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LOOK: Team PH bags 286 awards in WCOPA 2018

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<div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/wcopateamph/posts/981424418698541" data-width="auto"> </div><p>MANILA — Team Philippines is taking home 286 awards, including a category champion title, from the just-concluded World Championship of Performing Arts competition held in Long Beach, California.</p><p>Eighty-seven Filipino delegates joined the annual competition, which has junior and senior divisions, spanning several categories, including dance, instruments, vocals, modelling, and acting.</p><p>Filipino guitar duo M Squared was named senior grand champion in the instrumentalists category. </p><p>Overall, the senior grand champion of the world was Cayman Islands representative Rita Estevanovich, from the acting category.</p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/wcopateamph/videos/980342615473388/" data-width="auto"> </div><p>The title of junior grand champion of the world, meanwhile, went to Stefan Ogilvie of South Africa, also from the acting category.</p><p>In total, the Philippines&#x27; representatives won 55 gold medals, 83 silver medals, 81 bronze medals, 34 division champion plaques, and 33 semi-finalist badges, according to the local organizer&#x27;s official Facebook page.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/02/23/18/surviving-depression-philippine-idol-champion-picks-up-pieces-in-tawag-ng-tanghalan">Surviving depression, &#x27;Philippine Idol&#x27; champion picks up pieces in &#x27;Tawag ng Tanghalan&#x27;</a></li></ul><p>Notably, Mau Marcelo, the first-ever &quot;Philippine Idol&quot; winner, was among the medalists. She got bronze for her jazz performance (&quot;Sweet Love&quot;) in the vocal soloists category, and silver for her contemporary performance (&quot;This Is My Life&quot;).</p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/mau.marcelo.1/posts/10214615255350068" data-width="auto"> </div><p>Kapamilya balladeer Jed Madela, the 2005 grand champion of the world, accompanied the Filipino delegates this year as coach, with national director Gerry Mercado, and creative director Annie Mercado.</p><p>Team Philippines will arrive home on July 25.</p>

<p>Team Philippines is taking home 286 awards, including a category champion title, from the just-concluded World Championship of Performing Arts competition held in Long Beach, California.</p>

Team Philippines is taking home 286 awards, including a category champion title, from the just-concluded World Championship of Performing Arts competition held in Long Beach, California.