Poll Results from part 9:

The results for the five favourites from part 9's poll doesn't look much different to those of the previous four parts, but it most certainly is. For the first time since round 5 they have a strong contender for the first place spot. The Boers come in as second favourites with only four votes (0.3% of the total vote) behind Poland.

The Poles have been steadily losing support for the past few rounds, and their merely adequate performance agaist Stalin is a probably cause of the voters' newfound lack of confidence. On the other hand, the Boers, haven't done anything since round 3 to merit their support, except for settling a million and one cities.

Canada returns to the top three (albeit one vote ahead of fourth), and Chile are down to sixth. The Inuit make their first appearance in the top five and crowd favourites, the Buccaneers, continue their stay in fifth place.

In the category of least likely to succeed, the Hittites were voted number one, with a staggering 27% of the votes. Obviously having only one city left isn't a good indicator of future success.

The Carthaginians make their third appearance in the bottom five, despite having about ten cities and, due to a rip in the spacetime continuum, they got Mali's capital back. But not even a rip in the spacetime continuum can make the voters forget how quickly Mali managed to get their capital back in the alternate timeline.

Argentina also makes another appearance in the bottom five — four cities do not inspire confidence.

And finally, we have a newcomer in the bottom five: India. Gandhi got off lucky when the Mughals decided it is more important to protect their one-hex island city than to capture the already-besieged Indian city (that was at most three turns away from capture). The voters seem to think that Gandhi won't be so lucky next time, after the peace treaty expires.

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