Lithuania LITHUANIA 2019 - Jurij Veklenko - Run With The Lions

[JChan]

When Jon Ola said that one country missed the final by one point I thought it was Romania/Armenia/Austria. I NEVER would have guessed it was Lithuania.

 

[Alaska49]

had latvia been a good friend and given him 12 points instead of 10, he would have qualified over denmark's atrocity. LATVIA WHY DID YOU KILL HIM AND ME.

 

[GianlucaTomoe]

It serves them right, Monika Marija and La Forza have been finally avenged.

 

[BernadetteCydonia]

It serves them right

I have to laugh

La Forza have been finally avenged.

I have to laugh again.

I may sound butthurt, but it's best if we guys stop being assholes about our least favourite songs being chosen in NFs over your least favourite ones/ones you only kinda find alright, honestly. But let me tell you something - if we did sent La Forza, we'd have probably ended lower than Moldova, and not only them, and that's the tea. So 11th place with this song is decent I suppose, imagine if we came actually 15th in that semi, just look at how tight the top 8 was, therefore the two other qualifiers snuck in somehow over us in a way, but in any other edition we'd have probably ended up slightly lower? so only missing 2 points over qualification (thanks to our jury voting for Denmark lol) is not too bad. Maybe it will just at least teach our juries that sending plain pop songs and relying on diaspora won't work. I found "Run with the Lions" an okay song, but maybe in the end of things Monika Marija would have been a better choice... but I don't think that we'd have reached top 10 with her, just saying. I'm happy that at least Jurijus had the time of his life out of the backings section! And that's all! ^^

Anyways, there was this TV gossip magazine show KK2 and today they aired their own segment about Eurovision where these things were told:

• one of the producers of Monika Marija was speaking and I actually kind of forgot most that he said but the background voiceover guy did say something about the fact that the foreign songwriters just don't flee to Lithuania...
• oh yes, that Monika Marija's producer did say that our staging was unengaging af, and if the people don't care about the song, they just start caring about anything else happening, like they did for Jurijus's hand movements.
• then there was a bit of a showcase of memorable performances in Eurovision like Poland 2014's milkmaids and Bosnia & Herzegovina 2008's laundry-girls (and then the voiceover dude added that nobody understood what Laka sang but they liked the show anyway).
• and then there was a segment dedicated purely to Bar Refaeli's Lithuanian heritage shoutout - briefly describing her modelling career and her affair with Leonardo DiCaprio. The voice over dude said that we've at least won something from that Eurovision, and that is that revelation. And then he said that it once again proves the fact that Lithuanian girls are beautiful (that doesn't include me tho).Username:
Have you read the rules and agree with them? yes/no

 

[Carian]

For me it is not such a huge surprise that this was 11th and that it missed finals by one point. I was predicting that this would qualify, as the song is very enjoyable and Jurij is a very handsome guy. However! When I saw him all alone on that stage, without any LED (well, almost), and in that black T-shirt that was too small for his broad shoulders... My first thought was: is Lithuania really that poor they couldn't get you at least a decent outfit for this one night? Pitty. If the Lithuanian team had invested at least 5% more of money and energy into this entry, this could easily reach top15 in the finals.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

So Lithuania maybe should have qualified?? I knew it!

https://escxtra.com/2019/05/26/semi-final-voting-error-in-italian-televote-identified/


Anyway, pleased I was one of the voters who helped get this great song 12 Points from the United Kingdom!

 

[Pawhlen]

MyHeartIsYours was faster than me

This must be one of biggest fiascos for EBU and Digame (who is responsible for gathering the votes and check that they are correct) regarding this contest.

 

[joao]

Oh GOD! EBU what the f*ck are you doing? I'm losing all my faith in you! THIS IS NONESENSE!! If this turns out to be true, I wouldn't be surprised to see a number of countries boycotted at least for a year.

 

[Pawhlen]

Oh GOD! EBU what the f*ck are you doing? I'm losing all my faith in you! THIS IS NONESENSE!! If this turns out to be true, I wouldn't be surprised to see a number of countries boycotted at least for a year.

At least boycott if some people don´t resign, like Sand and a few others

 

[Citelis]

Never liked that but seriously that's more than unfair if its true. And its something that cannot be fixed anymore.

 

[Pawhlen]

Never liked that but seriously that's more than unfair if its true. And its something that cannot be fixed anymore.

The least EBU should do now is to give a grand final ticket directly for next year and a huge apology to the Lithuanian delegation and Jurij personally

The biggest scandal in ESC-history since 1969 according to me

 

[Citelis]

The least EBU should do now is to give a grand final ticket directly for next year and a huge apology to the Lithuanian delegation and Jurij personally

The biggest scandal in ESC-history since 1969 according to me

They should but sadly i don't think they woill do something like that if they accept officially the mistake.

 

[Pawhlen]

They should but sadly i don't think they woill do something like that if they accept officially the mistake.

They really should do that if they wan´t any trust to return

 

[Citelis]

They really should do that if they wan´t any trust to return

Until next year it will be forgotten.

 

[Pawhlen]

Until next year it will be forgotten.

not if we get the newspapers to write about it

 

[joao]

The least EBU should do now is to give a grand final ticket directly for next year and a huge apology to the Lithuanian delegation and Jurij personally

The biggest scandal in ESC-history since 1969 according to me

SOOOOO TRUE!!!!

This is getting ridiculous.

 

[Citelis]

not if we get the newspapers to write about it

The majority of of media don't care about Eurovision. Lithuanian broadcaster should ask for explanations EBU if the mistake gets confirmed.

 

[Pawhlen]

The majority of of media don't care about Eurovision. Lithuanian broadcaster should ask for explanations EBU if the mistake gets confirmed.

Why would RAI release a PDF with the televoting scores from the semi and the final if they were not correct?

 

[Citelis]

Why would RAI release a PDF with the televoting scores from the semi and the final if they were not correct?

Yes i believe that EBU probably messed up again but i believe that nothing will happen sadly.

 

[Realest]

Why would RAI release a PDF with the televoting scores from the final

Where?