World Pyro Olympics 2009 Participants (BIG UPDATES)

WORLD PYRO OLYMPICS 2009 WILL NOW OPEN ON NOVEMBER 21, 2009

*Canada and Japan switched schedules

Finally my long awaited list of participants for the World Pyro Olympics 2009 has came out so here’s the schedule I hope to see you all there xD

November 21, 2009

Germany – Nico-Lunig

China – Glorious Group

November 28, 2009

Canada – Pyrostudios

Australia – Explosive Entertainment

December 5, 2009

Japan – Marutamaya Ogatsu Enkaten

Italy – Parente Fireworks

December 12, 2009

South Korea – Hanwha Corporation

U.S.A – RES Pyrotechnics

December 19, 2009

All Participants – Fellowship of Fire

Philippines – La Mancha Fireworks

World Pyro Olympics 2009

Updated: 07/10/09

The World Pyro Olympics is moving to a new location which means that this year it will have new rules, new shows, new effects and new participants

This year, the World Pyro Olympics is packing up and moving to Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City. The competition for this year is already looking promising because, this year it will be a pyromusical competition. Each of the 10 shows that will be presented are going to be synchronized to music and is now worthy to be called a Pyromusical. As promising as the competitions is, the list of participants this year can only tell us that the World Pyro Olympics 2009 will only bring up the competition to a much higher level. This year’s schedule is as follows:

14 November – Korea and USA
21 November – Germany and China
28 November – Japan and Australia
05 December – Canada and Italy
12 December – Highlights from the participants — La Mancha Group International (closing display)

We should watch how Parente will try to defend their title as The Champions and at the same time we must watch out how the other participants try to get the most coveted World Pyro Olympics trophy. I’m sure that the shows this year will be much complex than the show’s we’ve seen in the past. Since they moved the competition in The fort we must expect a wider firing pad and ofcourse more one shots (I Wish). More Updates are coming soon This event will be held from November 14 to December 12 2009, Every Saturdays

Da Nang International Fireworks Competition 2009

Next year the Philippines will be joining another big fireworks competition. This time it’s Dragon Fireworks’ turn to show its prowess when it comes to pyromusicals! They will be joining the Da Nang Fireworks Competition in Vietnam. This event is set on the 27th and 28th of March 2009. Here are the participating countries and firms. Each show will last for about 20 minutes and must within the them “Echoes in Han River”.

Australia – Howards and Sons
China – Dancing Fireworks
Philippines – Dragon Fireworks
Spain – Zamorano Caballer
Vietnam – (Military Service Fireworks)

This one’s a great opportunity for Dragon to show their skills

2008 Costa Brava Fireworks Competition

Every year a fireworks competition is held in Blanes, Spain. As I’ve been told earlier, the Philippines will be joining this year’s festival. Starmaker INC. will be representing the Philippines in the competition! Although they have little experience could they beat the other teams?? we will see!

The Schedule is as follows:

May 22 PIROTECNIA TOMÁS de Benicarló (CASTELLÓN, Spain)

May 23 STARMAKER FIREWORKS INC de Mandaluyong(Philippines)

May 24 EUROPLA de Belgida (VALENCIA, Spain)

May 25 PIROTECNIA PABLO de Cangas del Narcea(Asturias, Spain)

May 26 PIROTECNIA VALENCIANA de Llanera de Ranes(Valencia, Spain)

May 27 IP INNOVATIVE PYROTECHNIK GmbH de Ehningen-Stuttgart(Germany)

2 of those are my favorite and they are Europla of Spain and I.P’s Germany! Last year’s winner was Pirotecnia Tomas de Benicarlo from spain and the winner of the 2006 competition was Pirotecnia Europla Belgia of Spain. 

Canada’s Pyro Studios and France’s Fetes Et Feux

After 1 week of waiting it was time again for me to witness the World Pyro Olympics. This time the rain came in later and it just got hard right before the first display! Whoo bad luck huh?? Hehe!! I guess this bad luck all turns around when you’re talking from a pyro enthusiast’s view of point! It makes a whole lot of difference hahah!! This was because the two shows today were so great that all I thought was that the “real” competition is starting. Finally I saw some real salutes!! Hahaha!! I was so wet during the display hehe!! So it’s show time.

