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  Show Choir Community    Events    2020 Season    Glenwood The Event 2020


Event Info



March 6th-7th, 2020


Venue Info

Glenwood High School
1501 E. Plummer Boulevard
Chatham, IL 62629

Phone: (217) 483-2424

Event Details

No. of Attending Choirs:

  16 Mixed Groups
  3 Treble Groups
  8 Middle School Groups

Hosts:

  Glenwood "Titan Fever"

Judges:

  Anne Chapman

  Doran Johnson

  Heath Gemar

  Dallas James Pritt

  Hersel Cremeans

  Gina Swickard (Solo)


Tickets

Ticket prices unknown.

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Glenwood The Event 2020









Awards
Predictions
Photos
Event Site
Live Stream



Finals
 

Groups

 Swingsations
 Mt. Zion High School
Grand Champion (TIE) 
Best Choreography 

 The Classics
 Wheaton Warrenville South High School
Grand Champion (TIE) 
Best Band 

 Elite Energy
 Decatur Show Choir Complex
First Runner Up 
Best Vocals 
Best Female Soloist (Jayla Lee) 

 Soundwave
 Peoria Area Performing Arts Studio
3rd Runner Up 
Best Male Soloist (Joe Meier) 

 Esprit
 Wheaton Warrenville South High School
4th Runner Up 

 Singers
 Sullivan High School
5th Runner Up 


Mixed Division (Prelims)
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Treble Division
 

Groups

 Esprit
 Wheaton Warrenville South High School
First Place 
Best Vocals 
Best Choreography 
Best Band 

 New Generation
 Sullivan High School
Second Place 


Prep Division
 

Groups

 Premiere
 Mt. Zion High School
First Place 
Best Vocals 
Best Choreography 

 IN Session
 Springfield High School
Second Place 

 Vocal Rush
 Unity High School
Third Place 
Best Band 

 New Direction
 Hoopeston Area High School
4th Place 

 Unlimited
 Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School
5th Place 

 Perception
 Puckett High School
6th Place 

 Sensations
 Springfield Southeast High School
7th Place 


Middle School Division
 

Groups

 Sound System
 Mt. Zion Junior High School
First Place 
Best Choreography 
Best Male Soloist (Isaiah Johnson) 

 Vocal Velocity
 Peoria Area Performing Arts Studio
Second Place 
Best Vocals 
Best Female Soloist (Kate Wiegardt) 

 Singers, Jr.
 Sullivan Middle School
Third Place 

 Electric Youth
 Edison Middle School
4th Place 

 Collective Sound
 Decatur Show Choir Complex
5th Place 

 Tonali-T
 Troy Middle Schools
6th Place 

 Redcoats
 North Ridge Middle School
7th Place 

 Fantastic Falcons
 Franklin Middle School
8th Place 

 Radiant Reds
 North Ridge Middle School
9th Place 

 Unlimited Attitude
 Paxton-Buckley-Loda Junior High School
10th Place 

 Mixed Harmony
 Peoria Area Performing Arts Studio
11th Place 


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tigerscdad on Mar 10, 2020, 12:02 PM (Edited)
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user banned  on Mar 10, 2020, 12:36 AM (Edited)
Post #105
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congratulations everybody! Please remember this competition is for our mutual enjoyment for show choir! No hate please! No negativity! No Serbs!



brockamper on Mar 9, 2020, 11:36 PM
Post #104
+9
Hello everyone!
We wanted to provide an update about our final placements from this past Saturday. It was brought to our attention that a mix up may have occurred when placements were calculated for the top 3 groups in the finals round. Upon further inspection, we discovered that an inaccuracy occurred which incorrectly awarded placements to the top 3 groups but did not affect the bottom 3 groups. We are truly sorry for this mistake, and have made the decision to rectify the situation by awarding Co-Grand Champion to the Mt. Zion Swingsations and the Wheaton-Warrenville South Classics, as well as keeping Decatur Elite Energy as the 1st Runner-Up. The caption awards were calculated correctly and will stay with their respective groups. We believe this is the best way to ensure that these ensembles are properly recognized for their work this weekend. Again, our sincerest apologies for the scoring inaccuracy. Please know that we always strive to put on a top-notch contest at Glenwood and believe in serving students first by giving them the recognition and feedback they need to continue their growth as performers. We want to again thank all of the groups that attended The EVENT for joining us this past weekend and hope to see all of the spectators, performers, and directors again in the future!

Sincerely,
Nick Brockamp
Choral Director, Glenwood High School


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Tjdinw on Mar 9, 2020, 5:11 PM (Edited)
Post #103
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Sounds like WWS earned their top spot by being excellent in both vocals and choreography! That doesn't take away from the other groups amazing performances but in the end, WWS delivered in both vocals and choreo. Congrats to all! It's great for show choir to have such tough competitions.



