World Pump Festival
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World Pump Festival better known as WPF, is an annual competition/event on the dance game Pump It Up
which takes place at the end of each year. Pump It Up is a Korean game that requires physical movement of the feet. The game is open for breakdancing and many people have accomplished this feat by memorizing the steps and creating dance moves to hit the arrows on time. What separates this from other Machine Dance Tournaments is the large amount of prize money on offer and national qualifiers around the world.
At WPF, the best technical and freestyle players are flown from across the world to compete in their respective categories: Speed and Freestyle. As of 2006, a Female Speed category was introduced. The candidates are selected by tournaments held in their respective country by Supporters and Club Leaders - Members of the Pump community who work unpaid for Andamiro, organise tournaments and social events during the year. As well as the competition itself, Andamiro
takes players and spectators on a tour of the host country, as a form of Tourism
aiming to promote the game as a Sport
for Weight loss
using videogames and Korean culture to create friendship between players. Previous locations of WPF have been held in Korea at G Star, Lotte World and more recently, Mexico City. Nationals (qualifiers for WPF) in Mexico and Brazil have been held in sports stadiums. Currently, qualifiers for the next WPF will be held in December 2008 and the world competition to take place in the first quarter of 2009.
Competitors in the freestyle category incorporate elements of Locking (dance)
, Salsa (dance)
, Funk styles, Popping
, Hip hop dance
, breakdance and Street dance
into performances. It has become the norm to make a routine using Choreography
while facing the audience.
Free Style category: Pump players will choose to incorporate complex or flashy techniques into their play movements, and develop intricate dance routines to perform during a song. Freestyle players tend to choose songs on lower difficulty levels, so that the player is not restricted in their movements by large quantities of required steps.
You Tube videos
Female Speed
Freestyle
Best Country: Korea
Female Speed
Male Speed
Speed Field (Male)
Free Style Field
Speed Field (Female)
Free Style Field
Battle Station Field
Speed Field
Pump It Up
Pump It Up, commonly abbreviated as PIU or shortened to just Pump, is a music video game series currently developed by Nexcade and published by Andamiro, a Korean arcade game producer. The game is typically played on a dance pad with five arrow panels: up-left, up-right, bottom-left, bottom-right,...
which takes place at the end of each year. Pump It Up is a Korean game that requires physical movement of the feet. The game is open for breakdancing and many people have accomplished this feat by memorizing the steps and creating dance moves to hit the arrows on time. What separates this from other Machine Dance Tournaments is the large amount of prize money on offer and national qualifiers around the world.
At WPF, the best technical and freestyle players are flown from across the world to compete in their respective categories: Speed and Freestyle. As of 2006, a Female Speed category was introduced. The candidates are selected by tournaments held in their respective country by Supporters and Club Leaders - Members of the Pump community who work unpaid for Andamiro, organise tournaments and social events during the year. As well as the competition itself, Andamiro
Andamiro
Originally founded in Korea in 1992 as Oksan Entertainment Co. Ltd, the company changed its name to Anda Miro Entertainment in 1999. The company holds its main office in Seoul, Korea....
takes players and spectators on a tour of the host country, as a form of Tourism
Tourism
Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...
aiming to promote the game as a Sport
Sport
A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...
for Weight loss
Weight loss
Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health or physical fitness, is a reduction of the total body mass, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat or adipose tissue and/or lean mass, namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon and other connective tissue...
using videogames and Korean culture to create friendship between players. Previous locations of WPF have been held in Korea at G Star, Lotte World and more recently, Mexico City. Nationals (qualifiers for WPF) in Mexico and Brazil have been held in sports stadiums. Currently, qualifiers for the next WPF will be held in December 2008 and the world competition to take place in the first quarter of 2009.
Competitors in the freestyle category incorporate elements of Locking (dance)
Locking (dance)
Locking is a style of funk dance, which is today also associated with hip hop. The name is based on the concept of locking movements, which basically means freezing from a fast movement and "locking" in a certain position, holding that position for a short while and then continuing in the same...
, Salsa (dance)
Salsa (dance)
Salsa is a syncretic dance form with origins in Cuba as the meeting point of Spanish and African cultures.Salsa is normally a partner dance, although there are recognized solo forms such as solo dancing "suelta" and "Rueda de Casino" where multiple couples exchange partners in a circle...
, Funk styles, Popping
Popping
Popping is a street dance and one of the original funk styles that came from California during the 1960s-70s. It is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer's body, referred to as a pop or a hit...
