The change was unexpected indeed. It was done halfway through their competition season, but I feel like their show story has really transformed since then, so I am guessing the change was a creative decision by the director(s).
Best Performers Category, All Divisions (credits to rhode and goharik for the corrections)
"Best Performers," Advanced Treble and Bass Divisions:
Jacob Dines - Los Alamitos "Xtreme"
Joseph Padilia(?) - Helix "TBH"
Delaney Stivers - Los Alamitos "Soundtrax"
Gohar Arakelyan - Burbank "Impressions"
Jade Morgan - Helix "HLX"
"Best Performers," Advanced Mixed Tier 2 Division:
Ksena Davis - Chaparral High School "Platinum FX"
DK Roberson - Bonita Vista "The Music Machine"
"Best Performers," Advanced Mixed Tier 1 Division:
Jerome Rockett - Los Alamitos "Sound FX"
Anaya Cowart - Burbank "In Sync"
(Apologies for any mispellings, mishearings, or mixups on the individual awards, it was hard to make it all out over the livestream! Please send any corrections my way!)
"Best Soloists," Advanced Treble and Bass Divisions:
Tony Hama$hita - Los Al "Xtreme" (censors his name automatically)
Tuesday DelMonico - Los Al "Soundtrax"
"Burroughs Showcase 2024 Best Costume" - Los Alamitos High School
"Burroughs Showcase 2024 Best Show Design" - Los Alamitos "Xtreme"
"Burroughs Showcase 2024 Best A Capella" - Burbank "InSync"
"Burroughs Showcase 2024 Best Choreography" - Los Alamitos "SoundFX"
TECH TECH TECH TECH TIME!
"Best Tech Crew" - TIE! (only had one award! had to make a second one - which led to the two awards below! Oh my gosh, the DRAMA! Don't worry, I won't editorialize again - just let me have this!)
"Best Technical Aspects in Theatre" - Los Alamitos Tech
"Best Students with Crew" - Burbank High School
(if it isn't clear, Burbank and Los Al split the Best Tech award).
Advanced Bass Division Captions and Placements:
"Best in Music," "Best in Show" and "Overall First Place" - Los Alamitos "Xtreme"
Overall 2nd Place - Helix "TBH"
Advanced Treble Division Captions and Placements:
"Best in Music," "Best in Show" and "Overall First Place" - Los Alamitos "SoundTrax"
Overall 2nd Place - Burbank "Impressions"
Advanced Mixed Tier 2 Division Captions and Placements:
"Best in Music," "Best in Show" and "Overall First Place" - Chaparral "Platinum FX"
Overall Second Place - Bonita Vista "The Music Machine"
Overall Third Place - Helix "HLX"
Congratulations to everyone who performed this weekend! Also, major compliments to the hosts for having that many awards (I love having all those different awards, I think it shines a spotlight on all the hard work that goes into putting on Show Choir sets at this high a level!)
(Once again, if anyone has any additions, corrections, or other errors they can point out, please post them here!)
The solo competition was a separate competiton that took place on campus where students sang a song of their choice and received placements and notes accordingly.
Solo competition corrections:
1st Place - Jhanessa Equila (John Burroughs)
2nd Place - Lily Hobson (Bonita Vista)
3rd Place - Silas Schulz (John Burroughs)
As someone catching up on the livestream (so far, watched the competing men's groups and Tier 1 groups - will loop back to the other groups that competed after I watch some of Burroughs' exhibitions), I want to compliment both Burbank and my alma mater for putting on great performances!
However, the main reason I'm writing a comment is to shoutout HLX for putting on a really fun and genuinely inventive performance!!! Thanks to them, Burroughs had three men's groups and two competing men's groups perform! I'm incredibly passionate about men's show choir/a capella, especially seeing what happened to a lot of men's groups post-COVID. I absolutely loved getting to see my first ever high school choir, Xtreme, go up against a group I hadn't seen much of before!
Good luck to all the performers in the late window! [also - insert joke about chill comment thread on an event with CA show choirs here ;)]
John Burroughs Music Showcase 2024
