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

L’International Des Feux Loto-Quebec 2008 Themes

As you all know I’m a big fan of this competition so here i present to you the themes for each participating country in this years’ international des feux loto-quebec in La ronder, Montreal, Canada.

France (Prestatech Artifice) – Montreal in the stars

Italy (Pirotecnia Morsani) – Curtains of Light

South Korea (Hanhwa Corporation) – Shall We Dance

Portugal (Luso Pirotecnia) – And The Winner Is…

Australia (Howards and Sons) – Evolve

Canada (Garden City Display) – Aurora: Fire in the sky

Austria (Pyrovision) – Heaven and Hell

U.S.A (pyrotecnico) – Rock Loves

China (sunny international) – Forever Love

So everyone enjoy the competition. I think that it’s gonna be a tough competition this year with all the interesting themes. Atleast two of those shows, i already have an idea on how it could look like..

And the winner is……..

So the World Pyro Olympics 2008 ended with an almost perfect weather! The only bad thing was that the wind was blowing everywhere so obviously there was smoke everywhere too haha!! Too bad cause the sound system was destroyed which removed the pyromusical feeling of the last show! good thing that some of the tracks were still hearable from where i was!

At first the audio was perfect but when the winner was about to be announced the speakers just stopped working so we were all asking each other who?? hahhaa!! But Some people were able to hear it and the winner was Italy’s Parente fireworks my favorite!

Vander

World Pyro Olympics 2008: Italy’s Parente fireworks

Finally the day that i’ve been waiting for came! That is italy’s day. They were the second ones to fire! I enjoyed this display the most out of everything. I’ve seen all of their signature shells which are my dream shells!! hahahah!! So here’s my report!

The display started with 3 warning shots of salutes. After the salutes was a giant willow to red strobes shell. Then cakes of whitles to reports started the display proper. Above this were sizes and effects of peonies. some had crossette cores and the bigger ones had color changing stars. candles of green whizzers fired below making very nice but weird sounds. After the green ones red whizzers came still with continous barrage of peonies above. This segment was put to a close by a barrage of small far falle shells.

The next section started with candles of firefly comets together with mines with the same effects. This theme continued until a barrage of orange crossette shells put the segment to a close.

The third section started with candles of bright pink and white comets with thick magnesium tails. Above were shells of half red and half green peonies. Then 3 red peony with silver scrambling comets ended the section.

Next, candles of thick magnesium comets with green mines and some with red mines arranged like this (\l/\/\l/\/\l/) below opened the section. The ones with the red mines are the ones arranged like this (\/). This continued then 3 ring with crackling cores fired closing the section.

3 Cakes of accelerating comets fired below. This continued then shells of white flying fish started firing above. This theme continued throughout the section then was concluded by a barrage of white crossette shells with a color changing crackling willow shell.

The next section was introduced by bright orange candles. Above were blue falling leaves making a great color combination. Candles of thick crackling willow comets added below. The falling leaves continued above as the last barrage o falling leaves went down blue cylindrical shell of shells fired above. The willow candles just continued below then pale green with orange pistil peony fired above finishing the section.

The next section started with 2 layered mines. The lower layer was just orange mines and above were blue crossette mines. These theme continued then a shell of shuttles fired above. This section was put to a close by a red and green double cored peony and below this were orange photoflashes.

The next section was introduced by green mines with gold tails. As the mines below continued crackling chrysanthenums fired above. The crackles were so big hahah! . The segment ended with small peonies with reports below and above were shells of micro crackles to a shell of shells of the same effect.

The next section started with cakes of red mines with a fan of firefly mines in the middle. This mines were arranged like this ( \/\/\\l//\/\/). This continued then shells of purple peony started firing shocking some of the audience because the mines below were so quiet hahaha! . The segment ended with red and green with salutes shell of shells.

Orange mines fired below then above were shells of orange strobes. this theme continued and put to a close by small far falle shells below with orange crossettes above.

People thought that the fireworks fired mistakably in the water but really this were just nautical shells. It had a white flare effects to red mines. As the red mines fired, shells of white strobing falling leaves started above. People heard another barrage of shells pointing to the water. As the final barrage of the falling leaves continued finished nautical shells of white comets fired below. Later on the audience wanted more of this shells haha! The barrage was so close to the audience so the nautical shells really had a great impact. They were so close to us hahahaha!

The next segment started with purple candles. This continued then purple crossettes fired above. The crossettes they used were not so much of a typical crossettes because the after breaking the stars reached the waters giving a very good effect. This was put to an end by purple crossete. When these crossettes broke the colors changed to golden willows with white strobes.

The next section started with strobing white waterfalls. Then below was a fan of silver to red to white strobe cakes. The section ended with a barrage of gamboge white strobe shells.

