Talossa for Litz and for sharing this news with us!

Oof, this is brutal.