Lithuania: MaNNazz wins opening heat of Eurovizijos atranka 2019

Lithuania kicked off the new year with their national selection marathon “Eurovizijos” dainu konkurso nacionaline atranka (aka Eurovizijos atranka 2019). Last year’s winner Ieva Zasimauskaitė returned to perform her entry “When We’re Old” and six acts qualified to the next round from heat one.

In tonight’s pre-recorded opening show, the first 12 participants sang it out in heat one. The line-up included a mixture of newcomers and returnees including Twosome and Audrius Petrauskas, with the latter now known as Gebrasy.

MaNNazz won the heat with their moody electronic song “Blind Bird”. They will be in the next stage of the competition, alongside Glossarium with “Anyone”,  Twosome with “1000”, Migloko with “Rožės”, Šarūnas Mačiūlis with “Traukinys” and Aldegunda with “I Want Your Love”.

The six qualifiers will go on to compete in the semi-finals, due to be held in February. The remaining acts will compete in further heats to be held later this month.

Eurovizijos atranka 2019 – heat one results

As ever, the voting process remains unchanged from previous years. The overall vote consists of 50% televoting, combined with the other 50% from the panel of national juries.

The six favourites of the televote were also the six overall qualifiers, while Gebrasy and Matas Ligeika had made the jury’s top six, but didn’t have enough public support to reach the next stage.

Jury results

1. Migloko – 12 points
2. MaNNazz – 10 points
3. Gebrasy – 8 points
4. Twosome – 7 points
5. Glossarium – 6 points
6. Matas Ligeika – 5 points
7. Filtered Tools – 4 points
8. Aldegunda – 3 points
9. Šarūnas Mačiūlis – 3 points
10. Gabriela Ždanovičiūtė – 1 point
11. Simona – 0 points
12. RÙTA – 0 points

Televoting results

1. Aldegunda – 828 votes (12 points)
2. MaNNazz – 792 votes (10 points)
3. Šarūnas Mačiūlis – 686 votes (8 points)
4. Migloko – 639 votes (7 points)
5. Twosome – 633 votes (6 points)
6. Glossarium – 603 votes (5 points)
7. Matas Ligeika – 473 votes (4 points)
8. RÙTA – 341 votes (3 points)
9. Filtered Tools – 267 votes (2 points)
10. Gebrasy – 257 votes (1 point)
11. Gabriela Ždanovičiūtė – 223 votes (0 points)
12. Simona – 157 votes (0 points)

Combined results

Qualifiers are in bold.

1. MaNNazz – 12 points
2. Migloko – 10 points
3. Aldegunda – 8 points
4. Twosome – 7 points
5. Glossarium – 6 points
6. Šarūnas Mačiūlis – 5 points
7. Gebrasy – 4 points
8. Matas Ligeika – 3 points
9. Filtered Tools – 2 points
10. RÙTA – 1 point
11. Gabriela Ždanovičiūtė – 0 points
12. Simona – 0 points

Do you agree with tonight’s results? Let us know in the comments section below and you can watch the show again here.

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Photo: J. Auškelio/LRT.