SECRET WARS EURO LEAGUE DRAW RESULTS

Ok, the draw has taken place, dates are being booked, sponsors are ready, tickets are being booked and artists are hungry for blood. The Secret Wars Euro league is going to go off!!

Here are the 4 groups. Each team battles Home and Away, so make sure you support your home team and of course welcome the visitors and show them what your city is all about.

Group 1
Glasgow
Bristol
Malmo
Warsaw


Group 2
Bournemouth
Birmingham
Berlin
Lisbon

Group 3
Southampton
Dublin
Copenhagen
Paris

Group 4
Cardiff
London
Hamburg
Amsterdam

We’ll update everyone with dates and venue locations….in the meantime, spread the word and keep checking back to www.secretwars.co.uk for full updates

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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Secret Wars @ Möllevångsfestivalen, Malmö - CANCELLED!

What happened?!

On Friday night, with everything ready for the highly anticipated OSSIAN vs. S.I.C -show battle and the kids-try-it-yourself-corner, everyone in the Malmö crew went to the Smutsiga Södern party.....NOT KNOWING that at the very same time the Carnival part of the Möllevångs festival were busy breaking the freshly painted and expertly carpentered battle boards and using them to build a stage floor!?!?!?!


Looks good eh?!

We're not saying the responsible will sleep with the fishes or anything...lets just say we made new useful connections at the festival:

Thanks to Andreas, Hanna and everyone who was planning on coming out and taking part! See you soon!

TAG TEAM FINAL

Its all over!

What a crazy night! 700 people gathered out by the sea to watch the grand Secret Wars Malmö final and dance until the sun came back up.

SICTU vs. EBONY and IVORY

Both teams were hampered by a dusty board but still managed to blast some killer artwork. Got to take the forces of nature into consideration when battling outdoors..


Ebony and Ivory's clever piece had the guys themselves skinning one of their opponents and forcing the other to make shoes out of the skin. Team SICTU also chose to depict all four finalists.. LIMPO drew himself as a Godzilla character, climbing the Turning Torso whilst carrying Georg, and with S.I.C about to castrate him.


Judge 1 - Jimmy Wallin, comic book artist: SICTU

Crowd's vote: SICTU

Judge 2 - Felipe Villagran, artist: SICTU

3-0 to SICTU!!


Well done all artists. A tough battle that was very enjoyable to watch.

After the champions were crowned the party kicked off for real! First party people arrived at 21:00 and the last people left at 06:30. The sunrise was amazing and the five djs went through every music style its possible to dance to. Truly a great night!
This concludes the 2009 team tournament...but stay tuned cus Secret Wars and Smutsiga Södern will be back sooner than you think!


Big Thanks to Fredrik, Viktor, Filip, Morgan, Karin, Sebastian, The DJs: Fructoso Diiyay, Rome, Rob Love, Hud, akai One, Reebok, Impala and everyone who came out and helped us close this Secret Wars season in style!

Photos by R. Ureke and F. Håård

! ! ! Malmö Final Tonight ! ! !

Its only a few hours away...

THE 2009 SECRET WARS MALMÖ GRAND FINAL!!

Team SICTU.............vs.............EBONY and IVORY
(limpo, s.i.c)..............................(ekwe, georg)


The weather is gonna me mild tonight and we strongly recommend you to not dress too warm as we are bringing Fire, both literally and dancefloorally!
Tonight we're going aaall out, rackin' up a five DJ lineup: Rob Love, Rome, akai One, Hud & Fructuoso Diiyey - Mad!
Our old ally Impala Streetwear and good friends at Reebok have shown the finalists some love and showered them with goodies.. ..but now its time to get Bizzzy!

See you all tonight!

Battle Location! Sssssshhhhh...

OK!
Time to say AbraKaDaBra and reveal the secret location..

Ljudvallen/Grytan/Musikkullarna/Ljudgropen
Four names, same place.

How to get there..
Its basically by the sea in the north part of Scaniaparken. For those of you not familiar with Västra Hamnen - this is the easiest route:
Bo01 > Djuphavsbadet > Volleybollplaner > Stor kulle med gräs på.


(If you are coming from the central station or a certain party boat you should go through the old Kockums area...takes 10 min on foot)

soon.... (city slickers)

The Secret Wars Malmö team are busy setting up THE party of the summer as we speak. We open the (non-existing) gates at 22:00 tomorrow night and we don't close them until your thirst for partying is quenched!

If you live in Malmö or Lund you can check us out today in CITY, page 24!
Or go to their website and read it as an pdf or web-magazine