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Canada is going to get points, Shawn Mendes started playing.

I really want to say a lot based on how the votes are going, at least I'm in session 2

So many of the scores are completely not making sense to me yet and this is why I think that many things are still going to drastically change as we go on

Ok, the streak is dead

Thank you @Federer91 for the 8 points! Seeing how everything is going until now, I'd think the Lithuanian flag was mixed up with Colombia, but I'll take it

Lol, it would be hilarious if Lithuania skated through getting points from every jury, but it's not higher than top 10 in any of them 3/3 for now Thanks @rybak for the point!

Thank you @Wanderer for the three points and thank you @amen09 for the one point And good morning to everyone!

BELGIUM One of my favourite R&B-Soul artists is from Belgium and in 2022 she released her third album "Persona" and this one is my personal favourite from the album, hope you find it enjoyable Selah Sue - Pills And with that, I'm actually leaving for four days, funnily enough, amidst all the chaos, the date of the final remained safe (because people that were trying to book me really lowballed the price), so see you on the day of the final

ESTONIA One of the more famous Spotify artists of Estonia with near 100k monthly listeners both, Púr Múdd and Shira should have been the ones to represent Estonia in Eurovision this year, but alas, they didn't even make the national final, thus they're going to represent their country in the festival of music. Hope you enjoy. Púr Múdd & Shira - Golden Shores

Mykolas Alekna continues to surprise as he beats his PB by nearly another meter. His new PB is now 67.68m and it was the Lithuanian U23 record, NCAA record, World's all time best throw by a 19yo Four throws were over 67 metres, it's the second best throw in the world this season, and it's the 5th best U23 of all time, with Mykolas only being 19. You can read more here: https://www.european-athletics.com/news/mykolas-alekna-throws-world-age-19-discus-best-of-67-68m

Lol, did not expect to see Beastars over here

I gravitated towards that, because I love green, but since the word saint has many connotations with religion (which I'm not much of a fan of), I'm hoping to be a goat or a falcon

Ooh, I'll grab Estonia alongside Belgium for the festival

I'm taking Belgium for the festival of music.

I think this was the shortest timeframe of voting that we've ever had, so I'm not entirely surprised that some jurors are having problems, because they didn't plan that time would fly by so fast, plus in my case, I don't know about the other countries, but the voting period was scheduled through Easter here in Lithuania, accompany that with work and other obligations, and I was listening to the songs right before sleep on the 5/10 days that I could

The Lithuanian national championships were held between April 19th-22nd A nice amount of EJCH and EYOF qualifying times were reached and quite a few Lithuanian NR's and age group NR's were broken. The most important race although was the 100m women's breaststroke, where Rūta Meilutytė finished 2nd with a 1.07.07, behind Teterevkova's 1:07.01 This time was enough, and it's likely that Rūta's comeback is in full force, since she has a 50,100m Breaststroke qualifying mark for both the World and European Championships. World Championships A marks: Danas Rapšys - 200m, 400m Freestyle Rūta Meilutytė - 50m, 100m Breaststroke Kotryna Teterevkova - 50m, 100m, 200m, Breaststroke Andrius Šidlauskas - 100m, 200m, Breaststroke World Championships B marks: Rūta Meilutytė - 50m Freestyle Silvija Statkevičius - 800m Freestyle Edvinas Česnakas - 50m, 100m Backstroke Andrius Šidlauskas - 50m Breaststroke, 200m Medley Tomas Navikonis - 100m, 200m, 400m Freestyle Aleksas Savickas - 100m, 200m Breaststroke Kajus Stankevičius - 200m Backstroke Erikas Grigaitis - 200m Backstroke Deividas Margevičius - 100m Butterfly Agnė Šeleikaitė - 50m Breaststroke Daniil Pancerevas - 100m Freestyle EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Danas Rapšys - 200m, 400m Freestyle Silvija Statkevičius - 800m Freestyle Kotryna Teterevkova - 100m, 200m Breaststroke Rūta Meilutytė - 100m Breaststroke Andrius Šidlauskas - 100m, 200m Breaststroke EUROPEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Smiltė Plytnykaitė - 50m, 100m Freestyle, 200m Medley Daniil Pancerevas - 100m Freestyle, 200m Medley, 4x100m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle Silvija Statkevičius - 200m, 400m, 800m Freestyle Patricija Geriksonaitė - 200m Backstroke Kajus Stankevičius - 200m Backstroke Rokas Jazdauskas - 4x100m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle Danielis Kvederis - 4x100m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle Kirilas Stepanovas - 4x100m Freestyle Tomas Lukminas - 4x200m Freestyle EUROPEAN YOUTH OLYMPIC FESTIVAL Smiltė Plytnykaitė - 50m, 100m, 200m Freestyle, 100m Breaststroke, 200m Medley Silvija Statkevičius - 200m, 400m, 800m Freestyle Karilė Ališauskaitė - 100m, 200m Breaststroke Guoda Stančikaitė - 100m Breaststroke Patricija Geriksonaitė - 100m, 200m Backstroke Rusnė Vasiliauskaitė - 200m Backstroke Augustė Jakštaitė - 200m Backstroke Mantas Kaušpėdas - 100m Backstroke Kristupas Trepočka - 100m Butterfly Erika Pašakinskaitė - 100m, 200m Butterfly??? Vytė Gelažytė - 400m Medley Guoda Tručinskaitė - 400m Medley Of course, I think we'll look for more ways to nominate as many athletes as we can, so this list is very subject to change.

