Season 19 has come to a close and champions have been crowned. A new season awaits but let's take a look at how finals turned out.

Drum Corps:

In Division 1, we saw Regal Regiment take home the championship for the first time in 19 seasons and nearly sweeping all captions. Percussion which went to Corps IBEX who has almost always won it when they make finals and can always be counted on to be first or second in the caption while the Color Guard award went to Blue Deviled Eggs which also brought back the Silver while Silver Falcon Drum and Bugle Corps rounded out the top 3 just edging out Lemon Bay Jazz in their recent surge to power status.

Best Music - Regal Regiment
Best Percussion - Corps IBEX
Best Visual - Regal Regiment
Best Color Guard - Blue Deviled Eggs
Best GE - Regal Regiment

In Division 2, Chipley Vanguard also took home the gold for the first time with a healthy margin after only 3 years competing. What makes it really interesting is that they were able to do it without winning a single caption, let alone a single judge! Consistency seemed to be their mantra as they placed second from every judge. Bilbo Swagginz brought home the runner-up. Miami Sound Machine rounds out the top three claiming the Bronze.

Best Music - Miami Sound Machine
Best Percussion - Miami Sound Machine
Best Visual - Chipley Vanguard
Best Color Guard - Miami Sound Machine
Best GE - Bilbo Swagginz

Division 3 saw a new champion as well as Bold won in only their second season! Also in their second season, Green Dragons took home the silver and in just a few short seasons, Southwind comes in with the Bronze. The groups first medalist position with hopes of many more in the future.

Best Music - Bold
Best Percussion - The Kings
Best Visual - Bold
Best Color Guard - The Kings
Best GE - Bold

Marching Band:

The Marching Lords claimed their first Gold Championship this year being closely pursued by The Marching Marchers which took home the Silver. That didn't stop The Marching Lords from sweeping all the captions though this year. Silver Falcon Marching Band took the Bronze in convincing fashion.

Best Music - The Marching Lords
Best Percussion - The Marching Lords
Best Visual - The Marching Lords
Best Color Guard - The Marching Lords
Best GE - The Marching Lords

Division 2 saw a tight race with Graffiti-ini barely edging out the Yayo Marching Sea Dragons for the championship and Graffiti-ini's first championship. Both literally had the audience on the edge of their seats as they awaited results. Rounding out the top three was The Marching Figments who held nearly a 6 point lead over 4th place counterpart.

Best Music - Graffiti-ini
Best Percussion - The Marching Figments
Best Visual - Graffiti-ini
Best Color Guard - Yayo Marching Sea Dragons
Best GE - Yayo Marching Sea Dragons

The Bold organization made a splash in marching band as Bold Marching Band in just their second season also took home the crown of champion. Aberfoyle Park High School claimed second for the second time in a row followed by Letcher Central Marching Cougars bringing home the Bronze.

Best Music - Bold Marching Band
Best Percussion - Organization XIII
Best Visual - Letcher Central Marching Cougars
Best Color Guard - Organization XIII
Best GE - Bold Marching Band

Drumline:

Division 1 saw the return of a champion as The Drumming Imperials won the gold for just the second time in their history. The Drumming Dummers, always a contender placed second while third resulted in a tie! With no tie-breaker rules set, your two Bronze medalists are SoW Sound Power and Diddle Gok Gok. The awards ceremony was a tense one though as all the awards were split.

Best Music - The Drumming Imperials
Best Visual - The Drumming Dummers
Best GE - Diddle Gok Gok

Division saw CVI bring home their second gold championship in just three seasons and have medaled each season. Motor City Madmen placed second getting the silver and Drummer's Delight was able to outlast the rest of their CADA League colleague's in a race that was separated by just a little more than a point difference for third and the Bronze and 8th place.

Best Music - CVI
Best Visual - CVI
Best GE - Motor City Madmen

Division 3 continued to see it dominated by the Bold organization as Bold Winter Percussion powered it's way to the gold in just its first season as no other results could be found for them in previous seasons! The Polar Knights finished in the silver slot followed by Arcanum Indoor as they took home the Bronze.

Best Music - Polar Knights
Best Visual - Bold Winter Percussion
Best GE - Bold Winter Percussion

Color Guard:

People got their money's worth in Division 1 finals as it was a photo finish but in the end, the Silver Falcon Indoor Guard took home the guard denying the respectable second place finishing group, Nobles of Grace, another gold. Nobles of Grace has now was 5 runner-up's and only 1 gold and no bronze finishes. The defending champions, V, took home the Bronze this year. Less than 1 point separated these elite groups from each other.

Best Equipment- Silver Falcon Indoor Guard
Best Movement - Silver Falcon Indoor Guard
Best Ensemble - Nobles of Grace
Best GE - Nobles of Grace

The Robinson Ram Color Guard destroyed all their competition in finals and would expect them to move up into Division 1 this season. Their victory was followed up in the runner-up slot by Buena Montalvo who also crushed their next closest competitor, Magnum who rounded out the top 3.

Best Equipment - Robinson Ram Color Guard
Best Movement - Robinson Ram Color Guard
Best Ensemble - Robinson Ram Color Guard
Best GE - Robinson Ram Color Guard

CVG made their championship run look easy as they took the title in Division 3 for the second year in a row and only their second year competing. They were followed by Bold Indoor Guard taking the silver and bronze went to The Holy Regiment Winterguard.

Best Equipment - CVG
Best Movement - CVG
Best Ensemble - CVG
Best GE - CVG

It was a pleasure competing against you, especially in guard this past season! I am so proud of the Silver Falcon Indoor Guard for earning our organization's first Division I championship! Congrats to your groups for the three championships and one silver medal! We are looking forward to continuing to compete against you in the future.

And you! I didn't realize how close you were in score until I checked the stats about a week before finals and saw you up there since you didn't compete at any of the same contests as me! I shall not make the same mistake again. ;) I'm looking for a perfect score this season lol. Best of luck to you this season and congrats on a gold and two bronzes. Nothing to scoff at for sure. :)

Trust me since we are still a relatively new group (our guard has only been competing since Season 14) it really did take all season to get up there! We'll be shooting for a perfect score too =)