 

      Pyro Studios of Canada

     They started their display with a giant green chrysanthemum if I’m not mistaken. I really didn’t see it I just saw the tail come out because I was inside a restaurant because of the heavy rain. Anyways that’s how it all started. After that were different segments. Sorry I’m not sure about the order so ill just explain each of the segments that I can remember! First one I could remember was the red and green rings with crackling centers in a z fanned formation. While that was exploding and everything giant rings above was also explode. The effects above were mainly comet rings to red stafe shuttle and crossettes comet rings with crackling center. After this I can remember one segment were different multi colored peonies with coco core were exploding in a 3 layered fashion wan in the center then 2 above it then a large one. Together with this was also multi colored peonies with glitter cores. There was also a segment with color changing chrysanthemums. The 3 middle shots were exploding from left to right then the two higher shots explode then a large green to orange peony on the top then the middle peonies exploded from right to left then the same thing follows. There was also a strobe segment that was mainly composed of 2 color changing peonies from red to white strobes then giant white strobes on the top. There was also a part with giant red spirals. One part was made of different colored dahlias. Some were yellow and some were yellow with orange. On top of these dahlias were lavender dahlias. Their crossettes segment were made of many red and orange crossettes. Some pink and blue crossettes were also present. After this was a barrage of chrysanthenum that were fired in z formation and they were like meeting each other. After this was many peonies exploding everywhere making a great finale. After a sudden pause the display comes back to life again. Just when everyone thought the display was over a new segment started. This time it started with horsetail mines in just one side of the both. I think that due to the rain only the half side of the fronts where fired. After a few shots of the golden horsetail mines were charcoal horsetails and on top was charcoal willow to red or green. After this a cake in a z pattern fired. The effect was multi colored falling leaves. Above these where also shells of multi-colored falling leaves with fish. Another segment was composed of z comet to crackling chrysanthemum cakes below and silver electric comet shells above. The only bad comment I could make about the show was that half of the fronts didn’t fire but the phase of the show was fast enough for the audience not to get bored. I think that the fake finale had a big impact on everyone. The shells used were great especially the multi colored peony with glitter core and the red to white strobe peonies. The finale started with golden tiger tail crossettes. After a few shots white peony added in. The phase increased in more and more for quite a long time. Then the final blow was made of many deafening salutes I couldn’t even hear my shout but when the salutes ended I realized that I was shouting so loudly hahahha

 

     Fetes Et Feux of France

     The display started with a salute segment. First it was just pointing up then as it got a bit faster the salutes were firing left then right then left and right. Then the first shots of roman candles fired with an orange with silver crackling tail effect, 3 to the left and 3 to the right. Then a barrage of salutes fired making everyone in the audience deaf hahaha. After this was a carpet bombing of a multi layered double cored peonies.

     The main display started with red comet with silver tail candles. It was arranged this way \/ \/ \/. Then some more added up arranged this way \\\\////. Then back to the orang crackling comet candles. After that red comet candles started firing again tohether with a red mine cake! This time charcoal comet with crackle candle in a large fan formation went up. As this was firing low breaking peonies with crackling core in red was firing. A crackling crossette cake started together with green peony with white then charcoal coco pistil and cylindrical crackling chrysanthemum with salutes fired on mid level. This segment ended with another multi layered bombardment of crossettes making the sky filled with smoke.

     The next Section started with a fanned light blue roman candle. Silver comets in a 3 pointed fan added in with a silver go-getter-ish mine on the middle. Another set of the light blue candles went up together with more comets this time all pointing up.As the blue candles finished more silver comets fired 4 to the left and 4 to the right. Then the silvers mines added in again this time there was just 4 with a gap somewhere between the last two ones.More of this fired in a fan this time together with shells of palms above. Then blue mines arragned this way \l \l \/ l/ l/. Blue peony with crackling pistils added in. A final 3 shot of shells of palm brought the segment to a close. 

      The next section shows different kinds of strobe effects. It started of with 2 double cored chrysanthenum. The outer core had a silver comet to green strobes effect while the inner core had a purple strobe effects. Above were 3 smaller green gamboge chrysanthenums. In the middle of this two were 3 palm shells. This theme continued and a barrage of smaller white strobe shells brought this section to an end. 

      The next section started with orange with silver tail comets arranged like this \ \ \l/ / /. This continued for a while then purple go-getter-ish mines added in, in a fan position. This continued and changed to candles of orange crossettes with silver tail with blue mines below. Above was 2 yellow peonies and one blue peony in the middle. This pattern continued until it became all blue peonies. Next was the final shot of the 2 yellow peonies. The next variation of shells were 3 blue peonies below and one big purple peony above good color combionations i thnk.

