The participants of the festival were 17 teams from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and other countries of the CIS and Europe. Their performances were assessed by a competent jury which included the permanent member of the KVN (The Club of the Happy and Inventive) jury, film director Yuli Gusman, Laima Vaikule, Pelageya, Oleg Znarok, Vladislav Tretiak, Valdis Pelsh, Igor Vernik, Valeri Syutkin. The winner of the festival was the Soyuz team from Tyumen who received the main award – The Big KiViN in Gold.
