the crew line up of Write4Gold South Africa 2007
CB- Tyke, Tapz, Print, Cosm, Agen (Johannesburg)
DEFT CREW- Toe, Falco ,Enos ,Cros (Cape Town)
MBS- Arok,Crave,Emba (Cape Town)
NME - Drone,Skiet,Slate,Anoy,Dear (Cape Town)
LE- Cent, Sace, Seth, Pest, Wealz,feat (Cape Town)
TFC- Ash, Mash, Conz (Cape Town)
WK - Play, Motel, Cade ,Ekon (Durban/Cape Town)
OSR - Smak, Temp, Rev,Kef1 (Johannesburg)

For most of the worldwide aerosol artist community the Write4Gold is a unique and important event. In 2007 and 2008 Write4Gold goes into its 6th round with 20 worldwide venues! 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!

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The Contest

For the second time, we gonna move with Write4Gold to South Africa. This time we has changed the location from Johannesburg to Capetown. With the full support of Molotow South Africa we make sure that the competition of this year will be a big success as well. Crews from all over South Africa and Africa can subscribe. The winner of the Write4Gold South Africa 2007 is qualified for the next World Finals of summer 2008!Of course we bring one of the europeans elite artist with us to South Africa! LOOMIT from Munich/Germany gonna come with us to Capetown. He is already in progress to manage some local walls. Loomit has been to South Africa in 1997. Since that time lot of things happen down under. We will see which walls he will pick for his next murals. At the Write4Gold venue in capetown we gonna prepare a 20m wall for him and guests.You have the chance to enter the South African competition, please check the registration form here and make sure to check out all important points in order to send flix, references and contact details. If you as an international crew want to go there on your own let us know about it, so we reserve free wallspace and a few cans as well.Write4Gold South Africa 2007 in Capetown will take place at a festival area called Observatory Park & Recreational Centre in Capetown, the South African Write4Gold Team set up Wallspace for about 8 crews to compete and a few additional teams just to show up and represent.Very soon we will release more info about the music and entertainment program of the festival and the aftershow party at the Armchair Theatre Capetown!See you at Write4Gold South Africa!Write4Gold is determined to expose the world to this word “Graffiti” and "Aerosol Art" and demand that it be accepted in the dictionary. One of the main operations of Write4Gold is organizing international graffiti competitions. Write4Gold has chapter representatives in each country. Each chapter will conduct their own country’s competition under Write4Gold, Aerosol Art Competition Worldwide. Wide Rules and regulations. Each chapter will then produce one champion. Each champion from every country is then invited to the european and world finals to germany. In addition, Write4Gold the originators of and only categorical worldcompetition in (the basic fundamentals of graffiti), "Concept Painting", "Tagging","Sketching" and "Throwups" categories, will also climax in the Category Finals.

Write4Gold Mission

Every year we try to feature the best and most innovative graffiti crews from all over the world, include the eastern europe countries like romania, bulgaria, hungary, slovakia or russia. One of our goals is to make this event as international as possible. Write4Gold is a platform for graffiti writers in general and an opportunity for all participants to express themselves. Since 2002 we try to support young and motivated people willing to take part in the planning and implementation process of Write4Gold.

Critical Points

While reading the philosophy section you might get an idea that of course we still support the culture, especially the graffiti aspect, trying to offer the writers and the audience as much service as possible - more than on many other graffiti events. To the public write4gold might look commercial because it is getting so big and of course it is no longer the kind of underground event like we know in the early days.

At first there was (in 2002) the idea (cantstopfanatics entertainment) of a international graffiti event in kind of a yearly competition, because there wasnt any event like write4gold in the past. Write4Gold, the world's premier graffiti competition that came in 2006 finally to New Zealand, South Africa, USA or Great Britain giving crews the chance to showcase their talents. Write4Gold is a free, all-ages, all-day public painting demonstration and concert, resembling a community fair more than a b-boy riot. The daytime event will be followed by a bodyrockin' ticketed after party, showcasing local hip-hop music, dance and art.

This is the graffiti event of the year, which is not to be missed.

PAST BATTLES (Overview 2003-2007) click here

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!

!! (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!

RESULTS WRITE4GOLD SOUTH AFRICA 2007

FINAL RESULTS (1st place qualified to the world finals july 2008)

1. WK CREW - Play, Motel, Cade ,Ekon (Durban/Cape Town)
2. DEFT CREW- Toe, Falco ,Enos ,Cros (Cape Town)
3. NME CREW Drone,Skiet,Slate,Anoy,Dear (Cape Town)

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