SPH Engineering Has Announced the 22 Winners of the 4th International Drone Show Competition
by DRONELIFE Staff Author Walker Robinson
The winners of the 4th International Drone Show Competition have been announced by SPH Engineering on the Live Design International Trade Show (LDI) in Las Vegas. The winners across eight categories were picked for his or her revolutionary and inventive use of enormous drone fleets to inform stories, entertain crowds, market products, raise social awareness and more. The announcement was given together with a drone show from Sky Elements Drones, where 400 drones took to the Las Vegas sky to acknowledge the 22 winners of the competition.
In total, this 12 months’s competition featured 105 applicants from 24 countries the world over. The variety of participants has continued to grow because the competition’s founding in 2020. It is a trend that is predicted to proceed because the drone show industry continues to develop and expand.
Alexander Levandovskiy, Head of Drone Show Technologies at SPH Engineering, suggested the SPH Engineering team is already looking into expanding the scope and categories for the competition in coming years. He stated, “This 12 months, the jury board faced an exceptional challenge as a result of the outstanding variety of submissions. The caliber of entries led to the expansion of recognition to incorporate 1st, 2nd, and third places across all categories. We’re committed to continuous expansion of the Drone Show Competition with industry growth and might’t wait to begin work on next 12 months’s activities to surprise you much more with higher projects and wider activities.”
The winner for “Best Drone Show at an Event” went to the Lumasky Drone Show, which performed with over 1000 drones for the United Arab Emirates over the Formula 1 Baku City Circuit. The performance also included several drones armed with pyrotechnics.
“Best Drone Show for Storytelling” went to BotLab Dynamics, an Indian company that performed in the course of the Janmashtami festival in Rajasthan, India. They utilized over 1000 drones to depict the lifetime of Krishna, the God of Compassion and Protection.
For probably the most creative uses of a Drone Show, the “Rising Star Drone Show” first place award went to That Drone Show Guy from the USA. He used 600 drones to display a QR code over the town of Austin. Scanning the QR code redirected Austin Residents to a video of Rick Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
“The outcomes of the 4th International Drone Show Competition are exceptional, and we’re proud, for the primary time, to bridge the net competition to an offline celebration of the winners. We’ve received an awesome number of wonderful projects, signaling a flourishing industry. The drone show industry is evolving rapidly because of the increasing variety of talented providers and animators contributing to the sector’s growth.” shared Levandovskiy.
The competition will return in 2024 to showcase the most recent innovations inside the industry. A whole list of the 2023 winners in addition to recordings of their drone shows can be found on the SPH Engineering YouTube page “Drone Show | COMMUNITY”.
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