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Nah, Lithuania does not approve of a Spotify playlist, because that song is only on Youtube

With the amount of time that I don't have this month, I'd really wish the average song quality was a bit lower, so it would be easier to rank

Going to listen to Israeli song before I start round 2, of course

23 songs survived my first round of judging. I think this is the contest where I feel like I recognised the most artists & songs than ever before, so a slight disappointment, since that leaves less space for me to discover something new from all of these countries, but otherwise, quality seems to be present and it will be a tough judging effort. I might have a top 3, but 4-20 seems like a blur and I definitely need to listen more.

Some very important national funding as well, if you manage to place high enough.

April 2012 for me, so we got here nearly at the same time

31 nations in right now, if I didn't lose track. @Glen and @Ionoutz24 could still possibly appear, they don't tend to miss TISC. @Federer91 and Bulgaria missing also seems unusual. And with so many users from India, you'd expect someone would come through to represent. I always wonder though why new users seem disinterested in this event and we don't usually see newcomers often :/

This is definitely a PR trick from the Slovak delegation, to get more eyes on their song as people attempt to open it on Youtube.

It isn't. I just got educated, because I really believed that the Kaunas center is the more modern one It's even better for me, since I live in Vilnius now anyways.

Well, I honestly thought that the best one was the new one in Nemuno sala, at Kaunas

HUGE news for Lithuanian swimming. Vilnius is going to host the 2024 European Junior Swimming Championships. It's the very first time that Lithuania is hosting a prestigious swimming event and we definitely have amazing infrastructure to host it in Kaunas as well, so I was surprised to see Vilnius win the bid. Definitely going to be there if I don't have work on those days. Also, our junior swimming has been improving immensely, so this is going to be an amazing push for our athletes + Plytnykaitė will still be a junior, so medals are also a decent possibility The very first swimming competition in Lithuania was held back in 1924, so it will be the 100 year anniversary of Lithuanian swimming as well as the 50th European Junior championships as well.

I think my Estonian and Latvian duplicates would struggle, unless it was the Annual TISC

I feel attacked that I'm tagged in this. You want me to choose a better song or something?

The federation took their time with the 2nd day results. Lithuanian Summer Biathlon championships at Maduona, Latvia - Mass Start results: W 10 km 1. Sanita Bulina LAT 1+3+0+0 2. Annija Sabule LAT 0+1+1+0 +48.2 3. Lidija Žurauskaitė LTU 1+3+2+1 +1:39.0 5. Judita Traubaitė 3+3+2+1 +4:20.0 6. Sara Urumova 2+1+0+0 +5:17.4 M 12.5 km 1. Vytautas Strolia LTU 1+1+0+0 2. Tomas Kaukėnas LTU 0+0+1+3 +53.8 3. Maksim Fomin LTU 1+2+2+0 +1:22.5 4. Karol Dombrovski LTU 1+1+1+2 +1:25.7 7. Jokūbas Mačkinė LTU 3+1+0+2 +3:07.7 8. Stepan Terentjev LTU 3+2+0+2 +5:57.0 Other notable Lithuanian results: M22 1. Nikita Čigak LTU 2+0+3+1 2. Darius Dinda LTU 2+2+2+1 +16.4

I also join in on these song announcements with a song from Monika Liu, our Eurovision 2022 representative. LITHUANIA Monika Liu - Hello

I think I'm going with the R&B route this time and not the alternative options. One of the bands that I wanted to showcase has three amazing songs released in 2023, felt like a waste to give them away now, but I'm also afraid that there will be like 10-15 other amazing options for the upcoming contest

Nah, right now I'm writing Eurovision songs for other artists and Lithuanian pop music + an acoustic indie/folk/pop project in English for my two upcoming albums that are scheduled as a follow up to my debut album that's coming in a month and a half-ish. So writing hip-hop would feel a bit out of place in the near future

Personally for me, the front page list feels nostalgic, since it's how I always do my song evaluations, by clicking one by one Spreadsheet probably wouldn't change much though, just aesthetics.

For the scoreboards as well?

No list this year, to keep everyone guessing and on edge

I don't know if we have anyone other than her. Well, at least I don't follow this sport and I only know of her from the media, because Dominyka wins a lot

Oh lol, definitely was not expecting to see a Lithuanian Olympic quota tonight I wonder how her Olympic run will look. Would be happy if she added to the Lithuanian medal tally, don't know if I quite consider this an Olympic sport though

I'm happy to say that I think that I've found the Lithuanian entry for this TISC

Lithuanian Summer biathlon championships at Maduona, Latvia - Sprint results: W 7.5 km 1. Lidija Žurauskaitė LTU 0+0 2. Annija Sabule LAT 0+1 +1:43.7 3. Sanita Bulina LAT 4+0 +2:01.4 4. Judita Traubaitė LTU 2+2 +2:53.1 6. Sara Urumova LTU 1+1 +5:22.7 Natalija Kočergina DNS M 10 km 1. Vytautas Strolia LTU 1+0 2. Tomas Kaukėnas LTU 1+1 +1:13.1 3. Edgars Mise LAT 0+0 +1:29.2 4. Maksim Fomin LTU 3+0 +1:30.4 5. Karol Dombrovski LTU 1+1 +1:31.9 7. Stepan Teretjev LTU 1+1 +2:05.7 8. Jokūbas Mačkinė LTU 2+1 +2:47.9 10. Lukas Jakeliūnas LTU 4+1 +5:40.9 I think that it is safe now to claim that Gabrielė Leščinskaitė, Marija Kresik, Nikita Romanov and possibly Linas Banys don't seem to be coming back to our national biathlon team in the upcoming 2023/24 season. This is one of the most massive loses that our biathlon team has faced in a very long while. Especially since we would have been able to run a women's relay team this season after many many years of absence. Other Lithuanian successes in different age groups: W15 3. Eveta Šidlauskaitė 1+0 +10.6 M19 4. Mikas Vildžiūnas 1+1 +29.8 M22 1. Nikita Čigak 3+2 2. Darius Dinda 3+2 +44.4 I will follow up with results from the mass start when I have access to them.

As an adult that has no intention of ever having children, I can't wait to become slowly pushed out by society and never see the friends that are starting families anymore