Post the winners of 2009 here. I'm hoping it's Canada for first! Go Canada!!!

Enjoy the evening, everyone, but remember again that there exists the slight risk for showers and even thunderstorms (non-severe) this evening. Otherwise, mostly cloudy skies will prevail - it has already clouded over since about 4:12 p.m. As expected, winds are light to calm and South to Southwesterly, but again should switch to Northerlies this evening with identical speeds.

I'm anxious about the results for the winners.

Trav.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CANADA WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAHOO!!!!! Go Canada!!!!

And wow, my jury prediction was bang on. I said this at the end of my review:

Trav's jury prediction:

1st: Canada
2nd: China
3rd: U.S.A

And the official results were just that. Congratulations to team Canada - I knew you guys would win all the way! Great job!

The only thing I don't know is who had won the Special Jupiter. Please post the team soon!

Trav.

J'ai vraiment aimée le dernier feux! J'ai crus entendre l'hymne nationale des états unis??

Bref j'était assis a côté d'un flo qui s'ventait d'avoir toute ses carte d'artificier et y explicait aux monde a côté les compagnie et qui "travaillait" pour une firme, sa semblait être une technique pour cruiser les filles qui était a côté de lui.... franchement c'était frustrant moi qui est artificier de métier.

Sinon l'feux a été bruyant comme j'aimes et j'ai rien d'autre a dire la dessus, sa *Clotûré* le 25ième comme il faut en plus d'avoir respirer la fumée pendand 15 bonne minute, une vrais doses de drogue!

Congrats to team canada, china, and usa They all deserve it It seems u.s.a never misses a spot on the jupiters xD

Vander

First, congradulations to ALL the firms participating this year. Thank you for a trully excellent 25th season for the Competition.

Second, Thank you to Paul for putting up all the videos allowing us to see each of the performances.

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as selected by the 25 member popular jury at La Ronde:

The Green award: Austrailia- Foti's International Fireworks

The soundtrack Jupiter: Canada- Royal Pyrotechnie


The Bronze Jupiter: USA- Melrose Pyrotechnics

The Silver Jupiter: Hong Kong, China- Pyromagic Productions Ltd

The Gold Jupiter: Canada- Royal Pyrotechnie

Very well done! It seems that the results are fair. There were a lot of people at La Ronde tonight, and wow the grandstands were almost full. Everything went successfully! The 10min display was really enjoyable and well done, although it felt somewhat anti-climatic with the whole Michael Jackson thing following the ceremony lol. But I must say the crowd was very active during the display, so it was pretty kewl! The little stage performance by a resurrected Michael Jackson was kewl, too. However, the stage should've been located on the lake, but I guess the boat was needed for the ceremony. Only 3 or 4 seconds of the finale were intense, but eh!

I don't think La Ronde expected to see a lot of people, even though the weather wasn't perfect. Maybe next year, we'll have another mini display and the ceremony together. But who will they dedicated to this time? Also, if they want 11 fireworks nights (including a night for ceremony + mini display), it would make more sense to drop the needless Panzera displays as Fred had suggested, and replaced it with another competitor!

Jérome, en effect, c'était l'hymne nationale du Canada qu'ils ont jouée!

So this successfully concludes the 25th edition of the Montreal fireworks competition!

I just realized that Roger also had the same order for the winning teams in his jury predictions as I did. Seems we had a similar mindset, Roger.

Again, congratulations to Canada and all the winning teams. I was pleased to learn that Canada also was awarded the Special Jupiter as well. I hope that Paul will post a video of the ceremony.

Hopefully, the closing display and awards ceremony for next year will take place on the same night.

Trav.

At 5:00pm, 13 people have expressed their personal preferences in this forum. As it is done with the results from the jury, I gave a score to each contestant according to each "vote" expressed by these people: 3 points for a 1st place, 2 points for a 2nd place and 1 point for a 3rd place. The conclusion is very interesting:

Vote from 13 people in this forum:

1. Canada (27 points)
2. Hong Kong (22 points)
3. USA (10 points)

This is exactly the jury's decision! I don't expect any controversy about the 2009 official results! I'm very happy that Pyromagic (my 1st choice) is among the winners. The jury was not detract by the poor weather condition. Moreover, it is interesting to note that the special award for the soundtrack was given to Royal, whose soundtrack was technically very good but not made of popular, easier music, like the USA team. It looks that the jury was able to go beyond its personal taste and take into consideration technical component of the soundtrack.

