Regional Contest Information Friday, January 18, 2007-08

Emergency Download of Regional Tests and Listening Rounds here:

right click and save to Harddisk - from their you can either hook up your computer to the sound system or burn a copy of the regional test (Listening files are in mp3 format and each round is between 2-12 MBs in size (meaning that it takes about 5-10 minutes with DSL to download each listening round - hence the importance of the right click to save rather than left click to play)

Contact Christian McGuire at kmcguire@bitstream.net or at 651-270-5807 for Regional Passwords to access this site ONLY if you need to. Christian will be judging at McNally-Smith Metro AA-I.

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Judging of Non-Traditional Schools in Regional Competition:

We will definitely be monitoring and assessing the entire contest as we move along. All coaches and participants will have the opportunity to complete a survey regarding this year's regional contest.

Judging - it is important to let the judges know that there are 7 teams who will be judged independently. They are at four different sites. All scoring should be done consistently for all teams at each site.

These 7 Teams of the Non-Traditional Region are competing against each other not against the Region where they are meeting.

Metro AA-II (UofMN) - Cherry Tree Music (Mpls) - 1 team

North AA (Brainerd) - River Heights Home School - 1 team

Central A (Buffalo) - Church of St. Paul Homeschool Coop - 1 team
Central A (Buffalo) - Buffalo HS Erin Wheaton Piano Studio (Mpls) 2 - teams
Central A (Buffalo) - Grantier / Otto Music Studios 1 - team

North A (Grand Rapids) - Pioneer Homeschool - 1 team

It is absolutely essential that the scores for these teams be called in to Gary ASAP so that the top two will be known by the end of the Regional Competition - Gary Zwack (320)255-9836 or cell (320)492-8533.

Tie-breakers - since these teams are not at the same site the board has determined how a tie will be broken.
"In the event of a tie score the tie will be broken by the highest score from the following rounds of the regional test in this order: round 5, round 2, round 3, round 1, round 4."

For example: If Team A and Team B are tied with 95 points total, look at their scores for Round 5. Whichever team scored higher on that particular round will be declared the winner. If both teams recieved the same score for Round 5, check the scores to round 2, repeat until a winner is declared.

For the rest of the Regions, in the event that there is still a tie at the end of the tie-breaker round 6 mystery listening, use the above formulation.

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Emergency Snow date is Friday, January 25, 2008

State Competition will be held at Augsburg College on Friday, February 1, 2008