Today was quite a day! Esctoday.com celebrates the fact that we welcomed our 10,000th member, after almost four year after it's launch in October 2000. But meanwhile, the whole circus in Istanbul continues!

The atmosphere in and around the Abdi Ipekci arena is good, partly caused by the excellent weather of today! While the catering has brought the prices down after some complaints and TRT is helpfull in every situation, the amount of fans and journalists is increasing day by day.

Moments ago, the hosts started their first stage and camera rehearsal, which was unfortunately not accessible for the press. Accidently, two television screens at the press centre were still turned on and soon after the hosts' introduction, two friendly TRT employees came around to turn them off. At least we can tell you that there will be a lot of humor from the script again…