For most of the worldwide aerosol artist community the Write4Gold is a unique and very important event. We are looking for equal rules of judging for every Write4Gold Battle, to make the system of judging more transparent and understandable for everyody. The following explanations will give you as an organiser,a judge or a participant a guideline how to decide or participate at Write4Gold Events.

Write4Gold 2007/2008 is first time judged by the participating crews and one additional judge and the organisation of Write4Gold!

THE 4 WRITE4GOLD CATEGORIES

Concept Painting (Priority 60%)

...perform a piece with your crew during 8 hours under the conditions: same colors (50 type of colors Molotow Premium 400ml), same topic (provided by the organisation few minutes before the competition start, same time: 8 hours to perform for everybody)

Freestyle Throw Ups (Priority 15%)

...one member of your crew perform a throw up under the conditions: same colors (2 type of Molotow Action Products, Burner Chrome 600ml, Covers All 3 600ml or similar), same word (provided by the organisation few seconds before the competition start, same time: 90 seconds to perform for everybody)

Freestyle Tagging (Priority 10%)

...one member of your crew perform a tag under the conditions: one marker or spraycan (Molotow 620PP, Molotow Premium 080 400ml), same word (provided by the organisation few seconds before the competition start, same time: no time limit for everybody)

Freestyle Sketching (Priority 15%)

...one member of your crew perform a sketch under the conditions: same marker (24 type of COPIC marker), same word (provided by the organisation few seconds before the competition start, same time: 90 minutes for everybody)

JUDGING

THE NEW VOTE OF THE CREWS (70%)

Marked on this jury sheet are various criteria which make out a good wall production, a throw-up, a sketch or a tag – swing, legibility, originality, composition, concept and static. Numerous giants of the scene influenced and determined the weighting and the guide lines of those criteria, which did prove worthwhile in 2006. Surely one could always supplement something or change the weighting.

Every Crew send after the competition 1 member to judge the other crews. We hand out that member the jury sheet and he got 45 minutes to judge the competitors!

THE VOTE OF THE JUDGE (20%)

First of all a jury member has to be in a position to estimate a lot of different criteria. Of course not every jury member knows everything, but we claim to be open minded and willing to learn new things without forgetting the foundations. Open your eyes for developements and innovations in Writing. The Jury Member will be mostly a international Writer.

THE VOTE OF THE ORGANISATION (10%)

There are different criteria which will be voted from the judges and the crews for each criterio each judge, each crew has to give points from 1 to 5. As more points the judge and the crews are giving to a crew as better the crew will stand in the ranking list. The evaluation will be summarized according to priorities. Every single category has a separate evaluation system and rules. There is a formula on the jury sheet to analyse the judgements. After all judgements are made, those data are entered in a computer program, and added or rather defined with the weighting.

WATCH THE VIDEO, EXPLANATIONS FROM T-KID ABOUT THE VOTE!

THE 6TH CHAPTER Write4Gold goes into its 6th round, but before, the 5th one will be celebrated extensively! On events in Vienna, Rome, Budapest, Haaksbergen, the Roskilde and the splash! festival, the “ Classics ” will take place. What’s going to happen there? – Winner crews and participants from the past 5 years are invited (without qualifying) to produce some high class wall productions in the relaxed atmosphere of a graffiti festival. One highlight for the participating crews of the Write4Gold Classics should be the new judging system. The crews will judge each other. How that works? – Each crew is handed out a jury sheet at the end of the competition. Every crew has to nominate 2 crew members to judge the other wall productions. The Classics in Vienna showed that this kind of systems works well. The test in Rome show- the new system can be applied to the further categories. We also decided that there will always be one juror acting as a judge host to supervise the judgements and to give a rating himself. Poet73 (GFA) from Berlin will take on this job in Rome . In August 2007 we will continue with the official Write4Gold qualifyings, starting off with overseas events in the U.S., China, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The winners of those events are qualified for the next Word Finals in July 2008. New events in Europe are scheduled for spring 2008, in 16 countries across Europe, within 5 months! In Germany there will be 2 events in 2008, one of them will take place in Hamburg, the city where Write4Gold took place for the very first time.

The Write4Gold Schedule 2007/2008 Serie

Write4Gold China Guangzhou 15.09.2007 Write4Gold USA, Los Angeles 06.10.2007 Write4Gold South Africa, Capetown 03.11.2007 Write4Gold Australia, Melbourne t.b.a. Write4Gold New Zealand, Auckland 01.12.2007 Write4Gold Greece, Saloniki 15.03.2008 Write4Gold Portugal, Lisboa 29.03.2008 Write4Gold Italy, Rome 03.05.2008 Write4Gold Romania, Bucharest 10.05.2008 Write4Gold Austria, Vienna 17.05.2008 Write4Gold Hungary, Budapest 24.05.2008 Write4Gold Russia, Moscow 31.05.2008 Write4Gold France, Paris 07.06.2008 Write4Gold England, London 14.06.2008 Write4Gold Germany, Hamburg 21.06.2008 Write4Gold Holland, Haaksbergen 21.06.2008 Write4Gold Slovakia, Bratislava 28.06.2008 Write4Gold Denmark, Roskilde 28.06.2008 Write4Gold European Finals, splash! 04.07.2008 Write4Gold World Finals, splash! 05.07.2008

REGISTRATION

Please check the Venue Informations of the Write4Gold 2007/2008 Series. 35 days before each competition we close the registration to announce the paticipatig crews for the contest and the external walls! Please check our website for updates, announcements and informations!

ATTENTION:

make sure you register as a crew (Write4Gold is a crew battle) minimum age: 14 make sure to send links that work (check it before send to us) make sure image files are not bigger then 1MB we do not send any reply, we will announce the confirmed lineups on our website first and after we will contact you for details!

Register now, fill the online form , dont forget to send attachements, pics or links. Thanks!

!! (in case the register form do not work email us to [email protected]

please make sure to send us all needed infos (Crewname, Members, Where you come from, How many people, web links and reference images max 1 MB each, Phone Number)

Register Form Write4Gold 2007/2008: click here
Update Section Categories and Vote System: click here
Write4Gold Classics 2007: click here
Write4Gold Review 2006: click here
Write4Gold Review 2005: click here
Write4Gold Review 2004: click here

See you at the next Write4Gold Venues!