Participants throw horn-rimmed glasses.Photograph: Gero Breloer/APA contestant competes in the vinyl record-spinning contest in which competitors must run around a record turntable while keeping a finger on a record.Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty ImagesPeople compete in a canvas bag jumping event.Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
An attendee wearing a 1980s Nintendo controller as a necklace holds a bottle of the local brew.Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty ImagesContestants compete in the confetti toss event, in which competitors must jump over sticks laid across empty crates and pass confetti to one another.Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty ImagesCan't grow your own hipster moustache? Then a finger and a felt-tip pen will do just as well. Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty ImagesI've got to get one of those: the 80s-style competition brings out some 80s-style technology. A Polaroid Land camera causes some amusement.Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty ImagesContestants compete in an event in which they suck sweets out of a cup of bubble tea, a drink that has become ubiquitous in Berlin.Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty ImagesAhead by a hair: participants fix a fake beard on a man.Photograph: Gero Breloer/APA battle of strength: teams compete in the skinny jeans tug-o-war event.Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty ImagesDancing, balloons and beer at the second annual Hipster Olympics.Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty ImagesFull marks: a judge gives his verdict in the make your own ironic hipster moustache competition.Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty Images
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