The 20th edition of the Air Guitar World Championships hits full throttle tonight in Oulu, Finland. The Rotuaari Square gets to witness an anniversary show with 17 most talented airtists in the international Air Guitar scene: seven national champions, the nine luckiest Dark Horses’ from the last night’s qualifiers as well as the reigning world champion Nanami “Seven Seas” Nagura of Japan.
The show starts at 7.30 p.m. (EET) and will be streamed alive at www.kaleva.fi/ilmakitara.
Here’s the performance order for the World Final 2015:
1. Zac “The Magnet” Monro, Dark Horse 2015, the United Kingdom
2. Beth “CindAirella” Melin, Dark Horse 2015, the United States
3. Jeffrey “The Airtiste” Stiles, Dark Horse 2015, the United States
4. Thom “w!ld th!ng” Wilding , Dark Horse 2015, the United Kingdom
5. Patrick “Ehrwolf” Culek, Dark Horse 2015, Germany
6. Kereel “Your Daddy” Blumenkrants, Dark Horse 2015, Russia
7. Michael “Operation Rock a Pussy” Lovely, Dark Horse 2015, the United States
8. Tom “Tom the Sweaty Fury” Trevisan, Dark Horse 2015, Italy
9. Eero “Oulu’s Own Son” Ojala, Dark Horse 2015, Finland
10. Sabrina “Lady Liberty” Schramm, the German Champion 2015
11. Ilmars “Hell Machine” Auzins, the Latvian Champion 2015
12. Nanami “Seven Seas” Nagura, JP, the World Champion 2014, Japan
13. Matt “Airistotle” Burns, the US Champion 2015
14. Jason “Thrust” McNeely, the Canadian Champion 2015
15. Junichi “Jun Jun” Kamada, the Japanese Champion 2015
16. Emmanuelle “Miss Issippy” Stempniakowski, the Belgian Champion 2015
17. Sita “Guilty Director” van Sante, the Dutch Champion 2015
… And please meet our jury for tonight!
Head of the Jury Juha Torvinen
Air Guitar World Champions Eric “Mean” Melin (2013) and Markus Vainionpää (2000)
National organizers Aline Westphal (Germany) and Lisa Farnan (US)
For more information: producer Hanna Jakku, tel. +358 44 568 1429, [email protected]
The purpose of the Air Guitar World Championships is to promote world peace. According to the ideology of the Air Guitar, wars would end, climate change stop and all bad things disappear, if all the people in the world played the Air Guitar. This is why the whole universe is invited to play the Air Guitar for the world peace at the end of the competition.
For Peace, From Oulu.
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