Quite a remarkable display. One that I once again missed. But this display was a good display that I missed. Poland really put a huge debuting display in front of our eyes. I was pretty impressed that Surex had alot to offer. Also, Paul, the video of Ramp 1 taken by Journal de Montreal, what display was that? Just curious.

Very enjoyable, quite loud finale, and numerous shells brought my ranking for Poland as #2! That said, I didn't really like the choice of music and the theme "Believe" had, how you say, pas rapport a ce spectacle de feu. It was good, and alot of people liked it. I can't disagree with them, it was good, but lacked several things. I would push them to #1 due to the amount of multi-breaks they used, but Italy had used them too.

My rankings so far:
1. Italy
2. Poland
3. Taiwan

Hope to see what Macedo's has to offer, since they did have the world record for 6 years in largest fireworks display in the world, until it was surpassed by Dubai's display in the United Arab Emirates.

Pat

Also, Paul, the video of Ramp 1 taken by Journal de Montreal, what display was that? Just curious.

I'd say Taiwan, because of the orange crossette cakes seen at one point during the video. If I remember well, Italy display did not have cakes at all and Poland didn't have orange crossettes (they used fan cakes a lot though).

EDIT : forgot the most important ! One picture clearly comes from a camera with water droplets on the lens. It only rained during Taiwan's entry !

It was definitely Taiwan - the J de M people were there when we were interviewing the team so I knew they were going to do this

Hope to see what Macedo's has to offer, since they did have the world record for 6 years in largest fireworks display in the world, until it was surpassed by Dubai's display in the United Arab Emirates.

Macedo's most recent New Year's Eve display on Madeira surpassed the Dubai display so they still hold the record as far as I understand - see http://www.macedos.com.pt/uk/noticias.php?pageNum_rsNoticias=1&totalRo ws_rsNoticias=33

Paul.

well here's their latest show in madeira, they competed against luso, minhota, and filhos. Certainly was a good competition B-)
part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lnfYZYjrRA
part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHFnGZiDKrE

Vander

Great first performance by Poland. This was a much better and complex and emotional display than the previous ones. It had a good soundtrack, too. The only part that I didn't like was the pop song (by Celine Dion and another singer), which really didn't go well with the classical songs. And it was the least interesting part of the display. Despite this silly mistake, the rest of the show was generally very well done for a new participant. Synchronization was pretty good, too. The faux finale and the real finale were very well done and had a good build-up, but neither of them were powerful enough.

My rankings so far:

1. Poland
2. Italy
3. Taiwan