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  Show Choir Community    Events    2013 Season    Benton Touch of Class 2013


Event Info



February 9th, 2013

  8:00am

Venue Info

Benton Community High School
600 First Street
Van Horne, IA 52346

Phone: (319) 228-8701

Event Details

No. of Attending Choirs:

  18 Mixed Groups
  1 Treble Groups

Hosts:

  Benton Community "Celebration Co."
  Benton Community "Jubilation, Inc."
  Benton Community "Illusions"

Judges:

  Pete Eklund

  Andrew Last

  Keith Curington

  Jim Berry

  Gerald Kreitzer

  Gates Crisler (Critique)

  Ben Eklund (Critique)

  Scott Weber (Instrumentals)

  Emily Lange (Outstanding Performer)


Tickets

Daytime & Finals
$10.00

Free for Children 4 and Under

Map



Benton Touch of Class 2013









Awards
Predictions
Photos
Event Site
Live Stream


Finals
 

Groups in order of placement

 Millennium
 Waukee High School
Grand Champion 
Best Choreography 
Best Band 
Best Choral Sound 
Most Creative Show 

 Good Time Company
 Iowa City West High School
First Runner Up 
Best Male Soloist (Paul Ross) 

 Xhilaration
 Xavier High School
Second Runner Up 

 Choralation
 Valley High School
3rd Runner Up 
Twitter Award 

 Northside Establishment
 Davenport North High School
4th Runner Up 
Best Female Soloist (Teria Littman) 

 AcaPella
 Pella High School
5th Runner Up 
Most Creative Song 
Best Costumes 


Mixed Division - Tier I (Prelims)
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Mixed Division - Tier II (Prelims)
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Prep Division
 

Groups

 Showtime
 Iowa City West High School
First Place 
Best Choreography 

 Spirit
 Waukee High School
Second Place 
Best Band 
Best Choral Sound 

 Xuberance
 Xavier High School
Third Place 

 Ignition
 Valley High School
4th Place 

 Flip Side
 Indianola High School
5th Place 

 Sidewayz
 Indianola High School
6th Place 

 Center Stage
 Davenport North High School
7th Place 


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DutchMC on Feb 12, 2013, 5:56 PM
Post #18
+2
Additional results from Benton Touch of Class 2013

Class 3A
1st Pella AcaPella
2nd Norwalk Sound Revolution
3rd Williamsburg
4th Marion New Creation
5th Forest City Avocado Heights

AcaPella won caption awards for Best Costumes and Most Creative Song. Waukee Millenium won caption for Most Creative Show.

Benton did have the 1A/2A/3A rule (highest score in the small school class makes finals, along with 5 top scoring groups) but Pella had the 6th highest score overall, so we qualified either way. (Sorry, I'm proud of that so I thought I would mention it)

John Hayden and the folks at Benton put on a fantastic competition each year. Their gym has the best light/sound/video setup of any gym you will ever see for a show choir contest. Blue Sky Productions does the video production, and it is top notch. And the judges at TOC are outstanding also: Last, Kreitzer, Currington, Eklund, Crisler, Berry, etc....

Props to all the groups at Benton on Saturday. Waukee was great, but IC West was very impressive too. Xavier and Valley have both improved greatly since I saw them earlier this year. We enjoyed competing with and watching each of the groups on stage Saturday. (Sadly, I didn't get to see Davenport North, but I hear their female soloist is unbelievable). Touch of Class 2013 was another great success!




infj1013 on Feb 10, 2013, 4:17 AM
Post #17
 
Valley Choralation: Twitter Champions

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justinbeokay on Feb 10, 2013, 2:19 AM
Post #16
+1
Prep Awards

GC: Iowa City West (BC)
1RU: Waukee (BV, BB)
2RU: Xavier
3RU: Valley
4RU: Indianola
5RU: Indianola
6RU: Davenport North




Jeff. on Feb 10, 2013, 1:50 AM
Post #15
 
Awesome, thanks! Mixed results have been posted. Does anyone have the prep results?



dscvry on Feb 10, 2013, 1:46 AM
Post #14
+1
GC: Waukee (BB, BV, BC)
1RU: IC West
2RU: Xavier
3RU: Valley
4RU: Davenport North
5RU: Pella


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Sluggersjd on Feb 9, 2013, 11:47 PM
Post #13
+3
Paul Ross- Iowa City West best male soloist.



dscvry on Feb 9, 2013, 9:24 PM
Post #12
 
Teria Littman (Davenport North) Best Female Soloist



dscvry on Feb 9, 2013, 9:22 PM
Post #11
 
Davenport North, Valley, Xavier, Waukee, Pella, IC West in Finals



Bae on Feb 9, 2013, 8:52 PM
Post #10
+1
Anything on this one yet?

