Grand Champion
Best Vocals
Best Choreography
Best Band
Outstanding Male Soloist [Prelims] (Tejas Gururaja)
Outstanding Male Soloist [Finals] (Grant Galloway)
Outstanding Female Soloist [Finals] (Kyra Kanz)
Outstanding Male Performer [Finals] (Tejas Gururaja)
I don’t believe this contest releases points in finals, but for the rankings at least, I believe two judges flipped their first and second place votes, but the overall rankings for first and second were 3-2. I don’t know that, but based on the info I have, that’s what I believe the rankings were.
That would be difficult for me. Like, I could justify giving either caption and either placement to Linn Marr or Homewood. Homewood’s performance today was the best I’ve ever seen out of a non-Clinton southern group, with zero close seconds. Linn Marr’s performance was equally impressive to me. But, without a scoresheet, I don’t really know that I could easily justify the placement of either group because they are so different.
Add Clinton to the mix, and it’d be even messier. To be clear, I’m not knocking Clinton here. Homewood, Linn-Marr, and Clinton gave the three best performances I’ve ever seen in person — and I’ve seen almost every big name group in the country live. The unfortunate truth is that only one group can win, but each of them deserved to. In my view, these are the top three groups in the country. Put them in whatever order you want. I look forward to seeing what next year holds for their programs.
OH MY GOSH MY PREDICTIONS WERE RIGHT CONGRATS TO EVERYONEEEE
(first time all my predictions have been right in my short time of predicting so I'm a bit excited lol)
Congrats to all groups!
Just a note of clarification: Scott Thorne didn’t win the Outstanding Director award, he won the Music Educator Lifetime Achievement award to celebrate his retirement.
In addition to prelim placements, here are points breakdown by judge/category.
Dave Fehr-
1st- Homewood (227)
2nd- Linn Mar (220.5)
3rd- Findlay (219)
4th- Oak Mountain (211.5)
5th- Mt. Zion (211)
6th- Hastings (206)
7th- North Central (203.5)
8th- Olentangy (199)
9th- Enterprise (196)
10th- El Paso Gridley (195.5)
11th- Peoria (194)
Tori Brindis-
1st- Homewood (229.5)
2nd- Linn Mar (226.5)
3rd- Hastings (220)
4th- North Central (219)
5th- Mt. Zion (218)
6th- Olentangy (215.5)
7th- Oak Mountain (215)
8th- Findlay (214)
9th- Enterprise (203.5)
10th- El Paso Gridley (200.5)
11th- Peoria (197)
Steve Woodin-
1st- Linn Mar (248)
2nd- Homewood (240.5)
3rd- Findlay (238)
4th- Hastings (225.5)
5th- North Central (220.5)
6th- Mt. Zion (220)
7th- Oak Mountain (218.5)
8th- Olentangy (210)
9th- Enterprise (208)
10th- El Paso Gridley (199.5)
11th- Peoria (193)
Anne Chapman-
1st- Linn Mar (218.5)
2nd- Findlay (204.5)
3rd- Homewood (204)
4th- North Central (203.5)
5th- Hastings (203)
6th- Mt. Zion (201.5)
7th- Oak Mountian (200.5)
8th- Enterprise (198)
9th- El Paso Gridley (195.5
10th- Olentangy (195)
11th- Peoria (193)
Shanna Luckett
1st- Findlay (221.5) * TIE
1st- Linn Mar (221.5) * TIE
3rd- Homewood (220.5)
4th- North Central (212)
5th- Oak Mountain (210)
6th- El Paso Gridley (209.5)
7th- Mt. Zion (208.5) *TIE
7th- Olentangy (208.5) *TIE
9th- Hastings (207.5)
10th- Enterprise (204)
11th- Peoria (191)
All Categories Total Average Points
Vocal-
1st- Linn Mar (109.3)
2nd- Homewood (107.2)
3rd- Findlay (103.5)
4th- North Central (103)
5th- Hastings (100.6)
6th- Mt. Zion (98.6)
7th- Oak Mountain (98.5)
8th- Olentangy (97.9)
9th- Enterprise (94.9)
10th- El Paso Gridley (93.3)
11th- Peoria (90.7)
Visual-
1st- Linn Mar (63.6)
2nd- Homewood (62.7)
3rd- Mt. Zion (60.8)
4th- Findlay (60.7)
5th- Oak Mountain (60.2)
6th- Hastings (59.7)
7th- North Central (58)
8th- El Paso Gridley (57.6)
9th- Enterprise (57.4)
10th- Olentangy (56.3)
11th- Peoria (54.6)
Show Design-
1st- Homewood (54.4)
2nd- Linn Mar (54.1)
3rd- Findlay (53.3)
4th- Mt. Zion (52.4) * TIE
4th- Oak Mountain (52.4) * TIE
6th- Hastings (52.1)
7th- Olentangy (51.4)
8th- North Central (50.7)
9th- Enterprise (49.6) * TIE
9th- El Paso Gridley (49.6) * TIE
11th- Peoria (48.3)
Overall-
1st- Linn Mar (227)
2nd- Homewood (224.3)
3rd- Findlay (219.4)
4th- Hastings (212.4)
5th- Mt. Zion (211.8)
6th- North Central (211.7)
7th- Oak Mountain (211.1)
8th- Olentangy (205.6)
9th- Enterprise (201.9)
10th- El Paso Gridley (200.5)
11th- Peoria (193.6)
1st- Linn-Mar (1135)
2nd- Homewood (1121.5)
3rd- Findlay (1097)
4th- Hastings (1062)
5th- Mt. Zion (1059)
6th- North Central (1058.5)
7th- Oak Mountain (1055.5)
8th- Olentangy (1028)
9th- Enterprise (1009.5)
10th- El Paso-Gridley (1002.5)
11th- Peoria (968)
These are all the judges points added up together. This is the total before dividing by 5 for each of the judges to get the average overall score as seen above.
I agree. Id understand maybe if 1st-7th was separated by a point, but with Linn-Mar leading 5-7 by almost 100 points I dont see the need. Oak Mountain BY FAR had the most insane staging hands down tho.
Auburn 2019 and Homewood 2015 at this contest may have been closer (or similarly close), but I’m surprised they weren’t in finals. They were definitely one of the cleanest groups on the stage today — but that doesn’t always translate on the scoresheet, and perhaps the margin had something to do with the transitioning of props not occurring during a blackout as they typically did throughout the season. Not sure if that would make up the 3 total points (0.6 average points), but it would be unfortunate if that was the reason they missed finals.
Show Choir Nationals 2023
