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SPSL CLASP Competition 2018
Starting Time – 8.30am Sharp – Performance Room - Lower Foyer 2

Grade 3 Piobaireachd (Full Only)
(Submit 1 tune from Set List 2)

1. Megan Kenney
2. Joris Panis
3. Duncan Lamont
4. Esther Scheren
5. Philip Duthie
6. Neil Scotland
7. Nathan Rody
8. Jeremie Tourbot

Grade 2 Piobaireachd
(Submit 2 tunes - 1 Tunes from Set List 1 and 1 from set list 2)

1. Tom Broderick
2. Andrea Jones
3. William Wardrope
4. Colin Taylor
5. Rod Caird
6. David McRobb
7. George Gordon
8. James Carnegie
9. Dagmar Pesta
10. Lachlan MacDonald
11. Bianca Kail

Grade 1 Piobaireachd
(Submit 3 tunes - 2 Tunes from Set List 1 and 1 own choice)

1. Ian Graham
2. Ross McNaughton
3. Gordon Hislop
4. Con Houlihan
5. Bradley Boxall

The Grade 3 Light Music will start on completion of the Grade 1 Piobaireachd event.

SPSL CLASP Competition 2018 - Light Music Draw

Approximate Starting Time –1.30am- Performance Room -Lower Foyer 2
Grade 3 - 2/4 March (Own Choice) / Strathspey & Reel (Own Choice)

1. Esther Scheren
2. Neil Scotland
3. Philip Duthie
4. Lachlan MacDonald
5. Megan Kenney
6. Nathan Rody
7. Joris Panis
8. Robert Cunningham
9. Duncan Lamont

Grade 2 - 2/4 March (Submit 2, play 1)/ Strathspey & Reel(Own Choice)

1. Jeremie Tourbot
2. Bianca Kail
3. George Gordon
4. Colin Taylor
5. David McRobb
6. James Carnegie
7. Tom Broderick
8. Dagmar Pesta
9. Andrea Jones
10. Max Gillespie

Grade 1 - 2/4 March (Submit 2, play 1)/ Strathspey & Reel (Submit 2, play 1)

1. William Wardrope
2. Ross McNaughton
3. Bradley Boxall
4. Ian Graham
5. Con Houlihan
6. Gordon Hislop

Prizes Announced on completion of Grade 1 Light Music – Please note that there will be an overall trophy presented at the main Prize Giving, to the overall Grade 1 Light Music and Piobaireachd winners.

The adjudicators are Tom Johnstone and Roddy Livingstone. The competition will commence around 09.45 hrs.but those of you with Bridge Car Passes should ensure you have entered the Chatsworth Showground before 09.00 hrs.

The draw and order of play for the above are as follows:

Grade 3

Robert Cunningham
Lachlan McDonald – Light Music events only
Nathan Rody
Duncan Lamont
Philip Duthie

Juvenile 17 and under

Abigail Kerr

Juvenile 14 and under

Morgan Gray

Grade 2

James Carnegie
Lachlan McDonald – Piobairhead only
Tom Broderick
Colin Taylor

Grade 1

Bradley Boxall
Robert Frater
Steven Bell

Kind regards

Walter MacGregor

Chairman
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association
London & South of England BranchChatsworth

The Scottish Piping Society of London will hold their annual solo piping competition at Kensington Conference Centre, London, on Saturday 4th November 2017.

To enter, please log into the 'Members' area of the CLASP website.

Dear CLASP members,

On the day of the CLASP grading meeting, the committee discussed the weighting of Piobaireachd points at CLASP competitions. This issue was raised by a CLASP member and we felt it was a valid concern that a Jig competition, with more competitors in it, could weight heavier with the same grade Piobaireachd competition if/when numbers of competitors are less. I am sure, even if you do not compete in the Piobaireachd section, you will agree that Piobaireachd is a very demanding discipline that should weight heavier than one light music event, bearing in mind there are usually three light music events which all carry points.

To address this situation, we have decided that if the number of competitors in a Piobaireachd event is less than the number of competitors in one of the Light Music events, of the same grade, we will take the highest number of competitors in the Light Music section and use parallel points for the Piobaireachd section. This may only make a small difference in the allocation of points, but we feel it is a step in the right direction to correcting the issue raised.

For example: If 10 pipers competed in the Grade 2, 2/4 March event (this event having the highest number of Light Music entries) and 8 pipers competed in the Grade 2 Piobaireachd event, previously the points would have been allocated that the winner of the 2/4 March would receive 10 Points (one point for every competitor defeated, plus 1) and the winner of the Piobaireachd would have received 8 points. With the new rule in place, the first prize winner of the grade 2, 2/4 March would still receive 10 points, but the winner of the Piobaireachd would also receive 10 points and therefore brings the Piobaireachd weighting up to the highest number of points available in a Light Music event. In the case of a combined March, Strathspey and Reel event, in Grade 1, the points for this event is always doubled because it is a combined event and therefore the Piobaireachd points will align in value with the MSR points.

Overall Winner of the Grade 1 World Solo Amateur Piping Competition- Gregor McCulloch

Piobaireachd
1st Stewart Gaudin
2nd Con Houlihan
3rd Gregor McCulloch

2/4 March Strathspey and Reel
1st Gregor McCulloch
2nd Ross Walker
3rd Stewart Gaudin

Hornpipe and Jig
1st Gregor McCulloch
2nd Ross Walker
3rd Robert Wilson