The competition was launched five years ago by the German civil organisation Write 4 Gold and is the only official global graffiti competition. At the start, only European graffiti artists competed, but now the competition involves cities throughout the world. Finals are hosted by cities including Sao Paolo, Melbourne and Cape Town. The Eastern European finals will be held in Budapest for the third time.
The jury will evaluate works in four categories:
Concept Painting (Weight 60%)
...perform a piece together with your crew within 8 hours under the following conditions: same colours (50 types of colours Molotow Premium 400ml), same topic (provided by the organisation a few minutes before the competition starts, same time: 8 hours for everybody to perform)
Freestyle Throw Ups (Weight 15%)
...one member of your crew performs a throw up under the following conditions: same colours (2 types of Molotow Action Products, Burner Chrome 600ml, Covers All 3 600ml or similar), same word (provided by the organisation a few seconds before the competition starts, same time: 90 seconds to perform for everybody)
Freestyle Tagging (Weight 10%)
...one member of your crew performs a tag under the following conditions: one marker or spraycan (Molotow 620PP, Molotow Premium 080 400ml), same word (provided by the organisation a few seconds before the competition starts, same time: no time limit for everybody)
Freestyle Sketching (Weight 15%)
...one member of your crew performs a sketch under the following conditions: same markers (24 type of COPIC marker), same word (provided by the organisation few seconds before the competition starts, same time: 90 minutes for everybody)
The following teams will compete: 2MK Crew (Bratislava/Slovakia), DKH Crew (Bratislava/Slovakia), Flying Scripts (Gyor/Hungary), FRB Crew (Odessa/Ukraine), GOK Crew (Prague/Czech Republic), JAH (Lviv/Ukraine), UPSK Crew 93 (Nymburk/Czech Republic), ZCR Crew (Zagreb/Croatia), GIPSY KINGS (Bucharest/Romania), SFTE Crew (Belgrade/Serbia), Destroy Brothers (Miskolc/Hungary),EGOTRIP (Maribor,Ljublijana,Koper/Slovenia) and Hungarians Finest (Budapest/Hungary).
Detailed Programme:
May 24
14:00 Rocksteady + BA10
15:30 Vinyl Warriors
20:30 Akkezdet Phiai
21:30 Bankos-NKS-Norba
22:30 Ozon
May 24.
10:00 Concept Painting
15:30 Break Competition
16:00 Tagging
17:30 Bombing
20:00 Results Announced
For more information visit the contest's webpage
