CONTEST RESULTS

North American Championship (1st section)

Date: 9 Apr 2011
Venue: DeVos Place, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Adjudicator(s): James Curnow, Steven Mead, Dr Alison Shaw
Test piece: Victorian Snapshots - On Ratcliff Highway (Ray Steadman-Allen)

Pos Band Conductor Test Piece Own Choice Total
Draw Points Pos Draw Points Pos points
1 Central Ohio Brass Band Jessica Sneeringer 1 270.0 1 271.0 1 270.4
Chivalry (Martin Ellerby)
2 Princeton Brass Band Dr Stephen A Allen 2 270.0 1 271.0 1 270.4
A London Overture (Philip Sparke)
3 Motor City Brass Band Craig Strain 5 261.0 3 259.0 3 260.2
A London Overture (Philip Sparke)
4 Oakland Brass Band Neil Barlow 6 256.0 4 247.0 6 252.4
The City of Warriors (Ralph E Pearce)
5 Oakland University Brass Band Dr Kenneth Kroesche 3 251.0 5 251.0 4 251.0
Rococo Variations (Edward Gregson)
6 Cincinnati Brass Band Anita Cocker-Hunt 4 249.0 6 250.0 5 249.4
Brass Metamorphosis (James Curnow)

The overall score is weighted as 60% of Test Piece score plus 40% of Own Choice score

1st tiebreaker - band with the highest Test Piece score wins
2nd tiebreaker - band rated highest by 2 of the 3 adjudicators wins

Test Piece scores (Curnow, Mead, Shaw)

Central Ohio:  92 94 84 - average of best 2 from 3 = 93

Princeton:     87 91 92 - average of best 2 from 3 = 91.5