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   Event Info



April 27th, 2013

  7:00am

Venue Info

Arie Crown Theater
2301 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60616

Phone: (312) 791-6000

Event Details

No. of Attending Choirs:

  19 Mixed Groups
  11 Treble Groups

Judges:

  Michelle Jensen (Vocal - Mixed)

  Scott Thorne (Vocal - Mixed)

  John Burlace (Vocal - Mixed)

  Mike Weaver (Visual - Mixed)

  Verda Slinkard (Visual - Mixed)

  Stacie Craig (Visual - Mixed)

  Eric Van Cleave (Instrumental - Mixed)

  Tony Atienza (Vocal - Womens)

  Shawn Miller (Vocal - Womens)

  Linda McEachran Southard (Visual - Womens)

  Gates Crisler (Visual - Womens)


Tickets

Friday, April 20:
(Non-Adjudicated)
$30.00
$40.00 (Premium Seating)

Saturday, April 21:
$50.00
$60.00 (Premium Seating)

BOTH DAYS:
$70.00
$90.00 (Premium Seating)

Live Feed:
$20.00 (Available through FAME website)

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FAME Show Choir National Finals 2013









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   Mixed Division

  

Groups

 Powerhouse
 John Burroughs High School
First Place 
Best Choreography 
Best Diction 
Best Crew 
Best Costumes 
Best Female Sound 
Best Male Soloist (Joe Leone) 

 Sound FX
 Los Alamitos High School
Second Place 
Best Vocals 
Best Show Design 
Best Repertoire 

 Visual Adrenaline
 Ankeny High School
Third Place 
Best Male Sound 

 Choraliers
 Fairfield Senior High School
4th Place 
Best Band 
Best Horn Section 

 Swingsations
 Mt. Zion High School
5th Place 
Best Rhythm Section 

 Trojanaires
 Jenks High School
6th Place 
Best Male Stage Presence (Blake Pettigrove) 

 Sound System
 Center Grove High School
7th Place 

 Delegation
 Danville High School
8th Place 

 Rhythm of the Knight
 Uniondale High School
9th Place 
FAME Award 
Most Original Selection 

 Minstrel Magic
 Carroll High School
10th Place 
Best Female Soloist (Paige Matteson) 
Best Female Stage Presence (Paige Matteson) 

 Company
 South Jones Jr/Sr High School
11th Place 

 Vocalmotive
 Bemidji High School
12th Place 

 Voices of Central
 Keller Central High School
13th Place 

 Reveillon
 Jackson Preparatory School
14th Place 

 Knight Moves
 Norwell High School
15th Place 

 Singers
 Sullivan High School
16th Place 
Gillette College Scholarship Winner (Garrett Griffin) 

 West in the Groove
 Millard West High School
17th Place 

 West Side Delegation
 Cedar Rapids Jefferson High School
18th Place 

 Step on Stage
 Horizon High School
19th Place 
Gillette College Scholarship Winner (Ellen Fairfield) 


   Treble Division

  

Groups

 Sound Sensations
 John Burroughs High School
First Place 
Best Vocals 

 Soundtrax
 Los Alamitos High School
Second Place 
Best Show Design 
Best Soloist (Tailynn Carlton) 

 Knight Stars
 Norwell High School
Third Place 
Best Choreography 
Best Stage Presence (Addy Johnson) 

 Debtones
 Center Grove High School
4th Place 
Best Costumes 

 Sound Unlimited
 Bonita Vista High School
5th Place 

 Les Femmes
 Mt. Zion High School
6th Place 

 Contemporaires
 Danville High School
7th Place 

 Uptown Girls
 Millard West High School
8th Place 

 New Edition
 South Jones Jr/Sr High School
9th Place 
Best Band 

 Innovations
 Petal High School
10th Place 

 Nothin' But Treble
 Andover High School
11th Place 


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Baxter on Apr 30, 2013, 1:43 PM
Post #273
+11
First off - CONGRATS to all groups. Quite simply the best collection of talent I have ever seen over a day of Show Choir competition! Second - WAY TO GO Fairfield Combo. Twice you have attended a FAME National Finals and twice you have won BEST COMBO. Real proud of you all!!! Third - Thanks to Marcus and the back stage staff working the ARIE Crown. They were fantastic in managing what looked like a massive cluster. I still find it amazing this competition ran as close to time as it did. A lot of credit goes to Marcus and his team. Other than a few comments heard back stage about ". . .having something to prove. . ." I thought all groups got along great. There is a certain level of comradarie between stage dads and those at this competition were super.

Last - I want to say how much I enjoyed seeing our group "Sing it for the World" one last time. With all the comments this year, both positive and negative, regarding the theme, these performers presented their best show of the year at precisely the right time. Thanks to Jeff, David, Betsy, Randy, Steven, and Josh for putting together such a fantastic and moving show and our Senior Leadership for setting the bar very high and providing the support and direction to our underclass performers.




