The Tribu Kauswagan of Maribojoc town bested eight other entries Sunday to romp away with the grand prize of the 2009 street dancing competition, the main highlight of the Sandugo celebration. Dancing to the beat of throbbing drums, borrowed calypso cadence and the fanfare of trumpets made up the cacophony of sight and sounds enough to elicit the awed audience of its ohs and ahs as the Maribojoc contingent made the dramatic finish. Proving they could be second to none, last year's street dancing festival runner ups, Maribojoc came out big and strong to beat eight other contenders to the honors as Bohol 's Sandugo mardigras champions this year. Moving as a singular sea of gold, blue and green in front of magnificient mountain backdrop, Maribojoc dancers performed their routines in near perfection while brilliantly using the propos to maximize on special effects to elicit loud applause from the crowd of thousands witnessing the competition.

Romping away this year with the Grand Champion trophy and P200T, and reaping more with the Best Street Dancing, Choreo-graphy and Costume, Maribojoc went home clearly savoring a total of at least P260T cash award they had relentlessly pursued festivals back. Also coming as strong second is Katigbawan Festival grand champion Immaculate Mary Academy of Catigbian town. Exploring the tradition of carabao pageants in the town and using a tricky combination of colors pink and blue for their costume and an impeccable detail on choreographed movements, IMA Catigbian impressed the judges with their over-all performance to award them P150T as this year's runner up. Trinidad , with the unmistakable use of the Pintados identity and a creative use of indigenous costume accents coupled with pulsating action lent them the contingent the third place. Running home with P100T cash prize and trophy, Trinidad contingent explored on the homegrown festival of the Caromata.

Meanwhile, Baclayon contingent went home with the Best in Music award for an infinite exploration of local music to accompany their street-dancers. Other participating contingents who gave the winning contingents a run for their money were Inabanga, Balilihan, Corella, Tubigon, Catigbian through its National High School and Tagbilaran City as represented by Dr. Cecilio Putong National High School. Non-winning contingents each received P10T cash awards and plaques of appreciation from the Bohol Sandugo Foundation, event organizers. (PIA)