As my director said, I also don't usually post on these forums, but I thought that being part of the bashed choir that won, I would like to put in my two cents.
We, as the Fairfield Choraliers, were sooooo honored to win last night. It was un-imaginable to all of us. I know we were all saying "Are you freaking serious?!?" the entire night. And I watched all of the other finalists and they were AWESOME. As always, I am extremely impressed by Indiana groups. I think you're the best of the best, really and truly.
This year, we also had a change of directors and have had a rough year in the world of show choir. Now I'm not saying that's why we should've won. I'm just saying that even though these reults may seem fishy and you don't all agree with them, please don't take our win away from us. Especially in such a cheap manner. We work hard, and, trust me, we sing in more than two parts our entire show. I am vocal captain of our group and when I hear other groups, I am so impressed by the blend, volume, and maturity of your sound. We follow groups like you as an example! I'm so hurt by some of the comments that have been made because I was saying all day how nice the Indiana show choirs were because of the support we received while performing, and the support they gave other groups. I certainly hope we can come to Indiana competitions and receieve the great hospitality we had yesterday, and lose or win, and still enjoy ourselves. I hope you all understand that the Choraliers would've been just as happy walking out of there with a 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th place under our belts. And we would've walked out applauding and congratulating the groups that beat us, because as I said, we look up to you guys so much. We were shocked to even make finals and winning GC was surreal. Thanks again to NC....your show was amazing! So much soul and energy! And we loved our oh-so-supportive hosts, especially the energetic Jesse!
I hope all I've said doesn't seem fake, because it's not in any way. Congratulations to all of the groups yesterday and good luck with the rest of the year!
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i believe we can all learn from this. Being from Indiana, i do believe that we do blame too much on the judges and politics. But what do i know? I believe that what this person just said, is truely the best response to the competition yet.
Even though the results are disappointing., I just wanna compliment LC on their professionalism in this situation. They were, in my opinion, the only group that got the shaft. They are definately handled the situation as mature adults rather than complaining about it. Major Props to LC for their maturity and great show last night. I also want to express my disbelief in the way people are acting about this. Fairfield put on a great show and I definately saw them placing anywhere in the top 3. I am very disturbed by the way Ben Davis people were acting yesterday and on the boards today. I had the pleasure (or should I call it Hell) by sitting behind Ben Davis girls who continuesly talked through everyone's show. Their lack of respect for the other choirs was enough to make me feel ill. And today, ben davis alums getting on here and complaining about their position. I have to say, your lucky you got what position you did. I would take it and be thankful for you definately got the benefit from this judging system. Finally, another disturbing factor is those from the host school, even contributing to the madness, by putting down one of the groups that participated at their competition. I am in awe about how many of you are acting and putting down other choirs. I mean, I have disagreed with some results, but I don't believe that I have ever been this downright rude to another choir. I would reconsider what you are posting on here before you make yourself look like a fool and make your school look horrible. All I have to say is Ben Davis, before you want to b consider a class act, act like one.
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I cannot speak for alumni, and I will not speak for alumni.
Consider yourself extremely unprofessional for posting something like what you did on an open forum like this. If you truly had a problem with Ben Davis, you would have handled it at the competition, instead of posting on here-the professional way to handle a problem.
I won't apologize for anything that happened. We hold ourselves to a high standard as we are representatives of our school, and a reflection of our directors and parents, as they have taught us the correct, and professional way to handle ourselves at competitions, especially when people like you are the antithesis of what being a class act is.
Don't ever talk about Ben Davis until you look at yourself.
Judge 4:
1st-Brownsburg
2nd-Fairfield
3rd-LC
4th-BD
5th-LN
(this may not be exactly right)
The reason why LC got fourth was because two of the judes didn't like Brownsburg but loved Ben Davis, and he other two didn't like Ben Davis but loved Brownsburg. So even though LC got a third ranking form every judge, the first place votes Brownsbrug and BD got lifted them ahead of LC making them fourth.
Congrats to Brownsburg!...i am now your new fan/roadie! haha you guys have so much talent in your Choral Program its amazing. You ended your competition season with a bang and you all should be extremely proud of yourselves!! You are amongst the best of Indiana, I wish you the best in the future.
