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Thursday, July 13, 2000

FISM Winners Complete and Official FISM Results -
A MagicTimes Exclusive.

One of the most difficult things of late was to find the actual competition results for the 21st FISM World Magic Congress held in Lisbon, Portugal on Jul. 3-8. We had two people at the awards ceremonies trying to get the winners list for us. Both said that they could not follow what was going on on stage and were not able to get a list. Richard Robinson was first to publish the "First Prize" winners of the competition in Magic Show and that is the list that has been circulating on various websites as the results. Our e-mail to F.I.S.M. for a list is still unanswered. Finally, we contacted Hank Moorehouse who was the U.S. representative on the F.I.S.M. jury and he gave us all of the facts.

Scott The Magician and Muriel There were close to 150 competitors entered in the eight categories. Around a third of them competed in the close-up and cards divisions. Asked about the overall level of talent at this year's competition Moorehouse told MagicTimes, "After the last F.I.S.M. in Dresden, the secretary general, Maurice Pierre wrote to the presidents of every F.I.S.M organization asking them to please upgrade the quality of their contestants to F.I.S.M. standards -- and that did not happen. As in previous years there were some excellent acts, some good acts, and some that should not have been there."

The overall highest scorer and winner of the Grand Prix and the title of "World Champion Magician" was Scott the Magician & Miss Muriel from The Netherlands. This is the first time in the history of the award that it went to an act from the "Comedy Magic" division.

Here are the official results:

Manipulation

First Prize	Kenji Minemura - Japan
Second Prize	Norbert Ferré - France
Third Prize	Eduardo - Brazil

General Magic

First Prize	Mask - France
Second Prize	Yumi - Japan
Third Prize (tie)	George Saterial - USA
Third Prize (tie)	Roxanne - Germany

Illusions

First Prize	der "Hexer" - Germany
Second Prize	Yunke - Spain
Third Prize	Zauberteam Flick-Flack - Germany

Comedy Magic

First Prize	Not Awarded
Second Prize	Zauderer - Germany
Third Prize	The Maestro - USA

Mental Magic

First Prize	Not Awarded
Second Prize	Luis Boyano e Isabella - Spain
Third Prize	Nicola Friedrich - Germany

Card Magic

First Prize	Henry Evans - Argentina
Second Prize	Mago Migue - Spain
Third Prize (tie)	Gregory Wilson - USA
Third Prize (tie)	Thomas Fraps & Gaston - Germany

Micro Magic (Close-Up)

First Prize	Simo Aalto - Finland
Second Prize	Manuel Muerte - Germany
Third Prize	Gery - Austria

Inventions

First Prize	Michael Ross - France
Second Prize	Ariston - Argentina
Third Prize	Kalle Hakkarainen - Finland

If you score the results by country as in the Olympics, awarding each country 3 points for first place, 2 points for second and 1 point for third, here is how the countries stacked up against each other. We will score the Grand Prix at 5 points.

1- Germany (1+3+1+2+1+1+2=11)
2- France (2+3+3=8)
3- Spain (2+2+2=6)
4- Japan (3+2=5)
4- Argentina (3+2=5)
4- Netherlands (5)
7- Finland (3+1=4)
8- USA (1+1+1=3)
9- Austria (1)
9- Brazil (1)

Day After Addendum:
We just received a copy of the results from the FISM office and we thank them for that. We also have seen that the wannabe news sites on the web have once again stolen our content and promoted it allover the place as original.

--Meir Yedid

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