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Event Info

April 21st, 2012
Venue Info
Arie Crown Theater
2301 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60616
Phone: (312) 791-6000
Event Details
Number of Attending Choirs:
15 Mixed Groups
7 Treble Groups
Event Judges:
Unknown
Tickets
Friday, April 20:
(Non-Adjudicated)
$30.00
$40.00 Premium Seating

Saturday, April 21:
$50.00
$60.00 Premium Seating

BOTH DAYS:
$70.00
$90.00 Premium Seating
Map
FAME Show Choir National Finals 2012





Awards
 Predictions
 Photos
 Event Site
 Live Stream
Mixed Division
Groups    

The Classics
Wheaton Warrenville South High School
 Grand Champion
Best Vocals
Best Choreography
Best Band
Best Rhythm Section
Best Male Stage Presence (Mike Restaino)

Sound FX
Los Alamitos High School
 First Runner Up
Best Diction
Best Costumes

Riverside Company
Hastings High School
 Second Runner Up
Best Male Sound
Most Original Selection

First Edition
Findlay High School
 3rd Runner Up
FAME Award

Swingsations
Mt. Zion High School
 4th Runner Up
Best Male Soloist

Elite Energy
Eisenhower High School
 5th Runner Up
Best Female Stage Presence

Masquerade
Brea Olinda High School
 6th Runner Up
Best Crew

Center Stage
Oak Grove High School
 7th Runner Up
Best Horn Section

Company
South Jones Jr/Sr High School
 8th Runner Up

Music Warehouse
Edgewood High School
 9th Runner Up

Evolution
American Leadership Academy
 10th Runner Up

Cavaliers
Crete-Monee High School
Best Female Soloist

Titanium
Papillion-La Vista South High School

VIBE
Daniel Hand High School

Fantasy
Shepherd Hill Regional High School

Treble Division
Groups    

Soundtrax
Los Alamitos High School
 First Place
Best Female Sound
Best Show Design

Spellbound
Brea Olinda High School
 Second Place

Faces
Crete-Monee High School
 Third Place

Illusion
Shepherd Hill Regional High School
 No Placement

Sophisticated Ladies
Edgewood High School
 No Placement

Les Femmes
Mt. Zion High School
 No Placement

Jive
Bloomington Jefferson High School
 No Placement

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Jeff. • on Apr 20, 2012, 2:04 PM
Post #58
+1
Prediction: Los Alamitos girls will win their division hands down.
You think? I mean, I can definitely see Sound Trax taking first place, especially considering their win over JB Sound Sensations and their sweep at the JB Music Showcase. That's definitely impressive since Burroughs' girls are spectacular every year. However, Brea Spellbound is very talented as well. Spellbound is also undefeated on the year including a victory over Sound Trax at the Hollywood qualifier. Sure, both groups have improved and changed a lot since the beginning of March, but still. I'm just hesitant to say any group will win "hands down" with the strong and diverse caliber of single-gender choirs. But who knows, Los Al is legit.



JWill • on Apr 20, 2012, 12:58 PM
Post #57
 
Prediction: Los Alamitos girls will win their division hands down.



Stolba • on Apr 19, 2012, 10:35 AM
Post #56
+1
There is a live feed, but it costs $19.95. You can sign up for it here:

https://show choirs.thefannetwork.org/

Obviously it's the path posted above without the space between show and choir (stupid filter).

(Edited because my previous edit was overly harsh.)

for 20$ it better clean my house and have a flawless stream.

Sadly I won't be able to watch it but can't wait to see results

S

swingsmomma12 • on Apr 19, 2012, 12:26 AM
Post #55
 
MT Zion LF goes at 9am Friday morning- and MT Zion Swingsations goes at 9pm on Friday! I guess everyone else is in between! LOL Good Luck to all competing show choirs and individual performances! Looking forward to seeing each of you rock that stage! Love you buddy! Do what you do best Christian!



Mr. Temple • on Apr 18, 2012, 10:10 PM (Edited)
Post #54
 
Will there be a live feed for this contest? I'd love to watch!
There is a live feed, but it costs $19.95. You can sign up for it here:

https://show choirs.thefannetwork.org/

Obviously it's the path posted above without the space between show and choir (stupid filter).

(Edited because my previous edit was overly harsh.)



HV-FCS-12 • on Apr 18, 2012, 6:29 PM
Post #53
+3
Will there be a live feed for this contest? I'd love to watch!



