First competition of EMMA Ukraine
      On Friday the 27th of June the new EMMA Ukraine started the season with
        the first competition in the city of Lviv in Ukrainias west territory.
        At the local expo centre competitors from Moldavia, Belarus, Russia,
        Latvia and Lithuania completed the group of national competitors to an
        amount of more than 60 cars. 
        
        Head Judge Sergey Teplyuk was very happy
        to have a strong judge team to take the challenge of judging everything
        within one day. The day before a judge training was arranged to have
        the best knowledge of the rules and later the teams were setup so that
        there was no major delay at the beginning. The great back office girls
        did the best to manage to get the certificates ready for the ceremony
        in the evening. The main Sponsor Focal was arranging a great stage for
        the program which was moderated by a special presenter who had lots of
        action to announce. Dancing girls performed an amazing show, interviews
        were given, traditional folk dancers and singing kisd and of course the
        ESPL measurement was done on the stage where EMMA Ukraine built a ramp
        to
        make the cars
        better
        visible
        for the
        audience.
        
        
        As a result of the long tradition of the car audio scene the level of
        the competitors was very good and some were talking to come and join
        the Eurofinals in October. Like always in east Europe there have been
        some real great old cars which were renovated in a very professional
        way. Ladas and Wolga Limosines perfect in design and great in sound.
        Hopefully they will once also come to be presented in western Europe.
        Organiser and EMMA Ukraine Boss Evgeny Kostenko was very nervous the
        whole day because the new team had no expereince so far. But when the
        ceremony was finished after the perfomance of a great Blues Band with
        international
        format 
        he calmed down. Finally the evening was finished with a dinner of all
        EMMA Ukraine Team and the obligatory vodka session in the end.
        
        This event is the basement for the future reconstruction of EMMA in Ukraine
        and the Team showed the will and the capacity to do it.
        
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