The emcees were mentioning on Saturday that Linn-Mar has won MOShow the most over the years- now 9 times! Which school has won MOShow the next amount of times? Kennedy with 5. And the choir with the 3rd most MOShow GCs? ( ) You guessed it, GCS, with 4! What a fun coincidence that those were the top 3 scoring groups of the 25th MOShow. I realized it about halfway through 10th Street’s finals performance and realized it was just so fitting!!!
Highlights for me: Hi-Style's opener. I love it so much. Also, the genuine love and emotion these performers exhibited for each other was so cool to see. They were so surprised to make finals, and it showed. Also, GCS <3 I hosted GCS twice when I was in Momentum, so it was AMAZING to see GCS back on the MOShow stage. It had been far too long and everything felt right with GCS back!
Vocals:
1st- Vernon 114
2nd- Franklin 108
3rd- Harding 105
4th- Taft 102
5th- McKinley 100
6th- Excelsior 93
7th- Roosevelt 88
8th- Oak Ridge 86
9th- Wilson 78
Choreo:
1st- Franklin 99
2nd- Harding 97
3rd (tie)- Vernon 91
3rd (tie)- Excelsior 91
5th- Taft 90
6th- McKinley 89
7th- Roosevelt 86
8th- Oak Ridge 81
9th- Wilson 61
Total:
1st- Franklin 207
2nd- Vernon 205
3rd- Harding 202
4th- Taft 192
5th- McKinley 189
6th- Excelsior 184
7th- Roosevelt 174
8th- Oak Ridge 167
9th- Wilson 139
Gerry Kreitzer:
Vocals:
1st-Franklin 118
2nd- Excelsior 112
3rd- McKinley 111.5
4th- Taft 110
5th- Vernon 109.5
6th- Harding 107
7th- Oak Ridge 104.5
8th- Roosevelt 103.5
9th- Wilson 91.5
Choreo:
1st- Franklin 102.5
2nd- Taft 98.5
3rd- Vernon 97
4th (tie)- Excelsior 96
4th (tie)- McKinley 96
6th- Harding 95.5
7th- Oak Ridge 88
8th- Roosevelt 86
9th- Wilson 75.5
Total:
1st- Franklin 220.5
2nd- Taft 208.5
3rd- Excelsior 208
4th- McKinley 207.5
5th- Vernon 206.5
6th- Harding 202.5
7th- Oak Ridge 192.5
8th- Roosevelt 189.5
9th- Wilson 167
Diane Thayer:
Vocals:
1st- Franklin 121
2nd- McKinley 119
3rd- Excelsior 117.5
4th- Taft 113.5
5th- Harding 111
6th- Vernon 109.5
7th- Oak Ridge 103.5
8th- Roosevelt 80.5
9th- Wilson 70
Choreo:
1st- Franklin 106
2nd (tie)- McKinley 105
2nd (tie)- Excelsior 105
4th- Taft 101.5
5th- Harding 99.5
6th- Vernon 96
7th- Oak Ridge 94.5
8th- Roosevelt 75
9th- Wilson 68
Total:
1st- Franklin 227
2nd- McKinley 224
3rd- Excelsior 222.5
4th- Taft 215
5th- Harding 210.5
6th- Vernon 205.5
7th- Oak Ridge 198
8th- Roosevelt 155.5
9th- Wilson 138
Overall Points (only used as 3rd tiebreaker in Ordinal Consensus scoring):
1st- Franklin 654.5
2nd- McKinley 620.5
3rd- Vernon 617
4th- Taft 615.5
5th- Harding 615
6th- Excelsior 614.5
7th- Oak Ridge 557.5
8th- Roosevelt 519
9th- Wilson 444
Ben Schmidt (band score determined Best Band):
1st- McKinley 44
2nd- Roosevelt 43
3rd- Harding 42.5
4th- Franklin 41.5
5th (tie)- Vernon 40
5th (tie)- Oak Ridge 40
7th- Taft 39.5
8th (tie)- Wilson 38
8th (tie)- Excelsior 38
Ordinal consensus was used to determine BV, BC and placements. For choreography, Franklin had every judge put them 1st, and so they won BC. For vocals, Franklin had 2 1st placings, and Vernon had 1, so Franklin won vocals.
