The CBC is shedding some lights — loud, bright lights — on a little-known world.

It’s a world full of smoky truths and burning ambitions. Where the stakes are sky high, the competitors are real powder kegs and victory or defeat can happen in a flash.

It is, of course, the world of a competitive fireworks.

While dazzled audiences tend to go home winners every night of Vancouver’s Celebration of Light, the event is a competition with only one champion fireworks team.

During the 2018 edition Sweden, South Africa and South Korea are battling for the judges’ favour to be crowned