Dear Band Director / Drumline Instructor,
The Lone Star Classic has become an exciting, positive, and fun contest at which your drumline can compete while at their peak performance level. Please make plans now to attend the 19th Annual Lone Star Classic Drumline Contest hosted by the Marcus High School Drumline.
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This year’s contest will be held on Saturday, November 12th, 2011 (9am to 10pm approximately). Plans are currently under way to host this event at the Marcus Stadium in Flower Mound, Texas (25 minutes north of DFW Airport, just east of FM 2499 on Morris Road).
Drumlines can perform in one of 5 classifications:
Division II Standstill - for the younger or more “novice” groups.
Division II Red Ensemble is 20 or fewer members
Division II Silver Ensemble is 21 or more members
Division I Standstill - for the more “competitive” standstill groups
Division I Red Ensemble is 29 or fewer members
Division I Silver Ensemble is 30 or more members
Marching Division - for those groups that include marching drill
For 2011, the Lone Star Classic is introducing a Prelims and Finals format for the following Divisions: Standstill 1-Red, Standstill 1-Silver and Marching Divisions.
Please check out our sample "mock" schedule to review the "Prelim" / "Final" format. <see it here>
Caption awards and First (1st) through Fifth (5th) Place awards will be awarded in each division for Standstill Division I-Red, Standstill Division I-Silver and the Marching Division. Caption awards and First (1st) through Eighth (8th) Place awards will be awarded in each divsion for Standstill Division II-Red and Standstill Division II-Silver.
The Row Loff Productions, "Best Percussion Performance" will be awarded to the drumline scoring the highest tabulated score net of any penalties of all performances at the end of the contest.
Division II will be provided a three-judge panel. Division I and Marching will be provided a four-judge panel. Each of our Lone Star Classic judges is a renown music adjudicator. We will post our judges biographies as they confirm their commitment to the Lone Star Classic. <Click here to view the 2011 Judges!>
NOTE: This year’s contest will be limited to the first 82 entries. We will host Individual Solo Competition for soloists performing on Snare, Tenors, and Keyboard. Each instrument will be limited to 15 soloists. The solo event is now in its fifth year. The three-judge panel will be comprised of adjudicators that are well known solo experts. Please submit your entries as early as possible.
This year we are also pleased to host a number of accomplished college drumlines as they perform in our third College Showcase Series. We may also have drum and bugle corps representatives from Drum Corps International exhibiting informational booths.