Lithuania's Pabandom iš naujo 2022: Ieva Zasimauskaitė in front

Lithuania's journey on finding their Eurovision 2022 representative continues as six more songs qualified for Pabandom iš naujo Semi-finals.

Just like last week, 11 songs were performed and six made it through.

Tonight's second heat was recorded earlier this week in LRT studios in Vilnius, and was hosted by Giedrius Masalskis and Ieva Stasiulevičiūtė. Richardas Jonaitis joined the jury panel, and they agreed to give the sixth-time Lithuanian participant and Eurovision representative (2018) Ieva Zasimauskaitė their 12 points. The Lithuanian public voters preferred Justė Kraujelytė.

The result was decided by public votes (50%) and the jury (50%).

Tonight's jury panel was composed by:

• Ramunas Zilnys
• Ieva Narkutė
• Vytautas Bikus
• Leonas Somovas
• Giedrė Kilčiauskienė

Pabandom iš naujo 2022

The Lithuanian selection for Eurovision 2022, Pabandom iš naujo (English: "Let's Try Again"), will consist of six shows:

• 8 January 2022: Heat 1
• 15 January 2022: Heat 2
• 22 January 2022: Heat 3
• 29 January 2022: Semi-final 1
• 5 February 2022: Semi-final 2
• 12 February 2022: Final

Giedrius Masalskis, Ieva Stasiulevičiūtė and Richardas Jonaitis will be in charge of hosting the shows.

Lithuania in Eurovision Song Contest

Lithuania has been taking part of Eurovision Song Contest 21 times since its debut in 1994.

The debuting year 1994 Lithuania ended last, and the best result is from 2006 where LT United performed the iconic song "We Are The Winners (of Eurovision)". It didn't win though, but went 6th.

Since the introduction of the Semi-finals in 2004, Lithuania has been in Eurovision every year and qualified for the Grand Final 10 out of 17 times.

With both Estonias victory in 2001 (Everybody) and Latvias victory in 2002 (I Wanna), Lithuania is the only Baltic country that haven't won Eurovision Song Contest.