2005
Air Guitars roared in Oulu for the tenth time already - the world peace ideology of the air guitar will be spreaded for the next year by Michael "The Destroyer" Heffels from Holland. Heffels won the title of World Champion at Club Teatria in the festivities of Oulu Music Video Festival that became an exciting spectacle on 26 August.
Heffels conquered the hearts of both the jury and the audience with his air guitar skills. Besides worldwide fame and glory the Heffels received a Finnish handmade Flying Finn guitar as well as a VOX BM Special amplifier designed and donated by Queen guitarist Brian May.
In the final, the five competitors who made it through the qualification round on Thursday met the reigning World Champion Miri Park as well as national champions from Australia, Austria, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, United States, Germany, France, Japan and United Arab Emirates.
After an optional round, ten best air guitarists played a compulsory round with the compulsory songs from the previous ten years as organisers' selections in honour of the 10th Anniversary.
Results:
1. Michael "Destroyer" Heffels (Netherlands)
2. Giesela "Gizzy Guitar" Visser (New Zealand)
3. Gyuri "Pelvis Fenderbender" Vergouw (Netherlands)
4. Takeshi Kongochi (Japan)
5. Heidi " Funky Chicken" Leitner (Austria)
6. Darrin "Jimmy Dangles" Smith (Australia)
7. Miri "Sonyk-Rok" Park (USA)
8. Dan "Björn Turoque" Crane (USA)
9. Eero "Oulun oma poika" Ojala (Finland)
10. Andre Ulriksen (Norway)
11. Fatima "The Rockness Monster" Hoang (USA)
12. Katharina "Leni Krawitzkowsky" Tomaschek (Germany)
13. Antoine "Monkey Boy" Lebrun (France)
14. Theun "Tremelo Theun" de Jong (Netherlands)
15. Chaitanya "The Wickerlady" Vembar (The United Arab Emirates)
16. Elina "Tarot Woman" Niiranen (Finland)