Franklin won with straight 1s. Taft, McKinley, and Vernon tied for 2nd- with each of them having a first placing once Franklin was removed. Taft won the 1st tiebreaker (ranking points) with their rankings adding up to 10, McKinley 11, and Vernon 13. That is how Taft was 2nd, McKinley 3rd, and Vernon 4th.
As you can see, 2nd-6th was EXTREMELY close, separated by just few points, and with no clear consensus between the judges. And let me tell you, that's what I felt in the gym. All of these groups were so good and so close to each other because they were all singing so well and performing with all of the energy!!! Congrats to everyone!
Final results are posted. It was very cool to see that performance from Shawndell Young, especially since I remember putting their name in this site so many times for best soloist awards.
Hi Style
Western Dubuque
In-Step
Happiness
GCS
10th Street
(this is also backward order for Top 6)
Hi Style was awarded Best Stage Presence. Anamosa won Most Inspirational Song. Keota won Most Effective Costuming.
High School BMS name is Caleb Brock. BFS name is Gloria Tofstad.
MS captions:
BV, BC- Franklin
BB- McKinley
Most Effective Opener: MCKINLEY “CLASSIC EDITION”
Best Ballad: EXCELSIOR “DOUBLE TIME”
Most Effective Closer: OAK RIDGE “OVATION”
Best Stage Crew: FRANKLIN “CLASSIC ILLUMINATION”
Most Inspirational Song: HARDING “NEO-CLASSIC” - A Million Dreams
Most Creative Show: TAFT “ADRENALINE”
High Energy Award: ROOSEVELT “REGENERATION”
Best Stage Presence: VERNON “VELOCITY’
Most Effective Use of Costuming: WILSON “STARFLEET”
Best Male Soloist- NICK KNIPFER- FRANKLIN “CLASSIC ILLUMINATION”
Best Female Soloist- ALIVIA WEISE- TAFT “ILLUMINATION”
The feed cut in and out for me during the awards ceremony, primarily while they were announcing finalists. I think I got most of the daytime captions posted except whatever Hi Style was awarded (maybe best ballad? not sure). If folks can fill in the blanks, that'd be great.
It looks like this is Mo Show's 25th Anniversary. I wanted to give a quick shout out to that and, I think, we have pretty much every year of Mo Show competition results archived here on showchoir.com! Some of the earliest years are a bit sparse, but very cool to have the history of this entire competition documented like that. This is always a larger goal of showchoir.com, to be that database of show choir history. Thanks to folks like Jay and our other archive warriors for surely submitting much of this information over the years and congrats to Cedar Rapids Washington on 25 years.
Prep Division
2:30 CR Kennedy "Chanteurs"
2:55 Linn-Mar "In Step"
1A Division
1:40 Keota "EagleRock!"
3A Division
2:05 Anamosa "Sadie Street Singers"
Open Division
3:40 Western Dubuque "5th Avenue"
4:10 La Crosse Central "Grand Central Station"
4:40 CR Kennedy "Happiness, Inc."
5:10 Linn-Mar "10th Street Edition"
11:55 CR Washington "Celebration"
5:40 CR Washington "Momentum"/awards to follow
7:00 Middle School Champion
7:20 Solo Comp Winners
7:40-10:10 finals (six finalists)
10:40 performance by Shawndell Young
10:45 final awards
Cedar Rapids Washington Mo Show 2022
) You guessed it, GCS, with 4! What a fun coincidence that those were the top 3 scoring groups of the 25th MOShow. I realized it about halfway through 10th Street’s finals performance and realized it was just so fitting!!!
