The game is still on and way too open!
Tonight’s show marks the sixth heat for this year’s competition in Lithuania that will see the pre-qualified acts from the previous shows fighting to make it to the next stage of the national selection and the right to represent Lithuania in Lisbon, thus the line-up will look as it follows for tonight:
- Živilė Gedvilaitė “Melody”
- Audrius Petrauskas “In My Bones”
- Agnė Michalenkovaitė “Going On”
- Saulės kliošas “Įkvėpk ir nepaleisk (Man gaila)”
- Greta Zazza “Broken Shadows”
- Ruta Loop “Positive Thoughts”
- Marija “This Love”
- The Roop “Yes, I Do”
- Elizabeth Olshey “Bejausmis”
- Monika Marija “The Truth”
- Gabrielius Vagelis “The Distant”
- Ieva Zasimauskaitė “When We’re Old”
Although the show is set to be aired tonight, the entire programme was filmed on Wednesday, as usual. The jury panel made up of music experts and TV media professionals cast their say during the recording and their votes have been made public by Lithuanian Eurovision website Eurodiena.lt
Everything now lies in hands of the audience which will have the eventual decision on which competing acts will be making it through the next stage of “Eurovizijos Atranka 2018”.
Take a look at the current scoreboard:
| Draw | Artist | Song | Jury votes | Public | Total | Place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Televote | Points | ||||||
| 1 | Živilė Gedvilaitė | “Melody” | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Audrius Petrauskas | “In My Bones” | 7 | ||||
| 3 | Agnė Michalenkovaitė | “Going On” | 1 | ||||
| 4 | Saulės kliošas | “Įkvėpk ir nepaleisk (Man gaila)” | 10 | ||||
| 5 | Greta Zazza | “Broken Shadows” | 4 | ||||
| 6 | Ruta Loop | “Positive Thoughts” | 3 | ||||
| 7 | Marija | “This Love” | 0 | ||||
| 8 | The Roop | “Yes, I Do” | 6 | ||||
| 9 | Elizabeth Olshey | “Bejausmis” | 2 | ||||
| 10 | Monika Marija | “The Truth” | 10 | ||||
| 11 | Gabrielius Vagelis | “The Distant” | 5 | ||||
| 12 | Ieva Zasimauskaitė | “When We’re Old” | 12 | ||||
You can watch a gallery full of professional pictures of each of the performance taken at the show on Wednesday, by clicking HERE.
The couple in charge of conducting the contest this year is made up by the male humorist Mantas Stonkus and the female TV presenter Ugne Skonsmanaite.
HOW MANY SHOWS LEFT?
We are just one show ahead of the quarter-finals but for your interest, there you can find the dates and the remaining shows of “Eurovizijos Atranka” 2018:
06/01: Show 120/01: Show 227/01: Show 303/02: Show 410/02: Show 5- 17/02: Show 6
- 24/02: Show 7
- 03/03: Semi-final
- 11/03: Grand final
You can watch the show from 20:00 CET onwards by tuning into our multi-window live-stream platform, by clicking HERE
If we go back in time, Lithuania was represented by Fusedmarc in 2017 with the song Rain of Revolution, where they went on to finished 17th in the 2nd semi-final, which means being of the worst results for the country since 2005, when the contest was also held in Kyiv.