Beyond that, the show prepared by Paul Csukassy, with Éric Cardinal (Ampleman), was very good and much more better than the official closing show we had, last week. Though they had some ideas before, Éric told me that the design process really began Wednesday morning and was completed Thursday. Then, they had two days two set-up the show.

Je crois qu'ils méritent le Jupiter pour la meilleure improvisation pyrotechnique!

Fred

Videos of the awards ceremony and the Michael Jackson tribute are uploading as I write this.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Paul.

Salut membres du jury parralèle des feux.

Nous devrions former le prochain jury officiel.
Cette année mes prédictions se sont réalisées et dans l'ordre.
Royal mérite amplement cet honneur et cà je l'ai expliqué dans mon commentaire. L'équipe de Yannick Roy ne sont pas que des tireurs de bombes mais aussi des artistes qui préparent leurs spectacle avec minutie , créativité, originalité pour captiver les amateurs , les faire tripper avec eux, les surprendre constamment. Comme le disait si justement Yannick dans son spectacle 2003...Royal font preuve de beaucoup de sensibilité pour rechercher et produire les émotions.. Je suis vraiment content.

SMOKE...Félicitations !!!!! Gagnons nous un prix pour l'exactitude de nos choix ????( lol)Je crois bien que nous avions la même facon de voir le spectacle de Royal........

MERCI à la personne qui filme les spectacles. C,est bien fait ....Au fait qui fait ces vidéos ??

Roger

MERCI à la personne qui filme les spectacles. C,est bien fait ....Au fait qui fait ces vidéos ??

Paul Marriott lui-même (identifié comme fireworksforum).

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Even though I identified all the winning firms correctly, China and Quebec were inverted in my evaluations VS the jury's, as I gave them 1st and 2nd place respectively.

Still, Royal's victory is very nice. They were clearly the best in Canada, now they confirmed it by winning the most prestigious Jupiter once again !

As usual, my evaluation (very positive this time, I promise ) of the display is online, alongside a picture gallery of the winners.

What a wonderful job by Paul Csukassy and Eric Cardinal ! These guys surely deserved to be applaused that much at the end of their display !

The big MJ letters at the beginning;
The synchronisation, that was way better than expected;
The "Niagara Falls";
How they managed to fit together such various bombs and still have a nice display
The show was way too short !

STL

PAUL

Merci pour le mal que tu te donnes à chaque soir pour filmer les feux de chacun des pays.
J'apprécie beaucoup.

Roger

STL,

Paul Csukassy était assisté d'Éric Cardinal de la firme montréalaise Ampleman, et non de l'Américain Erik Tucker.

Mais c'est sûrement une très belle fleur pour Éric Cardinal d'avoir été confondu avec son homonyme américain!

Fred

That is great news! I knew Canada would win. I was cheering out loud like Trav on his post!

Ah it's a great thing we got first place, and I managed to watch it. I find USA should have been under Canada and then China. But still Eric did manage to bring a great display into his hands. They well deserved it! Well done Royal!

Hope you all had a great year of watching the fireworks at La Ronde, until next year, this might as well be my last post. But I might say Hey once in a while.

Regards,
Pat

Roger,

Gagnons nous un prix pour l'exactitude de nos choix ????

Now that would be really nice, wouldn't it? hehe Yes, I appreciated the Canadian display a great deal as much as you did and was confident that they'd claim victory!

Congratulations to your exact order of picks for the winners as well. Nicely done, Roger!

Saluteness,

Yes, I went a little wild the moment I heard that Canada had won first place, much like I did in 2003. lol
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The tribute to Michael Jackson was enjoyable and made the closing much more epic in delivery. I thought the show was well devised. I loved the way everyone was screaming in Paul's video almost the entire time - a lot of them looked to be out of control (who could blame them?). I'm hoping that my wish will come true and a competitor for next year (2010) will dedicate a performance in honor of Michael Jackson. MICHAEL JACKSON FOREVER.

And now I must endure September to March all over again.

Trav.