Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Eurovision 2008 in Belgrade was again driven by Hippotizers, supplied by procon.

The whole rig was run on only 2 V3 Hippotizers HD (1 x single output HD for the floor and 1 x dual output for the LC and S-lite wall) with another 2 as tracking backups, and one used for content recoding and distribution (= 5 V3 Hippotizers HD in total).

With about 500m² of LEDs the physical setup seemed somewhat bigger than the one last year. The Hippotizers were run from a Grand MA by Timo Kauristo from Sweden - no surprise the visual show for Sweden was probably the most fine tuned this year:

Visually, my personal favorite was Armenia:

However, congratulations to Russia, who won the contest with a rather simplistic visual concept: