Oct 20, 2007The sixth HipHop Days Bremen

The prestigious IDO World Hiphop, Electric Boogie and Breakdance Championships and Cups in the AWD-Dome Bremen in Germany

- Denmark got most GOLD
They have been the best of the best of their countries competing at the Hiphop-Dancesport World of the IDO in 26 different competitions, world championships and cups on 5 consecutive days from 9:00 am to 09:00 pm each day judged by 34 specialist adjudicators from 15 countries!
Again the big Hall 7 of the AWD-Dome in Bremen was the center of the dancing world.

Some figures for the statistics:

With 564 dancers Germany brought the largest team participating,
followed by Slovenia with 343 and
Denmark with 247 dancers enrolled.

Denmark headed the medal-table with 6 gold medals.

1.303 startnumbers have been handed out for the dancers -

123 formations/productions have been competing in the 4 age groups, children, juniors, adults and adults II and open.

Greece participated for the first time at an IDO World HipHop Event -
England and Wales brought the largest team ever from the UK: 125 dancers.

Southafrica sent 118 wonderful dancers traveling around the world
- not to forget our overseas contestants from Australia, Canada and the USA.

3 Masterclasses offered the best of HipHop-dancing throughout the world - different styles from
° Russia, St. Petersburg ==> Victor Burlakov,
° Germany, ==> Samy Böhner,
° England, ==> Marlon Wallen (Flawless),,
° The Netherlands ==> Louis, Rosano and Lars .

Patsy Hull and Thomas Puettmann hosted the event brilliantly and with incredible charm, successfully assisted by the two super DJs SURI and FRESHCUT from Bremen

The IDO-president, Bill Fowler (USA) and the true "red-devil from Denmark", Kirsten Dan Jensen had everything under control as well as the IDO Floor-Supervisor Carsten Rott from Germany.

"Weili" and his scrutenizing team did a great job counting and ranking all the participants regarding the crosses and places of the 34 international judges.

Heiko Leyhausen as PR-specialist and successful choreograph and trainer from Bremen informed and guided the press people from the media - paper, radio- and tv-stations - reporting about the event and coming from many countries and all over Germany.
The organizing team around Michael Wendt was working behind the scene successfully and efficient as well as the very professional and wonderful people of the AWD-Dome Bremen, including the caterers, security and technics etc. having been acting in front and behind the scene and guarantying a very smooth running of this huge dance sport event.

Thank you our sponsors GARDE and POCO for great help and co-operation!

AUF WIEDERSEHEN!
See you in June 2008 at the next
IDO World HipHop-, Electric Boogie- and Breakdance Championships
in the AWD-Dome in the Hanseatic City of Bremen in Germany next SUMMER:

Attention - the next dates are in Summer 2008:
Wednesday, June 11 to Sunday, June 15, 2008

Michael Wendt
organizer and IDO vice president

P.S.
Videos of the event ==> info@video-kruse.de
Photos of the event ==> tony@home-button.de