CONTEST RESULTS

All England Masters

Date: 24 May 1998
Venue: The Corn Exchange, Cambridge
Adjudicator(s): Geoffrey Brand, Eric Crees, William Relton
Test piece: Dances and Arias (Edward Gregson)

Pos Band Conductor Draw Adj 1 Adj 2 Adj 3 Points
1 Brighouse & Rastrick Allan Withington 9 3 2 4 9
2 Williams Fairey James Gourlay 16 2 7 2 11
3 JJB Sports Leyland Richard Evans 21 7 3 3 13
4 Yorkshire Building Society David King 20 13 1 1 15
5 Rothwell (Leeds) Simon Wood 8 6 4 6 16
6 Fodens (Courtois) Nicholas J Childs 1 9 5 5 19
7 Rigid Containers Group Melvin White 14 5 9 13 27
8 Ever Ready Stephen Roberts 10 15 6 8 29
9 Wooley Pritchard Sovereign Brass Philip Bailey 15 12 8 9 29
10 Aveley & Newham Nigel Taken 17 4 13 14 31
11 Sellers Engineering Alan Morrison 7 20 10 7 37
12 NSK-RHP Ransome Brian Grant 4 1 20 17 38
13 EYMS John Roberts 6 18 11 11 40
14 Wingates Howard Snell 19 17 12 11 40
15 South West Trains Woodfalls Melvin White 5 16 16 10 42
16 David Urquhart Travel Yorkshire Imperial David Evans 18 11 17 15 43
17 Besses o' th' Barn Derek Broadbent 13 14 14 16 44
18 Redbridge Brass Graham Wilson 12 10 15 19 44
19 Bodmin Town Howard Evans 11 8 18 18 44
20 Flowers Nigel Seaman 2 19 19 20 58
21 Rhodian Brass Ian Craddock 3 21 21 21 63

Each adjudicator sat in a separate box. The placings of the three adjudicators were added together with the aggregates deciding the placings of each band.

Tie-break procedure (bands with equal aggregrates)
placing of tie-break adjudicator determines result

Adjudicator key
Adj 1 = Geoffrey Brand
Adj 2 = Eric Crees (nominated by secret ballot as the tie-break adjudicator)
Adj 3 = William Relton