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FACILITY Northwestern High School 2503 West Main Street Rock Hill, 29732 EMERGENCY CONTACTS Riley Pagett, Site Manager (803) 322-4757 rileypagett@cwea.us Will Archie, Guard Director (803) 984-5012 warchie30@gmail.com SUMMARY SCHEDULE 7:00 AM – 7:45 AM – Sound Check 7:50 AM – Doors Open 8:25 AM – Opening Announcements 8:30 AM – Contest Begins CONTEST PERSONNEL Site Manager: Riley Pagett Chief Judge: Frank Miller Penalties: Nikki Crawford-Jones and Chaz Paxton Movement Analysis: Hieu Nguyen Movement Analysis: Anne Brooks Equipment Analysis: Tom Hillenbrand Design Analysis: Jim Brooks Design Analysis: Carl Nelson General Effect 1: Bruce Jones General Effect 2: Travis Wingate Perc Music: Mike Leitzke Perc Visual: Dave Pickett Perc Effect - Music: Brett Kuhn Perc Effect - Visual: Blair Kuhn Perc Overall: Dave Carbone

TICKET PRICES/INFORMATION Children (Ages 5 & Under) – Free Youth (Ages 6 – 12) -$8.00 Adult (Ages 13 & Up) - $10.00 Tickets are general admission seating only. No refunds or exchanges permitted. Tickets will be on sale at the spectator entrance. Cash & Credit Card will be accepted. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Upon arrival at the venue, you should check in at the registration table. Your packet will include: 7 Instructor Staff Wristbands* Performer Wristbands Official Event Schedule Other important materials *PLUS Pass subscribers will receive 12 wristbands Performer wristbands will be issued at the registration table based on the number you provide through OpenCircuit. THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANT WRISTBANDS MUST MATCH THE PERFORMER COUNT AS MADE BY THE TIMING AND PENALTIES JUDGE. Any additional wristbands must be purchased at the spectator entrance. Please note, any balances owed to CWEA or missing forms must be paid/turned in before you will be allowed to check-in for the event. For more information on your account, please visit http://opencircuit.us.

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SOUND CHECKS Sound checks will begin one hour before the first performance. Once the contest begins, sound checks will only be permitted during breaks at the discretion of the Site Manager. PERFORMANCE ROTATION PROCEDURES Report to the warm-up entrance no later than your “Holding” time designated on the Logistics Schedule. If you are late, your rotation time continues and will not be adjusted. This event will utilize A/B warm-up locations. Your warm-up time and location are designated on the Logistics schedule. All performers and staff must wear appropriate footwear at all times. No speaker will be provided. If you choose to use an amplified speaker to play music, please be courteous to other teams with regards to volume. The warm-up monitor will have control over volume issues and may adjust the volume as they deem necessary. Failure to comply with these warm-up directives will result in penalty or disqualification at the discretion of the Contest Administrator. You will leave your warm-up at your designated “Leave” time on the logistics schedule. Once you arrive at the “Holding” area outside of the performance arena, you should begin to prepare for your performance. Please follow all instructions provided to you by CWEA Staff and Volunteers. PERFORMANCE ARENA INFORMATION This event will utilize a BLACK TARP. Power will be available at the front and back of the arena. This event will utilize a VERTICAL TIMELINE pulling LEFT -> RIGHT.

Music submissions take place through OpenCircuit.us. You should plan to have a staff member present at the sound table during your performance time to deal with sound related concerns. The Site Manager has the final authority with regards to overall volume in the arena. AWARDS INFORMATION There will be two awards ceremonies at this event, one for SN/CADET/SRA teams at 11:45 AM and all remaining teams at 9:30 PM. Due to the size of this event, only one student from each unit will be permitted on the floor during awards. In order to shorten the awards ceremony, participants are asked to simply accept their award without a salute. We will announce scores and placements for each independent team, as well as Scholastic Open, and award the highest overall score in each class. For all other teams, we will announce the classification in which they will compete and recognize the highest overall score in each class. CRITIQUE INFORMATION Unit directors should register for critique through OpenCircuit (http://opencircuit.us) no later than noon on the day before competition. Critique registration buttons may be found on the Unit-specific pages. Units are instructed to listen to their commentary through CompetitionSuite and have a list of questions/discussion points prepared before critique to aid in the information exchange with the judges. Unit directors are to follow all instructions from the critique official.

