CONTEST RESULTS

North American Championship (2nd section)

Date: 31 Mar 2012
Venue: The Cincinnati Masonic Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Adjudicator(s): James Curnow, Jamie Hood, Dr Steve Kellner
Test piece: The Dark Side of the Moon (Paul Lovatt-Cooper)

Pos Band Conductor Test Piece Own Choice Total
Draw Points Pos Draw Points Pos points
1 Madison Brass Band Craig Mason 1 269.0 1 272.0 1 270.2
The Year of the Dragon (Philip Sparke)
2 Chesapeake Silver Cornet Brass Band Dr Russell Murray 4 264.0 2 264.0 2 264.0
Purcell Variations (Kenneth Downie)
3 Spires Brass Band John Slezak 3 251.0 3 243.0 3 247.8
Burlesque for Brass Band (Rob Goorhuis)
4 Brass Band of the Tri-State Chip Gue 2 245.0 4 238.0 4 242.2

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

Spires Brass Band also played - A Pittsburgh Overture (Sparke) and River City Serenade (Sparke)
Brass Band of the Tri-State played - The Carnival King (Rimmer) and Selections from Symphony No 8 (Dvorak)

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

Historical results summary