Location: Warsaw, Poland

Date: December 2008

A&O equipment:
35 FALCON BEAM colour 7kW

LD: Michiel Milbou

Support: A&O Lighting Technology Germany

Photos:© Lukasz Kubiak and Piotr Basek, TSE Laser Light & Sound

 

Red Bull X-Fighters 2008

TSE, kindly supported by A&O Technology, illuminated the best freestylers in the world with FALCON® searchlights

For the final stop in Warsaw on the Red Bull X-Fighters Tour 2008, TSE Laser Light & Sound was commissioned to illuminate the 500-metre FMX circuit. Fifteen thousand tons of earth were specially transported to the X-Lecia stadium to create the circuit, whilst 35 FALCON® BEAM 7000W xenon searchlights manufactured by alpha one were deployed as part of the lightshow for the world’s best motocross freestylers. The lighting design by Michiel Milbou ( www.milbou.be) for the open air show required the positioning of thirty-one of the powerful xenon searchlights all round the upper tier of the X-Lecia stadium on two-metre-high rostrums. The other four FALCON® xenon searchlights were used to accentuate the start and finish of the course. The X-Games are considered the most prestigious event in the FMX calendar. This was the first time they had been held in Poland. 

Thirty-five thousand spectators this year followed the sixth Moto X Freestyle Challenge, which was also the last event ever to be held at the X-Lecia stadium because the ‘Stadium of the Decade’, as it was once known, is being demolished to make way for a new multifunction national stadium for the European Football Championships 2012.

Bathed in the vibrant light of the FALCON® BEAM 7,000W searchlights, the 2008 finals made for a spectacular evening, featuring twelve FMX aces divided into four teams of three for the X-Fighters Top 4 with a further eight competing in the disciplines Step Up, Speed & Style, Quarterpipe Jam and Classic FMX, thrilling fans packing the stadium with spectacular jumps.

Lukasz Kubiak and Piotr Basek of TSE ( www.tse.pl), A&O Technology’s clients, were clearly much impressed both with the equipment and the use made of it by the lighting designer.

Used equipment:
140x Martin Mac 2000 Wash   
 32x Clay Paky Alpha Wash 575
 35x alpha one FALCON® BEAM colour 7kW
 80x Par64 6-bar
 20x par64 4-bar
 36x 4lite Molyfy
 60x Sunstrpi active
   4x Luminys Softsun 100kW
   4x Luminys Softsun 50kW
   2x Luminys Softsun 10kW
   2x 54sqm LED Screens Lighthouse r19
   2x GrandMA ful size 5x NSP witch 1,5km optic fiber network
   7x 48ch Dimmer MA lighting
   6x Avolites ART 24ch
   8x MDG MAX3000

Caption:
Final stop on the Red Bull X-Fighters tour 2008 in Warsaw,
Photos:© Lukasz Kubiak and Piotr Basek, TSE Laser Light & Sound