marsh1109 Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 According to the sign-up list for Dayton - Ind Open prelims is at 39 guards. One more and they have a semi-finals. Does anyone have any idea when and where WGI would have this???? I assume it would be sometime Friday - but where. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrfctTimeOfDay Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 (edited) According to the sign-up list for Dayton - Ind Open prelims is at 39 guards. One more and they have a semi-finals. Does anyone have any idea when and where WGI would have this???? I assume it would be sometime Friday - but where. It would probably be at the Dayton Convention Center, which just finished being renovated about a month ago or Trent Area, which is about 3 years old. Both would be great venues from semis. That's most likely where they would be. Edited December 6, 2007 by PrfctTimeOfDay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh1109 Posted December 7, 2007 Author Share Posted December 7, 2007 It would probably be at the Dayton Convention Center, which just finished being renovated about a month ago or Trent Area, which is about 3 years old. Both would be great venues from semis. That's most likely where they would be. Even at 39 guards - I would think a semi's would have been added already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la mejor Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Any word on this since now there are 40 IO guards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUSTJOSH Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 i think the answer is yes to semi-finals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
combia1 Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Heard from WGI a few days before Christmas ... For the first time in the history of WGI, the IO class will have a Semi-Finals Contest. The semi-finals contest will be held on Friday, April 11. Details are TBD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jak Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 According to the WGI Championships Logistical Schedule on the WGI website, there is no IO Semis. However, that information is probably out of date. I think it was posted mid-December. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrfctTimeOfDay Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 (edited) from wgi: For the first time the Color Guard Independent Open Class will have a semi-finals at the 2008 WGI World Championships. Entries reached the required number of 40 color guards in order to add the semi-finals to the competitive schedule. "We are very pleased that the growth of this class has reached the need for a semi-finals in Dayton this year," said Dale Powers, Color Guard Coordinator. "It proves that the efforts we have put into encouraging young instructors and proper classification is paying off in the growth of the Independent Open Class." The new semi-finals contest is scheduled for Friday, April 11 with a tentative start time of 4pm at either the Dayton Convention Center or Trent Arena. The top fifteen from this new contest will compete for the championship on Saturday, April 12. The Independent Open Class is shaping up to be WGI's most diverse class this year. Color guards from 21 states are already entered into the championship preliminaries but it is also the most international class with two guards from Canada and one each from the Netherlands and United Kingdom. In May the Color Guard Advisory Board voted to relax the age restriction in the A & Open classes in order to encourage participation from international groups. International color guards tend to have older performers than in the United States and programs are still in the early stages of their development. Previously international groups that had older members were required to compete in the World Class. "This is encouraging that the decision made by the advisory board will foster more participation by international groups," said Executive Director Ron Nankervis. "We hope that this is the first step in making WGI more accessible to groups outside the United States." Edited January 3, 2008 by PrfctTimeOfDay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugg Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 (edited) from wgi:"We hope that this is the first step in making WGI more accessible to groups outside the United States." ....yes......acce$$ible.......acce$$ible indeed! i would love to see more representation from outside the u.s. however i can imagine how crushingly and prohibitively expensive it must be to travel here to compete. Edited January 5, 2008 by dugg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardboy345 Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 wasn't their IO Open simi's in 2002 or 2003? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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