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Once again, this year's IASCA Finals was a great success drawing 142 competitors from across North America to the "big show. " IASCA brought in 20 judges from across the U.S, as well as many international judges from the United Kingdom, South Africa, Colombia, Mexico, Trinidad, Canada and the Ukraine. "We are fortunate to have NOPI, as well as many manufacturers, support our efforts in both competition and mobile electronics industry proliferation," said IASCA Director Moe Sabourin; "Companies like NOPI, Pioneer Electronics, dB Drive, Kinetik, Oxygen Audio and Batcap have raised the bar; NOPI has given us the venue in which to promote the Finals and Pioneer, dB Drive, Kinetik and Oxygen Audio are here with some of their dealers offering great deals to attendees at the show, making this a true Multimedia Expo for the public. We are proud to bring everyone together at this event to help our industry grow."
In two of IASCA's newest competition formats, the true champions came shining through. In IASCA?' ISQC format (International Sound Quality Challenge), Eddie Dejesus from Florida emerged victorious in the top spot, edging out second and third place contenders Keith Doney from Pennsylvania and Natan Budiono from Michigan. In Everblast Bass Boxing, five Division Champions strutted their stuff to the public and came out on top; here are your 2007 Bass Boxing Champions:
FLYWEIGHT DIVISION Mike Fletcher, Orlando, Florida
FEATHERWEIGHT DIVISION Michael Warren, Jacksonville, Florida
LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION Michael Hadden, Bartow, Florida
MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION Angela Pierce, South Carolina
HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION Tommy McKinnie, Brandon, Florida
In IdBL, the competition was fierce; most notable was Craig Butler's 179.9 dB SPL run in the Ultimate 3 Class, setting the 2007 IdBL World Record in that class and finishing only ½ of a dB behind the highest overall recorded IdBL score ever, held by Team Edge Audio's Scott Owens at 180.4 dB, set at the 2005 IASCA Finals. Other 2007 records were broken at the event in the Advanced 1 Class (Brad Eubank ? 162.9 dB), Stock 3 Class (John Carner 152.9 dB), Stock Pro 3 Class (Toby Newton 155.5 dB) and the Advanced No Wall Class (Charles Estes 160.9 dB). Over 70 SPL competitors vied for the top spots at this year's event.
In Sound Quality competition, Champions came from all across North America. Here are your 2007 SQ Champions:
Ultimate Expert Class Wayne Watkins, Centennial, Colorado
Ultimate Pro Class John Marsh, Cumming, Georgia
Ultimate Amateur Class Rick Sellers, Picayune, Mississippi
Street Pro Class Natan Budiono, Belleville, Michigan
Street Semi-Pro Class Andy Jones, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Street Amateur Class John Myers, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Rookie Class David Brooks, Kathleen, Georgia
IASCA Worldwide wishes to thank all the competitors and manufacturers for participating in this year's Finals and NOPI for supporting our efforts.
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