Today officially began the IIEA Season with Welcome Back, an event cohosted by Red Raiders and Powder Puffs. After a large parade showcasing the return of a local Soldier, the 2,005 audience members entered the performance venue. Tonight 40 ensembles performed for both FMA and IIEA judges. The FMA scores for this event have already been announced, and can be viewed here and here! Now on to the IIEA Results.
Here's a quick break down of the competing groups:
1 Scholastic Novice
22 Independent Novice
1 Scholastic A
6 Independent A
3 Scholastic World
7 Independent World
Let's start off in the Indoor Drumline division!
Independent Novice Class
1 Scholastic Novice
22 Independent Novice
1 Scholastic A
6 Independent A
3 Scholastic World
7 Independent World
Let's start off in the Indoor Drumline division!
Independent Novice Class
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
Soviet Percussians | 1 | All Captions | 82.442 |
Spiders | 2 | 81.464 | |
Vemix Percussion | 3 | 80.087 | |
Drums Against Humanity | 4 | 79.337 | |
Blue Oyster Group | 5 | 78.520 | |
Bronze Drumline | 6 | 78.279 | |
Catville Drumline | 7 | 77.359 | |
The Fresh Beats | 8 | 76.408 | |
Afros | 9 | 75.145 | |
Black Bayou Percussion | 10 | 75.125 | |
The Rebels | 11 | 72.787 |
There's quite a range of scores here, with Soviet Percussians's show, Lock and Key, sweeping all the captions. Blue Oyster Group and Bronze Drumline were very close. Blue Oyster Group higher the Music and Visual captions and Bronze Drumline doing well in the general effect caption.
Let's move on to the Scholastic Novice class.
Let's move on to the Scholastic Novice class.
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
CHS Drumline | 1 | All Captions | 80.392 |
Only one group competed in this caption tonight. However, CHS Drumline's Tribute show scored higher than all but two of the Independent groups in Novice class.
Independent A Class Results:
Independent A Class Results:
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
Thunder | 1 | High Vis|GE | 81.739 |
Hoosier Rhythm | 2 | 81.562 | |
The Holy Winged Percussion | 3 | High Mus | 80.546 |
The fight for gold was intense in the Independent A class tonight as Thunder and Hoosier Rhythm duked it out. Thunder came out on top after taking both the Visual and General Effect captions.
Scholastic A Class Results:
Scholastic A Class Results:
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
Marching Panthers | 1 | All Captions | 74.264 |
The only Scholastic A group of the night, Marching Panthers score shows a solid start to their season.
Independent World
Independent World
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
SoW Sound Power | 1 | All Captions | 85.597 |
Downbeat Percussion | 2 | 81.779 | |
Bucs Drum Line | 3 | 80.917 |
SoW Sound Power once again has show its early strength. Beating the next ranked ensemble by 4 points tonight while sweeping all captions. Already starting at the high score of 85.597, we can't wait to see what happens over the next few weeks
Our last class today was the Scholastic World Class. The only group to compete in this class tonight was the host, Red Raiders.
Our last class today was the Scholastic World Class. The only group to compete in this class tonight was the host, Red Raiders.
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
Red Raiders | EXH | EXH | EXH |
And that concludes the drumline portion of the recap. Now for our colorguard scores:
Independent Novice
Independent Novice
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
Dong Suk | 1 | High Ens | 82.816 |
Silver Colorguard | 2 | High Mov | 82.385 |
Omnibus Independent | 3 | High GE | 82.353 |
Catville Color Guard | 4 | High Equ | 81.89 |
lh winterguard | 5 | 81.38 | |
Dreams | 6 | 78.917 | |
Black Bayou Guard | 7 | 78.574 | |
Twilight Zone | 8 | 77.557 | |
The Color Guys! | 9 | 77.230 | |
LH Winterguard | 10 | 76.778 | |
Pote Winter Guard | 11 | 76.775 |
Independent Novice is the most intense class tonight with the top four groups within one point, and each taking a caption.
Independent A
Independent A
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
Color of Carolina | 1 | High Equ|Ens|GE | 83.193 |
Triumphant Spirit | 2 | High Mov | 81.411 |
National Guard B | 3 | 73.263 |
Color of Carolina takes a small lead in Independent A taking three out of four captions. Triumphant Spirit is close in Equipment and Ensemble but was blown out of the water in GE.
Independent World
Independent World
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
SoW Corn Puffs | 1 | High Mov|Ens|GE | 83.777 |
Lady Bucs | 2 | High Equ | 81.850 |
CVG | 3 | 80.000 | |
National Guard | 4 | 79.403 |
SoW Corn Puffs has a small lead in the Independent World results from tonight. Taking all but three captions, the effect of their show sent the audience on their feet. The spread of scores in this class is much larger and not quite as competitive as the rest of the classes. It will be interesting to see how this plays out this season!
Scholastic World
Scholastic World
Group Name | Placement | Captions | Score |
Powder Puffs | EXH | EXH | EXH |
Night Area High School Colorguard | 1 | All Captions | 77.960 |
Powder Puff's show rose to the occasion and was a spectacular ending to the night. Performing as Exhibition, their score is not marked here, but will be used when calculating IIEA Rankings at the end of the week. Stay tuned for more IIEA Score Reports! Have an comments or questions? You can email us or comment on this article! Have a great day!