My beautiful rock and roll friends, the announcement is out - at a record early time - of the basics of the 2016 US Air Guitar season! You can, and probably have, read the announcement on the US Air Guitar site, but if not, you can look it over right here.
All right. Two Conference Finals down, two to go. The two in the bag were the bigger ones, pulling in competitors from all over and sending (now) 5 air guitarists on to Nationals. The remaining two, the Atlantic and Eastern Conference Finals, pull in a smaller but still dedicated slate of performers, and send 3 each. Today we're going to talk about the Atlantic semifinal, in Washington, DC, last Wednesday.
Tags: semi-finals, dc, recaps, 2015 season
I know the Atlantic and Eastern Conference Finals just happened, but we need to talk about the Western Conference Finals in San Francisco first. Because, just like the Central Conference Finals, they were marred by scandal. This season, you guys. Well, no - the regular season went more or less smoothly. This post-season is the thing that's having dramatics. Maybe semifinals need to be put together by regular air guitarists as well, like qualifiers are, since everyone has proven that they can do it pretty well.
Tags: san francisco, semi-finals, recaps, 2015 season
The Chicago semifinals, aka the US Air Guitar Central Conference Finals, took place Friday night at the Double Door (is it even possible not to call it the "Dumbledore"? I think not). They were streamed live, and they were rife with excitement. There was talent! There were costumed games of mistaken identity! There was even SCANDAL. I'll get to all of that in good time, but let me just say that if this is how the "postseason" is going to go, it's not going to be dull.
Tags: chicago, semi-finals, recaps, 2015 season
The last semi-final of the 2014 US Air Guitar season has now taken place! The road is clear to Nationals! And the last semifinal in question was the Southeast one, in DC, which is apparently always totally mindblowing. I'm smelling a campaign to get Nationals there soon... but before we go off on a Nationals-tangent, let's talk about what happened Saturday night!
Tags: semi-finals, second-hand recaps, dc, 2014 season
The last semi-final of the 2014 US Air Guitar season has now taken place! The road is clear to Nationals! And the last semifinal in question was the Southeast one, in DC, which is apparently always totally mindblowing. I'm smelling a campaign to get Nationals there soon... but before we go off on a Nationals-tangent, let's talk about what happened Saturday night!
Tags: semi-finals, dc, 2014 season
Another semifinal is in the books, ladies and gentlemen. On Saturday night, the famed Troubadour in LA was host to the US Air Guitar Southwest Semifinal, meaning there's only one more semi to go before Nationals. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. We need to talk about what happened in LA!
Tags: semi-finals, los angeles, 2014 season
Another semifinal is in the books, ladies and gentlemen. On Saturday night, the famed Troubadour in LA was host to the US Air Guitar Southwest Semifinal, meaning there's only one more semi to go before Nationals. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. We need to talk about what happened in LA!
Tags: semi-finals, second-hand recaps, los angeles, 2014 season
The third semi-final of the 2014 US Air Guitar Season has just taken place in San Francisco! Look, ok, I don't think of San Francisco as the Northwest either, but I don't make the rules or name the names. This semifinal brought together the top 3 air guitarists of the San Francisco, Portland, and Santa Cruz qualifiers - which would make it the smallest semi with only 3 qualifiers feeding into it, except that no one from Detroit showed up to the Chicago semifinal. But big things come in small packages sometimes. This was an intense battle!
Tags: san francisco, semi-finals, second-hand recaps, 2014 season
The third semi-final of the 2014 US Air Guitar Season has just taken place in San Francisco! Look, ok, I don't think of San Francisco as the Northwest either, but I don't make the rules or name the names. This semifinal brought together the top 3 air guitarists of the San Francisco, Portland, and Santa Cruz qualifiers - which would make it the smallest semi with only 3 qualifiers feeding into it, except that no one from Detroit showed up to the Chicago semifinal. But big things come in small packages sometimes. This was an intense battle!
Tags: san francisco, semi-finals, 2014 season