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Seems that Lithuania skipped this one and probably due to the travel expenses.

Honestly, I would love if we had the technology where we could track the voting processes of nations so that we'd know who to worry about and who is already voting

Finally, the day has come, my votes stopped changing like snakes & ladders throughout my final listens and that was the sign that I needed in order for me to send the votes

I am in desperate need of the confused reaction, I would abuse it to hell

Well, I know that not everyone would agree, but I couldn't have had a better race to finish off this Biathlon season. Kaisa is amazing

Wait a second, should I consider this as a spoiler since the song that you've ranked dead last last time was probably Lithuania?

Honestly, everybody could retire at this point I think Kaukėnas, Strolia and Kočergina are staying, others a complete mystery... I'll update when I know for real, can't speculate on rumours.

Our team has completely given up on life after the Olympics have ended It seems like nobody is trying anymore and I won't be surprised if both our women will be in the 70s out of 77 starters tomorrow.

I think the more important thing is that you barely managed to save your three world cup starting positions. You beat Japan only by 15 points for that one.

So I've decided to do some fun research. Since we have so little starters in the world cup tomorrow, I was wondering, perhaps there's someone out there in the start list that would break their World Cup PB just by finishing the race? Well, actually there's a few: Ajlan Rastic from Serbia, previous best placement in World Cup is 120nd in 14/15 season, so he'll break his PB by a HUGE margin tomorrow if he only finishes Igor Malinovskii from Russia is also breaking his PB tomorrow as his previous best placement was 86th in 16/17 season Finally, Kosuke Ozaki from Japan is breaking his PB tomorrow as his previous best result was 86th in 16/17 season Some people that also have a good chance is Kim Yonggyu (Korea) with previous best 80th, as well as two Latvians - Patrijuks and Slotins with 77th and 71st And there's another 6 athletes that have never been able to sneak into top 40, but that won't be that easy since most of the top dogs are starting tomorrow.

Meanwhile I'm starting to sing randomly in different languages

4th listen, down to 14 songs, still a lot of changes in the ranking have happened throughout this listen and I'm not yet fully satisfied with how things turned out. In any case, any country that actually ends up getting points from me this year, congratu-frikkin-lations, I don't know how you did it

I've heard that Gwizdon and Palka (Guzik, habits die hard) might retire as well or are these just rumours?

Julia Ransom for Team Canada is also retiring from Biathlon. Also, Eurosport commentator mentioned that Tim Burke and Lowell Bailey are retiring as well.

Ah, even the Eurosport commentator knows that Slovenia and Slovakia is the same country

There's a video on IBU TV at Youtube.

Apparently, Julia Ransom is retiring from Biathlon as well and that's a huge blow to Team Canada, as Ransom was becoming better and better with every year and even two Top 10s this season.

Yeah, good luck having a record in Europe

I have a Totallympics folder on my computer as I think that I started ranking everything through computer when I had to host, so it's full of excel files and whatnot. When the competition started, I used to mark everything on sheets of paper, sadly, some of them are missing now and with excel I can always analyse my thought process

Third listen and down to 17, the order is still fairly an unstable mess

After having the second round, I'm down to 21 songs I'm very tired. Edit: Also, I can say that 2 of the songs that I already cut would have probably made my TOP 12 from the previous contest. That's only to give you perspective on how screwed I actually am this year.

I have one in the top league, 12 in the second league, 13 growers and I want to give an honourary 10th edition second chance to some of the songs that I already cut.

I'm trying to not yet think about my second listen To think that one out of my 4/5s will not get points from me (probably more than 1 if the 3/5s challenge) is crazy, as there are some years when the low points go to fairly mediocre songs. I just hope that perhaps I only liked that much, because I was in a great mood and during the next listen, I'll dislike more of them so it would be easier.

The biggest battle is going to happen in my excel file. An eternal struggle with oneself.

Leaking the votes to the penguins for more than 5 years