Parade marked the farewell of Neguinho da Beija-Flor as the school’s official interpreter after 50 years; The Great Rio was in 2nd place
Hummingbird is the great champion of Rio de Janeiro Carnival. The Nilópolis School, in Baixada Fluminense, won its 15th title this Wednesday (5.mar.2025).
With the plot “Laila de Todos os Santos”, the school paid tribute to the Carnival director Laila, who died in 2021. The parade also marked the farewell of Neguinho da Beija-Flor as the school’s official interpreter after 50 carnivals. The double mission was in charge of the carnival João Vitor Araújo.
In 2nd place was the great river, followed by Empress Leopoldinense. Already Unidos de Padre Miguel received the worst grades and will parade in the Gold series next year.
The school that will be raised to the Rio Carnival elite will only be known on Thursday (6.mar). The Gold Series would also be held at the 4th grayship fair, shortly after reading the notes of the special group, but the date was modified this year.
In São Paulo, the Rosas de Ouro Society was the big winner of the samba school parade of the Carnival Special Group. The association obtained 269.8 points in the investigation, followed by Tatuapé Academics (269.8 points) and the Faithful Gavião (269.7 points).
The tiebreaker criterion was the sum of all the grades received, including those discarded. They were demoted to the access group to Tucuruvi Academics (269.0 points) and Green Spot (268.9 points).
Award
It has not yet been released how much the winning samba schools will win. According to information from SPTuris (São Paulo Turismo), the last awards released, 2023, was R $ 82,000 for the champion of that year, the Youth Alegre.
In Rio, Unidos do Viradouro was the champion of 2024. The amount pocketed by the samba school, however, was not disclosed.
This is because the division of awards in the river is done differently. The value depends on how much it is collected in the champions’ parades. The winning school takes 18.9% of this total.
Champion Parade
The 6 schools that return to the champions’ parade next Saturday (8.mar) are:
- Hummingbird;
- Great River;
- Leopoldinense Empress;
- Viradouro;
- Portela;
- Hose.
With information from
