Tonight 30 ensembles participated in the Season 31 Carolina Classic. Hosted by Carolina Beats and Colors of Carolina, this is the last regular season IIEA member show before championships at the end of the week. So let's dive right in!
Independent Novice Colorguards
Independent Novice Colorguards
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
Sirens Of The River | 1 | High Equ|Ens|GE | 97.374 |
Perfect Explosion | 2 | High Mov | 92.868 |
Cypress Flight Pride of Dayton | 3 | 89.364 | |
Fearless Flight | 4 | 88.644 | |
One Day @ A Time | 5 | 75.265 |
Sirens Of The River dominated on Friday, taking two of the three captions and scored almost five points ahead of Perfect Explosion. Cypress Flight Pride of Dayton placing third by demolishing Fearless Flight in general effect and ensemble, but was largely shadowed by Fearless Flight's work and routine.
Independent A
Independent A
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
The Holy Regiment Winter Guard | 1 | All Captions | 95.482 |
Hula Dancers | 2 | 88.125 | |
Grandville Flags | 3 | 83.571 | |
Winter Solstice | 4 | 76.391 | |
National Guard B | 5 | 73.289 |
The Holy Regiment Winterguard continues to stay atop the Independent A colorguards Friday as they took all captions and was the only IA group to score in the 90's. Grandville Flags made its class bump debut as an Independent A, scoring decently well for their first time out in this class.
Scholastic A
Scholastic A
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
Insanity | 1 | All Captions | 88.046 |
As one of the few groups in Scholastic A, Insanity continued to improve Friday. Insanity is currently looking to place first over Marching Panthers in this class, but at this point its anyone guess. We will find out at the end of the week!
Independent Open
Independent Open
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
Light Spectrum | 1 | All Captions | 91.000 |
Mustangs Guard | 2 | 90.201 |
Friday our most recent groups to be bumped to the small Open class went head to head again. Barely taking the general effect caption, Light Spectrum's routine and ensemble performance is what allowed them to take the .799 lead over Mustangs Guard.
Independent World
Independent World
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
National Guard | 1 | All Captions | 91.599 |
The only Independent World guard tonight, National Guard performed their chistmas themed show, X-mas. Although a little strange to hear this late in January, the judges enjoyed the show.
Scholastic World
Scholastic World
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
Night Area High School Colorguard | 1 | All Captions | 91.382 |
And that concludes the colorguard portion of the event. Next we'll go over the percussion scores, but first an advertisement from the IIEA.
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Independent Novice Drumlines
Is your league inactive? Do you want to participate in a league that has been around since leagues began on FMA? The IIEA might be the place for you! Using its own scoring and ranking system to keep things interesting, the IIEA is looking for new applications for Season 32. If you would like to become part of the tradition that is the IIEA, be sure to go to the Join section after reading this article and apply today! If you would like to apply, please remember that you will need to not be a member of a league as we cannot send your invitation. Enjoy the rest of the results!
Independent Novice Drumlines
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
Ivory Drums | 1 | All Captions | 95.350 |
Omnibus Percussion | 2 | 88.977 | |
Drums Against Humanity | 3 | 88.114 | |
Infinity Matrix Pulse of Music City Rythm | 4 | 86.310 | |
Afros | 5 | 85.919 | |
Bugle Drum | 6 | 84.984 | |
Starlight Percussion | 7 | 82.566 | |
Fearless Flight | 8 | 81.067 | |
Zeldjain Crew | 9 | 78.045 | |
Dangerous Drumers | 10 | 77.118 | |
One Day @ A Time | 11 | 75.121 |
To continue the trend of domination from Friday, Ivory Drums scored almost six points ahead of the competition. Taking all the captions, this is one of the few classes where a group was at least 2 points ahead of the next group in each caption.
Independent A
Independent A
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
The Holy Winged Percussion | 1 | All Captions | 94.141 |
Phantom X | 2 | 86.267 |
Following the Novice class trend, Holy Winged Percussion scored almost 5 points ahead in each caption on Friday in IIEA caption scores.
Independent World
Independent World
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
The Tullahoma Drum Machine | 1 | All Captions | 89.696 |
Tullahoma Drum Machine was the only Independent World Class drumline to compete Friday. Although they have yet to break 90 in IIEA scoring, given a few more days it would have happened.
Scholastic World
Scholastic World
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
Night Area High School Indoor Percussion | 1 | All Captions | 87.822 |
The last group for Friday, Night Area High School was the only Scholastic World class group at the show. We would like to wish all of the ensembles that have joined us at IIEA member shows this season the best of luck in Week 5 and at FMA Finals this weekend. We will see you after IIEA Championships this Wednesday!