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Air Guitar Contest Crowns New World Champ

German woman snags top prize for Foo Fighters performance

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 27, 2011 4:25 PM CDT

(Newser) – A German woman rocked her invisible guitar yesterday and walked off with top prize at the 16th Air Guitar World Championships—the first female to snag a medal there in seven years. Held in Oulu in northern Finland, the contest included wild fingerers like US champ Justin "Nordic Thunder" Howard and Veronica "Like Ever Gin" Mullerova of the Czech Republic, who took second and third, respectively. The winner: Aline "The Devil's Niece" Westphal, who amazed judges with her high-energy Foo Fighters performance. (Check out the Telegraph's video for priceless footage.)

Sylvain Guimene Gunther Love performs during the 2010 Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland, on Friday Aug.27, 2010. Gunther Love won  the competition.
Sylvain Guimene "Gunther Love" performs during the 2010 Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland, on Friday Aug.27, 2010. Gunther Love won the competition.   (AP Photo / LEHTIKUVA / Markku Ruottinen)
Kereel Your Daddy Blumenkrantz, of Russia, performs during the 2011 Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland, on Friday Aug. 26, 2011.
Kereel "Your Daddy" Blumenkrantz, of Russia, performs during the 2011 Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland, on Friday Aug. 26, 2011.   (AP Photo / LEHTIKUVA, Aleksi Makkonen)
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COMMENTS
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Count-Spatula
Aug 28, 2011 5:43 PM CDT
This will completely change the sport.
i2ollingstone
Aug 27, 2011 9:32 PM CDT
So while watching the video on telegraph it showed the girl they claim to be the winner performing to a Rage Against The Machine song yet this newser blurb says she performed a Foo Fighters song
Chitrix
Aug 27, 2011 5:53 PM CDT
OK, it is all my own fault. I had to go watch the VERY disturbing video and I may have to seem medical help after viewing Put bluntly What has been seen can't be UnSeen The guy in the kilt has me afraid of the dark and the girl with the clown makeup? My retinas are burning badly is all I shall say

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