[Slowhand] Air Guitar Champs

[Gordon Shinn]

Air guitar championship shared by two 
HELSINKI, Finland,  Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Finland's top air 
guitarist shared the world championship with New Zealand's 
best at the ninth annual Oulu Music Video Festival. Initially, 
Miri "Sonyk-Rok" Park was crowned after an "air-off" against 
Tarquin "The Tarkness" Keys, the national champion of New 
Zealand, the Helsingin Sanomat reported Monday. But then 
an Olympics-style scoring controversy arose: It was learned 
that while the two had both achieved near-perfect scores on 
their compulsory round, "The Tarkness" had in fact received 
fractionally higher marks from the three-person jury. The 
slip-up was resolved by awarding the prize jointly to 
both competitors. 
A total of sixteen competitors took part, with 11 progressing 
to the compulsory round after air-guitaring to a one-minute 
snatch of a song of their own choosing. Although there was 
a preliminary qualifying round for hopefuls, in which two 
Finns progressed, most of the finalists were national 
champions. Australia, Belgium, Norway, Austria, the Netherlands, 
Finland, France, Germany, Ireland and the United Arab Emirates 
were all represented, in addition to the 2003 Champion David 
"C-Diddy"Jung of the United States (he finished third this 
year) and the two winners. 
  
 Brad
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