The awards were given as follows:

Ali Bongo Micro Magic Competition – Fay Presto
Dealers Trophy – Practical Magic
Rovi Trophy for Card Magic – Kevin Gallagher
Manipulation – Tai Hsiang Chou
Comedy Originality – Not Awarded

The Zina Bennett Close-up Trophy:

1st – Steve Dela
2nd – Rob James
3rd – Kevin Gallagher

The British Ring Shield

1st – Tai-Hsiang Chou
2nd – Dave Andrews
3rd – The Amazing Norvil Josephine

Tony Rix compered the Late Gala, with a Torn and Restored Tissue Paper routine, an interlude with an Axtell Bird and a clock prediction, and some gentle humour, he kept the show flowing.

Brando and Silvana embody everything they talked about in their lecture. She is a Flower Seller, he is running a con game on the street, in the form of a cups-and-balls, find the ball, game. They go through the cups-and-balls routine with various loads including his wallet which she has stolen off him, that magically reappears underneath one of the cups. Finally for the dénouement as they hear the police approach she magically changes from her grey costume into a full colour gown, complete with colorful parasol, and he changes costume as well, and the box he has been playing on, changes into a park bench, where they innocently sit to avoid capture.

Pavels Rain of Ropes was a beautiful particularly continental style act. A portrayal of the seasons, which starts off with rain, and as he opens his umbrella ropes fall out. A wonderful selection of hs creative and inventive rope magic follows, colour changing ropes, jumping knots, blendos and rope splitting, finishes in a round-about way back with the umbrella which now contains a snowstorm, showering Pavel in snow.

Soma is the recent Grand-Prix winner at FISM with his mobile phone manipulation act. He starts by walking on carrying a coffee cup and newspaper, and performs a Torn and Restored paper, utilising a rewind bit, using the Lean illusion and a piece of the paper that flys back from where it was dropped on the floor. He then moves into coin manipulation, in order to operate the onstage payphone, and a series of mobile phone manipulations, vanishes and productions. Finally the act comes full-circle as he reproduces his glasses, the coffee cup and turns the last mobile phone back into his newspaper, as he walks off stage, with his brief-case magically following behind.

Peki was the final act, a one-trick pony which unfortunately left this reviewer cold. Possibly because it utilised a continous production of feather flowers, a prop which I feel should be banned from existence, from a giant production box, coupled with a manic assistant who ran around putting the flowers on-stage like her life depended on it. They finished by producing giant flags, to leave the stage covered in floral abundance.