I just saw COL 2008

What was the name of your 'piece'? That's what's listed on the DVD,not the names of the people involved. SO unless we know your piece was called Pali Dreams or SyndhroDudes in Heaven or Me in Post-Industrial Wonderland or whatever, there's not much way to know/help

Please someone correct me if I'm being obtuse and the people's names really are listed somewhere....
CHeers
Gabe

Apologies! However, being that I've not yet seen the DVD, it would have taken some act of paranormal psychic ability for me to know this thing that you have just so kindly told me. :-p

Act name: Puppeteer's Dream

Gratzi!

As previously explained because of so many credits and contact details we refer to the www.homeofpoi.com/col2008
As you will see on that page there is a lot of information.
This allows information to be kept up to date.
Performers names have changed in the past as with contact details, websites etc.
A simple title is provided to us which can be a troupe name persons name, and/or descriptive title.
We place those on the video to "keep it clean" for watching and say for full details see that link.
I really do not want to display outdated information on a DVD.
Maybe next time submit a different title for the entry being aware that it can not change.

Does that make sense?
I want everyone to get credit for their work and keep it updated with emails, performance name/s, websites...
Is it that hard to look it up on the website?
Maybe I can send a printed copy with each. But I prefer to print less paper if I can

Oh, my! Now things have definitely gone wonky -- this is why I normally don't talk :x

Please disregard my earlier comments and sorry for the trouble... I'll scrape up a copy of the DVD and have a looksie for meself

Your work is fantastic and amazing, Malcolm, and I'm sure we all appreciate your love of trees and attentiveness to our tendency to alter identities.

<3

Oops
Totally my bad. Silly me and my lousy eyesight. Didn't see the little words at the bottom of the cover.

I've been told that it's tagged on at the end of the Fiammella Fire Duo chapter, and it doesn't have its own chapter. But since I don't have the video, I can't confirm that.

[edit] Could someone that has it please take a looksee? I'll make cupcakes

Yes. There are some text at the end of the video. Something like thanks to all involved in making this DVD and futher information available from www.homeofpoi.com/col2008 plus the cover of the DVD talks about the link.

Sorry you do not have a copy yourself

Yes, that text is at the end of the DVD. This is before it. I've been described some of the details [via PM], and they correspond exactly. What I'm asking is for someone to check their actual video against the list on www.homeofpoi.com/col2008 and we can clear this up.



[edit & addquote] In no way misunderstand this to mean that I don't appreciate all the hard work of the HoP team to put this wonderful DVD together.

please can i crash this topis new user sorry i am from rsa and would like to find out more about competitions and championships can you help me get some direction

HI there poifun-academy. Welcome to HoP.
(Just a pointer though... good idea to take your email address out from your name box- might attract spammers.)

Are you looking for live competitions? Personally I don't know of many, as the general ethos of the poi community as I've seen it tends to be more about skill sharing and having fun without competition. The topic has been raised here a few times, having cometitive leagues and so on, but it never seems to get very far.

People have raised objections about the codification and ranking that would be involved, and the notion that 'winning' such a thing would be meaningful, given that so many poiple would not get involved. So saying someone was the 'champion' of Europe or whatever would not be respected, and would just be divisive to the community.

There are heaps of comps for baton twirlers though, you might get some clues from that world. And I did hear some rumours of glowstring 'battles' though that was from the USA and seemed related to the hiphop battle approach.

Having said that, there is one little comp I know about...a firedance comp held on the Gold Coast, Qld, Australia once a year, sponsored by a local shop (Threeworlds).
I've been a judge for that one a few times, so I know the criteria include choreo, presentation and safety as well as technical skill. There was a similar one in Cairns a few years ago too. One thing about comps with financial prizes is that the money has to come from somewhere, so the ones I have known are sponsored by shops.

HoP runs COL (Circles of light) as a video competition, so its about how well the vid is presenting the art, not just technicals.

There are heaps of comps for baton twirlers though, you might get some clues from that world. And I did hear some rumours of glowstring 'battles' though that was from the USA and seemed related to the hiphop battle approach.

Are you looking to run one, or enter one?

there's also the Japanese Fire Festival Fire Contest.. it's amazing
lots of great spinners competing in a very constructive and beautiful way
www.firefestival.jp

Wow - these COL videos are just getting better and better - both in the quality of the vids, and in the music!

congrats to all the Winners - I'm not surprised at the placings, although I think there are some other honourable mentions that could fit in there - I'll post again with some of these after I watch the video again.

Durbs you fatty - well done!

Well done Malcolm for continuing to provide one of the only serious fire comps with a global reach, and outstanding diversity.