Werloc

Yup, 21 year old Mykolas Alekna just set a new WR in the Discus Throw  

Don't know how to feel about this, would've been more special in a different location probably  

6 hours ago, konig said:

Im not the only one who notice that

Yeah, I don't know how other people rank and how they decide, but logically thinking, the disco music genre is one of those genres that are not known for huge variation, which is why many disco songs have a lot of things in common with each other. It's not insane to assume that if you liked Italy, you should have felt somewhat keen on Argentina as well. For me, personally, Argentina even had a bit more to offer in that regard.

It would've been okay if Argentina scored like less than Italy, but not by a 110 point margin. I can only assume that if this song was sent let's say by the French jury and it was in French, we'd have at least 80-100 points :/ Although we have a long history of songs in Spanish doing well too, so yeah, it's impossible to explain what goes on in the voting processes of all of the juries  

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

One of the most 'interesting' entries for me was the Mexican one by the way. It started fantastically fun and after 20 seconds I was convinced it'd score high on my list, but then the singing started and was just a bit too 'flat' and repetitive for me (like it never really gets going, for my taste at least), whereas the fun first part never really came back later on  

 

If they have more songs where that first part features more heavily, I'd love to hear them  

Lol, this is actually insane how differently people perceive stuff  

At the start, I thought that I would not like that song  then it drew me in on second 40. 

It's done and dusted now, congratulations to the winners and medalists.

Thank you for voting for Eley, it's always nice to see that someone liked it with some medals as well. I had a really tough time deciding what to send, because Lithuanian music lately is just on a different level  

There's a lot that I wanted to show, but ultimately I decided that it would be fun to go with "Rock My Body". Me and my bff had a really good time working on this song together with Eglė (the vocalist). On Monday we're meeting in the studio to work on her newest song that I wrote a couple of weeks ago. It has some reaggeton and Spanish undertones, but perhaps the producer will decide to switch it up. 

3 hours ago, mrv86 said:

Thank you, I know you to like most of my entries 

 

Lithuania on the other hand has hardly given points to Mexico, one of the few exceptions being the edition where they actually had Ximena Sariñana and Different as their top pick.

Well, this is the sixth time that I score Mexico. I guess it's a pretty good indication that I don't play favourites or favour any country in particular and I try to recognise a good product in most genres. It's always a mix of vocals, melody, production and lyrics for me. And as I'm diving deeper and exploring the world of producing now too, I started paying even more attention to more miniscule details, like vocal effects, specific sounds of percussions, mix & master etc. 

3 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

The scoring of "What Was I Made For?" is very interesting to me. People either liked it a lot, or not at all it seems. I wasn't sure how it would play. Now I don't know how much insight I can glean from this from future contests.

I gave up on trying to logically understand anything here  

There are two disco songs in this edition. One is trying to win the contest, the other is on the second half of the table  

There was never any correlation in anything. 

4 hours ago, mrv86 said:

Thank you @Werloc, I’m really shocked to be in your top 12.

Well, I remember the horns at the start didn't give me huge hopes, but the topline when the woman vocalist joins in, just carries this song to a different level and that's how it climbed up to 5th. 

16 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I don't think the movie is as popular outside the United States, and know Billie's style can be divisive.

I honestly never cared about the movie, but Billie Eilish is on my radar, amazing songwriter and performer  

In about 15 minutes I'm going to head out to the first ever Lithuanian TISC representatives - Saulės Kliošas new EP album concert.  

Their new music is really dope  

Ok, seems I positively cursed the US now?  

Truthfully, I thought this was going to be an easy W for the United States :DDDDDDD

Colour me surprised  

Won't be able to post my votes tonight (for the first time ever, I think). Life's so chaotic right now, forgot that TISC was today  

Historically the longest period for voting we ever had, but people & scrambling towards deadlines is just a law of nature  

I did another listening, fairly messed up my rankings, but I'll just have to deal with that this time.

One of the busiest TISC's for me this time around

My top twelve looks so WILD right now

Funnily enough, I don't think it will change much now even after two more listens. 

5 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

The annual tends to be more "samey" with the songs, but this year does feel incredibly similar. There's maybe half dozen or a few more songs that stand out to me. Everything else is pretty much a blob.

Nice to know it wasn't only me that felt rather blob-ish when listening to the selection  

I normally prefer the annual contest though, so this is a first for me, where I'm unimpressed by a huge percentage of entries. 

Ok, seems I'm probably extra brutal this year, since I'm very pressed with work, but only 15 songs made it through to the second round  

Top 3 seems pretty clear after the first listen too. 

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

All live on Eurovisionsport, before anyone asks.

 

eurovisionsport.com/explore/federation?id=LandingPage-IBU

Hopefully it won't be live on our national broadcaster... I've been blocked from watching international coverage nearly the entire season  

27 minutes ago, Swewi said:

First time Norway had 10th place as best performance over all womens races, relay included )?!

 

Swedes just like the rest of the season terrible shootinjg and decent skiing. Only saved by yesterdays relays where the others were even worse

Norwegian women collapse might never be explained. I thought they would possibly struggle with Roeiseland and Eckhoff retiring, but their women looked really on form at the start of the season. Tandrevold also had a history of brilliant results in Nove Mesto, which lead me to blow valuable points on her in the prediction contest  I don't know what happened to them here, but the French seemed very ready to capitalise on that. 

23 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

They didn't win three times in a row between 2015-2017 either That was Fourcade and Dorin-Habert/Dahlmeier heyday.

Feels like forever ago now with all three retired.

Can anybody do some research if it's the first time in like forever when Norway doesn't top the medal table?  