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ARRIVAL PROCEDURE INFORMATION Upon arrival at Northwestern High School, you will turn onto campus at the Bus/Equipment Entrance, in between Northwestern High School and Rawlinson Road Middle School. Only buses and accompanying equipment vehicles will be allowed to enter the Bus/Equipment Entrance. Spectators’ vehicles may not follow the buses at this entrance and are to park in the designated spectator lots. Upon arrival, units are to report to the registration area to check-in. STAGING AREA/PROP STORAGE INFORMATION All groups will be staged in “C” Building as indicated on the attached campus map. Please be in the staging area at least 20 minutes prior to your scheduled warm-up time so that your designated guide can escort your group through the performance flow. An information desk (parent staffed) will be located in the staging area. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT CWEA, NORTHWESTERN HIGH SCHOOL AND THE NORTHWESTERN BAND BOOSTERS WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ITEMS LEFT UNATTENDED DURING THE COMPETITION. Tarps and props will need to be removed and loaded after the group performs. Anyone that has special circumstances will need to contact Will Archie at warchie30@gmail.com prior to the competition. DRESSING ROOM INFORMATION Dressing rooms are available as indicated on the attached map and will be on a first come, first served basis. The dressing rooms flank the sides of the warm-up areas. Please have an adult chaperone or staff member in the dressing rooms with your students at all times. The dressing rooms will remain open after the awards for groups that wish to change. Please be courteous, as facilities are limited. CWEA, NORTHWESTERN HIGH SCHOOL, AND THE NORTHWESTERN BAND BOOSTERS WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ITEMS LEFT IN THE DRESSING ROOMS UNATTENDED. HOSPITALITY ROOM The hospitality room will be located inside building “B” as indicated on the attached map. Directors are encouraged to come by and enjoy complimentary food and beverage. FIRST AID First Aid will be located inside the main gym area as units exit the floor.

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NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY OR VIDEO RECORDING WILL BE ALLOWED.

Flash photography poses a threat to the safety of our performing units. Anyone found violating Flash Photography rules will be asked to leave without refund of admission. Please make sure if you intend to take photos that your flash is turned off – this also

includes camera phones.

VIDEO RECORDING IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Unit directors will be provided a video of their performance via Dropbox no later than Tuesday evening following the event. Anyone found violating the rules regarding video recording will be asked to leave

without refund of admission.

PLEASE ENSURE YOUR STUDENTS AND STAFF UNDERSTAND THESE RULES.

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You must have already activated your CompetitionSuite Account Profile in order for you to be able to listen to WGI judge commentary. From a Smart phone:

1. Wait for the text message letting you know the Judge Commentary files are available. 2. Visit competitionsuite.com and login using the password you setup in your

CompetitionSuite profile. Standard phone, data and text messaging rates apply. 3. Click on “Judge Commentary” on the left side of the page under your team’s name. 4. Click on the appropriate media file you wish to download or listen to. 5. Alternatively you can download the CompetitionSuite Commentary app from the App

Store or Android Market. From a cell phone (call-in):

1. Wait for the text message letting you know the Judge Commentary files are available. Standard phone, data and text messaging rates apply.

2. Call (937) 315-4304 from the cell phone number you submitted in your CompetitionSuite profile. Forwarding of text messages or calling from unrecognized phone numbers (not submitted in your CompetitionSuite profile) will not work.

3. Follow the prompts 4. The phone-in system has Judge Commentary files available for 12 hours. After 12

hours, you may always access judge commentary via the website, http://www.competitionsuite.com/.

From the website:

1. Visit competitionsuite.com and login using the password you setup in your CompetitionSuite profile. Standard phone, data and text messaging rates apply.

2. Click on “Judge Commentary” on the left side of the page under your team’s name. 3. Click on the appropriate media file you wish to download or listen to.

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PREMIERE NORTH COMPETITION AREANorthwestern High School; Rock Hill, SC