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Air Guitar World Championships

Oulu, Finland 19.-21.08.2020

Rockin’ in the Free World

Contestants around the world put their best on stage shamelessly with their invisible instruments. This phenomenon promoting world peace with a smile has inspired both filmmakers and doctorate researchers. You can’t hold a gun while you play the air guitar.

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The Marquis

Rob Messel, USA
World Champion 2019

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Our legendary host for the #AirGuitar World Championships was referenced tonight along with us tonight on @thesimpsons! The mission lives on #makeairnotwar #Repost @aint_this_livin Bjorn Turoque aka Dan Crane
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My parents often asked what was the point of air guitar. Tonight’s episode of #TheSimpsons finally provided an answer.

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#Repost 2019 world champ The Marquis @robmessel ・・・
The story of the 2019 #usairguitar Guitar National Finals as told by @vice is up on YouTube!
The night was, as Airistotle predicted, "a bloodbath" and I think Vice did a great job conveying the drama of the evening.

Link is below, and I recommend checking out the comments section, which is full of haters, and pretty hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPph6XAaEAk&t=5s

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#Repost @willwork4comedy ・・・
Got a bunch of fun souvenirs from my trip to Finland over the summer for the @airguitarworldchampionships and have been meaning to share for months now! I was gifted some German coasters from @_ehrwolf_, an air guitar pick and a my little pony (that was used onstage) from @lrocknroll from @airguitaraustralia, another air guitar pick from @sharitenkd, a cool sticker from @nanaminagura who was last year’s champion and tied with me for fourth this year, a hand-drawn tattoo from @electric_burrito, an “air head” pin made my @realkereel, a lightbulb keychain from Crusher @usairguitar, plus my AGWC backstage pass and the number that I drew for the Dark Horse Qualifiers. I had so much fun meeting so many wonderful people and I’ll for sure be sharing footage of my performances before the year is up. In the meantime, I’ll look at my little trinkets and think fondly of the great time that I had with the world’s best! #makeairnotwar

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#Repost @airguitarbelgium #makeairnotwar ・・・
#airguitar #airguitarbelgium #belgium

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#Repost @_ehrwolf_ #makeairnotwar ・・・
Me telling @alicecooper about air guitar and that i am 6th in the world #alicecoopervip #rocklegend #theoneandonly #schoolsoutforsummer @airguitarworldchampionships @germanairguitar

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#Repost @belgiumairgus #makeairnotwar ・・・
First encounter in Oulu back in 2009, we met this crazy champion from Netherlands @tremelotheun in our shuttle to @cumulushotels . Our driver was listening @metallica and decided to stop on the side of the road for this picture. This is how it started 🤟🤟🤟 @airguitarworldchampionships #airguitarworldchampionships #airguitar #airguitarbelgium #airgus #oulu #finland #roadtrip #crazypeople #advertising

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#Repost @viking.aurora #makeairnotwar ・・・
No food, two frozen strawberry margaritas🍹🍹#singlemom #onfire
thank you @juusoshoo 😂🦄 #airguitar #music #dancing @charlieparradelriego #beastmodeon #fury #viking #hairstyle #metal #heavymetal #leather #tattoo #inked

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#Repost @germanairguitar ・・・
6th place in world for @_ehrwolf_ together with the God of Thunder @steindijr Rock Thor, is pretty good regarding the high level of entertainment everyone brought to the table. He was in the USA, Australia and Japan, to breath in the airness, and in Oulu we all saw it. Congratulations to @robmessel for the well deserved title, @thejinjaassassin for his second runner up, @french_kiss_goes_to_oulu for finally making it through the dark horses and claim the 3rd place.
@chopstickjungl3 aka airry Houdini also almost made it but after 2 incredible Airoffs with @willwork4comedy (4th in the final) and the Crusher he simply couldn’t.
Thank you @airguitarworldchampionships and especially @hannaairnest and the whole crew and the city of Oulu for making this crazy thing possible and also @backstagemunich for sending our champion to Oulu to represent, and hell yeah he did❤️#MakeAirNotWar

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#Repost @willwork4comedy #makeairnotwar ・・・
13 years ago I attended my first US Air Guitar show. It was there I found out that whoever won the national title got to compete in Finland for the title of world’s greatest air guitarist. Since then it’s been a dream of mine to make it to the world stage in Oulu. On Friday night, my dream came true (stop crying, Will!): I competed in the Air Guitar World Championships!! Not only that, but I got into the second round and tied for FOURTH PLACE with last year’s two-time champ Seven Seas!! Say what?? So many feelings are still washing over me: gratitude, surprise, accomplishment, happiness, pride, and excitement to name just a few. Air guitar is such a silly thing, but I find so much joy and fulfillment from it. Plus, the community is filled with some of the most beautifully wonderful people that I’ve ever met! Thanks to everyone who has followed and supported me on this crazy journey, especially my family, friends, and coworkers. You all rock!! And a special shoutout to my beautiful girlfriend/air guitar coach/travel companion Marielou (aka Oh-Lou), who inspires me everyday to follow my dreams and to be the best person I can be. I love you, Lou!! I took about 1,000 pics/videos so stay tuned for more highlights from my journey to become the fourth greatest air guitarist IN. THE. WORLD!! 🤘😭🧙🏻‍♂️⚡️❤️ (📷: @marieloumandl)

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The purpose of the Air Guitar World Championships is to promote world peace. According to the ideology of the competition, wars would end, climate change stop and all bad things disappear, if all the people in the world played the Air Guitar. This is why the whole universe is invited to play the Air Guitar for the world peace at the end of the competition.

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