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 Show Choir Community    Events    2018 Season    Fort Atkinson Showcase 2018
Event Info

February 9th-10th, 2018
Venue Info
Fort Atkinson High School
925 Lexington Boulevard
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
Phone: (920) 563-7811
Event Details
Number of Attending Choirs:
14 Mixed Groups
2 Treble Groups
1 Bass Group
4 Middle School Groups
Event Hosts:
Fort Atkinson "South High Street Singers"
Fort Atkinson "Lexington Singers"
Fort Atkinson "4th Street Singers"
Event Judges:
Anne Chapman (Choreo & MS Clinician)
Allen Chapman (Vocal & MS Vocal)
Jeff Clark (Vocal)
Tom Cook (Band)
Gates Crisler (Choreo)
Marty Lindvahl (Clinician)
Angel Martinez (MS Clinician)
Ann Schoenecker (Solo Comp)
Ben Schrank (Clinician & MS Choreo)
Cory Thompson (Vocal)
Tickets
Friday
$8-Adult
$5-Youth

Saturday

Adults
$16 – All Day w/o Program
$20-All Day with Program

Youth
$10 -All Day

$12-Day only
$10-Finals only

Friday & Saturday Special

Adult
$25 All events both days includes a program

Youth
$15 All events both days w/o program

Children 5 and younger
FREE

Programs $5.00

[CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED]
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Fort Atkinson Showcase 2018





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Middle School Division
Groups    

Next Edition
Mayville Middle School
 First Place

Vocal Motion
New London Middle School
 Second Place
Best Women's Section
Best Soloist (Kayden Kloehn)

Footnotes
Kewaskum Middle School
 Third Place
Best Men's Section

Finals
Groups    

Company of Singers
Totino-Grace High School
 Grand Champion
Best Vocals
Best Choreography

Spotlighters
Craig High School
 First Runner Up
Best Band

Elite Energy
Decatur Show Choir Complex
 Second Runner Up
Best Male Soloist (Thomas Karunas)

Vintage
Neenah High School
 3rd Runner Up
Best Female Soloist (Cassidy Schmidt)

Silver Connection
Monona Grove High School
 4th Runner Up

Choralation
Milton High School
 5th Runner Up

Mixed Division (Prelims) Show
Single Clef Division
Groups    

Octave Above
Milton High School
 First Place

Testostertones
Totino-Grace High School
 Second Place

Encore Singers
Totino-Grace High School
 Third Place

Prep Division
Groups    

Act II
Neenah High School
 First Place

Illuminations
Craig High School
 Second Place

Rhythm Rockers
Campbellsport High School
 Third Place

Harmonix
Baraboo High School
 4th Place

Attending Members displaying 6 of 39 members (view all)
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manuelmartinez
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mn_choreoguy • on Nov 13, 2018, 12:39 PM
Post #56
 
I really enjoyed Totino-Grace's choreography at the end of their closer!! It was as if you were looking at a gold jewel sparking in the sunlight. I keep coming back to it as I gear up my excitement for the upcoming season.
#teamApril.Lexi

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msc2014 • on Feb 11, 2018, 2:45 PM
Post #40
+1
I believe there was a scoring error and Milton and Monona Grove should be swapped. Can anyone confirm?


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Trentmatthew • on Feb 11, 2018, 5:37 PM
Post #42
 
Who provided this information?




JWill • on Feb 13, 2018, 12:08 AM
Post #43
 
Doubtful. The judges got it right.




abe.martinez • on Feb 13, 2018, 2:33 AM
Post #44
+2
The ranks were the following:

Totino = 1, 1, 1, 3, 3
Craig = 1, 1, 2, 2, 3
Decatur = 2, 2, 2, 3, 3
Neenah = 4, 4, 5, 6, 6
Monona = 4, 5, 5, 5, 6
Milton = 4, 4, 5, 6, 6

Placements are based on ordinal ranking consensus. Totino is 1st because they had the most 1's. Subtract 1 from all the remaining values
Craig= 1, 1, 1, 1, 2
Decatur= 1, 1, 1, 2, 2
Neenah= 3, 3, 4, 5, 5
Monona= 3, 4, 4, 4, 5
Milton= 3, 3, 4, 5, 5

Craig has the most 1's now so they are second. Subtract 1 again

Decatur =1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Neenah = 2, 2, 3, 4, 4
Monona = 2, 3, 3, 3, 4
Milton = 2, 2, 3, 4, 4

Decatur has the most 1's now so they are third. Subtract 1 again

Neenah = 1, 1, 2, 3, 3
Monona = 1, 2, 2, 2, 3
Milton = 1, 1, 2, 3, 3

You have a tie for most 1's between Neenah and Milton. The two actually tied in numerous categories so it went to raw vocals score which Neenah was ahead, so Neenah is fourth. Subtract 1 again

Monona = 1, 1, 1, 1, 2
Milton= 1, 1, 1, 2, 2

Monona now has the most 1's so they are fifth. Meaning Milton is sixth even though they tied with Neenah based on ordinal consensus ranking. I hope that helps clear up some questions!


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msc2014 • on Feb 13, 2018, 9:32 AM
Post #45
 
Thanks Abe for that information.

How is it logical that one of the 2 schools that tied for 4th in the first tiebreaker finishes below the school that they both beat in that tiebreaker?

