2008 Rank and jury prediction

Thanks for starting the topic, but do you have an opinion of your own? I'm sure we'd all like to see it - the more people that contribute, the better. I'll probably post mine tomorrow.

Paul.

Paul
Here is my opinion on the winners.

I am not sure what order. But I think one of the three teams will be the top three for one of the. Gold Jupiter,Silver Jupiter and Bronze Jupiter.

Canada
Portugal
USA


Brad

I'll be posting mine as well sometime tomorrow as I need time to think about the winners carefully and review everything. However, in the meantime I will say that this has been such a pleasurable and exciting year for the competition with some very interesting and complex ideas employed by our entrants for their respective displays. Many thanks goes to all of our competitors for their participation at our competition!

I'm very nervous to know which of our contestants will receive the gold, silver and bronze.

Keep the predictions coming!

Trav.

Just for the heck of it... Based on the jury's mind set, I predict the rankings will be like this:

1. United States
2. Portugal
3. China

To present our choices and to project what the jury's decision is are great and exciting traditions in this forum!

Fred's personal ranking:

Gold Jupiter - Grupo Luso Pirotecnia (Portugal)
Silver Jupiter - Pyrotecnico (United States)
Bronze Jupiter - Hanwha Corporation (South Korea)

Fred's prediction:

Gold Jupiter - Pyrotecnico (United States)
Silver Jupiter - Grupo Luso Pirotecnia (Portugal)
Bronze Jupiter - Sunny International (China)

I suspect a very tight race between the Portuguese and American entrants. On an election night, I would state "too close to call"! However, I have in mind the 2005 scenario: most people did expect Argentina and Sweden on the highest podium positions, but the Swedish team was not among the winners. Jury's decision may be surprising.

Fred

Here's my rankings!
1. U.S.A, Pyrotecnico - Gold Jupiter
2. Australia Howards and Sons - Silver Jupiter
3. Portugal Luso - Bronze Jupiter

But here's what i think the jury would choose
1. Luso pirotecnia, Portugal
2. Pyrotecnico, U.S.A
3. Sunny International, China

I'm really excited to see the rankings this year! I think that among all the competitors, Portugal deserves the gold jupiter most, this is because for the 3 years they've joined they have presented very goo displays, but yet they still haven't got the gold jupiter heheheh... This is just my opinion though I think most of the participants this year did a really great job and this just proves that even debutants in the montreal competition could present a really great show... This is specially true for Pyrotecnico!

vander

I think the following teams will be on the podium not sure of the order:

Australia-Howard & Sons Pyrotechnics
Portugal-Luso Pirotechnica
USA-Pyrotechnico

The jury knows and we will all find out in a few days now.

H

My predictions:

GOLD JUPITER: U.S.A . Pyrotechnico

SILVER JUPITER: Portugal. Luso Pirotecnia.

BRONZE JUPITER: Australia. Howard & Sons Pyrotechnics.

1. U.S.A.
2. Portugal
3. Australia

Here's my personnal ranking!

#1 GOLD JUPITER: U.S.A. (I saw the show)

#2 SILVER JUPITER: AUSTRALIA (I saw the show)

#3 BRONZE JUPITER: CHINA (I saw the show)

LOOL. Well, I saw all the shows of the season! Sorry Paul for not precising it sooner! Je dois avouer qu'il y a bel et bien des classements qui sont surprenants. Peut-être bien le mien :P.

P.S.: Mon classement ne se base pas sur les critères officiels, mais bien sur mon appréciation général des spectacles.

AnnoyingKiid-

Pour ma part, mon choix est le suivant :

1/ Portugal : Luso Pirotecnia
2/ Corée du Sud : Hanwha Corporation
3/ Australie. Howard & Sons Pyrotechnics

Avec un gros encouragement pour l'Autriche

My Personal Rankings:

1.Portugal (Grupo Luso Pirotecnia)
2.Canada (Garden City Display Fireworks)
3.Australia (Howard & Sons Pyrotechnics)

I hope Portugal wins, because they deserve it really badly. I really enjoyed it. It was the most frightening and most intense finale this year. Canada just had it, they presented one awsome display. I really felt they were going for the Jupiter for sure. Australia had massive shells, nice pieces and well done choice of music. I hope they are at least in the rankings of all the judges. How can you not enjoy Australia display!?! All three firms delivered fabulous displays.

Pat

One thing I forgot to mention, when you're writing your personal rankings it would be interesting to know which displays, if any, you did not see. I'm surprised at some of the rankings posted already, but this may be because some of you just didn't see all the displays.

Thanks in advance,

Paul.

p.s. you can always edit your postings by clicking on the "edit" button

Sorry Paul for not precising it sooner!