     After this was a section made of crossettes and peonies. It started of with yellow candles. After a while a fan of orange peony and yellow peonies fired from left to right then 2 purple crossettes fired above. This theme continued. Below a fan of charcoal to crackling candle replaced the previous yellow candles. This segment was brought to an end by a barrage of different colored far falles. 

      The Next section started with green candles with silver tail. Large and thin green crossette mine candles and silver comet candles made the lower portion thicker. This continued with a fan of pinkish crossette mine candles with the same colored chrysanthenums above. This continued and below a great fan of silver flittering crossette fired with green candles and green peonies above. After a while silver comets added below and a fan of green sky mines fired with silver palms and large green peonies with crackling pistils above. As the green sky mines ended green with silver tail scrambling comets added in in the middle above. As thesecotinued the effects chaged to green with silver candles below and green to silver comet peony above and in the middle were silver chrysanthenums. This long section came to an end with Large silver kamuro shells and barrage of large red peonies.

     The final segment started with great charcoal horsetails. I could tell that the audience liked this effect a lot. They even cheered more when silver horsetails with green strobe added above. This horsetails reached the water hahaha. Below a fan of green candles with red mine cakes below fired as the horsetails were changed to golden willows. As the candle and mines ended willow comets fired and bigger golden willows fired above, at this time i could tell that this will be a long finale!. This continued with more and more willows in different sizes. Orange crossettes with silver tail also added in. The willows stopped for a while together with the willow comets then the pace got higher when salutes fired then more willows fired above. This just kept continuing until the audience were so deaf already. Then shells of golden willows with golden tails fired as well. This continued with more and more salutes and we heard the lift charges of the final barrage of shells. The final barrage was made of willows, red and orange crossettes and salutes. As the salutes below fired more salutes above fired covering all the willows with salutes as the flashes of the salutes came out the people could see the golden willows still reaching the ground.

     This display has been one of the grandest display i’ve seen in World Pyro Olympics. The effects used were great. There were so many effects used specially with the roman candles. I really like their cylindrical crackling with salute shells. The division of each sections were also made clear by the barrage of shells. It was a great show overall. The finale was quite a big surprise. The length was perfect everyone was screaming for more and they gave use more. This year they probably used the most effects so far. And so far they have a big chance of winning the title.                                         

             

       Next week will be my most awaited country’s turn, Italy. Together with italy is Venezuela. I heard that both of these countries will show us great displays. Oh and it’s quite hard to pick my winner for this week so maybe you can tell me your own comments on the displays and if you have a winner then tell me hahaha! See you all next week .          

Glorious Group and Nico Lunig of Wpo 2008

 

To start of my reviews i’d like to tell first about the half bad weather. I’d say that it was half bad because it stopped just right before the shows. Tough luck for germany eh?? Well when we crossed the road going to the san miguel by the bay the rain was not so hard yet but it was getting harder and harder which made me scared that the shows might be cancelled but lucky enough the shows was still able to push through i kept asking my friend if it was still pushing through or not. Before the rain totally went out me and the person who was with me went to power station that is located in san miguel by the bay so we played some games there until i saw that the rain was coming out a bit so we went out and we already positioned ourselves beside the boundaries between the vip area and the general admission area. WE waited for some hours and then the show started!!

First was China’s Glorious group Germany’s Nico-Lunig. They used different crackling effects as their introduction. There was thousand crackling Chrysanthenums above, electric comets on mid air and just a bit below some green peony with crackling tails. After that they showed the fireworks color by color i think it started with yellow then red then blue. Some of the effects i remember where crossettes with tails, peony, dahlias, color changing peony. double cored chrysanthenums with tail in the outer core and the whole shell has a tail, white strobes, salutes, palms, silver willows, silver comet roman candle, blue to yellow mines, blue with gold mines, fanned tiger tail crossette cakes, fanned green crossette with tails, charcoal to color willows, double concentric rings, white comet rings to stafe shuttles, white comet crossette rings, peony with tails, spirals, v formation cakes that has different crackling comet effects ending into small thousand crackling chrysanthenums, glitter comet shell of shells, and blue multibreak shell of shells. Some of the more memorable moment of their display was when those huge double cored chrysanthemum were angled in such a way that the tails of the shells will cross each other. It’s also surprising that the timing was with the break of the crossettes and the break of some other shells. It would have been much more interesting if the pattern of the roman candle was completed. Another part I liked was when there was many small blue to crackle shells was going on and behind that was salutes. It was clever how they tried to hide salutes under the crackles. It was interesting to see how they had many shells to represent the boundary between each segment of the display. I guess that’s all I could say about china’s Germany’s display. The experience watching it in the general admission section was incomparable to any of the other displays we’ve seen experienced from the pass. Due to the closeness of the barge, we would receive all sorts of paper pieces from the shells and some even going to our eyes hahaha!! Definitely an unforgettable one. At the end you’ll see paper pieces flying everywhere and the wind was going towards us making some of the shells look faded because of the smoke. Being all of these said it was still quite an experience hehehe! The sky distribution of the shells were not as good as last year. They had better use of space also year. 