, Hip hop dance
Hip hop dance
Hip-hop dance refers to dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles notably breaking, locking, and popping which were created in the 1970s by African Americans and made popular by breaking, locking, and...
, breakdance and Street dance
Street dance
Street dance, more formally known as vernacular dance, is an umbrella term used to describe dance styles that evolved outside of dance studios in any available open space such as streets, dance parties, block parties, parks, school yards, raves, and nightclubs, etc...
into performances. It has become the norm to make a routine using Choreography
Choreography
Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" ...
while facing the audience.
Sponsorship
- Andamiro will provide a round trip flight, hotel, meals, transportation and tour at WPF for national winners.
- Spectators wishing to travel also have accommodation and all expenses covered (except their flight).
- The total prize money on offer for 2005: $ 129 000, 2006: $146 000 and for 2007 it is $148 000.
- When an athlete wins prize money, 30 percent of the money should be given to his or her club.
Tournament Categories
Speed category: Rankings based on high scores. Normally technical players, in order to better focus on timing and pattern reading, will minimize any extraneous body movement during gameplay. These players are commonly referred to in the Pump Community as "Speed" players. Speed entrants (both in the male and female category) will practice the game on the most difficult songs/highest difficulty levels in an attempt to perfect their scores.- Preliminary ~ Quarterfinal (M, F): Crazy
- Semifinal ~ Final (M, F): Nightmare
- Male: use of the bar is permitted, according to newest WPF rules. (Some tournaments may stipulate use of the bar as forbidden)
- Female: use of the bar is permitted
Free Style category: Pump players will choose to incorporate complex or flashy techniques into their play movements, and develop intricate dance routines to perform during a song. Freestyle players tend to choose songs on lower difficulty levels, so that the player is not restricted in their movements by large quantities of required steps.
- Performance Part (20 points)
- Technical Part (40 points)
- Stage Impact Part (20 points)
- Judge's Evaluation (10 points)
- Machine Score (10 points)
Supporters and Clubs
A Supporter is a person who is the main point of contact between their respective country and Andamiro Korea. Any events and tournaments held require a written report with photos/videos sent to Andamiro, in exchange for prizes and recognition of athletes to enter WPF. A Club Leader is the person in charge of their respective club and should use their best efforts to maintain a close relationship with their Supporter.- Clubs are normally (but not exclusively) town specific and focus on events in their area.
- Club certification is based on specific criteria:- A minimum of 15 members who have already registered with an account and profile photo on www.piugame.com, hosting of regular activities, active posting on club forums etc. Official status is given after evaluation.
- When a certified club submits a proposal to hold local events to Andamiro's marketing team, the company will fully support the club to help with successful events (prizes for tournaments and money to help with PA systems, renting of floorspace etc. if requested).
- As of 2007 a minimum of 10 officially recognised clubs are required per country to validate them for WPF (150 club members).
- Excellent club organisers can be designated as jurors in competitions for selecting national team members and also the WPF competition itself. If this is the case, Andamiro will pay for all WPF jurors expenses, like WPF athletes.
- Andamiro gives prize money two times a year to the club’s treasurer for club activities.
- Events for the general public such as promotional activities should be notified to the company.
- Members who make a forum post, upload a picture/video or high score for the home/arcade versions of the game receive points. These can be exchanged in the online store for T-Shirts, Sweatbands, Visors, CD's/DVD's and signed MP3 players by Banya (musical group)Banya (musical group)BanYa , sometimes spelled BANYA or Banya, is South Korean Andamiro's musical group responsible for creating original songs for Pump It Up. The style of its music varies greatly, from hip hop to electronic, from rock to classical crossovers....
. - The official list of 2008 Supporters.
- The official list of 2007 Supporters.
- The official list of 2006 Supporters.