Thats not how tiebreakers work in any other area of sport or otherwise. Run this by any math or stats teacher and see what they think.

If school A and B beat school C for 4th place and go to a tiebreaker, then the loser of the tiebreaker would automatically get 5th place since school C already lost the first tiebreaker to the other 2 schools.

Keep in mind that Neenah would have also placed 6th if they lost the tiebreaker with Milton for 4th.

A group ties for 4th but gets 6th? Can anyone defend this?

Nothing against any of the schools they are all awesome and their shows are great but they all deserve a scoring system that is logical.

In my opinion either the tiebreaker criteria is flawed or the interpretation of it is flawed.




abe.martinez • on Feb 13, 2018, 2:11 PM
Post #46
+3
I completely understand where you’re coming from, the groups were extremely close as can be seen in the ranks given above. I think it’s important to be transparent with how results come about. Maybe tweaks can be made to the scoring criteria but it couldn’t have been changed the day of the contest. Frankly, I don’t think someone thought of the scenario that happened above especially with an odd number of judges.

I know it’s hard not to see placements as value but it should be noted that at least one judge saw monona, Milton, and Neenah as deserving of fourth place. The real value is that each group put on phenomenal performances and have more opportunities to do so. I know I’m looking forward to seeing everyone’s show again!


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RezDiggity • on Feb 20, 2018, 2:27 PM
Post #49
 
Personally I've never been a fan of determining placements based on judge's ranks. I'd rather they base it off of raw scores, because situations like this can happen. Do you know the prelim ranks by chance?




Häakon • on Feb 20, 2018, 6:01 PM
Post #50
+1
Raw scores can be just as problematic because it allows for a single judge to drastically sway results. Going off of ranks at least equalizes judge input. The consensus method works to further eliminate bias by taking the "will of the majority," but I do find a few things about this odd.

Let's go with the results above and use these rankings (pretend Neenah doesn't exist for the purpose of this example):

Monona = 4, 5, 5, 5, 6
Milton = 4, 4, 5, 6, 6

If we added up both groups' ranking totals, we get 25 - a tie. As I understand it, going by consensus strictly looks at the amount of the lowest numbers to determine a winner (is this Fehr Fair? I never remember what that means). In this case, Milton would be awarded the winner, as they have two '4' ranks and Monona only has one. That's fine and dandy, but you could easily look at it the other way around and say they have the most 6s as well. If two judges thought you were the best but two others thought you were the worst, how does that end up in a "win?"

It seems to me that because of cases like these, I would personally use the totals from ranks to eliminate individual judge sway - and then use the raw scores in the case of a tie. Individual bias can still come into play in that situation, but it's only for tie-breaking purposes and seems more objective than simply looking at low rank numbers and ignoring every other judge's input. Then again, I'm just another dude with an opinion.

I also agree with Dan that a system which says two groups are tied for 4th but then awards 5th place to a group that was previously below the two who tied seems logically broken.




JWill • on Feb 20, 2018, 9:51 PM
Post #51
+2
That is not how Fehr Fair works. Under Fehr Fair, if it has boiled down to two groups to determine a placement, whichever group was placed higher by the larger number of judges would win. If three out of five judges had Monona above Milton, Monona would win. It doesn't matter if Milton had two '4's. If Abe's description is how the ranking was actually determined, than that is unfortunate, as it is an apparent attempt to use Fehr Fair by persons who don't understand it. Music Majors trying to do math. I believe that this is what happened at Wheaton Warrenville 2013 and cost Urbandale a spot in finals.




Häakon • on Feb 20, 2018, 10:17 PM
Post #52
+1
That's what this is though, is it not? Two judges did have Milton in front - which is why they had two 4s.




Alex. • on Feb 20, 2018, 10:22 PM
Post #53
 
But that's exactly what was just described




Häakon • on Feb 20, 2018, 10:23 PM
Post #54
 
K, glad I'm not the only one...


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msc2014 • on Feb 20, 2018, 11:38 PM
Post #55
 
The problem seems to be lack of knowledge about how tiebreakers work. There have been 3 competitions in Wisconsin that had trouble with ties this year.
The scoring system ideally would not result in so many ties and the volunteers who tally the scores should have clear procedures to follow in dealing with them.
I know the volunteers put in a lot of time to make their competition work, maybe they should be provided with a clear system to work with. Also having 2 people independently tallying scores would probably reduce errors.
I'm still not sure if Fort ever officially changed the placements or not.

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drumcorpsnut42 • on Feb 13, 2018, 10:45 PM (Edited)
Post #47
 
My guess is that the tie was broken either by the Total Raw Score or the Vocal Raw Score of the 3 groups in question.


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msc2014 • on Feb 14, 2018, 12:29 AM
Post #48
+2
No. Abe describes in detail below how the decision was made.



itsbreyer • on Feb 11, 2018, 3:58 PM
Post #41
 
Best Male Soloist from Elite Energy is Thomas Karunas



Häakon • on Feb 10, 2018, 9:56 PM
Post #36
+7
Neenah's "Act II" was great! I really like the idea of showcasing the top prep group before finals.


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kflogel • on Feb 11, 2018, 9:17 AM
Post #39
 
Yes! I love that more comps are giving more recognition to all the groups.



Häakon • on Feb 11, 2018, 12:55 AM
Post #38
+1
Results posted.


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