ESC 2016 LITHUANIA: 28 NAMES FOR THE MARATHON SELECTION....

Lithuanian television has announced the names for the national selection for the Eurovision song contest 2016. A total of 28 artists or acts will go through the weekly eliminations of artists/acts and songs and after 8 weeks we will have a matching pair as a winner, or so we all hope!

Among the participants we have two previous entrants Donny Montell (or Donatas Montvydas) and Erika Jennings who got style back in 2001. Aistė Pilvelytė is back for the 8th time at least and has been the runner up twice, will she finally make it? And then we have Ruslanas Kirilkinas back. He has been also to the Finnish Idols and caused a minor scandal when his gay sex porn pics from early 2000's made the tabloids when he made a name in music business..... And then we have some other familiar names like 4 Roses.

4 Roses

Alice Way

Baiba Skurstenė-Serdiukė

Berta Timinskaitė

Deividas Žygas

Gabrielė Grigolaitytė-Vasha

E.G.O.

HIT

Ieva Zasimauskaitė

Milda Martinkėnaitė

Neringa Šiaudikytė

Saulenė Chlevickaitė

Donatas Montvydas

Ištvan Kvik

Lawreigna

Ruslanas Kirilkinas

Vlad Kalugin

Behind The Moon

Catrinah

Eglė Jakštytė

Elena Jurgaitytė

Erica Jennings

Jurgis Brūzga

Petunija

Rūta Ščiogolevaitė

Ugnė Smile

Valdas Lacko

Aistė Pilvelytė

How it all happens? Have a look at the procedure after a jump:

Shows 1 and 2 (Jan 9, 16): All competitors will perform entries submitted by the authors and chosen by the broadcaster. The half of all performing singers who got the lowest number of points in the joint tele- and jury voting will be eliminated. The same principle will be applied for the songs, too.
Shows 3 and 4 (Jan 23, 30): All competitors will perform entries chosen by themselves. The half of all performing singers who got the lowest number of points in the joint tele- and jury voting will be eliminated. The same principle will be applied for the songs, too.
Show 5 (Feb 6): Competitors, who qualified in the show 1 and 2, will perform entries submitted by the authors. The half of all performing singers who got the lowest number of points in the joint tele- and jury voting will be eliminated. The same principle will be applied for the songs, too.
Show 6 (Feb 13): Singers who qualified in the show 3 and 4 will perform the songs chosen by themselves. The half of all performing singers who got the lowest number of points in the joint tele- and jury voting will be eliminated. The same principle will be applied for the songs, too.
Show 7 (Feb 20): All qualifiers in the show 5 and 6 will sing their songs. 50% of the of the singers and the songs will be eliminated by the joint decision of an expert jury and televoting.
Show 8 - national final (Feb 27): All qualifiers in the previous show will compete for the honour to represent Lithuania in Stockholm. The winning singer and his/her winning entry will be again chosen by the joint decision. If there is a tie with the same number of votes between the artists, the jury is to decide the winner of the national selection.
Show 9 – support concert (Mar 5): All singers who ranked best places in the national final, will perform in the fundraising show.

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