Just Curious what were the guidelines between Championship and Festival ?
Rian described the Festival Division in his very first post which is quoted below. Not sure which bullet each school classifies as, but those were the requirements.
Division Breakdown:
1. Championship Division
2. Festival Division
-28 or fewer members
-Three years or less of competitive experience
-Group members are primarily freshmen or sophomores
-School has student body population of 400 or fewer
couple changes to the schedule (Ft Frye dropped and a few choirs moved to festival which altered the schedule). Changes are bolded.
Schedule:
8:40am - Portsmouth - Festival
9:10am - Strongsville - Festival
9:40am - Riverside - Festival
10:10am - BREAK
10:15am - Brush - Festival
10:45am - Northwest - Festival
11:15am - ETC Rouge - Single-Gender
11:45am - Grove City Class Act - Single-Gender
12:15pm - Jacob Coy - Middle School
12:40pm - Ankeny - Middle School
1:05pm - BREAK
1:10pm - Hamilton - Middle School
1:35pm - ETC Main Street - Middle School
2:00pm - Tallmadge - Festival
2:30pm - Buffalo - Festival
3:00pm - Nitro - Championship 3:30PM - Bishop Luers - Festival 4:00pm - Poca - Festival 4:30pm - Beavercreek - Championship
5:00pm - Festival Division/Middle School Awards
5:30pm - Colerain - Championship
6:00pm - Grove City Touch of Class - Championship
6:30pm - ETC All Americans - Championship
Considering how Beavercreek and Etc have never been more than 2 points apart this year, this is going to be a very interesting and fun competition! So many great groups here!
The way this competition is set up (3 small mixed finalist and 3 large) is super interesting, but I think it provides an even bigger incentive for these groups to give stellar daytime performances. I'm not even going to attempt to make a prediction at this point because there's going to be some very talented groups who just barely miss out on finals. Can't wait to see what happens here!
I feel like it's going to be super close between Colerain and Grove City. One just has to give a finals level performance in prelims in order to make it into finals.
This one will be very interesting..... At Medina it seemed Grove City, Beavercreek, and ETC were neck and neck..... also Colerain won GC last weekend. With only 3 finalists, it'll be sad to see one of these great groups miss finals
I think it's great. It makes Finals even more meaningful!
This one will be very interesting..... At Medina it seemed Grove City, Beavercreek, and ETC were neck and neck..... also Colerain won GC last weekend. With only 3 finalists, it'll be sad to see one of these great groups miss finals
Wow! This competition is STACKED. Should be a really good prelims AND finals for sure. Tons of amazing groups coming. Wish I could make the trip up there!