Nanami “Seven Seas” Nagura took over the stage with her energetic and surprising Cinderella-themed performance, mesmerized the honored judges and made it to the first place of Air Guitar World Championships 2018.
Seven Seas made it to the finals as a Japan’s national champion, traveled all the way from Tokyo, to rock the stage in front of the audience of thousands at Rotuaari square.
Matt “The Airistotle” Burns from The USA scored the second, and the third place was taken over by Andrew “Flying Finn” Finn also from the USA.
Results:
Top 8
1. Nanami Nagura ”Seven Seas” JPN [35,8]
2. Matt Burns ”The Airistotle” USA [35,1]
3. Andrew Finn ”Flyin Finn” USA [34,2]
4. Dana Schiemann ”Dana-Saurus Rex” CAN [33,7]
5. Kate Rose “KitKat” USA [33,4]
5. Sven Smith ”Sven Spandex” UK [33,4]
7. Jason Farnan ”Lt Facemelter” USA [32,6]
7. Alex Roberts ”Jinja Assassin” AUS [32,6]
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9. Vincent Roussel ”Lord Scrat” FRA
10. Patrick Culek ”Ehrwolf” GER
11. Rachel Sinclair ”Agnes Young” USA
12. Toshio Kado ”Shariten Kd” JPN
13. Brittany Diaz ”Georgia Lunch” USA
13. Daniel Oldemeier ”Moredrive” GER
15. Lyrae (Lily) Freriechs ”Lily Rocknroll” AUS
High quality photos of the final can be found from the media bank: https://www.dropbox.com/home/AGWC2018/Final. Photo credits Juuso Haarala.
The World Champion was awarded an electric guitar, a Flying Finn, impeccably handcrafted by honored guitar crafter Matti Nevalainen and her daughter Saara Nevalainen. The winner gets also a spot in next year’s championships’ World Final and a year of honor as The Air Guitar World Champion. The Final was competed through a bit of rain, but the drops did not bother the audience and totally not the competitors. The winner was announced with the thunder roaring in the background.
The judges evaluate contestants in three categories; choreography, the accuracy of their performance and “Airness” of the competitor. All in all, 15 skilled and fierce finalists climbed to the stage on the World Finals. Each contestant plays for one minute along the song of their choice, and after that, they play a common song of organiser’s choice, which remained as a secret until the beginning of the World Final. This year the song was Hellacopters – Hopeless case of a kid in denial.
The honoured Final Jury included Samu Forsblom, the City of Oulu’s Director of Culture, singer Suvi Aalto, Mika Lammassaari, guitarist from the band Mors Subita, Asta Salomaa, a musician and festival producer and the last but not totally the least, Juha Torvinen, honorary air guitar jury member since the beginning of Air time.
This year the final had a record of women on the stage, altogether six out of 15.
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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.
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