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Author Anonymous
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#31 | Posted: 29 Jul 2003 17:05 
Trav here,


This is for Paul and Enkil. The weather will be fine tomorrow and tomorrow evening. Tomorrow evening will be roughly ranging from 22 to 25 degrees with mainly clear skies and 0% chance of precipitation!! Great weather and can't ask for more. The only chance of precipitation is this evening with a 60% chance of thundershowers and scattered showers overnight. Enkil, tell your cousin to enjoy the show and you too, Paul. Well, that's my weather report. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee!


Trav

Author Anonymous
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#32 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 08:27 
Hey Paul, Trav here.


I just have a couple of questions.

What do cakes, "candles and titanium salutes, or salutes in general" look like, so I will be able to reconize them?

Please respond soon. Thanks a lot.

Trav.

Author fireworksforum
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#33 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 08:52 
A "candle" is a tube that shoots out multiple stars in a sequence, one after the other. A cake is a set of tubes which are arranged in a big group next to each other, so that it looks, well, like a big cake. Each tube shoots out a single effect and the tubes are fused together so that they fire in a fast sequence, one after the other.

A salute is an effect which explodes with a loud bang in the sky. A titanium salute is the same thing but it also includes titanium metal flakes in it which give a charactestic cloud of white sparks when the salute explodes. Salutes are often called reports or marroons too. Marroon is from the French word for chestnut, because that's what they look like before they explode.

Hope this helps,

Paul.

Author Anonymous
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#34 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 10:57 
Thanks a lot for the explanation, I appreciate it.


Another question. I doubt I can get tickets for seats at La Ronde for the final show now, but how long can you get them in advance? The very first show I saw in 1990 was at La Ronde and then on I watched from Lorimier and Notre-Dam intersection. One more thing, you don't usually write reports for the closing display, right? I noticed in the past. But, you deserve a break. Oh yeah, here are my last minute predictions: Canada, U.S and Italy. Is there awards for the special Jupiter? If there is, then I would say Australia or England or maybe China could squeeze in to claim it, providing there is a special Jupiter. I'm full of questions, last one, do you close this forum at the end of the competition and when do you post the following year's schedule? I'm done now. I look foward to seeing your response.

Thanks again for the explanation on candles, cakes and salutes.


Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Trav.

Author fireworksforum
Admin 
#35 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 11:14 
You can get tickets up to about six months in advance. Once the schedule is announced, the tickets are available. And you're right, there are no tickets left at all for tonight.

I don't write reports for the closing show because I want to sit back and fully enjoy the display - I feel I deserve it!

As for special Jupiters, there haven't been any awarded since 1999. They are generally for something special, not for doing a good display. Thus, in the past, the head of safety was awarded a special Jupiter; Kimbolton were awared a special Jupiter for their contribution to the deveopment of fireworks (their founder, Rev. Ron Lancaster, has written one of the pyrotechnical "bibles" - pun intended )

As for closing the forum, no it will not be closed. I'd planned on having a forum in the past but didn't have time to organize its installation and setup. Now that I have (and the task was made easier by the website redesign I did last year to use cascading style sheets), it will be kept open permanently. So check in as often as you want. You may also want to consider registering, then you can be in the "roll of honour" for the being one of the biggest contributors to the dicussions. The way it is set up presently is that anonymous posters don't figure in the statistics.

Next year's schedule will be posted as soon as I receive it - probably the end of January 2004.

Paul.

Author Anonymous
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#36 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 11:17 
The rumour currently making its way around behind-the-scenes, is that three countries have been contacted and been told that they have won a jupitor. They have not been told which jupitor they have won, they just know they have placed in the top three. This is to ensure that they will be present to accept their award.

Those countries are:

Canada
Hong Kong-China
Australia


Seymour

Author Enkil
Member 
#37 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 11:57 
Canada
Hong Kong-China
Australia

Anonymous r u serious?

wheres united states!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lmao

Author fireworksforum
Admin 
#38 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 12:10 
Well, in six or so hours time we'll know. By the way, it always works that a company is told they have won "something" without knowing what position they have placed.

I know of some other rumours too, but, since they are only rumours, are not worth repeating.

The fact is that this year there were six companies who deserved to win and, sadly, there are only three prizes. So there's bound to be disappointments. As much as I liked the US display, I have some friends who I respect very much, who didn't like it at all. It all depends where you sit - a good part of La Ronde was smoke-bound for the US show and this will always have an impact on the overall appreciation. Canada and Australia both had very good weather conditions which allowed a clear view of the display. Any of the companies in that top six who place in the top three deserve it, and, as I said, the three that don't also deserve recognition for being at the pinnacle of the pyromusical art.

Paul.

Author Enkil
Member 
#39 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 12:22 

Author Enkil
Member 
#40 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 13:07 
so if that rumor is true, then canada wins the gold obviously

i was more up for usa then canada thro, but both deserve a gold

Author fireworksforum
Admin 
#41 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 13:17 
Well, not obviously. Frederik rated Autralia as Gold and he was a jury member two years ago. So even if we know the countries (which we don't yet), we still are speculating as to the order.

Paul.

Author Anonyme
Guest 
#42 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 14:10 
vive la france enfin un feu qui change de tous ce qu on peux voire a montreal beaucoup d elegance et de rafinement a l image du pays cela nous achanger de c est guerre interminable que nous font les autre pays

Author Anonyme
Guest 
#43 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 14:27 
JE SUIS d accord avec toi je pense qu une troisieme place serait plus que meriter voici mon classement 1 australie 2 canada 3 france

Author Enkil
Member 
#44 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 14:34 
huh? france? i thought that was the worst show this year

anyways, ive never felt so excited for 2night, this competition is so tight, and also for every1s opinion, cant wait!

great weather too !

Author Anonyme
Guest 
#45 | Posted: 30 Jul 2003 14:52 
je pense sinplement avoir vue un feu totalement different des autre annees il sont reussie a emouvoire le public et rendre hommage a la femme cela merite bien un peux de douceur dans ce monde de brute demande a ta mere ce qu elle en pense

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