32 Angry Birds aficionados strutted their skills in the finals of the wildly popular mobile game in Helsinki Saturday afternoon.
When the feathers settled, Koivula emerged victorious after having played the game for a just month before the final. As the winner, Koivula received a Nokia N8 smart phone and will fly to Hollywood with a flock of friends.
The competition was organised by the Finnish mobile phone colossus Nokia, who said that the qualifying rounds were oversubscribed. Altogether 2,600 birders from across the country battled for a nest in the final, but only the best made it to Saturday’s final battle of bird against pig.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the majority of finalists were primary school aged boys. However spectators of all ages were on hand to follow their progress at the upscale Kammpi shopping centre in Helsinki.
The Finnish company Rovio Mobile created the addictive game, whose central idea is reassuringly simple: evil green pigs have stolen the birds’ eggs, making them very angry. The player’s mission is to hurl the birds at the pigs and their fortresses with the aim of eliminating the green nemeses.
