The Lithuanian participating broadcaster, Lietuvos radijas ir televizija (LRT), organised the national final "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka in order to select its entry for the contest.

Performing during the show in position 18, "We Are the Winners" was announced among the top 10 entries of the semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 20 May.

In the final, Lithuania performed in position 14 and placed sixth out of the 24 participating countries, scoring 162 points.

The competition involved an eight-week-long process that commenced on 14 January 2006 and concluded with a winning song and artist on 4 March 2006.

[5][6] The results of the newcomers selection were determined by the 50/50 combination of votes from a jury panel consisting of three to five members and public televoting.

The ranking developed by both streams of voting was converted to points from 1-8, 10 and 12 and assigned based on the number of competing songs in the respective show.

[7] LRT opened a submission period on 5 October 2005 for artists and songwriters to submit their entries with the deadline on 11 December 2005.

[8][9] Among the artists was previous Lithuanian Eurovision contestant Viktoras Diawara (member of LT United), who represented Lithuania in 2001 as part of Skamp.

The three semi-finals of the competition aired from the LRT studios in Vilnius on 11, 18 and 25 February 2006 and featured both the established artists and entries that qualified from the newcomers selection.

[20] According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country, the "Big Four" (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) and the 10 highest placed finishers in the 2005 contest are required to qualify from the semi-final on 18 May 2006 in order to compete for the final on 20 May 2006; the top 10 countries from the semi-final progress to the final.

[23] Despite achieving the nation's best result to date, the entry received mixed reactions and was one of the few Eurovision songs to get booed at the contest.