ChelsiKerrn on Apr 30, 2013, 2:22 AM
Post #272
+1
Does anyone have complete scores, please?

I second this!!




byages13 on Apr 30, 2013, 1:02 AM (Edited)
Post #271
 

The kid who did the calculation forget about decimal places and such. It was really 3%, which is still extremely close.

John Burroughs- 1063.5
Los Al- 1061
Ankeny- 1015
Fairfield- 1001
Tale that out of 2000 (points possible):
John Burroughs- 53.17%
Los Al- 53.05%
Ankeny- 50.75%
Fairfield- 50.05%

Aft hearing these, I kinda zoned out and didn't listen to the others. I may be mistaken, but I believe Mt. Zion was somewhere around 960 or 970. Hope this helps.


Just to clarify, Los Al had an overall score of 1062, not 1061 (1.5 points behind Burroughs), and Ankeny had an overall score of 1015.5. Still, very close scorings all around and so many wonderful groups I had the privilege of competing against this past weekend




JWill on Apr 29, 2013, 11:16 PM
Post #270
+2
Does anyone have complete scores, please?



dhurt863 on Apr 28, 2013, 10:58 PM
Post #269
+7
I got to meet Häakon and he got me on video talking with some Burroughs kids,(who are all very great people by the way), so I'm Gucci.



CoreyOrCorbin on Apr 28, 2013, 4:39 PM (Edited)
Post #268
+10

The kid who did the calculation forget about decimal places and such. It was really 3%, which is still extremely close.

John Burroughs- 1063.5
Los Al- 1061
Ankeny- 1015
Fairfield- 1001
Tale that out of 2000 (points possible):
John Burroughs- 53.17%
Los Al- 53.05%
Ankeny- 50.75%
Fairfield- 50.05%

After hearing these, I kinda zoned out and didn't listen to the others. I may be mistaken, but I believe Mt. Zion was somewhere around 960 or 970. Hope this helps.

CORRECTION: Scores were out of 1200. My apologies. I was told the 2000 number at like 3 AM so it's understandable for someone to be mistaken.
Updated:
1. John Burroughs- (1063.5) 88.6%
2. Los Al- (1061) 88.4%
3. Ankeny- (1015.5) 84.6%
4. Fairfield- (1001) 83.4%
5. Mt. Zion- (969.5) 80.8%
6. Jenks- (963.5) 80.3%
7. Center Grove
8. Danville
9. Uniondale
10. Carroll
11. South Jones
12. Bemedji
13. Keller Central
14. Jackson Prep
15. Norwell
16. Sullivan
17. Millard West
18. Jefferson
19. Horizon




Jeff. on Apr 28, 2013, 4:19 PM
Post #267
+8
I don't know if anyone has done this, but does anyone have a list of all the Aspire Award winners?
2013 Aspire Awards

Vocal Vanguard: Mark Myers (Waubonsie Valley HS)
Visual Vanguard: April James
Best New Director: Justin Sands (Prairie HS)
Best New Choreographer: Alex Hall
Best Arranger: Josh Greene (arranges for Los Al, Burbank, Fairfield, among others)
Best Costumer: Gail McInnis
Spirit of Service: Häakon
Most Promising New Program: Uniondale High School
Best Regional Competition: Wheaton Warrenville South "Choral Classic"
Lifetime Achievement Award: Linda McEachran-Southard

I'm not sure if that's all of them, but those are the ones that people posted previously in the forums.




CompanyDad on Apr 28, 2013, 3:46 PM
Post #266
+3
Just like to say congrats to South Jones Company on their 11th place finish in mixed. Just excited to be there among the best in the country!

Also to the ladies group South Jones New Edition co grays on your 9th place finish and Best Combo! These girls have worked hard all year!!

Jonathan McKenzie and his staff have worked extremely hard to get to the nationals!

Don't know where they finished, but congrats to the Petal Innovations and Jackson Prep Revellion for making it and representing Mississippi!!

Madison Central made it but was unable to attend.


B

blipper247 on Apr 28, 2013, 3:32 PM
Post #265
+4
O. M. G. This was hands down the most incredible competition ever! Epic! I was truly blown away. Highlights for me were: Powerhouse - holy wow!, Uniondale - tappers, Jenks Trojanaires - total show and amazing soloists!, Sound Sensations vocals - gorgeous, Los Al - song selection & costumes, and how many amazingly cool people I met. EPIC! AMAZING! BLOWN AWAY!

R

ryanferg19 on Apr 28, 2013, 2:29 PM
Post #264
+1
Is Uniondale's show on YouTube?