JTrinM on Mar 9, 2020, 1:16 PM
Post #93
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*To clear up any confusion*
The competition used an ordinal ranking system. The same system that caused a little bit of a stir at Urbandale last year (Hence my familiarity with the system lol). The group with the most first-place rankings is put in first. After that, The next group that is placed is the one with the most second-place rankings. What I mean by this is that once first place is decided, all the groups (excluding the group that was just placed) rankings shift up, all twos become ones, all threes become twos, etc. Then they look at the rankings to see who has the most first-place rankings at that time, determining the next group's placement. WWS had both the most first-place rankings and the lowest sum of rankings in the beginning so they were placed first with no issue. After WWS was placed and excluded from the rankings, MTZ and Decatur had the same amount of first-place rankings, causing them to be tied, which was broken by Decatur's vocal caption. Before even placing ordinally, you could already see trends for placements as 4/5 judges placed WWS over Decatur and 2/5 placed them over MTZ; For Decatur, 3/5 of the judges placed them over MTZ and 1/5 of the judges placed them over WWS; and for MTZ 2/5 of the judges placed them both over Decatur and WWS. This system always seems to yield weird results but it makes sense as to why it's used. Sometimes the majority of judges place a group consistently over another, but score all groups across the board much closer and lower than, let's say, one judge who may score one group that all the other judges may have put consistently in second MUCH higher than any other group, causing that group to edge out first place in raw score. The ordinal ranking system is designed to combat that, sometimes more efficiently than other times, but most of the time it works out if the scoring is uniform and for the most part consistent. The system needs refinement but I have learned to love it because more often than not it will stop an outlier score from impacting the overall results.
Either way, big props to all the groups that performed this weekend. I really wish I could have been home to go and spectate this competition in person. I know everyone must have done incredible!



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showchoir91 on Mar 9, 2020, 2:02 PM
Post #94
 
A system that yields a Grand Champion who didn't have the best vocal performance or the best choreography performance in a singing and dancing competition definitely "needs refinement". Wacky results lead to suspicion and leaving people questioning the integrity of the competition.




JTrinM on Mar 9, 2020, 2:19 PM (Edited)
Post #95
+5
For a couple of years now, competitions, where the GC has no captions, have been happening more often, not more commonly, just more than usual. For example, this is the second competition of the YEAR that Decatur Elite Energy has attended where they received a vocal caption and the group that won received no major caption. Sometimes groups just have a great balance between their choreography and vocal performance, while others have better vocals than choreography or vice versa. These types of results are uncommon, not impossible. While very complex, in essence, show choir is a duality. All groups strive to achieve a balance between their choreography and vocals, all the other aspects of a show that add to its greatness are accessories. In show choir, we note dance breaks and vocal moments the most. Sometimes a group, while not the best in either category at that competition, has the best balance of the two that allows them to edge out what they lacked in either category. Right now more than ever we are seeing various different groups gaining momentum and reaching levels of expertise that used to be rare. I only suspect results like this are going to become more common as this great art continues to grow even more, and as schools continue to get better. That is just what makes Show Choir so exciting.


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TMiller on Mar 9, 2020, 2:46 PM
Post #96
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Jose’, thank you, well explained. But if MTZ and WWS each had (2) 1st place votes, the choreo caption wasn’t a tie breaker in MTZ’s favor? By deferring to the ‘mean’ or lowest total as a tie breaker, you pull potential outliers back in, which is what this system was designed to avoid.
Then when you have another tie for second, suddenly the caption emerges as a tie breaker? You can see why folks are perplexed.



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TMiller on Mar 9, 2020, 2:50 PM (Edited)
Post #97
 
Again, thanks for making sense of this.




JTrinM on Mar 9, 2020, 2:56 PM (Edited)
Post #99
+2
Actually, remembering what I saw from the raw scores, they most likely used vocal scores for a tie-breaker in the case of WWS and MTZ, just like they did for the tie between Decatur and MTZ. If I remember correctly, WWS also had a higher vocal score than MTZ. So I am positive I made a mistake in citing WWS GC placement as a result of the lowest sum, it is probably based on the vocal score! Sorry for the confusion!


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TMiller on Mar 9, 2020, 3:13 PM
Post #100
 
I think you are making a logical conclusion based on the results,. But if you are going to look at the raw scores, the overall scores would be the obvious barometer. The vocal portion is already weighted, but this method completely discounts the choreo and the overall scores. This can’t be right.


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illinoisshowchoir on Mar 9, 2020, 3:22 PM
Post #101
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Both assumptions Jose made are correct. Wheaton had a higher vocal score and the lower total score, which means that using either tie-breaking method Wheaton would have won. I do not know of any competitions where choreography is used as a tie breaker.


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TMiller on Mar 9, 2020, 4:02 PM
Post #102
 
Thank you. I think you are correct, after scanning some other events with similar results.
I think the ‘peek at the scorecards’ was difficult for a few to rationalize against the final placements, myself included.
So we learned a little about scoring today.


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Predictionsarecool78 on Mar 8, 2020, 3:32 PM (Edited)
Post #85
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BIG CHUNGUS on Mar 8, 2020, 8:08 PM
Post #86
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Same! It must of been really close between the top 3 groups!

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Tjdinw on Mar 8, 2020, 2:01 PM
Post #84
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It was a tough competitive field for sure and all 3 groups brought so much energy. Congrats to WWS! Their choreography was fantastic and their vocals were amazing The top 3 groups were fabulous but I can see with the difficulty of WWS's choreography and how tight they were and with so much energy, it was an all around excellent performance!

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BandDadWWS on Mar 8, 2020, 12:46 PM (Edited)
Post #82
+2
Really proud of our groups. Both Esprit and Classics. Great job! At the same time, gotta say I loved Decatur's show! So well done, thoughtful, every student brought the energy. And the solos. Wow.



stevesing85 on Mar 8, 2020, 11:11 AM
Post #81
+1
Wow! Just wow! What a fun competition and interesting finals result.

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MommaLutz on Mar 8, 2020, 5:29 AM
Post #80
+1
ELITE ENERGY... As an alumni parent, I am so proud of u guys.. You always leave ur hearts on the stage.. That was an amazing performance in finals!! Brought tears to my eyes.. Much love to u Erik Taylor!! ???



BrockLee on Mar 8, 2020, 3:23 AM (Edited)
Post #79
+3
I have to say how impressed I am with Decatur this year. They’ve been besting groups with twice as many singer-dancers as them and deservedly so! Great show!


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