LA held their US Air Guitar Qualifier the same night as Des Moines. There was, as I understand, less in the way of men exposing themselves, but they did keep alive the tradition of family rivalry. They also had a healthy number of competitors, which I like to see, and they rocked the famous Viper Room - which has a lit-up extension to the stage that apparently is great for powerslides. Let's talk about it!
Tags: qualifiers, second-hand recaps, los angeles, 2014 season
Well, Des Moines will never be the same. A bevy of Kansas City air guitarists invaded the place and rocked faces, and in one case, shocked the audience with a dramatic pants malfunction. We'll get to that, although you've probably seen it all over the internet already.
Tags: qualifiers, second-hand recaps, des moines, 2014 season
First of all, no discussion of Detroit is complete (at least by me) without the inclusion of this video:
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Is your 2013 US Air Guitar National Champion going to let you down? Of course not. So, when Lt. Facemelter signed up to host the San Diego Qualifier this year, everyone knew it was going to rock. Last year, they had Plinko to choose people's second-round songs. This year... well. We will get to that.
Tags: qualifiers, second-hand recaps, san diego, 2014 season
The NYC US Air Guitar Qualifier took place the same night as the Boston one (Boston is always at the same time as something else, although usually it's Kansas City for some reason). While it was a bit of a bummer that people had to decide to go to one or the other, rather than jumping on the Fung Wah bus and doing both, it did increase the ambient amount of air in the world that night. That's scientific fact.
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Following hot on the heels of Kansas City, Chicago's US Air Guitar Qualifier took place on the following night. The contrast between the two was marked - KC was pretty easy for everyone else to keep track of and even had a livestream, where Chicago's was in a subterranean venue and no one's phone had service. KC had what has to be a record number of competitors with 21, where Chicago had about 8. But the rock was not diminished by the smaller scale.
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The 2014 US Air Guitar season has officially started! Brooklyn got it all under way and served notice to the rest of the country. If May 1's qualifier is anything to go by, it's going to be an incredible season!
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The 2014 US Air Guitar season has officially started! Brooklyn got it all under way and served notice to the rest of the country. If May 1's qualifier is anything to go by, it's going to be an incredible season!
Tags: brooklyn, second-hand recaps, 2014 season
You might be reading that title and thinking "wait, you went to Finland?" No... but it isn't a second-hand recap because I watched the whole thing live online. Now that that's out of the way, let's dive in!
The Air Guitar World Championships have their own Dark Horse competition, just like US Air Guitar's Dark Horse. Well, not just like it. For one thing, there's no second round! It's just scores from the first round, and that's that. Also, just like in the actual world championship judging, there are 5 judges rather than 3, and the high and low scores are discarded. This Dark Horse is not an invitational, like the US one is, but rather a walk-on convention.
Tags: second-hand recaps, 2013 season,, world championships, dark horse