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Macao International Fireworks Display Contest in Macao
Running for more than three decades, Macao's International Fireworks Display Contest pits pyrotechnics teams from roughly eight to ten countries against each other across weekend evenings each September and October, with eighteen-minute displays judged head to head over the harbour and Nam Van Lake serving as the traditional best public viewing point.
Macao stages one of the few fireworks events in Asia organized explicitly as a judged international competition rather than a single civic display: the Macao International Fireworks Display Contest has run for more than three decades, pitting pyrotechnics teams representing roughly eight to ten countries against each other across a series of weekend evenings each September and October, typically including a show timed to China's National Day on 1 October.