Air Guitar World Championships

20.-22.8.2025 Oulu, Finland

For Love of the Sport

Air guitar playing in a competitive sense is almost a year-round activity, and the competition network extends to several continents.

Licensed National Championships are organized all over the world: each country sorts out the best of their air guitarists in their own competitions. Only the official National Champions and the defending World Champion go directly to the World Final.

National Championships are held on both a hobby and a business basis, for the love of the sport in each case. Competition organizers will get instruction, visibility and contacts from the Oulu Headquarters.

Air Guitar World Championships is an internationally registered trademark, and the network operating under it acts in accordance with a peaceful ideology and common rules.

Please contact us if you’re interested in organizing competitions or cooperating with national competition organizations.

If you’re interested in taking part in the National Championships in your country, please contact the organizer: see each organizer’s contact info below by clicking the appropriate flag.

Can’t find a national competition near you? The chance to get a spot on world final stage is the Dark Horses competition in Oulu, Finland, a day before the final.

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Belgium

Belgium

Get ready for Belgian spirit! The Belgian Air Guitar federation has produced some incredible shows in some of the biggest festivals in the country that are still remembered.

Belgian Air Guitar Champion 2024 was Bryan “Dirty Beaujolais” Antoine for the second time in a row! He placed 6th at the World Championships in Oulu.

Belgium hosted six qualifications around the country, starting from March. The tour came to an end on 14th of June in Ittre, where Lèon “LeOnFire” Ostrowsky was crowned as the Belgian Champion 2025!

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Canada

Canada

Canada made its comeback last year with glorious results, as their National Champion Ichabod Fame got crowned as the 2024 World Champion!

Ichabod Fame will return to Oulu this year to defend his title, but Canada will also send in their 2025 champion.

After touring through Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto in April-May, Canada’s National Final was held in Toronto’s Velvet Underground on the 7th of June. Dana “Danasaurus Rex” Schiemann won the race with a total score of 35.6.

Danasaurus Rex will make her comeback to Oulu, after seven years! Last time being in 2018, when she placed 3rd on the World Final.

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Finland

Finland

Finland finally got its own Nationals last year, when Workers’ Music Festival (Työväen musiikkitapahtuma) hosted the championships in Valkeakoski in July.

The festival will continue to host the competition this year, and the sign-up is now open! The Finnish National Champion will be chosen on the 26th of July.

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Työväen musiikkitapahtuma (Workers’ Music Festival) 

France

France

The French Air Guitar scene has grown remarkably in the past few years. You can enjoy the competitions touring around the country from January until the finals on August.

The French Champion 2024 was Kirill “Guitarantula” Blumenkrants who placed second at the 2024 world final, sharing the spot with Japan’s Nanami “Seven Seas” Nagura.

KIOSQN’ROCK festival in Mirande hosts the French Air Guitar Championships. The French National Champion will be chosen on the last day of the festival, on the 9th of August 2025.

Inquiries (in French)
kiosqnrock@gmail.com

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Germany

Germany

Germany has sent so many quality air guitarists to Oulu in the past decades.

The German Champion 2024 was Patrick “Ehrwolf” Culek who placed 3rd at the World Championships Final!

German Championships are hosted by Backstage on the 2nd of August 2025 in Munich.

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Japan

Japan

Japan is a strong Air Guitar nation with several world championship titles, and of course the legendary three-time Air Guitar World Champion Nanami “Seven Seas” Nagura!

While defending her 2023 World Champion title, Seven Seas placed second at the 2024 final, sharing the spot with French’ Kirill “Guitarantula” Blumenkrants

The Japanese National Champion 2025 was chosen on Saturday 14th of June, and Yuta “SUDO-chan” Sudo will travel to Oulu for the first time, as the new Japanese Champion!

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USA

USA

USA is a dedicated and active Air Guitar country, which holds the record of most World Championships won all time.

“US Air Guitar is devoted to taking our nation’s unofficial pastime out of the bedroom and putting it up on the national and world stage. Since beginning in 2003, The US Air Guitar Championships have grown into a major national event with dozens of regional competitions leading up to the National Finals, which take place in a different city every year.”

The 2024 US Air Guitar Champion was Cole “Slappy Nuts” Lindhbergh, who placed 4th at the World Championships Final. The 2025 Champion will be chosen on Saturday the 26th of July in San Francisco!

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The Netherlands

The Netherlands

The Netherlands is back!

After a long break Netherlands has joined our national network again. The Dutch Champion 2025 was set to get selected in Hulst, at the VESTROCK festival end of May.

Sven “Sven Spandex” Smith who had traveled from the UK to compete, ended up hitting the jackpot and won the title of Dutch Champion 2025!

Sven Spandex will travel to Oulu in August, to represent the Netherlands in the World Championships Final.

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