Jeeeeez, it never gets any easier no matter how long I do this. Did a studio headphone listening and it messed up my ranking a lot, so it's going to be the final fifth listen that decides it all. I just kinda hate the feeling when I feel like I didn't give a song enough points when I had the chance, so I'm always trying to be very thorough Only top 4 survived all of the listenings. 8th place is now 5th 9th place is now 6th 5th place is now 7th 15th place is now 8th 7th place is now 9th 6th place is now 10th 10th place is now 11th 11th place is now 12th 19th place is now 13th and fighting for a single point Buuuut, I'm pretty sure that the next listen, which I'm probably doing on Thursday is going to be my final decision, since I'm away from Friday.

The more that I participate in these contests, the more it just comes down to you vibing with the musical taste of the user from that country and that's why their picks just tend to not disappoint you Anyhow, not the strongest Annual that we've had in my books, but definitely more than enough of good quality songs. I have a feeling this contest is going to be wild, crazy, unexpected and entertaining.

Definitely not in the same TISC, and yes, it's going to be weird We needed USA with "Save Your Tears" ft. Ariana Grande, and then it would have been even crazier.

Rūta Meilutytė started in the Stockholm meet, it's her first international competition and her third official competition after a very long hiatus. Having started with the A team in Stockholm, it's a pretty good indication that she is actually serious about coming back.

Thought about many different songs, but when people sent Ed Sheeran, Lorde and The Weekend, I thought it would be fun to see how this would square up: LITHUANIA Gebrasy - Where'd You Wanna Go?

Not gonna lie, for the first time since TISC's inception, I'm weirdly not feeling it this year, that's why it took me this long to come around to post anything. I kept the deadline on my mind to not miss it and in a month's time I'm probably going to feel differently, and I wanted my perfect attendance to remain in place

Nobody is talking bout Kaisa Makarainen just casually taking two silver medals in the Finnish championship, only losing out to Mari Eder.

I don't know how good it would be to overload the IBU cup with individuals, since there are quite a few junior and youth athletes running the IBU cup and they don't really do the 15/20k just yet. Though short individual could be a solution, I agree with you on super sprints, it's a stupid format and it doesn't really show the level of the athletes. I think pursuits are necessary and should be made somehow accessible to lower tier athletes, because athletes need contact race experience or they're fucked when they qualify to the World Cup. Lithuanians are a good example with this, since regional championships are never competitive, everybody grew up with close to zero experience in contact racing, which is why Vytautas needed 3 years to start being able to climb in pursuits and he spent this entire year trying to learn how to mass start. Nobody from Lithuania is good at pursuits and we often screw up in relays as well. It would be good if our juniors and youth had the ability to do more contact racing on an international level.

INDIVIDUAL SUPREMACY!!! 6 relays are a bit too much over the top. Least interesting discipline for me and alienates more than half of the field in being competitive. If I wanted to see a 30s Norwegian lead every weekend, I'd tune into cc skiing.