Timing error sees review of Brass in Concert results

An error made by the organisers at the Brass in Concert Championship has led to an amendment of the official result — with Brass Band Schoonhoven promoted from sixth to fifth place.

From six to five — a timing error has meant Schoonhoven gains a place

Friday, 02 December 2016

The organisers of the 40th Brass in Concert Championship have announced an amendment to the final result of the 2016 event held at Sage Gateshead.

Brass Band Schoonhoven (above) was originally given a two-point penalty for exceeding the 23-minute time limit on musical performance.

However, it has since come to light that an error was made in the timing of their first two pieces, meaning that their overall programme was incorrectly registered as being 56 seconds longer than it should have been.

Timing error

Speaking on behalf of Brass in Concert, John Woods told 4BR: "We go to great lengths to make sure that the timing process at Brass in Concert is carried out as accurately as possible, but in this case the demarcation between Brass Band Schoonhoven's first two pieces wasn't entirely clear and, unfortunately, an incorrect time was recorded.

We were subsequently contacted by the band and asked to check our timings, which we did using both audio and video recordings."

Sixth to fifth

He added: "As a result of our findings the time penalty initially imposed has been retracted and Schoonhoven has been promoted to fifth place, with Flowers now being placed sixth.

We would like to apologise to the management and players of Flowers and Schoonhoven, as well as recognising the professional manner in which both bands have treated the matter. While it may appear small consolation to Flowers, our organising team was unanimous in agreeing that the band should keep the prize money as it was originally announced.

We have also agreed to review our timing rules and procedures prior to next year's event and will make any amendments known to competing bands as soon as this is complete."

Amended official result:

Adjudicators:

In order of marks:
Les Neish & Florent Didier (Music: Quality of Performance)
Mike Kilroy (Programme Content)
Duncan Stubbs & Derek Southcott (Entertainment)

Music/Music/Content/Entertainment = Total
Neish/Didier/Kilroy/Stubbs/Southcott = Total

1. Cory (Philip Harper): (1) 60 / (1) 60 / (1) 40 / (3) 18 / (1) 20: 198pts
2. Grimethorpe Colliery (Phillip McCann): (2) 57 / (3) 54 / (5) 32 / (1) 20 / (2) 19: 182pts
3. Brighouse & Rastrick (Leigh Baker): (3) 54 / (6) 45 / (4) 34 / (5) 16 / (3) 18: 167pts
4. Carlton Main Frickley Colliery (Ian McElligott): (4) 51 / (7) 42 / (2) 38 / (4) 17 / (4) 17: 165pts
5. Brass Band Schoonhoven (Ivan Meylemans): (10) 33 / (2) 57 / (3) 36 / (2) 19 / (10) 11: 156pts
6. Flowers (Paul Holland): (6) 45 / (5) 48 / (6) 30 / (6) 15 / (5) 16: 154pts
7. Stavanger (Allan Withington): (5) 48 / (4) 51 / (7) 28 / (9) 12 / (11) 10: 149pts
8. Virtuosi GUS (Adam Cooke): (8) 39 / (9) 36 / (8) 26 / (8) 13 / (7) 14: 128pts
9. Reg Vardy (Russell Gray): (9) 36 / (8) 39 / (10) 22 / (7) 14 / (8) 13: 124pts
10. Hammonds Saltaire (Morgan Griffiths): (7) 42 / (10) 33 / (11) 20 / (11) 10 / (6) 15: 120pts
11. Dublin Silver (Tim Jameson): (11) 30 / (11) 30 / (9) 24 / (10) 11 / (9) 12: 107pts

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