[Seeding for World Prelims?]

Does it work this way for the other classes too?

from the 2010 WGI rule book...

Classes with 30 or more entries

will use “tournament-style” rounds to seed color guards for

preliminaries. The following example is based on a preliminary contest with 45 color guards. The number

of rounds and guards within each round will vary depending on the size of the contest but this gives an

example of the process. The numbers represent the RANKING of the color guard. The highest ranked

color guard will perform in the last round.

ROUND 1

3, 4, 9, 10, 15, 16

21, 22, 27, 28,

33, 34, 39, 40, 45

ROUND 2

2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17,

20, 23, 26, 29,

32, 35, 38, 41, 44

ROUND 3

1, 6, 7, 12, 13, 18,

19, 24, 25, 30,

31, 36, 37, 42, 43

Once placed into a round, color guards will be divided into three groups according to ranking (highest

ranking, next highest ranking, etc.) Color guards will random draw for performance order within their

group with the highest-ranking color guards in that group performing last. The highest ranked color guard

will perform in the last round.

[Rumble in Rochester]

I believe there is a certain frame of time  early in the season where you can ask to be reviewed by the WGI Review Committee for reclassification to a lower class. The little voice in my head keeps suggesting to me that it was January 31st.   But I’m assuming it is a later date since Gates has had the opportunity to make the move. Best of luck to them, regardless of the class!

[When did all the fun get sucked out of the activity?]

Now the flip side to this ( Not to debate you ) Guards stay in lower classes constantly just to recieve medals and win shows. This was also going on for years and so has this debate. I think solutions have been sought after for years to both these situations and it doesn't seem to ever work itself out. Maybe just the nature of the beast.

That type of “medal hogging” that you’re referring to has occurred in the percussion arena of our activity for a while. The same Scholastic Open drum line has won the gold medal the past 4 seasons – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. Don't get me wrong because, good for them for producing a quality product, but it's also nice to see a program grow and accept the challenges of competing in a higher class.

[Feb 20th Regional Reviews]

One I am interested in finding out about is the Rochester Regional on Fan

Network. How in God's creation can a Guard go from 3.6pts up in prelims to down by almost a point down in finals. I can't believe a show can be that bad to change that outcome...Oh, the guard was Express from Jamestown (must be a new Guard) and the guard that came out on top was Delazure. I would feel real bad for those performers (E from J) if I were the judges...any insight by anyone that was there?

While I didn’t see either IA guard perform at the Rochester Regional, WGI isn’t the only circuit where seemingly viewed mishaps or anomalies occur.

 

Take Indiana for example – Two weeks ago, in a local circuit, Center Grove had a 75 and Lawrence Central had a 72. Just ONE week later, Center Grove had a 74, and Lawrence Central had a 78 in the same circuit.

 

Now before the replies start rolling in – yes, there was an entire week between these competitions, not just a few hours as was the case in Rochester, but still, many would question a 6 point jump in a week. Maybe shows weren’t completed, and now they are? Had the level of achievement drastically changed for the units in IN? Who knows. I’m not trying to justify either outcome in these scenarios, nor condemn them, just making an observation that there are other circuits where things like this occur.