Director`s Info 15 - Raise the Roof! 2016

COMPETITION INFORMATION
FEBRUARY 28, 2015
A competition designed around you.
Welcome to Kennedy High School
CONTACT INFO
GENERAL CONTACT
KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL
4545 Wenig Road N.E.
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
Office Phone: 319-558-2251
QUESTIONS OR
EMERGENCY CONTACT
STORM ZIEGLER
Office: 319-558-4713
Cell Phone: 319-929-5533
E-Mail: [email protected]
SCOTT MUTERS
Office: 319-558-4636
Cell Phone: 319-241-5848
E-Mail: [email protected]
Welcome to Raise the Roof !, the
2015 Kennedy Show Choir Invitational.
We know that you have many options to
chose from for your competition needs,
and we are honored that you have chosen
to spend the day at Kennedy. The staff,
students and parents at Kennedy are
working hard to prove that your trust has
not been misplaced. It is our goal to be
your favorite contest of the year, and we
pledge to do our very best to
accommodate your every need.
This packet contains all the
information you need to prepare for a
Quality, experienced judges
Meet this year’s judges
We are pleased to present a highly
qualified and experienced panel of show
choir experts to score and critique your
performances. Our judges work primarily
at evaluating in their area of expertise.
This year’s judges include:
Bill Griffel - Purdue University, formerly
at Franklin Central High School
Jared Wacker - Cedar Rapids Kennedy
Band Director
Bob Anderson - Linn-Mar High School
Debora Utley - Buffalo Grove High
School
Kym Chambers-Otto - Performer, freelance choreographer, adjudicator
Bengt Eklund - Freelance
Choreographer
Lesley Fleer - Cedar Rapids Kennedy
Band Director
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successful competition. You will find the
schedule of the day, a list of judges, rules,
and a list of provided equipment, among
many other important pieces of
information.
As you read through this
information, if you have concerns or
questions about any rule, procedure, or
other issue, please feel free to contact
Storm Ziegler at any time for assistance.
There are no questions too big or too
small! Again, thank you for choosing
Kennedy! We can’t wait to be your hosts
and watch your kids Raise the Roof !
Ryan Person - Iowa City West High
School
Megan Reinking - Singer, Dancer,
Actress (seen on HBO’s Boardwalk
Empire)
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GETTING TO KENNEDY:
FROM THE NORTH
Entering on I-380: As you enter Cedar Rapids take the
42nd Street exit. You will hit a stop light at Blairs Ferry
Rd. Cross Blairs Ferry and stay to the right. Take the
ramp to 42nd St and turn right. Take 42nd St.
approximately four blocks to the stop light at Wenig Rd.
You will see Kennedy on your right.
FROM THE SOUTH
Entering on I-380: Take I-380 North through Cedar
Rapids. Exit at the 42nd Street Exit. Take a left on to 42nd
Street. Take 42nd St. approximately four blocks to stop
light at Wenig Rd. You will see Kennedy on your right.
BUSES ARRIVING AT KENNEDY
Buses will unload in the North Parking Lot of the school.
Drive past the school and enter the lot from the far north
entrance. Drive back up the lot towards the school and
drop students at the north doors. A parent volunteer will
be there to meet and assist you. Your group’s student hosts
will greet you on your bus and provide each student a
hand stamp. Your host will lead you to the registration
table where you should pick up your registration packet.
You will then be escorted to your homeroom. Your hosts
will be able to take you to the equipment storage areas and
show you important places around the building. Once
buses are emptied, they should proceed to the designated
bus parking area. A parking attendant will give drivers
instructions on where to park. A shuttle service will be
available to take drivers from the building to the bus
parking area. Important note: Buses and trailers will
be parked off site. Make sure you have everything
you need before they leave!
EQUIPMENT TRAILERS
Equipment trailers only will unload in the horseshoe
drive in front of the school. Enter the horseshoe drive
through the north entrance (past the flagpole). A parent
volunteer will direct you. Once trailers are emptied, they
should proceed out of the horseshoe and park in the
designated parking area.
