➢ The scores from Wellington are HUGE! It's hard to believe that YWIH quartets
and choruses would be scoring in the 600's (700s for Tawa!) if they were in the
SAI competition. Were they also judged more generously as well? I do not believe
that the judges up here did so, but will check.

The judges were using the YWIH scoresheets, which are quite different from the
standard Sweet Adelines ones. At the Rising Star contests, there have been
performances earning 100%, but the same quartets have then gone on to compete at
SAI regionals and scored at B- or B level. The training given by Jackie Hall a
couple of years ago gets drawn upon with level-setting, but there are no
levelling tapes for the YWIH contests, hence no way of ensuring consistency
between centres.

To get an idea of where the scores lay – if we compare the 2006 and 2007
National finals with the 2007 Wellington regional, we see with quartets:

Abrachordabra: 349 - 2nd (2006), 346 (2007)
Strike Four: 353 - 1st (2005), 339 - 4th (2006), 332 (2007)

Both quartets sang much better in the 2007 Regional than at the 2005 or 2006
National finals. My feeling is that to get scoring parity you'd have to add 30
pts to the 2007 Regional score.

Looking at choruses:
Maiden Tawa: 376 (2005), 379 (2006), 356 (2007)
ACBC: 374 (2005), 368 (2006), 340 (2007)

Neither chorus was as well-honed here as it was at National finals, so I
wouldn't want to draw too many conclusions about scoring consistency.

Cheers,
David

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