Dinagyang 2010 competition results

GRANDSLAM
Tribu Paghidaet is Ati-ati champ for 3 straight years
By Francis Allan L. Angelo
January 25, 2010

TRIBU Paghida-et of LaPaz National High School (LPNHS) achieved a grand slam win in the Dinagyang Festival after retaining the championship in the 2010 Ati-atihan dance contest Sunday.

Paghida-et, managed by Judith Benjamin and choreographed by Erol Jave Villalobos and Gerlin Francisco, also won the Ati-atihan championships in 2008 and 2009. Paghida-et hauled in almost all of the special awards (headdress, costume, costume designer and choreographer) and minor awards (costume, performance, choreography, music and musical director). The champion tribe will represent Dinagyang to the 2010 Aliwan Festival in April in Metro Manila.

Paghida-et won the P150,000 grand prize and a special trophy.
Tribu Bola-Bola of Iloilo National High School, also a former grand slam winner of the festival, settled for 1st runner-up honors.
Tribu Pan-ay of Fort San Pedro National High School is the 2nd runner-up aside from wining the best in street dancing and discipline awards.
The 3rd runner-up honors went to Tribu Salognon of Jaro National High School while Tribu Silak of Iloilo City National High School settled for 4th runner-up.

Benito Jimena, Iloilo City tourism officer, said the results of the competition were very close and the judges had to deliberate on the results which eventually delayed the awarding rites.

KASADYAHAN

Tribu Kasag of Banate, Iloilo retained the championship in the Kasadyahan festival and won P100,000. It also garnered the special awards for best in performance, choreography, music and costume. Kasag’s choreographer Rommel Flogen also won the best choreographer plum.

Tribu Tubong-Tubong of Tubungan town settled for the 1st runner-up honors while Patubas of Barotac Viejo was 2nd runner-up. Tribu Pantat of Zarraga, Iloilo was 3rd runner-up while Tribu Mandurriaonon of Mandurriao National High School was 4th runner-up.

In the Luces in the Sky fireworks competition, Chintang Fireworks of Bulacan dethroned two-time champion DSS Fireworks of Dumaguete City to win the P80,000 grand prize. DSS Fireworks won P60,000 while Iloilo City’s Supreme Fireworks settled for the 2nd runner-up honors and P50,000 cash prize.