ChelsiKerrn on Apr 28, 2013, 12:57 PM
Post #263
 
I've heard after Jenks it goes:
Center Grove
Danville
Uniondale
Carroll




CoreyOrCorbin on Apr 28, 2013, 12:06 PM
Post #262
 
I find it hard to believe that the best choirs only got around 50% of the points possible.
I found it hard to believe as well, but that's what our director said. I'll check again. Common inference would think it's somewhere more around 1500 or 1200... Whoever told me 2000 said it around 3AM EST, so I'm not gonna fault them for half awake math.




JWill on Apr 28, 2013, 12:04 PM
Post #261
+3

The kid who did the calculation forget about decimal places and such. It was really 3%, which is still extremely close.

John Burroughs- 1063.5
Los Al- 1061
Ankeny- 1015
Fairfield- 1001
Tale that out of 2000 (points possible):
John Burroughs- 53.17%
Los Al- 53.05%
Ankeny- 50.75%
Fairfield- 50.05%

Aft hearing these, I kinda zoned out and didn't listen to the others. I may be mistaken, but I believe Mt. Zion was somewhere around 960 or 970. Hope this helps.

I find it hard to believe that the best choirs only got around 50% of the points possible.




CoreyOrCorbin on Apr 28, 2013, 12:00 PM
Post #260
 
I just saw on Twitter that Fairfield was 0.3% away from 1st. Wow.

I want to know the point spread!

The kid who did the calculation forget about decimal places and such. It was really 3%, which is still extremely close.

John Burroughs- 1063.5
Los Al- 1061
Ankeny- 1015
Fairfield- 1001
Tale that out of 2000 (points possible):
John Burroughs- 53.17%
Los Al- 53.05%
Ankeny- 50.75%
Fairfield- 50.05%

Aft hearing these, I kinda zoned out and didn't listen to the others. I may be mistaken, but I believe Mt. Zion was somewhere around 960 or 970. Hope this helps.




JWill on Apr 28, 2013, 11:57 AM
Post #259
 
And I believe Los Al and Wheaton pre-plan their sets to share the basic themes though they give them their own unique twists.
I really doubt that Los Al and Wheaton co-ordinate their shows. However, I heard that they are both doing a Sesame Street theme next year, if so then maybe they do co-ordinate.




AJ6John on Apr 28, 2013, 10:54 AM
Post #258
+5
My thoughts exactly!
Oh Katy, she divided the score that the choir revived out of he totally score possible, when she did so, it indicated that we were only .3 or whatever beind first.. Which doesn't mean much of anything. Lol! But I DO know that it was VERY VERY close between fourth and first. And JB beat Los AL by only a point and half...


Moreover I'm crazy proud to call myself a Choralier and couldn't be happier with our place, or more importantly the performance we had!

Congrats to all groups!




King Of Games on Apr 28, 2013, 10:53 AM
Post #257
+2
I don't know if anyone has done this, but does anyone have a list of all the Aspire Award winners?

Also, WWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FAIRFIELD! My favorite Ohio show to date!




barisaxbigcheeks on Apr 28, 2013, 9:24 AM
Post #256
+4
Congrats to Burroughs for winning the top honor! I had the opportunity to see their show when Häakon streamed their competition, and it was amazing their soloists are out of this world. Also, can anyone post the point spread? It would be really interesting to see how close the positions were. Congrats to all of the competing choirs! What a great way to end the 2013 season!

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Rvca7 on Apr 28, 2013, 9:01 AM
Post #255
+1
Also very, very impressed with Jenks! This competition was razor close and to place in the top level with these groups just shows how great they are and caps off an incredible season for the Trojanaires.



Addicted2Swingers on Apr 28, 2013, 7:40 AM
Post #254
+4
I just have to say congratulations to Jenks, I have heard of but never seen this group. But just to make the top six here is a huge accomplishment!!!

Being said I i wish I could have seen the tops groups tonight.

John Burroughs mixed blows me away with their ability to create a story and still perform in a way that makes the art of show choir something new. I enjoy everything about this set and encourage all people to go to a so cal competition because of the performance aspect that is involved in each and every one of those choirs.

That being said I can't even IMAGINE the show choir goodness that was happening today. Los Alamitos is THE BEST I have EVER seen them. Their story is beyond beautiful and the interpretation they make is just beautiful and sensual. I feel the tension between the characters and the whole story telling by the group blows me aways.

I have not seen ankeny or mt. zion this year, but I know that ankeny had to be performing their hearts out b/c this is the last year that they are all one high school. They have to take extreme pride in the way that they showed how important and invaluable music in our schools is.

And the only other group I have seen a performance from this year is Fairfield. I think the first thing to note about this group is that they had such and early performance time and they still walked off the stage knowing that they gave only their VERY best. I'm proud of the movement of regional show choir and the Farifield Choraliers and their involved team only help to make the show choir genre more diverse.

This competition only made me that more excited for the changes in show choir and the way that it can evolve.



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