DEPARTURE
When your group leaves Kennedy, all buses will load in the
North Lot of Kennedy High School (cafeteria exit). If you
used your buses to transport any equipment, that
equipment will need to be loaded through the North exit,
and NOT THE HORSESHOE! All equipment trailers
will use the horseshoe to load equipment. No buses will be
allowed in the horseshoe for purposes of loading. Feel free
to move your buses closer to the north exit when loading.
STUDENTS ARRIVING INDIVIDUALLY
Students being dropped off individually at Kennedy should
be dropped off at the North entrance to the building
(entrance farthest away from 42nd St). Students should
proceed to the main lobby registration table to receive their
stamp. They will then be escorted to their homeroom.
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PARENT LETTER
On our website at www.kennedyraisetheroof.com there is a letter
to parents of participants explaining important information about
attending Raise The Roof ! It is especially important that middle
school families understand that they need to arrive well before
their child’s performance time.
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AWARDS:
WHAT IS THERE TO GET,
AND HOW DO WE GET IT?
At Raise the Roof, we offer a wide
array of awards, all adjudicated by
a panel of experienced judges.
Placement trophies are awarded to
the top 50% of competing choirs
in each category: Middle School,
Prep, and Open Class.
The top scoring middle school is
invited to perform in exhibition in
the evening finals round. The top
six scoring groups from the Prep,
and Open Class categories will
compete in the evening finals for
the title of Grand Champion!
Meaningful Awards
Captions Judged by Experts
Open Class groups competing during the preliminary
round will be eligible for the following caption awards, which will
be adjudicated by our Caption Judge, Bob Anderson:
*Outstanding Male Soloist
*Outstanding Female Soloist
*Outstanding Technical Crew
*Outstanding Ballad
*Best Show Design
*Best Costuming
*Most Creative Number
Open Class groups will also be judged to determine the
winner of the Outstanding Instrumental Ensemble award. This
award will be determined by daytime scores only. The band
judge will also award an Outstanding Instrumentalist Award
from the daytime performances.
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Outstanding Vocals and Outstanding Choreography
awards will be determined by scores in the Evening Finals
Round.
Prep Division groups competing during the preliminary
round will be eligible for the following caption awards, which will
be adjudicated by our Caption Judge, Bob Anderson:
*Outstanding Male Soloist
*Outstanding Female Soloist
Prep Division groups will also be judged to determine the
winner of the Outstanding Instrumental Ensemble award.
Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Vocals awards will
be determined using scores during the preliminary round.
Middle School Division groups competing during the
preliminary round will be eligible for Outstanding Vocals and
Outstanding Choreography awards, which will be determined
using scores from the preliminary round.
Caption awards given during the preliminary round
decided by score will be determined by the Sum of the Ordinals
method, explained later in this document.
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Q&A
How many chaperone passes will we receive?
How do we get them?
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Important Information For Directors
Each group will be given five free admission passes for parent chaperones. This
free admission is offered as a way to thank your parents for their help in monitoring
your homeroom and your group’s belongings throughout the day. In your registration
packet you will find wristbands to give to your chaperones.
How much is admission?
There are three classes of admission: General Admission, Middle School Only,
and Finals Only General Admission tickets are $13/person and are good for admission
to all performances during the Preliminary and Finals Rounds. Middle School Only
tickets are $8 and are good for only the middle school performances. Middle School
Only tickets can be upgraded at any time to general admission tickets for an additional
$5. Finals Only tickets are $8.00 and can be purchased upon completion of the final
competing group during the preliminary round. All admission classes include one free
program per family!
Can parents take pictures or videos?
Each director will be provided with one DVD video of your group’s daytime
performance at no charge. We ask that no school or personal video cameras be
brought or used in the performance venue. Flash photography is also prohibited.
Please feel free to use non-flash photography to take pictures of your own group.
Audience members who fail to refrain from videotaping or using flash photography
after a request to stop will be escorted out of the performance venue.
Will pictures or DVDs be available for
Blue Sky productions will make available for sale DVDs of all performing groups.
Ordering tables will be located in the gym and the front lobby.
purchase?
Is there anything we need to know about our
homerooms?
