TO ALL CAROLINAS DISTRICT CHAPTER PRESIDENTS, SECRETARIES,  CHORUS DIRECTORS,  NSC DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS, and QUARTET CONTACT MEN (current and recently expired quartets) 

PLEASE share this info with ALL of your chapter and quartet members! ... AND if you are not the right person in your chapter, PLEASE forward to the right folks:

This is your first official call for entries to the 2017 Carolinas District International Chorus, Quartet, and Senior Quartet Preliminaries;  District Chorus, and District Quartet Qualifier Contests.    

Our biggest contest convention of the year will be the Spring Carolinas District Convention on Mar. 24 - 26, 2017 in Winston-Salem, NC.  This is the first official call for entries.  The Barbershop.org (Members Ebiz contest) website is ready for you to sign up your quartet or chorus.  The deadline for contest registration is Feb. 24, 2017. 

The Headquarters Hotel will be:

Winston-Salem Marriott
425 N Cherry St.
Winston-Salem, NC   27101 
Phone: 1-336-725-3500

Look for other activity updates on the Carolinas District website.

Contest Sessions:
Quartets will compete on Friday and Saturday night.  The chorus competition session will be on Saturday morning & afternoon.  

Sessions include: 
1) NSC District International Prelims (for Las Vegas International in July 2017)  Semi-Final round on Friday night (3/24/17)
Friday's session will also include these single-round contests:
    - International Seniors Quartet Prelims contest (for 2018 Midwinter in Orange County, CA)
    - District Senior Quartet contest
    - District Novice Quartet contest
    - Qualifier for Fall District Quartet Contest - top 10 finishers (not including past district Champs) on Friday night  - 

*** NOTE TO QUARTETS: YOU MUST ENTER THIS
QUALIFIER CONTEST TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE
FALL DISTRICT QUARTET CONTEST IN RALEIGH. ***

2) International Chorus Prelims Contest (for 2018 International in Orlando, FL) on Saturday (3/25/17), which will also include:
     - District Chorus Contest (separate award from Int'l Prelims qualification)
     - District Plateau A (12-20), AA (21-35), AAA (36 and up) - based on riser count
     - District Most Improved Chorus award

3) NSC District International Prelim Final round on Saturday night for the top 10 quartets from the semifinal round.

We continue to use the standard CJ-20 Contest Entry Process which is found in the members only "Ebiz" site on barbershop.org. 

Here's the path for (Chapter Secretaries or Quartet Contact persons): 
ebiz.barbershop.org> Contest Entry> "Click Here to Create a new Registration">(select) "Chorus" or Quartet", "District or Division", "NSC Carolinas", "International Quartet and Chorus Preliminaries and District Chorus Convention,   Mar 24 2017"

Follow instructions to enter Contest, Name Director, Estimated Riser Count, song selections, etc. 

IF YOU KNOW OF OTHER QUARTETS WHO ARE NOT YET REGISTERED WITH THE SOCIETY, or who have recently let their membership expire, please pass on this info to them and encourage them to become a Society quartet and get involved in our contest!

NOTE: Keep in mind the following additional info and considerations:
  1. All competitors on the stage must have their Society, District and Chapter dues paid up through the end of March 2017 (or later) to be eligible to compete.
  2. Your Quartet subscription must be paid up and current for you to compete in the contests. Please make sure you take care of that before the convention weekend!
  3. If you start a contest entry and later want to delete it for some reason, just contact me and let me know you want to remove the entry.  At the moment there is no easy way for you to remove an entry yourself.
We have a top-notch Judging Panel for this convention.  A double-panel is planned, but will increase to a triple-panel if competitor signup exceeds previous years: 
MUS: Steve Delehanty, Adam Scott (Jeff Taylor - alternate 3rd judge if needed)
PER:  Joe Hunter, Steve Janes (Steve Dorn - alternate)
SNG:  David Mills, John Ward (Tim Brooks - alternate)
CA:  John Santora, Randy Rensi

We are looking forward to a great weekend.  Please get your group signed up.  Call me if there are any questions. 

Yours in harmony,
Larry Reinhart - VP Contests and Judging - Carolinas District
Certified Performance Judge - Barbershop Harmony Society
VP-Contests@carolinasdistrict.org
910-612-6890