ENCORE! groups look very strong going into finals. Here are the results for today's championship event.

World Champion Gold Medalist - Marching Knights - 98.810
World Champion Silver - Lonely Hearts Club Band - 94.360
World Champion Bronze - Commonwealth Arts Academy H.S. Band - 91.175

Division 1 Champs:

Gold - Marching Knights - 98.810
Silver - Commonwealth Arts Academy H.S. Band - 91.175
Bronze - Peachtree Cadet Marching Band - 90.950

Division 2 Champs:

Gold - Lonely Hearts Club Band - 94.360
Silver - Robinson Secondary School Marching Rams - 87.490
Bronze - E.S. Blofeld - 76.625

Division 3 Champs:

Gold - Marching Crimson Raiders - 82.695
Silver - SDC Marching Band - 65.480
Bronze - Sakura Sapphire Sound - 60.420

Caption Awards Regardless of Division:

Winds:

1st - Marching Knights - 9.810
2nd - Lonely Hearts Club Band - 9.245
3rd - Peachtree Cadet Marching Band - 8.900

Percussion:

1st - Marching Knights - 9.810
2nd - Aftershock NZ Performing Arts School - 9.525
3rd - Lonely Hearts Clubs Band - 9.355

Colorguard:

1st - Marching Knights - 9.815
2nd - Lonely Hearts Club Band - 9.420
3rd - Peachtree Cadet Marching Band - 8.995

Best Music (excluding GE) - Marching Knights (29.520 out of 30)

(2nd: Lonely Hearts Club Band - 28.085 / 30)

Best Visual (excluding GE) - Marching Knights (29.565 / 30)

(2nd: Lonely Hearts Club Band - 28.340 / 30)

Best GE - Marching Knights - 39.725 / 40

(2nd: Robinson Secondary School Marching Rams - 38.03 / 40)


Note: Impact Regiment did not compete at today's championship event but would have placed 2nd overall in both world and division 1 with a 96.890. Furthermore, they would have taken home 2nd-place trophies in all captions.

Marching Knights looking to bring home another trophy for ENCORE!!

How did I not end up in this competition. I'm kinda sad now lol

looking forward to tonight to see where we all sit

Any ideas for our tour next season? echstrumpet already mentioned an idea last season. We can go with that one or perhaps something else.

i'm cool with whatever you want to do

For FAME, I've created two tours, one starting in the west and one starting in the east. Would you like to run two tours this season for ENCORE!? I've picked some pretty cool stadiums, at least in my opinion, for both tours. If not, would you like to do one this season and the other next? I've tried to come up with stadiums we don't use very often (or never used).

I'm down for an ENCORE split tour too, of course.

Sorry I didn't bring a new world record score! So close!! At least another World Title

I'm good with the split season

Nothing to be sorry about. It was another great season for ENCORE! bands. Congratulations on, at least, reaching another personal best. Congratulations to all finalists and medalists. Let's do it again next season.

Here are the two tours. Choose which one you'd like to do. I am working on sending out a mass email to the entire league to inform everyone of the split tour and how'd I like for it to work.


Tour 1 - west coast:

MARTIN STADIUM � PULLMAN, WA

RESER STADIUM � CORVALLIS, OR

CALIFORNIA MEMORIAL STADIUM � BERKELEY, CA

ALEX G. SPANOS STADIUM � SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA

ARIZONA STADIUM � TUCSAN, AZ

MACKAY STADIUM � RENO, NV

ALBERTSONS STADIUM � BOISE, ID

BOBCAT STADIUM � BOZEMAN, MT

CASPER EVENTS CENTER � CASPER, WY

LEGEND SOLAR STADIUM � ST. GEORGE, UT

WILSON STADIUM � ALBUQUERQUE, NM

FALCON STADIUM � COLORADO SPRINGS, CO

BILL SNYDER FAMILY STADIUM � MANHATTAN, KS

GAYLORD FAMILY- OKLAHOMA MEMORIAL STADIUM � NORMAN, OK

ALAMODOME � SAN ANTONIO, TX (Both Tours Meet for Championship)
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Tour 2 - east coast:

BOSTON COLLEGE ALUMNI STADIUM � CHESTNUT HILL, MA

HERSHEYPARK STADIUM � HERSHEY, PA

WELCOME STADIUM � DAYTON, OH

LUCUS OIL STADIUM � INDIANAPOLIS, IN

MEMORIAL STADIUM � CHAMPAIGN, IL

PERKINS STADIUM � WHITEWATER, WI

U.S. BANK STADIUM � MINNEAPOLIS, MN

THE DOME AT AMERICA�S CENTER � ST. LOUIS, MO

PAPA JOHN�S CARDINAL STADIUM � LOUISVILLE, KY

JOHNNY UNITAS STADIUM � TOWSON, MD

GEORGIA DOME � ATLANTA, GA

RAYMOND JAMES STADIUM � TAMPA, FL

LIBERTY BOWL � MEMPHIS, TN

JOE AILLET STADIUM � RUSTON, LA

ALAMODOME � SAN ANTONIO, TX (Both Tours Meet for Championship)

Some of the stadiums are wonderful finds! Venues that I've never heard of yet that are beyond sufficient for marching band events.

Also, I'd like to thank you for putting my idea into motion, Aaron. You are the guinea pig for this one. I can't wait to see how this goes!

You're welcome :) It should go well if everyone sticks with one tour.

Oh really quick: could we move the Casper event to Laramie? War Memorial Stadium on the campus of University of Wyoming. The Casper event would be in an arena. Tight fit.

Yes, that's fine. I believe, from what I read, they do hold marching band events at the Casper Event Center, but I don't mind changing it.

How does having a west coast champ and an east coast champ in addition to an ENCORE! champ next season sound? Points will accumulate by placement in the league events; obviously both tours will have separate standings. If someone should happen to join the wrong event, for instance start in the west and accidentally join an east event, they won't receive any points for that event.

(Yes, I'm totally winging it! LOL)

That would be a motivator to join the correct event. I like it.

I just finished posting FAME's events. I'm working on ENCORE! now :) Posting two events each day takes a bit more time.

People tend to choose East over West...
In fact, only my groups (FAME and ENCORE) are in the West tour.
This should be interesting lol.

i'll go west.. blindly.. i'm not even looking to see who is there lol

The thing is I'm an East Coast guy, so I'll stick close to me

Yeah I'm east as well so I joined all the east ones lol oh no