In Raamsdonk ('Den Haaykaant') it is tradition: if you win the parade with the big cars three years in a row, you can keep the challenge cup. Ten to fifteen associations participate each year. Carnival association De Leo's won it two years in a row. And then carnival association Oke's won the parade for two years. This year the Oke's can win for the third time in a row and take home the cup, but De Leo's will do everything they can to prevent this. In addition, due to corona, the parade was canceled last year, while the cars had already been partly built. So bigger and more detailed cars are now being designed than ever before and expectations are even higher this year than other years. In the run-up to Carnival 2023, we will follow these two associations up to and including the award ceremony. We regularly watch the construction process and activities in the village such as the election of the Prince and the 44th anniversary of the carnival in Raamsdonk. We follow two people from both clubs: Nick and Twan Verschure from CV De Leo's and Nick Fleischmann and Maxime Vissers from CV Okay. They are the faces of the associations and return regularly. We will see them a lot in the construction hall, but also during the test construction, the parade and the award ceremony. At their mothers' house sewing costumes and at their friends' homes trying out make-up. And of course at the game rehearsals. Two seniors from two other once-rival associations also speak. Marcel Timmermans (former builder) and Bas van Oort (former builder and former Prince Carnival) tell us how it used to be.