KALIBO, Aklan – Winners of the 2023 Kalibo Sadsad Ati-Atihan contest will get cold cash.
Kalibo Sadsad Ati-Atihan is returning on Jan. 14, 2023 for a megabuck showdown of Tribal Big contingents.
Eight contingents from Makato and Kalibo are competing in a whole-day Ati-Atihan street dancing.
Black Beauty Boys, Maharlika Tribe, Pangawasan Tribe, Pride of Libtong, Tribu Alibangbang, Tribu Linabuanon, Tribu Tiis-Tiis, and Vikings will battle it out for a total of P1,720,000 in prize money.
The champion gets to pocket a whooping P1 million, the biggest in the Kalibo Ati-Atihan history – P350,000 courtesy of the local government of Kalibo through the Kalibo Ati-Atihan Festival Board and P650,000 from Sucro.
The first runner-up will take home P300,000. Of this cash prize, P250,000 is shouldered by the local government of Kalibo and P50,000 from Sucro.
The second runner-up will get P170,000.
Winners of special awards for best in costume, best in street dancing, best in beat and sounds and most disciplined will get P5,000 each.
Vikings of Dumga, Makato, Aklan is the de facto defending champion. It captured the title in the 2020 edition of the Ati-Atihan street dancing contest. The tribe also placed first in 2018.
All eyes, too, are on Black Beauty Boys of Linabuan Norte, Kalibo. It is a perennial winner.
Black Beauty Boys, on the other hand, won 23 titles in six decades of the Kalibo Ati-Atihan contest.
The tribe took the title of the first Ati-Atihan contest on January 1963 and 10 in 20 contests from 1964 to 1987, highlighted by a record seven straight championships from 2011 to 2017./PN