WPF Images and videos
You Tube videos
- WPF Summary
- Free Style Session
- Black from Brazil
- Skato from Mexico
- Legal from Brazil
- Flor & Simba performing a couples routine
- Pump freestyle video on the street
World Pump Festival 2011
After a long 3 year Hiatus, in 2010 Andamiro began hinting at WPF 2011, which is now confirmed in the new release of "Fiesta EX". Fiesta EX will be the official version used in WPF 2011 and use a "WPF Channel". WPF will be held in China, August 25th, ~ 27th, 2011 / GTI Game Show in Guangzhou.2011 Results
Male Speed- 1. Korea - Sooseck Ryoo
- 2. Chile - Alejandro Daniel Rios Ortiz (Xuma)
- 3. China - Gao Chao
- 4. Indonesia - Ryoku Hafiz Lazuardi
Female Speed
- 1. Peru - Lizeth Sánche
- 2. Ecuador - Rafaela Calderón
- 3. Mexico -Priscilla Sánchez
- 4. Korea - Hee Jung Jang
Freestyle
- 1. Korea - Daecheon Kim & Kisuk Kim
- 2. Brazil - Fabricio Rangel Velloso Orsolin (Faber) & Lucas Rodrigues de Souza Barros (Legal)
- 3. Ecuador - Alberto Gil Gutierrez & Gia Alexandra Gil Gutierrez
- 4. China - Lei Liang Zhang & Zhou Peng
Best Country: Korea
2007 Results
Freestyle- 1. Korea (Dae Cheon Kim & Go Seok)
- 2. Korea (Kyeong Seok Seo & Kyungho Kim (Lee Cein))
- 3. Ecuador (Los Garotos)
- 5. Argentina (Loe Gonzales & Gaston Lazarte)
- 6. Italy (Roco Mendola)
- 7. Chile (Kuest & Palta)
- 8. Mexico (Marco Antonio Burgos & Jesus Alberto)
Female Speed
- 1. Taiwan (Amy)
- 2. Mexico (Nayeli)
- 3. Chile (Celia)
- 4. Argentina (Danielita)
- 5. USA (Lara)
- 6. Mexico (Priscilla)
- 7. Mexico (Carmen Torres)
- 8. Korea (Heejung Jang)
Male Speed
- 1. Chile (Xuma)
- 2. Ecuador (Kike)
- 3. USA (Jboy)
- 4. El Salvador (Walner)
- 5. Mexico ("Wero")
- 6. Taiwan (Yiang Shu Cheng)
- 7. Italy (Roberto Pedroni)
- 8. Spain (Yota)
- 9. Korea (Lee Chang)
- 10. Bolivia (Ariel Montero)
- 11. Colombia (Degok)
- 12. Mexico (Victor Lara Perez)
2006 Results
- Total Winning Nation - Mexico
Speed Field (Male)
- 1st Place/Mexico - Armando Zamudio Verduzco
- 2nd Place/Mexico - Victor Lara Perez
- 3rd Place/Korea - Lee Chang
- 4th Place/Korea - Choi Kwon Sik
- 5th Place/Chile - Alejandro Daniel Rios Ortiz
- 6th Place/Argentina - Ignacio Julian Veliz Martin
- 7th Place/Ecuador - Carlos Monar
- 8th Place/US - Jonathan Davis
Free Style Field
- 1st Place/Korea - Lee Cein & Suo Kyoung Suk
- 2nd Place/Brazil - Fabricio Rangel Velloso Orsolin & Lucas Rodrigues de Souza Barros
- 3rd Place/Colombia - Diego Fernando Castro Vargas & Kaori Alexandra Sanmiguel Rojas
- 4th Place/Mexico - Flor Amelia Carrera Villabazo & Omar Hatzel Salazar
- 5th Place/Malaysia - Tan Kean Kiat & Tan Yew Seng
- 6th Place/US - James DeVito & Rick Huber
- 7th Place/Ecuador - Andres Rivadeneira
- 8th Place/Italy - Matteo Favarelli & Mouhcine Elkhanfari
Speed Field (Female)
- 1st Place/Mexico - Rosario Nayeli Garcia Aragon
- 2nd Place/Argentina - Daniela Mohamed
- 3rd Place/Korea - Kim Mi Hee
- 4th Place/Brazil - Sabrina Freire
- 5th Place/Chile - Celia Margarita Escudero Castillo
- 6th Place/Taiwan - Shen, Shiou-Hwa
- 7th Place/Peru - Gisella Tolentino Diestro
- 8th Place/Korea - Lee Hyang Jin
2005 Results
- Total Winning Nation - Mexico
Free Style Field
- Mexico - Flor Amelia Carrera Villabazo & Omar Hatzel Salazar "Simba"
- Brazil - Lucas Rodrigues de Souza Barros "Legal"
- Korea - Ye-Won Song & Hyo-Jeong Kim
Battle Station Field
- Mexico - Erik Kyre
- Argentina - Raul Jimenez
Speed Field
- Korea - Chang Lee
- Mexico - Armando Zamudio Verduzco aka "wero"