Hi guys,
Here's very last review of this year's Montreal fireworks competition.
Last night, it wasn't as cold as expected. I thought the temperature was ok for this time of year. I think a lot more people were present if you compare the numbers to last year's. But when I say "a lot", I only mean 10 - 20 more people lol.
The show started at 9:00pm and lasted for a good 15min, which is really not bad. Before I forget, since I follow this competition very religiously and every detail is important to me, I have to mention that 2 salutes were launched just 10min before the show started. In my opinion, the show was good. I'll try to name some of the effects that I saw and didn't, especially for Smoke

. There were a lot of white candles that went directly up in the sky and they were very bright, I'm guessing that they came from the Spanish display. Unfortunately, we just saw one shell-of-shell. Overall, the display had a good number of salutes. Remember the Swedish salutes that were suppose to launch during the finale? Well, we saw them at the very last seconds of the show. And I can say, it was the loudest noise of the show for only 3 seconds lol. However, they weren't as impressive as I had hoped them to be. The American salutes were far more stronger. We also saw giradolas. I don't think it was those double ascensions, but they were as always impressive. There were a lot shells that changed colors. On the other heand, we didn't see any hearts or spirals. There was suppose to be a lot of Canada's huge shells, but for some reason, I didn't see a lot of huge shells, like last year. But I can say that we saw pretty much a little resume of all the displays we saw this year, obviously lol. I found the lower effects were quite interesting. A lot of nice creativity and beautiful scenes. You can really notice the difference between this show and the real ones, you get the impression that they are very "limited". I can't really comment much, but I can say it's always a "cute" and enjoyable show to watch.
As for the finale, well, it wasn't really intense in length, maybe only the last 3-5sec (because of the salutes). I think last year's finale was way better.
In conclusion, I thought the creativity was better this year than last year. However, last year's intensity and finale were better than this year.