“The Best Trick” Competition

The competition is a memorial to the life of Avi Rosenberg. Avi was one of Israel’s early jugglers and participated in the first Israel Juggling Convention which was held in Eilat in 1988.

Stages of the competition:

1. Preliminary round –  15 tricksters, scoring will be given out by the panel of judges only.
2. Finals round – 5 tricksters, scoring will be given by the crowd, so be prepared!

Rules of the competition:

• Signing up to the competition is done via the preregistration form.
• You can use every prop you know, so be creative!
• There is no limitation to the amount of props in the trick, so yes, 14 toothbrushes are allowed
• Extra elements can be added to the trick, so this could be a good time to show your dance moves/acrobalance skills. Just remember that this is a best trick competition, so keep it short and sweet.
• There are 5 judges that rank each trick with a score of 1-5 in 3 different categories: 1)level of complexity 2) level of performance (was the trick clean or sketchy?) 3)level of presentation.
• Each trickster has 3 chances of making the trick, if the trickster was not able to perform the trick after 3 times she/he will be disqualified.
• Judges will have 5 “second chances” to give. If a trickster was granted a second chance, they can preform the trick one more time (4 times instead of 3)
• You must prepare at least 2 different tricks – one for each round.

After the finals round, the crowd will make the vote by putting ballots in boxes representing each trickster. The trickster with the highest # of ballots in the box will be the 27th IJC Avi Competition Champion and will receive a prize, Glory and bragging rights until the 28th IJC.

• The Avi competition is sponsored by Avi’s family both in memory of  Avi and as an incentive for young people to develop their skills as jugglers. It is our observation that jugglers are nice, friendly and gentle people who do much good in the world. If there were more jugglers, the world would be a better place.
  The following are the winners of the Avi competition:

  2001- 3 clubs: Luke Wilson Sharon Cypis Ilka Licht	2002 – 3 balls: Scott Seltzer Uri Weiss Barak Reuven
  2003 – 3 clubs: Vova Galtchenko Bernard Hazen Olga Galtchenko Special award – Denis Paumier	2004 – 3 balls: Yaron Milgram Barak Reuven Thomas Dietz
  2005 – 3 clubs: Sylvain Cousin Jive Faury Thomas Dietz	2006 – 3 balls: Ori Roth Maksim Komaro Sharon Cypis
  2007 – 3 clubs: Ron Be’eri Jan Oving Noam Geller	2008 – 3 balls: Aaron Tobiass Yan Müller Wes Peden
  2009 – 3 clubs: Sharon Cypis Carlos Munoz Matthias Romir	2010- 3 balls: Jordan Moir and Yan Müller – tied for first place Neta Oren
  2011 – 3 clubs: Florent Lestage Jordaan De Cuyper Bar Mualem	2012 – 3 balls: Luis Sartori Tony Pezzo Nir Mor
  2013 – 3 clubs: Antoine Terrieux Sagi Bracha Ron Beeri	2014 – best trick competition: Ofek Snir Emmanuël Boissé Pinard Miguel Gigosos Ronda
  2015 – best trick competition: Alexandra Soboleva Ofek Snir Tie: Iver Tronstad & Ayal Banin	2016 – best trick competition: Alexis Levillon Ofek Snir Ahmad & Hoba Humeedan
  2017 – best trick competition: Yang Chin Yao Chihhan Chao Ofek Snir	2018 – best trick competition: Delaney Bayles Luca Pfendmenges & Daniel Ledel Lauge’ Benjaminsen
  2019 – best trick competition: Chan Peng Valeria Jauregui Raul Cañas Zamora	2020 – best trick competition: ??? ??? ???