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IowaJavon on Feb 9, 2013, 8:59 AM
Post #9
 
I'm still thrown off by seeing Valley, Waukee and Dav North here... It's going to be an interesting day, that's for sure.

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drumcorpsnut42 on Feb 8, 2013, 11:57 PM
Post #8
 


QUOTE (The Ethan Price @ Feb 07 2013, 07:59 PM) *

Does this competition still have the rule that the highest 1A/2A/3A group makes finals automatically? It did last year, so I am making my predictions like that.

Predictions:

GC. Waukee
1RU. Xavier
2RU. Valley
3RU. Iowa City West
4RU. Davenport North
5RU. Pella

Two things: Iowa City West is a question mark for me. This year, they have lost to Milton, who lost to Davenport North. I know you can't use the transitive property in competitions but it's still interesting to think about.

I also believe Pella will make finals here, but they did lose to Union here last year. Indianola could also make a case for finals instead of Davenport North or if they dont have the 1A/2A/3A rule.

Good luck to everyone!




Prediction:
GC:Waukee "Millenium"
1RU:Cedar Rapids Xavier "Xhilaration"
2RU:Iowa City West "Good Time Company"
3RU:Davenport North "Northside Establishment"
4RU:Valley "Choralation"
5RUella "AcaPella"




juliofrommississippi on Feb 8, 2013, 5:42 AM
Post #7
 
Waukee is going to slaughter this competition. I expect to hear their sopranos all the way in La Crosse this weekend. I'm in total awe of their show.



juliofrommississippi on Feb 7, 2013, 9:55 PM
Post #6
 
They should have the 1A/2A/3A rule. They have since at least 2003



The Ethan Price on Feb 7, 2013, 7:59 PM
Post #5
+1
Does this competition still have the rule that the highest 1A/2A/3A group makes finals automatically? It did last year, so I am making my predictions like that.

Predictions:

GC. Waukee
1RU. Xavier
2RU. Valley
3RU. Iowa City West
4RU. Davenport North
5RU. Pella

Two things: Iowa City West is a question mark for me. This year, they have lost to Milton, who lost to Davenport North. I know you can't use the transitive property in competitions but it's still interesting to think about.

I also believe Pella will make finals here, but they did lose to Union here last year. Indianola could also make a case for finals instead of Davenport North or if they dont have the 1A/2A/3A rule.

Good luck to everyone!




Häakon on Feb 4, 2013, 2:58 PM
Post #4
+7


QUOTE (WHSTenor @ Feb 04 2013, 01:08 PM) *

...While Waukee was straight up amazing last year, I heard they lost a lot of seniors last year, and we all know how much that can screw over a group.


They swept their first competition and beat out some other good groups (including Prairie who had a GC of their own the week before)... it doesn't look like they're hurting too much.


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IowaJavon on Feb 4, 2013, 1:08 PM
Post #3
 
Yikes. There's a huge change here. No Lincoln SW? No CR Jefferson? That actually kind of makes me sad. And while Waukee was straight up amazing last year, I heard they lost a lot of seniors last year, and we all know how much that can screw over a group. This should be interesting, but not as exciting as before.



FindYourStage on Feb 3, 2013, 10:41 PM
Post #2
+1
Prediction!

GC: Waukee (sweep)
1RU: Xavier
2RU: City West
3RU: Dav North
4RU: Indianola
5RU: Pella

Good Luck to everyone!




Jeff. on Feb 3, 2013, 10:00 PM
Post #1
 
Schedule is posted above. For those of you who like it in the forum as well, here it is:

2013 Touch of Class Performance Times

8:30 Illusions (MS) (exhibition)
8:55 SideWayz
9:20 Showtime
9:45 Xuberance
10:10 Spirit
10:35 Flip Side
BREAK
11:10 Ignition
11:35 Center Stage
12:00 Avacado Heights
12:25 Sound Attraction
12:50 Jubilation, Inc. (exhibition)
Lunch Break
1:25 New Creation
1:50 Union Station
2:15 Sound Revolution
2:40 AcaPella
3:05 UNI Vocal Ammunition (exhibition)
3:30 Choralation
3:55 Millennium
4:20 Northside Establishment
4:45 Side One
5:10 Good Time Company
5:35 Xhilaration
6:00 Celebration Co. (exhibition)

Huge thanks to the Benton Vocal Music website. It's incredible and has all the information one could want. Judges and ticket prices have been posted. For anyone interested in scoresheets, those are also available here: daytime and finals.

Benton is also putting an interesting spin on the traditional "People's Choice Award" by calling it the "Twitter Award" where people can follow @bcvocalmusic to vote for their favorite choir!







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