Caleb :P • on Apr 17, 2012, 11:13 PM (Edited)
Post #52
 
Again just as a friendly reminder in order to avoid confusion, there aren't "finals" on Saturday. It's just a single-performance and then awards. Similar to how competitions are run on the West Coast, I suppose. Anyways, I definitely agree with your placements - they are exactly the same as mine I believe!

**These rankings are based only on factual evidence reported through showchoir.com. These probably will not accurately predict placements at FAME Nationals and are only for the purpose of personal enjoyment.
I totally respect the amount of time you spent on this haha, very neat thanks for posting. I just wonder if you took the records from the SCC database? If so, several event pages haven't actually been updated so some of these choirs' records aren't necessarily an accurate reflection of their performance this season. (For example, FFE has three competitions missing from their 2012 award record: Ada, Bishop Luers, and FAME Orlando #2) Nonetheless, not your fault. I just wanted to point that out!

Yes yes I realize that. Unfortunately there is no way I could possibly include all of that information that isn't listed, so I just used what were officially posted as events on here. That's why I always include that ** section. Oh well. It's all for fun anyway. :D



Jeff. • on Apr 17, 2012, 8:28 PM (Edited)
Post #51
+1
What is the schedule for Friday?
To my knowledge, a schedule hasn't been posted on here, the facebook page, or on FAME's website. The only bit of information regarding the schedule is what FAME posted on page 1:

Show Choir National Finals Format and Performance Order: Fridays semi-finals round will feature all National Finalists in a non-adjudicated/comments only performance round. There will be 3 performance sessions. All 3rd place qualifiers will perform in Session 3, all 2nd place qualifiers will perform in session 2, and all 1st place qualifiers will perform in session 1. Within each session, a random draw will determine performance order.

Perhaps a director/student from a participating school could enlighten us all with the actual Friday schedule?



JWill • on Apr 17, 2012, 7:54 PM
Post #50
 
What is the schedule for Friday?



Jeff. • on Apr 17, 2012, 7:08 PM (Edited)
Post #49
+1
Finals: (No Order)

WWS Classic
Los Al SFx
Brea Olinda Masquerade
Mt. Zion Swingsations
Hastings/Edgewood

GC: WWS Classic
1ru: Los Al
2ru: Mt. Zion

BV: Los Al
Choreo: WWS
Again just as a friendly reminder in order to avoid confusion, there aren't "finals" on Saturday. It's just a single-performance and then awards. Similar to how competitions are run on the West Coast, I suppose. Anyways, I definitely agree with your placements - they are exactly the same as mine I believe!

**These rankings are based only on factual evidence reported through showchoir.com. These probably will not accurately predict placements at FAME Nationals and are only for the purpose of personal enjoyment.
I totally respect the amount of time you spent on this haha, very neat thanks for posting. I just wonder if you took the records from the SCC database? If so, several event pages haven't actually been updated so some of these choirs' records aren't necessarily an accurate reflection of their performance this season. (For example, FFE has three competitions missing from their 2012 award record: Ada, Bishop Luers, and FAME Orlando #2) Nonetheless, not your fault. I just wanted to point that out!



Caleb :P • on Apr 17, 2012, 5:50 PM
Post #48
+2
Okay I'm addicted to looking up all of this information. Note: When there was a tie in rankings, I posted them in alphabetical order. So here we go (based on showchoir.com listings):

GC's: Los Al/WWS=4, Hastings=3, Brea=2, Daniel Hand/Edgewood/Eisenhower/Findlay/Mt. Zion=1, ALA/Crete-Monee/Oak Grove/Papillion/Shepherd Hill/South Jones=0.

Most competitions attended: Hastings=6, Crete-Monee/Eisenhower/Mt. Zion=5, Brea/Edgewood/Los Al/WWS=4, Daniel Hand/South Jones=3, ALA/Findlay/Oak Grove/Papillion/Shepherd Hill=2.

% GC's/Competitions: Los Al/WWS=100%, Brea/Findlay/Hastings=50%, Daniel Hand=33%, Edgewood=25%, Eisenhower/Mt. Zion=20%, ALA/Crete-Monee/Oak Grove/Papillion/Shepherd Hill/South Jones=0%.

