Tribu Bola-Bola of Iloilo National High School will not be joining the Dinagyang Festival 2007 main event, ati-ati contest. This was confirmed by Mr. Ben Jimena of Dinagyang Executive Committee. The group has yet to disclose their reason for not joining the contest.

The Dinagyang Executive Committee is contemplating on reducing the number of tribes to perform from the current 22 tribes down to 15 tribes. Mr. Jimena cited the purposed of the reduction is to increase the time and quality of each tribe performances.

Dinagyang 2007 advertising grants from Smart Communication and Globe Telecoms were reduced. The two telecommunication companies gave a total of Php 8-M in 2006. This year, each gave only Php 2-M.