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by **Mark Waddington** » Sep 3rd, '05, 11:00

Hi guys

Just thought i would let you know that last night i participated in the close up and stage competitions at the Bradford magic circle, and finished 2nd in both competitions, with the winner beating me by 2 points.

Not bad for my first competition, eh!?

Cheers guys

Mark

by **Sam X** » Sep 3rd, '05, 14:34

Well done Mark.

by **Mandrake** » Sep 5th, '05, 11:54

Well done Mark!

by **bananafish** » Sep 5th, '05, 12:18

Not bad for my first competition,

Not Bad? Extremely impressive!!! Well done

by **Johnny Wizz** » Sep 5th, '05, 14:06

How long have you been performing Mark?

by **dorian** » Sep 5th, '05, 14:12

Well done Mark

What pieces of Magic did you perform?

Dean

by **Stephen Ward** » Sep 5th, '05, 14:19

Well Done Mark

by **Mark Waddington** » Sep 5th, '05, 15:15

Johnny Wizz wrote:How long have you been performing Mark?

Ive been interested since i was 5 and have been performing since i was 10, so ive been performing for 6 years.

Magic i did:

Close up:
had a 4 of a kind selected and lost in deck, they all appear at top 1 by 1. Tthhen move onto twisting the aces with the selected 4 of a kind, then a colour test. Moved onto a collectors and then card shark. Finished by having a card selected and lost, then mentally choiosiing the card, spelliing the card to find it, and alsoo finding the others from that 4 of a kind.

Stage:
5 card repeat, then borrowed a ring and had it putt in a box and looked after, also giving a kiwi to the person who leant the ring. Vanishing bottle, changing to tomato sauce. mental yarn, unequally equal magic wands then ring is magically found in the kiwi.

P.s. sorry about any double typing, the keyboard on my laptop is naff!

by **Johnny Wizz** » Sep 5th, '05, 15:33

Thanks for the reply.

You done good boyo!

by **Mark Waddington** » Sep 5th, '05, 15:36

my main consifderatioon in the close up was to do something where you had no excuse to put cards away, so i made everything gimmickless (with the exception of cardshark) and in chronological order, e.g. instead of just taking a 4 of a kind, have them seleted by someone in the audience. I was only 5 points off 1st place, and i lost them because i overran by a few seconds in close up.

It was even closer in stage, with their being only 1 point in it!

by **Johnny Wizz** » Sep 5th, '05, 16:03

I am the newbie and green about this. How does the marking work?

by **Mandrake** » Sep 5th, '05, 16:04

I was only 5 points off 1st place, and i lost them because i overran by a few seconds in close up.

Blimey - penalised for giving better 'value for money' than the winners!

by **Steve Dela** » Sep 6th, '05, 13:04

Conratulations Mark, very well deserved I am sure.

Steve Dela

by **Mark Waddington** » Sep 6th, '05, 16:25

Simon,

Ross Risden won both stage and close up, seems wierd doesnt it!

Ive PMed you, hope to speak soon!

Mark

by **dat8962** » Sep 10th, '05, 21:58

Good work Mark - I'm sure that you;re already planning for a first place next year :wink:

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