Washington Pipers’ Association

The Seattle Scottish Highland Games Association has been going strong in the Northwest for 62 years.  The largest Highland Games west of the Mississippi and north of San Francisco, it’s time for new volunteers to help.  The 2nd Annual SSHGA Volunteer Fair & 2007 Volunteer Thank You event is coming in February!

February 23, 2008
Saint Andrews Episcopal Church
111 NE 80th
Seattle, Washington

See the brochure, and register online here:  http://www.sshga.org/association/volunteer.htm

Visit our Photo album to see the pictures from January’s event.

We’ve had a lot of interest in band performances this year.  If our events continue to run as smoothly as January’s went, we may add more opportunities, but the current list of 2008 events has been updated.

40 Competitors pre-registered for competition, and while some scratched, many showed up and registered today!  Thanks to all the volunteers, competitors and audience members who contributed to a very smooth and efficient event today.   We tried running side drumming after Grade 5 piping, simultaneously with adult and Grade 4 piping.  While we are unsure we can do this again due to needing an additional room; many expressed appreciation for finishing the event in 3.5 hours.  We’ll work with the church over the next couple of weeks to see if we can come up with another room for next month.

Thanks very much to John Moore, Drumming and Keith Paton, Piping for stepping in with late notice and helping ensure we held the event today!

You may notice a new format for results.  We’ve begun adding the Pipe Band the member reports to us on their sign up sheet.  The current information in this list is from memory, but we’ll update it over the next several days.  If you told us what pipe band you belong to, we’ll add them and a link with your solo competition results.  This is beneficial for bands in terms of promoting their web sites popularity in search engines as well as adding some additional incentive to compete in solo competitions for some band members.

One final note about results.  WPA does not follow BCPA rules for placings at these events.  We believe it’s valuable for competitors to get a clear understanding of their placing, so even when there are less than 10 competitors, you will see placings all the way out to 6, except in the case of “break down”.

Keep this in mind as you go to BCPA sanctioned games and competitions, the general rules for placings based on the number of competitors are listed here>> and are:

less than 3 competitors - one (1) prize
3 competitors - two (2) prizes
4 to 10 competitors - three (3) prizes
11 to 15 competitors - four (4) prizes
16 to 20 competitors - five (5) prizes
21 and over competitors - six (6) prizes

Chanter:

1. Paul Vegors (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)

Grade 5 Piping (9 competitors):

1. Sean Sele
2. Malcolm Roux (Elliott Bay Pipe Band)
3. Gareth Jones  (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)
4. Russell Prewitt
5. George Meier (Elliott Bay Pipe Band)
6. Blake Fulgham

Adult Piping - Any March

1. Diane Axworthy
2. Cleda Thompson (Kenmore and District Pipe Band)

Adult Piping - Slow Air

1. Diane Axworthy
2. Cleda Thompson (Kenmore and District Pipe Band)
3. Rochelle Eldridge

Grade 4 Piping - 6/8 March (11 competitors)

1. Aaron Stone (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)
2. George Perantatos
3. Eric Roux (Elliott Bay Pipe Band)
4. Ray Morocco (Elliott Bay Pipe Band)
5. David Pollock
6. Matthew Alger (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)

Grade 4 Piping - Strathspey & Reel (7 competitors)

1. George Perantatos
2. Aaron Stone  (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)
3. Ray Marocco (Elliott Bay Pipe Band)
4. Eric Roux (Elliott Bay Pipe Band)
5. David Keachie (Elliott Bay Pipe Band)
6. David Pollock

Grade 3 Piping 2/4 March

1. James Makinson (Keith Highlanders Pipe Band)
2. Alexander Schiele (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)
3. Chris Cahoon  (Keith Highlanders Pipe Band)

Grade 3 Piping - Strathspey & Reel

1. James Makinson (Keith Highlanders Pipe Band)
2. Alexander Schiele (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)
3. Alex MacLeod (Washington Scottish Pipe Band)
4. Chris Cahoon (Keith Highlanders Pipe Band)

Drumming - Beginner (Pad)

1. Josie Dorn (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)

Grade 5 Side Drumming - Any March

1. Thomas Horn (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)
2. Robert Graham (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)

Grade 4 Side Drumming (Any March)

1. Morgan Schiele (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)
2. Amber Stone (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)
3. Steven Wheeler (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)
4. Bryce Kreger (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)

Tenor Drumming - Any Tune

1. Colleen Salmi (Northwest Junior Pipe Band)
2. Kendra MacLeod (Washington Scottish Pipe Band)