Once again La Mancha Pyro Productions is organizing the third installment of the by now popular fireworks competition called World Pyro Olympics which is held in the famous Mall Of Asia. The event this year had a lot of problems with the schedule which could be obviously seen from the lousy changing of the schedules. I’ll try to update all of you everytime there’s something new about it! The latest schedule that came out is all saturdays of May starting from May 3 to May 31. As of now the participating countries who are competing are Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, and Venezuela. On the last night of the even the Philippines will show its proness with their own classical fireworks display.
Since I’m not new to all the participating countries, i’ll tell you a little bit about them.
Australia- Explosive productions is the same company as Show Fx. They won the 1st World Pyro Olympics and they produced the show of Westcoast fireworks in the 2nd World Pyro Olympics which also won. Their designer Anthony Foti was part of the firm Foti ’s fireworks which i known for their great displays in sydney australia.
Canada- This company is quite a new company but the designer is not new to the fireworks scene. Patrice guy has designed Pyromagic Productions’ bronze jupiter winning entry of Pyromagic in the Montreal fireworks competition which is the best pyromusical competition in the world for me. He also designed Glorious’ (china) show for the 10th Symposium on fireworks which people thought was a very competitive pyromusical show.
China- Glorious fireworks is one of the top fireworks manufacturer in the world. Last year they received a special award in the World Pyro Olympics. The award they received is the award for technical excellence. This was obvious with their display, specially how apparent their segments where. The combinations of the effects were great as well. What also got me into their show last year was their fast but great stepper sequence. A stepper sequence is a sequence made with roman candles. They are timed so that they could like their chasing each other.
France – Fetes Et Feux is a new company for me. They won second place in Fiori Di fuoco, Omegna, Italy beating countries from Poland, Russia, and our very own La Mancha Pyro Productions. I think that the strength of their shows is the artistic aspect of it. They have competed in the Cannes Pyrotechnique Festival and in Nuits De Feu which is also in france. Both competitions are one of the top pyromusical competitions.
Germany – Nico-Lunig is a popular brand in Germany. They have won quite a number of awards from the montreal fireworks competition. Unfortunately they’re the first team i saw in the World Pyro Olympics who had an obvious technical problem. This happened in the 2005 competition where their digital firing system got soaked in water due to strong rain before their display. After 5 minutes of their display. they had to stop and make Korea go first then they went back again to show their great display. Last year i’d rank their show 4th because of their great use of space.
Italy – Parente has been a great italian fireworks company. Their one of my favorites. They have great one shot devices and they have some great cylindrical fireworks which we might want to wait for. They have won in many different fireworks competition. They have won in the Courchevel fireworks competition. They’ve competed in Nuits De Feu, montreal fireworks competitions, Pyronale and they have their own fireworks competition called the Fiori di Fuoco.
Japan – Marutamaya-Ogatsu has to be one of my favorites also. Just like all japanese fireworks company, They have great spherical fireworks. Their star spacing is great and the symetry of their fireworks are great. They also have great pattern shells. Pattern shell are the ones that has many different shapes like a smiley face, apple, heart, atom shells, hello kitty face, and a figure of a man are a few of the examples. If you’ve seen the show of La Mancha in 2007 they used some of the great fireworks of Marutamaya in the beginning. Marutamaya is one of the pioneers of the use of digital stepper sequence and one of the best at it aswell! They have joined in the champion of champions competition in the montreal fireworks competition. Unfortunately they didn’t win but just to qualify to join there means that they have won in that competition many times before.
Korea – Hanhwa is not new to the World Pyro Olympics. They showed a great display in 2005. Showing what people called the magic carpet effect which we might want to anticipate for this coming competition. This year, they are also joining in the montreal fireworks competition for the second time. They have their own competition called the Seoul fireworks competition. They also have some great fireworks.
Venezuela – Venefuegos is a fairly new company. They have joined the Sound of Light competition in Ontario Canada. They also have won second place in Fiori Di Fuoco fireworks competition. In that competition they beat our winner Show Fx australia.
I hope that we’ll enjoy this years competition and for once don’t be bothered too much by the traffic because anywhere there’s an event this big we should all expect traffic anyways. And this traffic only means more tourism hehe.!
I heard that ticket prices would raise from 100 pesos to 150 pesos and VIP tickets would cost 1500 pesos. Tickets will be sold in the more popular ticket selling stations like Ticketnet.
vander