Airinė Palšytė  just jumped the highest that she has in I don't know how many years, to be frank

1.92 and qualification to the European Championships is secured. 

Solid points for Olympic rating too. 

15th for Vytautas and overall PB for him in the World Championships that he participated in.

But on a good day/year, he should be up there with Rastorgujevs, especially with a 19/20. 

He had a lot of health struggles this season, don't know how the final three World cups will look for him.

"Captain"-points - Explained: Each user can select up to 5 "captains" for this contest. Each "captain" will double its' points for his, her's or the team's event.

Each user will have to mark their "captains" for each event with an "*".

Event & Date	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mixed Relay Day 1 February 7th 2024	Austria
	Czechia
	Finland
	France
	Germany
	Italy			X
	Norway	X*
	Slovenia
	Sweden		X
	Switzerland
	Ukraine
	United States
	Any Other Nation
Women's Sprint Day 2 February 9th 2024	Justine Braisaz-Bouchet
	Lou Jeanmonnot
	Julia Simon
	Franziska Preuss
	Any Other German Athlete
	Lisa Vittozzi			X
	Karoline Knotten
	Ingrid Tandrevold	X*
	Any Other Norwegian Athlete
	Anamarija Lampic
	Elvira Oeberg
	Any Other Swedish Athlete		X
	Lena Haecki Gross
	Any Other Athlete
Men's Sprint Day 3 Febrary 10th 2024	Quentin Fillon Maillet
	Emilien Jacquelin
	Any Other French Athlete
	Benedikt Doll
	Johannes Kuehn
	Philipp Nawrath
	Tomasso Giacomel
	Johannes Thingnes Boe		X
	Tarjei Boe	X
	Johannes Dale-Skjevdal			X
	Sturla Holm Laegreid
	Any Other Norwegian Athlete
	Martin Ponsilouma
	Sebastian Samuelsson
	Any Other Athlete
Women's Pursuit Day 4 Febrary 11th 2024	Justine Braisaz-Bouchet
	Lou Jeanmonnot
	Julia Simon
	Franziska Preuss		X
	Vanessa Voigt
	Lisa Vittozzi	X
	Juni Arnekleiv
	Karoline Knotten
	Ingrid Tandrevold
	Elvira Oeberg			X
	Hanna Oeberg
	Any Other Swedish Athlete
	Lena Haecki Gross
	Any Other Athlete
Men's Pursuit Day 4 Febrary 11th 2024	Quentin Fillon Maillet
	Emilien Jacquelin
	Any Other French Athlete
	Philipp Nawrath
	Any Other German Athlete
	Tommaso Giacomel
	Johannes Thingnes Boe	X*
	Tarjei Boe		X
	Johannes Dale-Skjevdal			X
	Sturla Holm Laegreid
	Any Other Norwegian Athlete
	Martin Ponsilouma
	Sebastian Samuelsson
	Any Other Athlete
Women's Individual Day 5 Febrary 13th 2024	Lisa Theresa Hauser
	Justine Braisaz-Bouchet
	Lou Jeanmonnot
	Julia Simon
	Janina Hettich-Walz
	Franziska Preuss			X
	Vanessa Voigt
	Lisa Vittozzi
	Dorothea Wierer
	Juni Arnekleiv
	Karoline Knotten
	Ingrid Tandrevold
	Elvira Oeberg
	Hanna Oeber		X
	Lena Haecki Gross	X
	Any Other Athlete
Men's Individual Day 6 Febrary 14th 2024	Quentin Fillon Maillet
	Emilien Jacquelin
	Any Other French Athlete
	Johannes Kuehn
	Roman Rees
	Justus Strelow
	Tommaso Giacomel
	Johannes Thingnes Boe	X*
	Tarjei Boe
	Johannes Dale-Skjevdal
	Any Other Norwegian Athlete			X
	Martin Ponsilouma
	Sebastian Samuelsson		X
	Sebastian Stalder
	Any Other Athlete
Single Mixed Relay Day 7 February 15th 2024	Austria
	Czechia
	Finland
	France
	Germany
	Italy			X
	Norway		X
	Slovenia
	Sweden	X
	Switzerland
	Ukraine
	United States
	Any Other Nation
Women's Relay Day 8 February 17th 2024	Austria
	Czechia
	Finland
	France		X
	Germany
	Italy
	Norway			X
	Poland
	Slovenia
	Sweden	X
	Switzerland
	Ukraine
	Any Other Nation
Men's Relay Day 8 February 17th 2024	Austria
	Czechia
	Finland
	France
	Germany		X
	Italy			X
	Norway	X*
	Slovenia
	Sweden
	Switzerland
	Ukraine
	Any Other Nation
Women's Mass Start Day 9 February 18th 2024	Justine Braisaz-Bouchet	X
	Lou Jeanmonnot
	Julia Simon
	Franziska Preuss
	Vanessa Voigt
	Lisa Vittozzi
	Juni Arnekleiv
	Karoline Knotten
	Ingrid Tandrevold		X
	Elvira Oeberg
	Hanna Oeberg			X
	Lena Haecki Gross
	Any Other Athlete
Men's Mass Start Day 9 February 18th 2024	Quentin Fillon Maillet
	Emilien Jacquelin
	Any Other French Athlete
	Johannes Kuehn
	Justus Strelow
	Any Other German Athlete
	Any Italian Athlete
	Johannes Thingnes Boe	X
	Tarjei Boe			X
	Johannes Dale-Skjevdal
	Any Other Norwegian Athlete		X
	Martin Ponsilouma
	Sebastian Samuelsson
	Sebastian Stalder
	Any Other Athlete

For this contest, I've decided to participate with a song that I wrote together with my colleagues  

 LITHUANIA 

ELEY - Rock My Body