This year's Pannonian Challenge will be held for the seventeenth time in the city upon Drava, Osijek, and will bring together all fans of BMX riding, skating, inline skating as well as fans of urban culture and music. We're expecting the finest names of the extreme scene to participate. A testament to the festival's growing success and scale is this year's hefty prize money which amounts to a whopping 50 000€.
Osijek is an unavoidable stop to all BMX-ers due to it becoming one of the stops of the UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup this year. Because of this, the entire skate park was redecorated and this year you will be able to see it in a completely new light. Approximately 250 kilograms of paint, a couple thousand laths, about 500 wooden panels and over 36 000 screws were used in the redecoration.
All of the preparations are already finished so that as many as 400 athletes from more than 55 countries, nearly 50 musicians and
just as many artists and dancers could display their creations and leave the audience breathless.
All of this wouldn't be possible if it weren't for our 160 volunteers whose hard work will amount to over 9000 volunteer hours, who will have up to 500 packs of ?ipi ?ips in their tent, should the need for a snack arise, along with gift packages from Zagreba?ka banka (The Bank of Zagreb) made specially for them.
The gang has already started warming up for their favorite festival of the year, writing #pannonian a week before the event 2930 times already.
An unbelievable number of 20 000 people visited Osijek last year as part of Pannonian Challenge, and we expect even more to come to this year's eight day festival.
Get your tickets for this spectacle at entrio.hr, and all additional information you may need can be found at www.pannonian.hr.