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I'm being honest... We only did wedding music and hip-hop from the moment that I was born upto 2010s Since I'm not a fan of either, my options are very limited and I keep reusing the same 5 artists. In a couple of years I will not need to have this problem, our music scene evolved into something that I can listen to. EDIT: Ideally, I wouldn't re-use artists if I could, unless they release a banger of a song that I just have to share.

I've ran out of songs that had a chance already, I'm quickly running out of songs that I like as well. When growing up, I think I've listened to like 5 Lithuanian artists and all of them have already participated in these contests once or twice. I'm eagerly waiting for us to move up a few years for open contests, 2018-2020 is the golden age and renaissance of Lithuanian music. I remember one user saying that due to covid year, there were not a lot of music releases in their country, but for Lithuania that was not the case, a lot of bands and artists actually came out with the best songs of their careers, so annual contests are continuously getting more difficult for me There are still a few songs in Lithuanian that I would favour, it's just that I get the vibe that a lot of users don't really like to listen to our language (results based analysis, perhaps, but it is what it is). But yeah, I've sent Leon Somov & Jazzu, GJan, Jurga, Erica Jennings, Vaidas Baumila, Saulės Kliošas and these are literally the artists that I'm considering right now for their 2nd or 3rd appearances, because our music has not been that inspiring over the years and only now we are seeing a resurgence. I have two Spotify playlists for Lithuanian music (one in Lithuanian, one in English) and nearly everything there is from 2017 and upwards.

I hope they scratch off two relays instead and add an additional individual in the calendar.

Oh no, I was always of the opinion that scratch results are utter cancer for the sport. Yeah, I guess it helps those athletes that are sick half of the season, but having overall crystal globe winners that have less points win over those that had more would trigger the living fuck out of me. I distinctly remember that nearly happening to Makarainen one year. Seeing as I've already hated 2 results being scratched off, 4 is going to be even more awful. Introducing that for nations cup? What the hell? How will that work? Smaller nations will get all their relay points deleted and they will no longer matter at all then? Or, those countries that can only start a mixed relay, can chill through all of the 4 athlete relays, not start in them at all and theoretically still be able to catch up in nation points if we're scratching off 4 races there as well? Ugh, this sounds really horrible and I doubt that I'll be proven wrong.

I'm so out of ideas for what song to send this year, it's not even funny I'm all out of bangers

I think second wave should be after everything is setup though

That's still a whole lot of countries missing and a few of those that have been regularly taking part in the contest

10 days left, we could kinda use the participation list, to keep tabs on who's in, who's nominated songs and all that good shit.

At first sight, I thought people were getting so impatient, that they started posting songs before we were even given a green light to post our entries Regarding the other topic, I will never fucking understand why MUSIC that is targeted towards the consumption of PEOPLE tends to get blocked, making it UNAVAILABLE to so many potential listeners that could find your song. I've had this producer that didn't let me upload my song on Youtube, because Youtube pays little money to the songwriters. Well, it got buried in Spotify instead and guess what, it was taken down since it was not profitable to keep it up on Spotify either. I wonder how many artists are actually screwed by labels, producers and song-writers that get their songs banned outside of the country... I can say for myself that I would be extremely pissed if a guy in Guatemala couldn't listen to my music if he ever wanted to.

He was banned from TISC events for the foreseeable future, due to his behaviour towards Israeli user and rage quitting the contest that he had to host. As the person that stepped in as the host and saved the contest that year, you should really remember this

I'm okay with seeing a list of participating nations for starters. We don't want Rybak to be overworked before the competition starts.

Don't rain on my parade pls

Oh my gawd, Czech Republic is back! I've tagged their users aggresively for years and they're finally making a comeback, yay Perhaps the secret for their comeback was to let @rybak tag them instead.

Finally, we got a result update from Lithuania. In the men's mass start race, the winners were: 1. Karol Dombrovski 1+1+0+2 2. Tomas Kaukėnas 2+2+1+2 +35.0 3. Maksim Fomin 0+2+1+2 +2:07.0 4. Linas Banys 1+2+3+2 +3:24.0 Vytautas Strolia did not participate, interesting that Fomin confidently beat Banys, Mačkinė shot really badly and Romanov still very slow on skis. On the women's side, Kočergina didn't start so the results are not really too important. Gabrielė Leščinskaitė won with 0+0+1+3 and had 8 minutes over our junior Sara Urumova in second place, so yeah.... Lastly, the results from yesterday's sprint were: 1. Karol Dombrovski 0+1 2. Linas Banys 0+0 +43.0 3. Tomas Kaukėnas 0+3 +1:12.0 4. Maksim Fomin 2+0 +1:45.0 On the women's side, again Gabrielė was first, this time she had 5 minutes over Urumova. Kočergina and Strolia not starting in the sprint either. The performances in the youth categories are really tragic, we don't have a future for the next five years on the youth side.

It's always crazy to me looking at these map charts and seeing that Russia looks bigger than the rest of the right side of the world on the map and is a gamechanger when it has to be coloured in for charts.

I lost hope with Montenegro, after eagerly tagging them for years. I would be blown away by that comeback.

There are still a lot of safe bets: @vinipereira @titicow for Brazil, @justony for Slovenia, @Glen for Malta, @LDOG and @konig for Argentina, @Janakis for Greece, @DaniSRB for Serbia, these peeps never miss a TISC And then there's a lot of members that have been around lately too: @KingOfTheRhinos @Vic Liu @catgamer @Dnl @Skijumpingmaster @Belle @Finnator123 that I'm expecting to see again. And I've still haven't mentioned everyone. @Quasit could definitely jump in for UK, perhaps a debut from the Philippines? @PHI2019 .

Unrelated note, but China is actually pretty strict and they would be capable to make the World Cup work out, but if nothing changes in the near future, it will be completely impossible for the athletes themselves. Right now, there's an eSports World Championship being held in Shanghai, with European, North American, Korean, Southeast Asian, Russian, South American, Japanese, Australian and Turkish teams that have travelled there. All of them were individually locked up in a hotel room that they couldn't leave for 14 days and would only open their door to pick up their food delivery. In the further stages of the tournament it's also mentioned that a smaller, spread out audience will be able to attend the stadium live. I've been following the journey of the pros closely on Twitter, Instagram, Twitch and other media, so this is one of those rare times when I can say that China is really doing their best to make such a huge event happen. Since they are e-athletes, they could've practiced from the room and that's why I wouldn't put my money on a World Cup happening there, because it would screw up all of the athletes to be in lockdown for 14 days and I'm not too optimistic that their strict regime towards travelling is going to severy change in the following 3-4 months.

The Annual in between was won by Ireland.

Yes, I quickly reminded myself of it, but seeing as the previous two contests were all Ireland, I'll still claim that I was too close to the truth

I like the part at 3:33:33. It makes me think about my existence and it makes me question my necessity in this world. Truly an amazing and awe inspiring work.

You would give 12 points to the UK so you could exact your revenge and wrath upon them in the following contest, I like it.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how disappointed you would be if the UK chose George Ezra "Budapest" as representative in the contest being held in Budapest?

Not only that, but I'll also be able to award points to as many songs as I believe deserve them Regarding my previous experiences with open contests, it could perhaps be less than 12? But if we're talking about annual, I always am in need of a few extra points. So if I'm going to save my 2 and 1, I'll use them in 2021

I'm just honestly happy and excited that we're not going to be restricted by any rules this year. Meaning that my 2017 dream can start early