Even though the results are disappointing., I just wanna compliment LC on their professionalism in this situation. They were, in my opinion, the only group that got the shaft. They are definately handled the situation as mature adults rather than complaining about it. Major Props to LC for their maturity and great show last night. I also want to express my disbelief in the way people are acting about this. Fairfield put on a great show and I definately saw them placing anywhere in the top 3. I am very disturbed by the way Ben Davis people were acting yesterday and on the boards today. I had the pleasure (or should I call it Hell) by sitting behind Ben Davis girls who continuesly talked through everyone's show. Their lack of respect for the other choirs was enough to make me feel ill. And today, ben davis alums getting on here and complaining about their position. I have to say, your lucky you got what position you did. I would take it and be thankful for you definately got the benefit from this judging system. Finally, another disturbing factor is those from the host school, even contributing to the madness, by putting down one of the groups that participated at their competition. I am in awe about how many of you are acting and putting down other choirs. I mean, I have disagreed with some results, but I don't believe that I have ever been this downright rude to another choir. I would reconsider what you are posting on here before you make yourself look like a fool and make your school look horrible. All I have to say is Ben Davis, before you want to be consider a class act, act like one.
Even though the results are disappointing., I just wanna compliment LC on their professionalism in this situation. They were, in my opinion, the only group that got the shaft. They are definately handled the situation as mature adults rather than complaining about it. Major Props to LC for their maturity and great show last night. I also want to express my disbelief in the way people are acting about this. Fairfield put on a great show and I definately saw them placing anywhere in the top 3. I am very disturbed by the way Ben Davis people were acting yesterday and on the boards today. I had the pleasure (or should I call it Hell) by sitting behind Ben Davis girls who continuesly talked through everyone's show. Their lack of respect for the other choirs was enough to make me feel ill. And today, ben davis alums getting on here and complaining about their position. I have to say, your lucky you got what position you did. I would take it and be thankful for you definately got the benefit from this judging system. Finally, another disturbing factor is those from the host school, even contributing to the madness, by putting down one of the groups that participated at their competition. I am in awe about how many of you are acting and putting down other choirs. I mean, I have disagreed with some results, but I don't believe that I have ever been this downright rude to another choir. I would reconsider what you are posting on here before you make yourself look like a fool and make your school look horrible. All I have to say is Ben Davis, before you want to be consider a class act, act like one.
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Edit: A few minor spelling mistakes ^.^; Edit 2 and 3: Found more Edit4: I obviously cannot spell S-H-O-W-C-H-O-I-R right...
I have been watching this topic for sometime, and now I will finally take time to reply.
First off I truly want to congratulate all finalist choirs; I only got to see LN however, but I loved their show, it was truely awsome.
Now, for all of the people that are kind of sour of our victory; our director took comments the judges had made and told us what they were, we then realized we should fix those aspects in which the judges had commented on, and we did. After all, why else would you get score-sheets and judge's tapes after the daytime performances? We did what we needed to do to gain back the lost ground from the daytime performance. (Even though yes, I know the night-time performance is completely seperate from the daytime.) Doesn't that distinguish some sort of knowledge that is crucial to the betterment of show choir in general?
For all of the people that think all we do in Ohio is just congratulate everyone, even if they did suck; you are mistaken, at least in my case. I know that if I did not like a group, I'd tell them, and naturally expect for them to either ask why or just blow it off. However, along with telling a group how they did, if there were places I thought that they'd need improvement in, I'd give them the benefit of constructive criticism, so I ask the same courtesy from other groups. Unless of course that's too much to ask?
Anyway, I was glad to have performed yesterday; not because we won, but because everytime I step on a stage to perform, I always know that I'm always making someone happy. If not anyone in the audience, or my group, then myself. That is truely what I think acting, singing, dancing, or even just performing all about; making people happy.
Good job to all choirs that performed, even the ones that didn't make finals, and the other venues as well, oh and the soloists too. ^.^ We all know the hard work, time, numbers, and discipline that it takes to prepare a show, soloist selection, or even a concert chior show; and for that I'd like to congratulate you all once again, even if I didn't get to see your performance.
I'd like to finish by thanking all of the parents, students, judicators, directors, volunteers, and even the groups that came for making my first Northcental MIC competition an overall good experience.