Please remind your students that they are guests in a teacher’s classroom and to
refrain from touching any of the items in the room. Homerooms can not be
locked, so a parent or chaperone from the visiting school must be in the
room at all times. The security of the belongings in your homeroom is the
responsibility of each visiting school. Kennedy will provide parents to monitor your
homeroom during your performance cycle so all of the people in your party can watch
your performance. Middle Schools only have access to their homerooms until 1:00pm.
Will there be programs available?
Yes! All classes of admission will receive one free program per family. The cost for
additional programs is only $3.00! They will include write-ups and pictures of each
group, judges, judging sheets, rules, performance schedules, and a variety of other
information for the day.
What if there is a medical emergency?
Paramedics will be in the building throughout the day to assist in any medical
emergencies that may arise. They will be stationed in the nurse’s office at Kennedy and
outside the gymnasium. We strongly encourage you to secure emergency information
forms for all of your students to be used in the event of a medical emergency.
What kind of food will be available?
Our volunteers will be staffing the cafeteria and a snack bar throughout the day. a
wide variety of food and beverages will be available for your consumption.
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OFFICIAL RAISE THE ROOF! RULES
1. All performers, including instrumentalists,
must be students of the participating school.
The only exception will be an adult playing a
bass guitar, drum set or keyboard instrument.
(Persuant to IHSMA rules, adult bass and
drum players must provide a statement from
the school principal stating that no students
were available to play those instruments.)
PENALTY: Ineligibility for Outstanding
Instrumental Ensemble caption award
and Evening Finals
2. Choirs are free to present any type of
performance they wish. There is no
minimum or maximum number of songs a
group must perform. Music need not be
provided for the judges. A choir singing in
the Evening Finals Round need not present
the same program as during the day.
3. Directors may be on stage with their choirs
and may direct if they wish.
4. No taped or recorded back-up music is
allowed. Sequenced and other pre-entered
synthesized rhythms qualify as “recorded”.
The back-up ensemble is judged as an
integral part of a group’s performance.
PENALTY: Ineligibility for Outstanding
Instrumental Ensemble caption award
and Evening Finals
5. Equipment must be taken on and off the
stage from stage right. Performers may enter
and exit from either or both sides of the stage.
6. Parents or other adults may assist in the setup
of equipment prior to the start of a show and
the removal of equipment at the conclusion
of a show, but may not in any way assist
during the show.
PENALTY: Disqualification from competition.
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7. Chemical fog machines, pyrotechnics, smoke,
and other open flames are prohibited. (Dry
ice fog machines are allowed.) Strobe lights
may be used, but the audience must be
warned prior to the start of the performance.
8. Middle School and Prep groups will have 25
minutes to take the stage, perform and clear
the stage. Open Class groups will have 30
minutes to take the stage, perform and clear
the stage. There will be no penalties for
violating the time limit, but please help us
keep the day running smoothly and on-time
by observing the limit.
9. No outside food or beverages other than
water can be brought to or consumed at
Kennedy during the competition. Exception:
Food or beverages needed for individual
students who have a health condition
requiring special dietary needs. (Please inform
competition director.)
PENALTY: Ineligibility for caption
awards.
10. No food or beverages other than water can be
consumed in the homerooms. PENALTY:
Ineligibility for caption awards.
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Q&A
Staging and Equipment Information
What staging equipment will be provided in the Gymnasium
venue for the performers?
Sixteen (16) 4’ x 8’ StageRight risers will be set up on a 40 ft.
wide x 42 ft. deep x 32 inches high stage in the gymnasium. The
risers will be in a 4 x 4 formation at heights of 8”, 16”, 24” and
32”. This set-up CAN NOT be altered, although you may
add to it if you wish. Stair units (20 ft. wide span with railings
on both ends) will be provided on each side of the stage. as well as
stairs to the third and fourth riser levels. An additional stair unit is
available for use behind the risers. These may be moved or
removed at your request. The front row of risers will be placed
11’ behind the mic line. The gymnasium stage has no access from
behind, although there is a narrow 3 ft. path behind the stage that
can be used to pass unseen behind the stage during your show.
The changing rooms used by Happiness will be available for use
by all groups. There will also be a black curtain wall on both sides
of the stage extending out from the front of the stage to the side
walls of the gym. The curtains are fairly thin and are not fully
opaque in stage lighting conditions.
What is the traffic flow in each performance venue?
