Draughts FMJD Blitz World Championships 2019

Are the 'socials' in your countries also full with people saying the running order is to prevent country X from winning, help country Y and so on?  

Moldova would compete this year, but pulled out due to a lack of qualify (officially). But yeah, it would be good for Eastern European countries' chances if more of them are back again.

And we also have the Seiko Golden Grand Prix from Tokyo - just one step down from the DL, but usually with lots of big names competing, especially after the Relays in China last weekend.   Kitaguchi, Mahuchikh and Richardson target Tokyo triumphs | PREVIEWS | World Athletics

It's finals weekend in all the regional NCAA Conference Championships, so bound to be lots of big times and very likely WLs.  Sadly  we in Europe no longer get ESPN coverage of these big meets and PAC-12 doesn't exist anymore.  So the only thing we can see FTA are the Mountain West Championships, which is Division I, mostly specialising in Distance and Throws.   Mountain West Conference

Out of the more traditional songs, I like this one best alongside Serbia. For the final, hope Sweden doesn't win for once. The song is fine, but for their standards a bit mid. And I have seen enough Sweden for the last few years to see a mid entry from them winning.      Moldova seems to come back next year. Which is a good thing, they often have fun, memorable and unique songs