Rankings based on Avg Placements:
GC Los Al (1)
2 WWS (1)
3 Findlay (1.5)
4 Brea (1.75)
5 Hastings (2)
6 South Jones (2)
7 Edgewood (2.5)
8 Daniel Hand (2.77)
9 Eisenhower (3)
10 Mt. Zion (3)
11 Papillion (3)
12 Oak Grove (3.5)
13 Shepherd Hill (3.5)
14 ALA (4.5)
15 Crete-Monee (5.4)

Rankings based on Avg Placements and Captions:
GC WWS
2 Los Al
3 Brea
4 Hastings
5 Mt. Zion
6 Findlay
7 Eisenhower
8 Edgewood
9 South Jones
10 Daniel Hand
11 Papillion
12 Oak Grove
13 Shepherd Hill
14 ALA
15 Crete-Monee

**These rankings are based only on factual evidence reported through showchoir.com. These probably will not accurately predict placements at FAME Nationals and are only for the purpose of personal enjoyment.



RobertYouKnow • on Apr 17, 2012, 4:36 PM
Post #47
+1
Finals: (No Order)

WWS Classic
Los Al SFx
Brea Olinda Masquerade
Mt. Zion Swingsations
Hastings/Edgewood

GC: WWS Classic
1ru: Los Al
2ru: Mt. Zion

BV: Los Al
Choreo: WWS

Haven't seen Los Al's show, and I am not counting them out at all, but I have seen WWS multiple times in person over the years and they are remarkable and of course reigning champs, So As for right now I give them the edge, with Los Al a close second followed by MT. Zion, which is also a toss up, I have not seen them in person this year.



Stolba • on Apr 16, 2012, 7:21 PM
Post #46
 
FAME should seed the choirs like NCAA basketball championships....
All the groups that won first at a regional should be performing together in the last time slots; the second place finishers together, and so forth.


That is what I thought when I first saw that it was a random drawing.



Anna-kate Cowart • on Apr 16, 2012, 10:07 AM
Post #45
 
okay, nevermind. it stats with Mt Zion.. my bad.. ha


5:30 - 6:30 PM - DINNER BREAK
6:30 PM - Mt Zion Swingsations
7:00 PM - South Jones Company
7:30 PM - Findlay First Edition
8:00 PM - Daniel Hand VIBE
8:30 PM - Eisenhower Elite Energy



Anna-kate Cowart • on Apr 16, 2012, 9:59 AM
Post #44
 
Here is the schedule!


6:00- South Jones "Company"
7:30- Findlay "First Edition"
8:00- Daniel Hand "Vibe"
8:30- Eisenhower "Elite Energy"

These four groups will perform an hour later that the times shown because of a supper break. So South Jons "Company" will Start at 7:00, I do believe. That's what our director told us. so I could be wrong. hahaha



FindYourStage • on Apr 15, 2012, 10:52 PM
Post #43
+2
Prediction:

GC: WWS (BC, BB)
1RU: Los Al (BV)
2RU: Hastings

I don't even know! I agree that GC and 1RU will be between WWS and Los Al, but that 2RU spot can easily belong to a number of groups. I'm chosing Hastings because I saw their show at Viterbo and LOVED it! I know they have also improved a lot this year. Good luck to all the groups 10th Street Edition showing love from Iowa! Wish we had the money to go to such an amazing competition



Jeff. • on Apr 15, 2012, 10:39 PM
Post #42
 
FAME should seed the choirs like NCAA basketball championships....
All the groups that won first at a regional should be performing together in the last time slots; the second place finishers together, and so forth.
FAME is using that seeding format for the Friday “sound check” and critique performances, but chose to do a random drawing for the actual competition on Saturday, as you’re probably well aware.

I get what you’re saying, it would be interesting and give more meaning to those placements at the regional competitions if they did seeded finals, but at the same time not all of the regional competitions are created equal. I do think it would be interesting, but I think the random drawing is probably the most fair…although definitely frustrating at times.

T

tscott • on Apr 15, 2012, 10:03 PM
Post #41
+3
FAME should seed the choirs like NCAA basketball championships....
All the groups that won first at a regional should be performing together in the last time slots; the second place finishers together, and so forth.

S

scobsessedwv • on Apr 15, 2012, 5:28 PM
Post #40
 

They got 1RU with BV.
they got BC too.



JWill • on Apr 15, 2012, 4:45 PM
Post #39
 
Does anyone have a schedule for Friday?


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