Secret Wars Scotland - Warriors League Qualifier Video

Short video by Colin Wood on the Scottish Secret Wars Qualifier night back in November!

SECRET WARS SCOTLAND - Qualifier Night

On Friday the 20th of November, Glasgow Hosted its Qualifier night for the 2010 European Warriors League!

The night was held down in the murky converted old court house prison cells at the Glasgow Corinthian, Squeezing in way over 200 punters, filling all three rooms in the venue up. There were no worries about dropping the soap, as Ink, heavy baselines and sick art where all that were being dropped all night!

Six Artists were to be chosen to represent Scotland and Glasgow to compete in the 2010 games. It was a night of hard made decisions, as all 9 of the artists produced beautiful work. It came down to a variety of different artists each contributing different and contrasting styles that will hopefully allow for a Solid Scottish Inky fist to form and smash the other teams and win some for the Scots!

Selected Artists and Bio's to follow in next post...

*CHE*

*ESTUM*

*REKOR & SYRKUS*

*CONZO*

*SMUG*

*VUES*

*ELPH*

AWAITING ARTIST VIBE FLICK!

more flicks at
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SECRET WARS SCOTLAND - Qualifier Night

**Friday 20th of November**
Glasgow Corinthian Basement (lite Club)
121 Ingram St
10pm/3am
£4 (£3 student)

ARTISTS WANTED!!!!
send up to 10 images of your work to:
sirconzo@hotmail.co.uk

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secretwars scotland group

SECRET WARS NEW FORMAT LAUNCHING 2010

IMPORTANT NEWS!! OFFICIAL SECRET WARS UPDATES

EUROPEAN WARRIORS TEAM SERIES - 2010



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SECRET WARS IS RE FORMATTING AND ROLLING INTO 2010 WITH A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHALLENGE

After 3 and a half years of single battle series locally in over 20 countries, we have decided to try something different and potentially more exciting for 2010... Introducing the European Warriors series!

"When we started Secret Wars 3 years ago, it was influenced heavily by various things from the Marvel comic, to Warriors and Fight Club. After experiencing the team battles around the World and seeing the benefits of this compared to the singles battles, we decided on trying it as a complete 6-8 month series!"

"I have noticed the crowds are more vocal and patriotic towards team battles - there seems to be more at stake and I love watching the artists free-styling alongside each other.... You never know what will come out the other end!" Terry Guy (Founder of Monorex and Secret Wars)

The rules are the same but the structure of the competition and dynamics of the battle are slightly different - see below for details.

How the competition will work & when

There will be 8-10 teams/cities involved in next years competition, and each city will select 6 artists to part of a squad. Each team will select 2-3 wildcard entries consisting of previous champs and general bad boys! The remaining members will be picked at the local qualifiers.

City selection events - November / December 09 (Check Secret Wars website for dates)

• Each city will call out and actively invite people down to jam and show off their skills
• Draw will take place to decide what team is which group (A or B)

1st Round - Group league qualifiers

• Two groups of 4-5 teams with the top two teams qualifying
• Rather than a knockout cup comp, we have decided to make this a little more interesting and maybe fairer - Each game will be a league match with each judge vote and crowd vote worth a point!
• Each team will play home and away against the others in their group

Semi finals

With the top two teams going through from each group, we will be left with 4 teams.

The winner of GROUP A will play the 2nd place of GROUP B and the winner of GROUP B will play the runners up of GROUP A.

GROUP A WINNER vs. GROUP B RUNNER UP

GROUP B WINNER vs. GROUP A RUNNER UP

These will also be home and away ties - with the winning team decided on total points earned over the two games. If the points are level than it will be decided by the team who gets the most away points.

GRAND FINAL

This will be hosted at a neutral venue, TBC nearer the time

More info to be announced! watch this space

Apply now if you are interested in being part of a team - you can apply to as many cities as you like.

Possible cities involved:

• London
• Dublin
• Southampton
• Bristol
• Dublin
• Glasgow
• Malmo
• Berlin
• Lisbon
• Birmingham
• Cardiff

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VIDEO DOC FROM BATTLE BETWEEN SCOTLAND & ENGLAND

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SCOTLAND WIN!!

England (left) - Scotland (right)
The Host Rogue One

Vues One In Action

Jimi Crayon In Action

Conzo, A True Scotsman? .... Only Jimi Found Out...

The night was booming! The tunes were throbbing with the amazing DJ set!

It was a close battle with both teams flexing different styles, Jimi and Teck flew in just hours before the battle so they were jet lagged but as usual the gents morphed up a beautifully clean, bold and well composed battle piece taking a striking lead from the start. The Scots, Vues and Conzo brought two different styles to the table stirring up a tasty Glasgow flavoured inky broth!

In the end the Scots managed to scoop a win on their home turf

*Crowd Vote (an obvious one!) - Scotland

*Judge 1 (Amy from the Recoat Gallery) - England

*Judge 2 (Australian Graffiti Artist ‘Smug’) – Scotland

Thanks to Edding for supplying the markers and thanks to all those involved and who helped make Scotland’s 1st ever Secret Wars happen!!!

It’s just begun! So keep yer ears perked up for future battles in Scotland!!


photos by photochimp

SCOTLAND vs. ENGLAND

SCOTLAND vs. ENGLAND !!!

Two age auld enemies, forced to share an island since the dawn of time..


William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, Queen Elizabeth, Mary Stuart, Gazza...the heroes of this epic tussle have been many. Time to write a new chapter!



Friday 10th April @

Glasgow School Of Art - Vic Cafe Bar (168 Renfrew Street)
Doors open at 21:00 and close early morning

SCOTLAND vs. ENGLAND Live Art Battle!!!

confirmed line-ups:
Sco - Conzo & Vues one
Eng - Teck1 & Jimi Crayon

SECRET WARS SCOTLAND BLOG DELUXE

All the latest news, artist features and Secret Wars reports from Scotland will be posted here...