It must suck to be used to winning. It must suck to be used to having people think your group is amazing. It must suck to be disappointed because you didn't win. It must suck to face the real world and not have something go your way.
I'm sorry to generalize. I'm sorry to play devil's advocate.
Do you Indiana people even realize how much you whine and complain after EVERY competition? Judges judge. All of this blather really seems like a petty attempt to tarnish the deservingly sparkling GC trophy that Fairfield now has in their case. You don't have that trophy, they do. That's it. And, in my eyes, the fact that NC kids are apologizing for results...tacky. Come on guys. It's show choir, and everyone kicks the hell out of that stage every time they step on it. Please name a group that steps onto the stage and says, "Hey, let's do an ok job tonight."Â
You can hate me for this post, that's fine. I'm just bringing a year's worth of my own realizations to head in this thread.
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ewwww don't call me tacky you poopface. I am apologizing because EVERYONE KNOWS. EVERYONE!!! knows that the results were.... SURPRISING. I watched Fairfields show in finasl thoguh and really enjoyed them. i thought they had really good dancing. I do feel bad for all the negative comments on here now that I've read a lot of them and realized it isn't very fair to Fairfield because they had nothing to do with this. They just went and did their best and same with LC and BD. but, I just want to say that I don't think Fairfield could compare to LC and BD which is why I was apologizing. Also the fact that I have friends in LC and BD and I love them very much and think they deserved a lot better than what they did.
Now for the ohio people coming on here saying, "Indiana is always so negative." Maybe we're so negative because we are the best of the midwest, and we were trained to pick out the little things. Maybe it's our strive for perfection and dedication that makes us ... not necessarly negative but we speak the truth rather than saying, "OH WELL CONGRATS ANYWAY, YOU GUYS SOOOO DESERVED IT." no, in the real world, you're not going to get that you're going ot get the truth and nothing but the truth. Now, I'm sorry for hte HARSH comments that are quite rude that could be more just, "I think LC should have palced alot higher." rather than MUTHA FUKAAAA EJHRJERHKEHR THIS AND THAT THIS AND THAT!!! that's not very nice, you're right... but i do want to congradulate fairfield on a win. and I'm really really really sorry again for LC. You guys were so muhc better..and we all know you deserved moreeeeee <33 and also, congrats to BD for putting on an amazing finals. we all were like, "dayum"
don't call me tacky or any north central person tacky cause we live in the "citay" and we definitely aren't tacky... are you though??
Kthanksbye
I love you INDIANA
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We, as the Fairfield Choraliers, were sooooo honored to win last night. It was un-imaginable to all of us. I know we were all saying "Are you freaking serious?!?" the entire night. And I watched all of the other finalists and they were AWESOME. As always, I am extremely impressed by Indiana groups. I think you're the best of the best, really and truly.
This year, we also had a change of directors and have had a rough year in the world of show choir. Now I'm not saying that's why we should've won. I'm just saying that even though these reults may seem fishy and you don't all agree with them, please don't take our win away from us. Especially in such a cheap manner. We work hard, and, trust me, we sing in more than two parts our entire show. I am vocal captain of our group and when I hear other groups, I am so impressed by the blend, volume, and maturity of your sound. We follow groups like you as an example! I'm so hurt by some of the comments that have been made because I was saying all day how nice the Indiana show choirs were because of the support we received while performing, and the support they gave other groups. I certainly hope we can come to Indiana competitions and receieve the great hospitality we had yesterday, and lose or win, and still enjoy ourselves. I hope you all understand that the Choraliers would've been just as happy walking out of there with a 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th place under our belts. And we would've walked out applauding and congratulating the groups that beat us, because as I said, we look up to you guys so much. We were shocked to even make finals and winning GC was surreal. Thanks again to NC....your show was amazing! So much soul and energy! And we loved our oh-so-supportive hosts, especially the energetic Jesse!
I hope all I've said doesn't seem fake, because it's not in any way. Congratulations to all of the groups yesterday and good luck with the rest of the year!
i believe we can all learn from this. Being from Indiana, i do believe that we do blame too much on the judges and politics. But what do i know? I believe that what this person just said, is truely the best response to the competition yet.