"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:
- Preliminary round – 15 tricksters, scoring will be given out by the panel of judges only.
- 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.
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 |
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2019 – best trick competition: Chan Peng
Valeria Jauregui
Raul Cañas Zamora
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2022 – best trick competition: Daniel Ackerman Ido Lichtenstein Felix Feldmann |
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2023 – best trick competition: Tamuz Vardi
Christofer Silva
Yaron Davidovich
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2024 – best trick competition: ??? ??? ??? |
About Avi Rosenberg
Juggling was an important part of Avi’s life. His father taught him to juggle 3 balls at a very young age, and he shortly learned additional patterns and intricate sequences in balls and clubs. When he was a young teenager he was part of the Chang High Unicycle circus. He later performed with Eran Azrieli regularly at events and venues all over the country and on television. He was part of the first Israel juggling convention in 1988 and was a well known juggler.
Juggling was more than a job for Avi. It contributed greatly to the development of his personality. As a child, Avi was very quiet and shy. Through juggling and performing, he became much more sociable. As a result, he was very popular and had many friends. He was a very well loved young man.
Avi was also a very diverse person, and could do many things: He was musical and sang well, he was a scuba divemaster and led groups of divers, he traveled widely, he taught school in Uganda, and he built a house.
Avi graduated from the Technion with a degree in mechanical engineering and worked in a company that developed many important security related projects. One of his designs won a national award and to this day is used by security forces in Israel and abroad.
Avi was killed in a traffic accident in 2000 at the age of 28. The Avi competition is funded by Avi’s family as a memorial to Avi as well as an incentive for young jugglers to develop their skill