Equipment will be brought into the gym from stage right and
will leave stage right. Performers can enter the stage from
whichever side they wish. Groups will drop off their equipment
before going to their critique.
What sound equipment will be provided in the performing
venue?
We will provide five (5) wireless (handheld) microphones.
Choir mics will be placed to enhance the choral sound. There
will be a monitor speaker provided upstage for the combo. The
monitor speaker will have all solo mics coming through it unless
otherwise requested.
In order to ensure microphones are turned on for
soloists, we recommend having one person from your
group at the soundboard to alert the technician to where
and when the soloists will enter.
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What lighting will be provided?
General stage lighting will be provided for all groups. No
special lighting requests can be accommodated. Overhead
lighting for the back of the stage will be in place to ensure
adequate lighting for the instrumentalists.
What musical equipment will be provided?
An acoustic upright piano tuned to A440 will be provided in
the performance venues and warm-up center. Power supplies for
amps, guitars, keyboards, etc. will be provided and will be
accessible across the back of the stage. If you have other power
requirements downstage of the combo for your show, please make
a special request for that power on your staging sheet. Music
stands will be provided in the performance and warm-up areas.
Kennedy will also have a drum set available in the performance
center for use by schools who would rather not bring their own. (A
drum set will not be supplied in the warm-up room.)
Kennedy will NOT provide amplifiers, electric keyboards or
any other musical instruments or equipment not listed above. If
you have a request for us to provide something, please contact Mr.
Ziegler.
What equipment will be provided in the warm-up room?
An acoustic piano and music stands will be provided in the
warm-up room. No risers or other instruments will be provided
for warm-up.
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SCORING
HOW DOES IT WORK?
At Raise the Roof!, we strive to put together a panel of
vocal, choreographic, and instrumental experts that will
provide you useful, constructive feedback on your show.
We have also designed our scoring system with fairness
in mind. Our scoring systems ensure that decisions can
not be unduly impacted by a single judge; the results will
reflect the consensus of the judging panel.
We also have experts judging you in their area of
expertise. The visual aspects of your show will be judged
by nationally respected dancers, choreographers, and
show designers, while the musical aspects of your show
will be judged by expert, veteran music educators.
Preliminary Round Information
The daytime preliminary round will consist of two separate
competitions, one for middle school groups, and one for the
remaining participants. The middle school awards ceremony will
take place in the gymnasium immediately after a performance by
the Kennedy Chanteurs. All rankings and scored captions in the
preliminary round only will be decided by the “Sum of the
Ordinals” method. All groups will have their raw scores turned
into rankings. The rankings of the judges will be added together.
The group with the lowest total of ordinal ranks will be named
the winner. Ties will be broken subject to the procedures outlined
later in this document.
Three Distinct Scoresheets
Three distinct score sheets will be used by our judging panel
throughout the competition. The two Vocal judges will use a
sheet focusing on the vocal/musical aspects of the performance.
They will also score general effect visual categories and show
design categories. The two Visual judges will use a sheet focusing
on the visual/choreographic/show design aspects of the
performance. They will also score general effect musical
categories. Finally, the band judge will score a third sheet that
addresses only aspects of the show concerned with the back-up
combos. The band judge’s score will be used to determine the
winner of the Best Combo Award but will otherwise not figure in
the tabulation of total scores for groups performing in the
preliminary round. Groups will receive a live critique by one of
our two critique judges.
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Consensus Ordinal Ranking System
For the Evening Finals Only, we will use the Consensus
Ordinal Ranking System. The Consensus Ordinal Ranking
System is a scoring method designed to prevent the overall views
of the whole panel from being negated by a single judge. This
system has been championed by David Fehr, director of Attaché
from Clinton, Mississippi, who explains it this way:
“Olympic Ordinals (or Consensus Ranking) simply takes point
swings, by actual points or by rank points, out of the equation.
For example, with 5 judges, if three of them have School A over
School B, School A will finish ahead of School B. Obviously in
actual points, this does not necessarily happen.”
In traditional ranking systems this does not happen if a judge (or
judges) ranks a school much lower than the norm.
Example:School A - 1, 1, 1, 2, 4 = Total 9
School B - 2, 2, 2, 1, 1 = Total 8
Under traditional ranking systems, School B would win in this
scenario even though more judges thought School A should win.