The next section started with italian cylindrical shells of crackling willows with same effect as a tail. As the first two of these shells fired orange nautical flares burned on the water. This continued then fans of blue with crackling mines fired below. This segment had a great layering of the effects. The section closed with a fan of willow shells tails.

The next section had a great combination of colors and effects. It started with silver comet shells then below were shells of red falling leaves. The segment close with a barrage of red falling leaves, double cored silver willows, golden willows, peonies then red and blue parachute shells fired.

An aqua dahlia fired alone then greenish – bluish peony to crackles fired. This continued then typical italian cylindrical purple peonies with flash salutes fired building up the segment a bit. Then another typical italian shell fired. These time they were red ring with green ring in the middle to a louder titanium salutes building up the segment further more. Above this were orange to blue chrysanthenums with golden tails. Then after this were green to blue peonies with red pistils Giving a great rhythm in the segment. This built up to larger orange peonies. Then this peonies were changed to greenish – bluish peonies. This continued then amazing italian cylindrical shells fired. This time the effects were red far falles. Then it became green far falles. Then blue typical italian multibreak shells fired. More of this fired then red cylindrical shells of shells fired -> then gold shell of shells. Then gold multibreak shells fired below then above where red shell of shells, then gold. After this very typical italian sequence color changing peonies with the best timing ive seen fired. I’d say this color changing shells are one of the most complex peony i’ve seen when it comes to timing. First it’s just an orange peony, as the ornage went out the pistil came to life orange stars as the colors of the pistil went out again the outer core came to life again with purple stars this time!. What a great shell! This continued until the end of the segment. This segment is exactly what italy’s known for. Great rhythm with alternating effects of spherical and cylindrical bombs. If you’ll look at the italian shows in different website their show’s won’t be far from this segment of their display. Whew exactly what i was hoping for that they would do hehehe!! I saw my favore italian effects!

Purple candles started this section. above was a barrage of cylindrical willows with salutes. This time clearly it looked like it was the final segment. As the salutes fired shells of golden willows fired above. More and more of this shells fired building up to an almost perfect finale but the final ooomph wasn’t there so I was hoping that there would be more………………………………………………………………………………………….

Then a barrage of shells was heard by all of the people then another signature segment of parente was made. Below were cylindrical shells with salutes then above were large peonies. This is a signature parente segment because on the left side where all greens then in the middle were all white then on the right side all of the shells firing where red making a clear statement that it was the italian team who’s firing. The finale just built up to an awesome phase bombarding us with salutes, peonies and cylindrical shells. Then below were also candles with same color scheme. The peonies became larger and larger then the final barrages of shells came out as the salutes fired below was a fan of whistling serpents.

For me this was the best show in the World Pyro Olympics 2008. All of my dream shells were put in front of me so during the finale i didn’t really care anymore to lose my voice i was just screaming my head of hahaha!! So maybe see you next year again parente???? hehehe!! So i guess i should make the report speak by itself hahaa!

Vander

Italy And Venezuela moved to May 24, Saturday

Due to strong winds that’s going towards the mall of asia building the fireworks for today May 17 2008 has been postponed until tomorrow!

Due to the coastguards not letting the barge travel in front of mall of asia because of rough seas the schedule for italy and venezuela has been moved to Saturday, 24th of May. The Philippines’ show and the Felliwship of fire will be on the 31st of May.  

Looks like i still have to wait for a few day for me to see one of my favorite companies and that’s Parente fireworks of Italy So if you thought you missed it today please come next saturday it will be a great fun! goodluck to italy and venezuela! please give me some one shot sequences!

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!

L’International Des Feux Loto-Quebec 2008

In my post about the World Pyro Olympics 2008, I kept mentioning about the montreal fireworks competition. As I’ve said it’s my favorite pyromusical competition in the world! Each country has 30 minutes to show their pyromusical proness. The competition takes place in La Ronde, Montreal, Canada. This year i think that the participants are quite strong! One of them is actually joining the World Pyro Olympics yey! hehe!

So here’s the schedule:

June 21 – France – Prestatech Artifice

June 28 – Italy – Pirotecnia Morsani

July 5 – South Korea – Hanhwa Corporation

July 12 – Portugal – Luso Pirotecnia (My favorite hehehe)

July 19 – Australia – Howards and Sons

july 23 – Canada – Garden City Display Fireworks

july 26 – Austria – Pyrovision GMBH.

july 30 – U.S.A – Pyrotecnico

August 2 – China – Sunny International (one of my favorites also)

August 6 – La Ronde – Panzera S.A.S (Finale not in competition)

I’ll update this when the themes of each display comes out! Goodluck to all competing countries.

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.

vander