The Final Bloco Report

From one of the bloco blogs.... The final bloco report:

Rio once again has reclaimed its rightful place as City with the Best Street Carnival. The Monobloco parade alone drew 150,000 people, nearly twice what the Sambodromo holds. The city of Rio today reported that the bloco parades, in total, added up to three million people, this year, which they say topped the biggest street festivals of Salvador and Recife. (Either that or Rio's got 150,000 people who each go to twenty parades...could be.....)


Daniel Pereira's (of the Samba de Rede blog) personal list of awards today is:

Best bloco parade: Barbas

Best samba (song): Bloco de Segunda

Best sound quality: Monobloco!

Best bateria: Monobloco! rah!

Most irreverent: Cutucano Atrás

Most animated crowd: The people of Barangal

Most omnipresent partier: Guilherme Guimaraes Studart

Most original costumes: Boitatá

Worst of Carnaval: The rain

Best dance parties: Fundição Progresso (this is where Monobloco & Banga have all their parties)

Best blocos for "getting" (picking up chicks, etc.): Volta Alice and Carmelitas

Best new bloco: Mulheres de Chico! (yeah!)

Most impossibly crowded bloco parades: Bola Preta and Rancho Flor de Sereno