“Using Ordinals (or Consensus Ranking) takes point swings out of
the equation, hopefully keeping talk of “the judge who didn’t like
us” out of the equation also.
It is a protection for judges, who can truly judge knowing they
didn’t single-handedly create the outcome.
It is a protection for the participating directors.
It is a protection for the host contest.
It is a protection for the student participants.
It is a protection for show choir.
It is a protection for music education.”
In order to understand fully how this system will be implemented
at Raise The Roof !, please take the time to read through the
example on the follow page. This system will be used to
determine placement during the finals rounds.
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Consensus Ranking Example
This is an example of how our Consensus Ranking system works
to determine results for our Evening Finals round. This is a stepby-step explanation of how points translate to placements, and
then how those placements transfer to a final result. For this
example, we will use a five judge panel, which is what we use for
our preliminary round.
Step 1 - Give a ranking (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc...) of competing schools
for each judge according to his/her scores. These individual
judge’s rankings are to be used as a reference only.
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Judge
1
Judge
2
Judge
3
Judge
4
Judge
5
A
93 - 2
84 - 3
90 - 1
88 - 2
89 - 2
B
78 - 5
77 - 5
82 - 4
85 - 4
81 - 5
C
94 - 1
88 - 1
89 - 2
82 - 6
90 - 1
D
85 - 4
82 - 4
81 - 5
86 - 3
84 - 4
E
72 - 6
70 - 6
74 - 6
83 - 5
75 - 6
F
90 - 3
85 - 2
86 - 3
89 - 1
86 - 3
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93 - 2
84 - 3
90 - 1
88 - 2
89 - 2
B
78 - 5
77 - 5
82 - 4
85 - 4
81 - 5
C
94 - 1
88 - 1
89 - 2
82 - 6
90 - 1
D
85 - 4
82 - 4
81 - 5
86 - 3
84 - 4
E
72 - 6
70 - 6
74 - 6
83 - 5
75 - 6
F
90 - 3
85 - 2
86 - 3
89 - 1
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Step 2 - To start a Consensus Ranking, list all competing schools
across the top of your page. Beginning with 1st Place, give one
vote from each judge for the highest ranked school on each judge’s
list. (For this first ranking, obviously you will use all the 1st Place
C
Judge
1
Judge
2
Judge
3
Judge
4
Judge
5
A
93 - 2
84 - 3
90 - 1
88 - 2
89 - 2
B
78 - 5
77 - 5
82 - 4
85 - 4
81 - 5
C
94 - 1
88 - 1
89 - 2
82 - 6
90 - 1
Judge
1
Judge
2
Judge
3
Judge
4
Judge
5
D
85 - 4
82 - 4
81 - 5
86 - 3
84 - 4
A
93 - 2
84 - 3
90 - 1
88 - 2
89 - 2
E
72 - 6
70 - 6
74 - 6
83 - 5
75 - 6
B
78 - 5
77 - 5
82 - 4
85 - 4
81 - 5
F
90 - 3
85 - 2
86 - 3
89 - 1
86 - 3
C
94 - 1
88 - 1
89 - 2
82 - 6
90 - 1
D
85 - 4
82 - 4
81 - 5
86 - 3
84 - 4
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72 - 6
70 - 6
74 - 6
83 - 5
75 - 6
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90 - 3
85 - 2
86 - 3
89 - 1
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Step 3 - Now go back to the first chart and cross off school C
because they have already been awarded 1st Place.
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Scoring (Continued)
Evening Finals Competition
To figure 5th and 6th Places:
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1
Judge
2
Judge
3
Judge
4
Judge
5
A
93 - 2
84 - 3
90 - 1
88 - 2
89 - 2
B
78 - 5
77 - 5
82 - 4
85 - 4
81 - 5
C
94 - 1
88 - 1
89 - 2
82 - 6
90 - 1
D
85 - 4
82 - 4
81 - 5
86 - 3
84 - 4
E
72 - 6
70 - 6
74 - 6
83 - 5
75 - 6
F
90 - 3
85 - 2
86 - 3
89 - 1
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The top six ranking choirs from the Prep and Open Classes will
earn a spot in the Evening Finals.
