The last event of the season is upon us. Thanks to our award winning and “BCPA certified” adjudicators for coming down from British Columbia this weekend! I will post more about these adjudicators with the results, but David Bowman was the runner up in the 2009 BCPA Drumming Knockout events, an award winning solo drummer who plays with the 2008 World Pipe Band Champion and World Drum Corps champions, Simon Fraser University Pipe Band. Hal Senyk will be judging piping. Hal is also a certified adjudicator, award winning soloist, Pipe Major and volunteer Director with BC Pipers’ Association.
Please review the Aggregate scores so far and make sure we’re not missing any events and double check we’ve got the events correct. 6 points were awarded to first, 5 to 2nd and so on down to 1 point for 6th place finishes. Link: 2009 WPA Aggregate Standings, April 2009. A reminder for aggregate awards; attendance at 4 of 5 WPA events is a requirement to be eligible for the award. Aggregate plaques are similar to last years’ awards.
The WPA Board met Wednesday and clarified the Scholarship process, as well as took steps to ensure that alternates will be more likely to get the benefit of a scholarship award by adding a deadline on acceptance of the award for the first – drawn recipient.
Scholarship drawings are available to:
- Competitors who checked the “Scholarship box” on the registration form
- Competitors who pre-registered (or registered this year by the first event of the season)
- Competitors who competed at 4 of 5 monthly events.
- Competitors who did NOT receive a scholarship award from WPA during the 2008 season.
Scholarship drawings will be drawn first for the primary, then for the alternate for that award. FOUR $250.00 Scholarships will be drawn. Scholarship recipients must notify WPA at info@washingtonpipers.org of their intended use of the scholarship by the end of June, 2009. Scholarship awards must be used within one year (ie, payment to the Scottish piping or drumming school must be requested to be sent by May 3, 2010). Scholarship payment is sent directly to the Scottish Piping or Drumming school at the request of the recipient, once they have registered or informed the school of intent to register.
See you Saturday!
