Robe was a very proud sponsor of the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike World
Championships held in Nove Město na Moravě, Czech Republic … It continued Robe’s
2016 “Working with Winners’ initiative which has also included sponsorship of the
Czech Fed Cup Tennis team, supporting the Quantum Racing team in the 2016 P1 UK
SuperStock powerboat racing championship and British Touring Car Championship
driver Jack Goff in the current BTCC season.

Robe partnered with leading Slovakian rental company Q-99 for the 2016
Championships to supply over 100 of the latest Robe moving lights – Squares, BMFL
Blades and BMFL WashBeams, Pointes and ColorStrobes – to the event’s
entertainment stage which was used for the Opening Ceremony, nightly concerts,
featuring some of the most popular Czech artists, as well as for medal ceremonies
throughout the prestigious and highly successful five day event.

The stage was key to the MTB World Championship action and was located near to
the start and finish lines for the races.

The stage lighting design by Michal Brna and Michal Schmidt took the bold move of
not having a conventional onstage / upstage LED source … instead, they decided to
use Robe’s new Square the main “pixel” fixture and backdrop of the design.

A powerful LED matrix of 25 RGBW multi-chips, 18 x Squares were rigged to a
ground support structure at the back of the stage and used to provide all the
camera and eye candy, programmed into a series of mesmeric, colourful and eye-
catching sequences that looked great on camera and to everyone watching live.

Another 10 x Squares were deployed on three over-stage trusses that were straight
in the middle with the end-pieces angled downwards adding depth and shape to the
space and maintain separation between the fixtures. The final four were rigged in
the corners of the roof system.

The framing shutters in the BMFL Blades and WashBeams were used a lot for the
MTB event due to their accuracy. For the Opening Ceremony, he used the BMFL’s
shutters to divide the stage up into three sections of red, white and blue – which
morphed and changed with the music and dance sequences – representing the
colours of the Czech flag.

For programming the band performances, the two Michal’s were joined by another
programmer, Martin Nohavica.

David Kurc from OteSound was the stage manager and sound designer. The overall
technical production and infrastructure for the event’s entertainment elements –
including stage, rigging, sound system and LED walls – was delivered by
SUNINVENT headed by production managers Ales Pitrun and Michal Kubny.

The Meyer Sound PA system was supplied by OteSound, with Remak Audio from
Ostrava providing the stage and power distribution and LED screens supplied by
LEDVision.

The main biking event on the Sunday ended in nail-biting drama and was a real test
ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics. The winner of the Men’s Elite category was Nino
Schurter from Switzerland, second was Czech Jaroslav Kulhavy and third was the
legendary Frenchman, Julien Absalon … with all eyes on fourth placed Ondrej Cink a
young up-and-coming Czech rider. In the Elite Women’s category, Czech rider
Katerina Nash took 7th place and the Czech team won a silver medal in Thursday’s
team mix relay with France taking the gold.