The order of perfor mance for the finals will be as
follows: If a single prep group makes the finals, they
will be the first group to perform. If more than one prep
group makes the finals, all qualifying prep groups will
perform in the first available slots of the finals round,
with the order chosen by the directors of the groups in
their order of finish in the day round. (1st place choses
first, 2nd place choses 2nd, etc…) The performance
order of qualifying varsity groups will be determined in
similar fashion, with directors choosing their
performance slot in the order of their finish in the
preliminary round. The contest director reserves the
right to alter finals performance order to allow for
adequate spacing between two groups from the same
school who share the same director and/or back-up band.
In order to facilitate this process happening as
quickly as possible, we ask that directors be in the
gymnasium during the daytime awards ceremony
at 6:25 pm. Finalists will begin their performance cycles
25 minutes apart, as indicated on the master schedule.
The timing of the pre-performance sequence is the same
for the Evening Finals as for the preliminary round.
Groups will be allowed 20 minutes in the warm-up room.
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Scores are tabulated after all groups have performed,
with results announced in the gym as soon as they are
available. Each group competing in the finals should have
two representatives on stage to receive their award.
Therefore, using Consensus Ranking, School C would be the
winner, followed by A, F, D, and B.
Seven judges will score the Evening Finals Round using
the vocal and visual score sheets from the daytime round.
Four judges will judge the vocal score sheet and three will
judge the visual score sheet.
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If using only point totals as the standard, School A would have
finished in 1st Place with 444, followed by C - 443, F - 436, D 418, B - 403, and E - 374.
Using the “Sum of the Ordinals” system, School A would have
finished in 1st Place with 90, followed by C-88, F-86, D70, B-64,
and E-52.
Consensus Ranking tries to ensure that each judge has the same
weight as any other judge, thus providing a truer consensus,
unaffected by large gaps in points.
In the event of tie, the tie breaker procedures outlined later in this
document will govern the ranking of groups.
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The Best Vocals and Best Choreography awards will be
decided by the “Sum of the Ordinals” method explained
earlier. We will use only the vocal scores from all seven
judges to determine the Best Vocals winner, and only the
visual scores to determine the Best Choreography winner.
The highest ranked choir vocally will win the Best Vocals
award while the highest ranked choir choreographically
will be awarded the Best Choreography award.
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Tie Breaker Procedures
In the event of a tie affecting preliminary round trophy winners or eligibility for the Evening Finals Round the
following procedures will be used to break the tie and determine placement.
1)
2)
3)
4)
Sum of Ordinal Ranks, smallest total wins. If tie exists;
Total Composite Score. If tie still exists;
Total of Composite Score added to Band Score. If tie still exists;
Highest Vocal Score. If tie still exists, a tie will be declared, and all groups still in a tied state will
receive the highest award involved in the tie. (e.g. allowed to perform in finals, trophy placement,
etc…)
In the event of a tie involving the Best Band caption award, the following procedures will be used to break the tie
and determine the winner.
1)
2)
3)
Highest total score by band judge. If tie exists;
Highest total score of band judge plus instrumental total of vocal and visual judges. If tie still exists;
Highest “Ensemble Sound Quality” score by band judge. If tie still exists, a tie will be declared, and all
groups still in a tied state will receive the award.
In the event of a tie involving ranking of groups in the Evening Finals round, the following procedures will be
used to break the tie and determine a winner.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Judges’s Consensus analysis of all finalists. If tie exists;
Judges’s Consensus analysis of groups tied in step 1. If tie still exists;
Sum of Ordinal Ranks, smallest total wins. If tie still exists;
Total Composite Score. If tie still exists;
Highest Vocal Score. If tie still exists, a tie will be declared, and all groups still in a tied state will
receive the highest award involved in the tie. (e.g. allowed to perform in finals, trophy placement,
etc…)
In the event of a tie involving the Best Vocal caption award, the following procedures will be used to break the tie
and determine the winner.
1)
2)
3)
Sum of Ordinal Ranks for Vocal Captions, smallest total wins. If tie exists;
Highest Vocal Point Total by all scoring judges. If tie still exists;
Highest Vocal Point Total by Vocal judges. If tie still exists, a tie will be declared, and all groups still in
a tied state will receive the award.
