My apologies, this should of course be November 2, 22:00 UTC.

Best, Lodewijk

2013/10/31 Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org

Hi all,

after conversations with several national coordinators and the international team, we had to decide to slightly extend the unextendable deadline to allow nominations from all countries. The *new deadline is: 2 October, 22:00 UTC*. This is the same as Greenwich (winter)time, GMT. Please note that another extension will not be possible. This is already intrusive on the timeline of the international jury.

I realize that many countries worked hard to make the deadline of tonight

• unfortunately quite a few were having problems meeting that deadline with

the quality we would like to see in the process. They would have to take shortcuts (leaving out jury members, appointing nominations by the organizers themselves) to make it tonight, so extending the deadline will hopefully improve the quality of the finals.

If your country had to take such shortcut, and would be able to come up with a better validated result in the extra 46 hour, please send me an email about it - and you will also get this extension, and be able to re-submit your nominees.

Thank you very much to all the organizers that did plan enough space in their timeline so that they were able to account for sick people, accidents and technical problems and submit their nominations in time.

Best, Lodewijk on behalf of the international team.