If you were... that's great. I was there and saw every single performance of the entire preliminaries and finals. By seeing both performances, it was clear to me that Troy did not deserve the win. Their evening performance was very under-par and sloppy. Their day performance was pretty on target, but even then there were better groups competing that day. Maybe had Great River been this month, and Troy would have competed, maybe then they would have won. But, on February 17th, there were three better choirs.
i don't know if i completly agree with you on that, under par- meaning under average? sloppy? didnt they win best choreo. i find it hard for your arguement to stand tall. should they have won maybe not but second i think so. and better choirs given that all of them were good, i mean washington going from like 5th to 2nd, is all one judge from what i heard. but anyway it is in the books and nothing can be done but speculate about the verdict.
Troy has a tendancy to peak late in the season from what I've noticed. Last year they won at Branson in mid April and now look to be firing up here in mid March. In my opinion they should have won at Great River as well, but who am I to judge? LOL At any rate, they are really coming on strong in recent years and dare I say climbing that ladder of the top groups in the country? Way to go Troy!! Im so excited to see how things turn out at fame orlando, I really think you might give a serious showdown!!
Were you at Great River???
If you were... that's great. I was there and saw every single performance of the entire preliminaries and finals. By seeing both performances, it was clear to me that Troy did not deserve the win. Their evening performance was very under-par and sloppy. Their day performance was pretty on target, but even then there were better groups competing that day. Maybe had Great River been this month, and Troy would have competed, maybe then they would have won. But, on February 17th, there were three better choirs.
Troy has a tendancy to peak late in the season from what I've noticed. Last year they won at Branson in mid April and now look to be firing up here in mid March. In my opinion they should have won at Great River as well, but who am I to judge? LOL At any rate, they are really coming on strong in recent years and dare I say climbing that ladder of the top groups in the country? Way to go Troy!! Im so excited to see how things turn out at fame orlando, I really think you might give a serious showdown!!
Congrats to TROY you guys blew me away,OMG you are amazing!, Petal WOW i was super impressed with your show, it seemed like everybody stepped it up in finals like 100% i knew this was going to be close! but Troy way to go and Troy's prep group won too! this was a great comp!
Wow... ooops! I was there, and had a slightly (read: MAJOR) different opinion, which I don't think I'll post out of fear of looking really, really stupid...
Boy - I was off!!!
Who did you have winning? I thought all the groups were excellent. I called the bottom 2 spots but was off after that.
WOW!
What a competition!
It was SOOOOOOO close!
Thanks to Hersey for being such great hosts!
For us Ona seniors, it was our last competition , but it was amazing! Thanks to all the groups for making the last one memorable!
Congrats to Troy on the GC! it sure was close!
It was good to see friends from Fort again!--- congrats on the Best Band!
Jack and Dommo-- killer solos.
This competition was apparently the closest in all fourteen years...and I could see why! From the other groups that I watched, they were all amazing!!
Congrats to Troy! Your show was really great!!
To all my company ladies im sooooooo incredibly proud of you!!!!!
this was an amazing comp! I saw so many good shows, it was great! This comp was so close it was nuts! The host were so awesome! and the school was more than big, it was Huge! Congrats to all the schools, everybody did a great job. This could have been anybody's game it was so close. thats all i reallly have to say, but again this comp was so fun and challenging!
I was talking to some Petal girls it the bathroom and they said they got a 10 point time penalty during their day show...I'm not sure about in finals though.
I heard some troy kids in the food line saying that they got THIRTY POINTS taken off for exceeding the time limit. For them to get THAT many points taken off and STILL make finals....then the judges must have been as impresed as I was! ( I thought they were A-MAZING!!! I saw them at sullivan last weekend and was blown away and then this weekend it was...mind boggling! They r my new fav!)
I was talking to some Petal girls it the bathroom and they said they got a 10 point time penalty during their day show...I'm not sure about in finals though.
I wasn't there but I understand that Petal may have had a time penalty. If that's the case and the scores were as close as people say that they were, that could explain it.
Ok so yesterday was definately a really fun and competitive competition, however, if what i hear is correct about how we got deductions for roughhousing (aka playing around in our room) and having food in the hallway, thats just ridiculous. No one warned us or anything becuase our only impression was that no food was allowed in the room and we were careful to make sure that didn't happen. So anyways, it sorta sucks since the competition was so close that we woul be penalized for that kind of stuff. Anyways, it was still a really fun day and all the hersey people were really nice. See ya next y " border="0" alt="blink.gif" /> ear.
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, but it was amazing! 
Thanks to all the groups for making the last one memorable!
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