In the event of a tie involving the Best Choreography caption award, the following procedure will be used to break
the tie and determine the winner.
1) Sum of Ordinal Ranks for Choreography Captions, smallest total wins. If tie exists;
2) Highest Choreography Point Total by all scoring judges. If tie still exists;
3) Highest Choreography Point Total by Visual judges. If tie still exists, a tie will be declared, and all groups
still in a tied state will receive the award.
RAISE THE ROOF! 2015
COMPETITION INFORMATION
FEBRUARY 28, 2015
Performance Schedule
RAISE THE ROOF! 2015
Performance
8:00 AM
8:25 AM
8:50 AM
9:15 AM
9:40 AM
10:05 AM
10:30 AM
10:55 AM
11:20 AM
11:45 AM
Oak Ridge “Ovation”
Hudson “Premiere Edition”
Roosevelt “Regeneration”
Taft “Adrenaline”
Franklin “Illumination”
Harding “Classic Revolution/Neo Classic”
Regis “Eclipse”
McKinley “Classic Edition”
Kennedy High School “Chanteurs”
MS Awards
12:25 PM
12:50 PM
1:15 PM
1:40 PM
2:05 PM
2:30 PM
2:55 PM
3:20 PM
3:30 PM
4:00 PM
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
5:30 PM
6:00 PM
6:25 PM
LUNCH BREAK
C.R. Washington “Vivace”
Ankeny Centennial “Rhythmic Momentum”
West Des Moines Valley “Ignition”
Urbandale “Vitality”
Xavier “Xuberance”
C.R. Washington “Celebration”
Ankeny Centennial “Eternal Rush”
BREAK
West Des Moines Valley “Choralation"
Urbandale “Studio 2015”
Xavier “Xhilaration”
C.R. Washington “Momentum”
Ankeny Centennial “Spectrum"
Kennedy “Happiness” (exhibition)
Preliminary Awards Ceremony
7:15 PM
7:45 PM
8:15 PM
8:45 PM
9:15 PM
9:45 PM
10:15 PM
11:00 PM
Protege
Finalist #1
Finalist #2
Finalist #3
Finalist #4
Finalist #5
Finalist #6
Finals Awards Ceremony
COMPETITION INFORMATION
FEBRUARY 28, 2015
Homeroom Assignments
C. R. Washington “Celebration”
C. R. Washington “Vivace”
C. R. Washington “Momentum”
C.R. Xavier “Xuberance”
C.R. Xavier “Xhilaration”
Urbandale “Vitality”
Urbandale “Studio 2015”
Ankeny Centennial “Eternal Rush”
Ankeny Centennial “Rhythmic Momentum”
Ankeny Centennial “Spectrum"
West Des Moines Valley “Ignition”
West Des Moines Valley “Choralation"
Hudson “Premiere Edition”
Oak Ridge “Ovation”
C.R. Regis “Eclipse”
C.R. McKinley “Classic Edition”
C.R. Franklin “Illumination”
C.R. Harding “Classic Revolution/Neo Classic ”
C.R. Taft “Adrenaline”
C.R. Roosevelt “Regeneration”
Room
101
104
105
106
107
116
118
162
164
165
172
173
207
208
209
210
227/230
228
Black Box
Black Box
Other Important Information
• The building will open at 6:30am. Please do not plan to
arrive prior to that time.
• We will provide two rooms for changing into and out of
costumes. Please use them! Please do not use the
homerooms to change.
• Many of the homerooms have Smart Board projector/white boards
installed. Please be aware that any damage to the projectors or boards
that occurs on that day will be billed to the school using that room for the
day. Please be diligent in monitoring your students in the homeroom. We
will do our best to shield and secure the boards, but the projectors
protrude out from the wall and can not be retracted.
RAISE THE ROOF! 2015
THANK YOU FOR
CHOOSING RAISE
THE ROOF!
The Kennedy Choral League
parent support group, staff and
students of Kennedy High School
work very hard to make this
event possible. We only know
how to improve the event if we
hear from you!
If you have any suggestions,
concerns, or compliments to
share, please feel free to contact
Storm or Scott.