The
2013 WGI World Championships were held in Dayton, Ohio last weekend.
Rhythm X won first place in Independent World competition with a record
score of 98.263. Aimachi, the WGI group from Japan and always a fan
favorite, placed 6th. In scholastic world class, for the first time
ever, Dartmouth High School did NOT place in the top three (they just missed the medals by placing fourth)! Father Ryan
always has entertaining shows and finally got a medal for their effort. The list of
winners for each class is below (with some links to some YouTube videos):
- Independent World Champion - Rhythm X
- Scholastic World Champion - Chino Hills School
- Independent Open Champion - Capital City Percussion
- Scholastic Open Champion - Upper Darby High School
- Independent A Champion - Brookwood Independent
- Scholastic A Champion - Hilton High School
- Concert World Class - James Logan High School
- Concert Open Class - Clayton High School
You can find all the finals scores here.
Fan Favorite Awards
Fans
at the show voted for their favorite drumline via text message.
Interesting, none of the fan favorites were the gold medal champions
picked by the judges. Here are the winners of the fan favorite award for
each class:
- Independent World - Infinity
- Scholastic World - Father Ryan High School
- Independent Open - River City Rhythm
- Scholastic Open - Dorman High School
- Independent A - Spirit of America
- Scholastic A - Mechanicsburg High School
- Concert Class - Tunstall High School
Now that indoor drumline season is over it’s time to begin looking forward to drum corps. See the 2013 DCI schedule here: http://www.dci.org/schedule/
