Cultural & Folk Festival · Asia-Pacific
The Aliwan Fiesta of the Philippines, with its street dance, float, festival music, photography and Reyna ng Aliwan competitions.
Sets up a Philippine festival contest: street dance, float parade, festival music, a photography competition and a women’s pageant, with real published judging weightings and five placings plus special awards.
This template builds a festival competition in the style of the large street-pageant contest held each year in Manila, where regional contingents bring costumed dance, decorated floats and original festival music to compete in front of a public audience. A coordinator opens an event that already holds the five competition items, the two entry divisions and the placings and special awards, instead of starting from a blank catalogue.
Five items are included. Streetdance, Float Parade and Tugtog ng Aliwan (festival music) are team items entered by a contingent. Reyna ng Aliwan is a women’s pageant entered individually, and the Photography Competition is judged from submitted images rather than a live performance, so it sits off stage. Two divisions carry them: Contingents, open to a wide age range, and a Reyna division for entrants aged 16 to 30. Those age bands and the ten-minute performance limit are working defaults, because the festival does not publish them in a form the template could copy.
What is real is the judging. The festival’s own criteria weight Streetdance at 35 for theme and concept, 20 each for choreography and performance, 15 for costume and 10 for props. Float entries score 50 for craftsmanship, 25 for theme and 25 for overall impact or ingenuity. Tugtog ng Aliwan weighs musicality 50, showmanship 40 and audience impact 10, and Reyna weighs personality 35, beauty and poise 35, costume 20 and overall impact 10. Entries in the music item run four to five minutes and use live instruments and voices only, with nothing pre-recorded. The template scores each item out of 100, so you can enter those weightings as your own criteria.
Placings run from Grand Champion to fifth place, worth 12, 8, 6, 4 and 2 points, with a consolation award and three special awards worth 3 points each: Pride of Place, Best in Costume and Best in Music Accompaniment. To run it, collect entries through the Registration Page, add your judges, and let the tabulation produce a ranked result per item. The public Netizens’ Choice vote in the real festival is not a judged competition, so it is left out; if you run an audience vote, tally it outside the software and add it to your own announcement.
Where this event is run
The Philippines, where the festival grew out of the country’s many town fiestas, and any organiser running a street parade, cultural carnival, regional heritage festival or school foundation day that mixes dance, floats, music and a pageant. It is a poor fit for a single-discipline dance or singing contest, because it carries five different formats, and it does not model contingent size caps or regional quotas, which the organiser does not publish.
- Philippines
- Philippine diaspora and Southeast Asian street-festival organisers
Key facts
- 5 items: Streetdance, Float Parade and Tugtog ng Aliwan (festival music) as team items, Reyna ng Aliwan as an individual women’s item, and a Photography Competition judged from submitted work
- Two divisions: Contingents (all ages up to 99, a working default) and Reyna ng Aliwan (ages 16 to 30)
- Published weightings: Streetdance theme 35, choreography 20, performance 20, costume 15, props 10; Float craftsmanship 50, theme 25, impact 25
- Festival music runs four to five minutes with no electronic or pre-recorded instruments or vocals; the ten-minute limit in the template is a working default
- Each item is scored out of 100; Grand Champion, second to fifth, a consolation and three special awards (Pride of Place, Best in Costume, Best in Music Accompaniment)
- The public online vote and contingent size rules are not modelled
- Age groups
- 2
- Competition items
- 5
- Competitions
- 5
- Grade bands
- 0
- Rank awards
- 9
Age groups
Every candidate is placed into one of these groups by age, and competitions are run per group.
Contingents
Candidates aged 12 to 99 compete in this group
Reyna ng Aliwan
Candidates aged 16 to 30 compete in this group
Competition items
The events themselves — each with the category it belongs to and how judges score it.
Competitions by group
The full schedule matrix, sectioned by age group then category — which item runs for whom, and for how long.
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contingents | |||||
| On Stage | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Streetdance Competition | Team | — | — | 100 | 10m 10s |
| Float Parade Competition | Team | — | — | 100 | 10m 10s |
| Tugtog ng Aliwan (Festival Music) | Team | — | — | 100 | 10m 10s |
| Off Stage | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Aliwan Fiesta Photography Competition | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10m 10s |
| Reyna ng Aliwan | |||||
| On Stage | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Reyna ng Aliwan | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 10m 10s |
Grades and ranks
How scores turn into grade bands, and how many points each placing is worth.
| Rank | For | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Champion | 12 | |
| Second | 8 | |
| Third | 6 | |
| Fourth | 4 | |
| Fifth | 2 | |
| Consolation | 1 | |
| Pride of Place | 3 | |
| Best in Costume | 3 | |
| Best in Music Accompaniment | 3 |
Frequently asked questions
Can I change this template after installing it?
Yes — installing it creates a fully configured, live event, not a locked package. Every age group, competition item, rule and scoring setting can be edited afterwards to match exactly what your event actually needs.
Do I need technical knowledge to set this up?
No. Installing a template does the setup work for you; you only need to review the details (dates, unit or house names) and open registration.
Want the fuller picture first? See our guide to judge scoring and tabulation software.
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