I wanted to personally come here and thank everyone for the interest in what is shaping up to be my largest and most attended events of all time.

I'm looking forward to this being a great mid season measuring stick of the competition and believe each division will be closely contested in front of what I'm anticipating will be a near sold out venue.

I am deeply sorry to the groups I had to turn away. I had 158 applicants for the 4 events with only 100 spots to be given out.

With that said the Black and Blue Organization intends to maintain this concept but will expanding the field to 30 slots next season maintaining the last day of the 3rd week of the season as our competition day. So, mark your calendars now and look for reminders at the beginning of next season.

What an outstanding day of events held in Louisville Kentucky yesterday. Before we get into awards I want to congratulate The Knight Guard on the performance of the day missing a perfect score by on 0.005.

For our finals format we took the top placing group in each division and then the next 9 highest scores.

Now on to awards.

First up we have our "Thunder Over Louisville" Indoor Drumline Competition held at Freedom Hall:

Division 1 Awards:
Music Performance: Knights Drumline
Visual Performance: Knights Drumline
General Effect: Knights Drumline
1st Knights Drumline
2nd Ghost Legion
3rd Wonderment Rainbow Rhythm

Division 2 Awards:
Music Performance: Pride of Godley Drumline
Visual Performance: Full Circle
General Effect: Full Circle
1st Full Circle
2nd Pride of Godley Drumline
3rd Schrödinger's Drumline

Division 3 Awards:
Music Performance: Gold Coast C Indoor 
Visual Performance: Gold Coast C Indoor 
General Effect: Gold Coast C Indoor 
1st Gold Coast C Indoor 
2nd Scarlet Indoor Percussion Ensemble 

Finals Awards
Music Performance Knights Drumline
Visual Performance Knights Drumline
General Effect Knights Drumline
1st Knights Drumline
2nd Ghost Legion
3rd Wonderment Rainbow Rhythm
4th Blue Oyster Group
5th Full Circle
6th Gold Coast Indoor
7th Pride of Godley Drumline
8th Synecdoche Mystique
9th Bridge City Percussion Ensemble
10th Beat of the World
11th Vision Percussion
12th Gold Coast C Indoor 

Now onto the results from the Bell City Invitation for our winter guards. This was held at the KFC Yum Center.

Division 1 Awards:
Performance: The Knight Guard
General Effect: The Knight Guard
1st The Knight Guard
2nd California Cavaliers Winter Guard
3rd Snow Eagles

Division 2 Awards:
Performance: Godley Pride Guard
General Effect: Godley Pride Guard
1st Godley Pride Guard
2nd Vision Guard
3rd Golden Shock Guard

Division 3 Awards:
Performance: Gold Coast C Winter Guard
General Effect: Gold Coast C Winter Guard
1st Gold Coast C Winter Guard
2nd Chaos Guard

Finals Awards:
Performance: The Knight Guard
General Effect: The Knight Guard
1st The Knight Guard
2nd California Cavaliers Winter Guard
3rd Snow Eagles
4th Gold Coast Winterguard
5th Dong Suk
6th Lumberton HS World Guard
7th Wonderment Rainbow Silks and Spinners
8th Godley Pride Guard
9th Spin City
10th Synecdoche Motif
11th Vision Guard
12th Gold Coast C Winter Guard

The final 2 competitions we had were the "Mamba Fest' Drum Corps Invitation and the "Black and Blue Invitation" for marching bands. These competition were held in at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium.

Mamba Fest Results:

Division 1 Awards:
Music Performance: Nemesis
Visual Performance: Nemesis
General Effect: Nemesis
1st Nemesis
2nd Rebels
3rd High Desert Vanguard

Division 2 Awards:
Music Performance: Wildcat Pride Dum Corps
Visual Performance: Wildcat Pride Dum Corps
General Effect: Wildcat Pride Dum Corps
1st Wildcat Pride Dum Corps
2nd Vision D&B Corps
3rd Aurora

Division 3 Awards:
Music Performance: Legacy Cadets
Visual Performance: Legacy Cadets
General Effect: Legacy Cadets
1st Legacy Cadets
2nd Chaos Drum and Bugle Corps

Finals Awards:
Music Performance: Nemesis
Visual Performance: Nemesis
General Effect: Nemesis
1st Nemesis
2nd Rebels
3rd High Desert Vanguard
4th Petaling Jaya Sound
5th Si Feng DBC
6th The Couchaliers
7th 10th Regiment
8th Maple City Cadets
9th Wonderment Rainbow Cavaliers
10th Wildcat Pride Dum Corps
11th Gold Coast Drum and Bugle Corps
12th Legacy Cadets

Black and Blue Invitational Results:

Division 1 Awards:
Music Performance: Marching Knights
Visual Performance: Marching Knights
General Effect: Marching Knights
1st Marching Knights
2nd Flagstaff Cavaliers
3rd Infinity

Division 2 Awards:
Music Performance: Spartan Marching Band
Visual Performance: Spartan Marching Band
General Effect: Echo
1st Spartan Marching Band
2nd Echo
3rd City Different Marching Band

Division 3 Awards:
Music Performance: Chaos Marching Band
Visual Performance: Chaos Marching Band
General Effect: Chaos Marching Band
1st Chaos Marching Band
2nd Thunder Vanguard

Finals Awards:
Music Performance: Marching Knights
Visual Performance: Marching Knights
General Effect: Marching Knights
1st Marching Knights
2nd Flagstaff Cavaliers
3rd Infinity
4th California Cavaliers Band and colorguard
5th Morehead State Outdoor Diddle Band
6th Lumberton HS Mighty Raider Band
7th Wonderment Rainbow Performance Ensemble
8th Pride of Godley
9th Gold Coast Marching Ensemble
10th Synecdoche2
11th Spartan Marching Band
12th Chaos Marching Band