The last show of the night was by Germany’s Nico-Lunig event GMBH China’s Glorious group. The effects used where quite the same with china Germany only with the addition of the great nautical shells that had silver comets and green with silver tail crossettes. They started of the display with I think about 15 roman candles making a fan effect with one pointing to the left, then up, then another pointing to the right. Together with this Candles where different pattern shells and they had some perfect red hearts. The display stopped for 5 second and then the next segment began. I think that it was the multi level color changing peonies. After that was another pause then the next segment which was I think those yellow dahlias and yellow peony with tails. I’m not sure about the order of the segments haha. There was a segment where it started with the fanned green crossettes and some crossette shells above. This segment ended with some great nautical crossettes. Then there was one segment that made just completely out of some nice flittering charcoal willows (I think) you know the ones with tails that looked like they had some small spots of gold in them? Heheh! One segment was made out of different crackling effects starting with electric comets then thousand crackling chrys, crackling comet to green peony, and ended with crackling willows. They kept doing the part with red peony with tails, then some dahlias, then a big blue dahlia, then a big white dahlia that looked like it had salutes on the middle which I liked very much because of the power of the shells. The last segment that I’ll talk about will be the ones with charcoal willow to green effects then the one with charcoal willow to red effects. At one point in the show they also used some great white comet nautical shells firing from both ends of the barge which was a pleasant surprise because I didn’t expect any nautical fireworks this year. That’s all about the great display of germany. The shells had great timing. The 5 second pauses didn’t make the display ugly but it made the segment much clearer. Their finale was awesome, not because it was long, big or saluteful but because of the surprise at the end. So the finale started with the small multi colored shells and then some bigger shells added up in the sky then it build up. It stopped with a big bombardment then we called see the small multi colored shells continuing I thought that it was just a left over of those things but then another barrage of shells came out this time being white comet peonies. So after that the multi colored shells toned down until there was nothing already just when the last one popped all the people were surprised because we all heard barrages of shells firing and at first it was quite scary because the angles were quite over sided so the shells started to break starting with red, orange, yellow, blue, then purple it made a fan effect from right to left making a great rainbow pattern which was another pleasant surprise. It’s great that China knew what they lacked in their display last year, these was the nautical shells. I guess their show just gets better and better!     

Today’s champion for me was Germany China. Please if you’ve got comments put it up and if you want you can post your own revies as comments. Tell me your own opinions on the shows.

Due to some technical problems there was a final minute change in schedule. First who fired was Germany’s Nico-Lunig and the second was China’s Glorious. I guess that explains why Germany had some of those great Italian multibreak shell of shells and multibreak shells.

World Pyro Olympics 2008 revised schedule

The World Pyro Olympics will finally push through on May 3-31. The old schedule included a participant from japan , Marutamaya-Ogatsu due to some technical problems they won’t be joining the competition leaving the other 8 countries for the World Pyro Olympics 2008 title. Here are the 8 participating countries plus the host country.

May 3 2008

China – Glorious Group

Germany – Nico-Lunig GMBH

May 10 2008

Canada – Pyro Studios

France – Fetes and Feux

May 17 2008

Italy – Parente fireworks

Venezuela – Venefuegos Artificiales

May 24 2008

A show made by all of the participants

Philippines – La Mancha pyro productions

As for this two countries im not sure but i think their out!

Australia – Explosive productions

Korea – Hanwha corporation

As said earlier tickets will be sold on all ticketnet outlets starting on April 19. There’s 3 ticket prices 150, 1000, 1500 (ticket prices are in Philippines pesos).  Watching somewhere else this year will show a different perspective of the display because i heard that there will be quite a number of ground level fireworks and because the show by the philippines will be a pyromusical show.

150 – General admission

1000 – special viewing area

1500 – special viewing area with free food

I hope that you’ll be able to attend and enjoy this great competition and goodluck to the participating countries. Please watch out for my comments on each fireworks displays!

World Pyro Olympics 2008

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.

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