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I assume it's a highly trained hamster.

Honestly, they could just e-mail me the results or something, I'd open a google docs and link the it over to the federations that are participating and update it regularly I wouldn't mind the work, I just want to know shit.

There is absolutely no consistency on what is being updated Pole Vault stopped at 4 meters, then the extra race of 100m. women was updated, but the discus ain't starting.

Road trip to Israel, here we go (only way to know what's going on)

It's slowly becoming better, check men's 400m. H

That's the plan, let's fall to the 3rd league, perhaps we'll finally get coverage there...

Honestly, I didn't go to Vilnius to watch Modern Pentathlon for this damn thing... At least there's 400m. Hurdles finally up.

Also, I remember that top 6 or 8 of the athletes used to have more than 3 attempts in field events, but it seems that Hammer Throw ended for everyone after 3.

Well, there are some results from the field events, but 0 news on track events. But nevertheless, reminds me of Greece when their livestream and live results crashed 500 times per day.

Well, seeing as I was able to spectate the 1st league for a while, it's less broken than the 2nd league

When we're in 1st league, the 1st league livestream is damaged or not working, when we're in 2nd league, then it ain't working either...

Is anybody else having trouble with the livestream for the 2nd league?

It is not harsh, it is outright INSANE. It is higher than our National Record and the person that is behind our NR has ran in semi-finals in Olympics, has been to the World Championships and nearly even medalled in the European Championships, but got an injury right before the final, was only behind Vicaut and Lemaitre after semis.

Airinė Palšytė out with an injury for at least three weeks. After a lot of cancelled events, her primary focus leans towards the World Championships only.

Well, the Lithuanian hype train continues as Edis Matusevičius, born 1996, threw the javelin at 84.78, broke the national Lithuanian record, qualified for the World Championships and is also one of the primary contenders for a medal this year in U23 championships.

Well, a historical bronze medal in the women's 20km race walk team standings, 8th, 11th and 17th place respectively. A respectable 5th place for Marius Žiūkas in 20km as well. Yet more proof that our nation is pretty skilled in the race walks, seeing as the 11th and 17th place were the U20 twin sisters. In other news, Juozas Baikštys broke our national U20 record in High Jump with 2,20 Another U20 record was nearly broken in 100m. Hurdles for men. U20 and U18 records broken in the Decathlon. This season for Lithuanian athletics looks to be the best in a very long while. Medalist contenders in the World Championships In U23 we have Domantas Poška, Edis Matusevičius, Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė, Simona Dobilaitė, Jogailė Petrokaitė that can fight for the medals. Also, looking at the rate in which everyone is improving, we will have the largest squads for WCH, U23, U20 and U18 that we've ever had and qualifications in disciplines that are usually not that great for us, making our athletics a bit more well-rounded which gives me hope that we'll get back to the 1st league this year and possibly remain in it.

A few interesting/promising results from Lithuania over the week: Andrius Gudžius improved his discus result to 67,62 and still is the 3rd best throw in the world this season. Edis Matusevičius opened his summer season with 80.73 in javelin, producing the 3rd best U23 throw. Agnė Šerkšnienė in her first summer competition after having a child ran 52.89 and produced the 7th best European result in 400m this year.

At the moment, for me everything is like this. 1. Portugal 2. Finland 3. Azerbaijan 4. Australia 5. Albania 6. Armenia 7. Czech Republic (For the love of everything good in this world, change your awful clothes) After that I have Sweden, Belgium, Poland and Latvia from 7-11 2nd semi 1. Austria 2. The Netherlands 3. Norway 4. Belarus 5. Bulgaria 6. Lithuania 7. Denmark 8. Ireland 9. Hungary Everyone else I don't care about, but I guess Malta or Croatia would take the last spot from me. 1st semi flops: Belgium (everything looks very bad, I'm just very attached to the song, so I can only hope things will get better during the live, though it's highly unlikely.) Montenegro (the worst song of the year additionally claimed the worst performance) 2nd semi flops: Serbia (Well, this is the biggest let down. The vocalist is struggling to sing like the studio version, just like Azerbaijan last year. The back vocals are completely out of tune as well, because the chords that they picked are bad and if it'll sound like 1st/2nd rehearsals it will be awful and possibly the worst performance of the night) Macedonia (I pretty much expected that she wouldn't do well, so it doesn't surprise me in the slightest) Romania (they didn't really flop, but I just hate the concept and it's too ridiculous for me)

Lithuania stuck in probably the hardest group with Norway and France, but still fighting honourably, Lithuania vs Belgium is a must win on the 7th.

Welp, my predictions on who will be good and who will flop seem pretty accurate after 3/4 rehearsals. The singers which I had the feeling wouldn't do well vocally, don't sound good in the first rehearsals either and the truth is finally coming out now that they can't hide behind their recordings. The songs that I actually loved and had expectations for that are letting me down a bit: Belgium looks very bland at the moment. Azerbaijan is very good, but I still want a bit more vocal power & assurance to come from Dihaj. Czech Republic needs a clothes change and they're fixed. Songs that do not sound great at the moment (perhaps it'll get better on further rehearsals, though I'm sceptical) Serbia, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro (no surprise here). Otherwise everyone else is pretty legit on the vocals, though I still expect flops from Spain, Bulgaria has a brilliant song, but I think Kristian will have troubles on his falcetto, good example was the meet in Amsterdam, also I'm not sold on Switzerland, judging from the lives that I've heard before, but I guess tomorrow will answer most of these questions.

We like to use this opportunity to snag a medal or two and then float on our success for years, whilst simultaneously failing to qualify for any important event in the future. Cough Raivydas Stanys cough, won a medal in high jump with 2,31 and haven't jumped that high for 5 years after that and never made a single final in any important competition.

Can't begin to explain how WRONG that is, just another example how little ***** you give for this contest and that your scoring is untrustworthy.

Unfortunately next year, my candidates don't really have a chance to get into top 10, cause it doesn't belong to the mainstream, unless some other song comes up in the mean time, but our older music is nothing to brag about.

Yeah, I mentioned that it reminded me of Amy in my review too

Well, I am fairly satisfied with the results and not only because it's our 4th top 10 in a row. If we look at the top 20 finishers, 9 were from my points, 5 were my reserves that were very close to the points, had to listen to three that I didn't remember and two I didn't like. (tbh, I think it's better to be disliked than not even remembered) Other than that, extremely surprised with USA ranking, fairly surprised with how Ireland finished and a bit disappointed that Germany was underrated, but oh well, you can't win them all