As you may know, recently I participated in the Destination Imagination regionals and provincial tournaments. In my last post I talked about regionals, and the process leading up to it. You can read more about that HERE. In this post, I will be talking about the process leading up to provincials, and how that went. 

Regionals

As you may or may not know my group came in second place. We got scored on our performance, and different aspects of it. My group used our score sheet to prioritize what to work on. We decided that our main priority would be our set, because it didn’t work at regionals. 

The Set

As I mentioned in my regionals post, our set didn’t work like it was supposed to, the cave didn’t roll up well, the drill fell off, and stuff behind the set fell over. So we decided to just scrap that set, and make a new one from scratch. Jessie constructed the new set. Lauren and I helped her paint it, and glue the cave onto the wooden dowel. When we painted the set we decided to keep the same design as before. However, we replaced the cave fabric so it didn’t bunch up when it rolled up. We also added a key ring into the end of the dowel to attach the drill to so it wouldn’t splinter again. Remaking our set was a big risk because we only had a few weeks between regionals and provincials. We barely had any class time because of spring break. So the set had to be made over spring break and it had to be done by the end of spring break so we could rehearse with it. Luckily our risk or rebuilding our set payed off. This set stood up easily on its own, had a working cave, and it looked great. Needles to say we got a much better score on our set, since it actually worked this time. I think the main reason that our set worked was because of the photo of Cole Sprouse that we taped to the back of our set. 

Spectacle

Another main thing that we changed about our performance was our spectacle. In regionals, our spectacle was the first song. We decided to use props and masks, but that didn’t work very well, so we decided to change our spectacle. This took a long time to change, because we couldn’t agree on anything. We were originally going to change the spectacle to later on in the performance, in adventure awaits (one of our songs). Eventually we decided to keep the spectacle at the beginning, but we changed it a lot. Instead of using props we used dance, and instead of using masks, we used acrobatics. This gave us a much higher score, and it was much more fun to perform the dance. We scored much higher on our spectacle the second time. 

Our performance!

As I’ve mentioned, our performance went really well! The set worked, (thanks to Cole Sprouse) the spectacle went smoothly, our songs worked well, and we only had to improvise once or twice. It was really fun to perform with my group. We did really well on our instant challenge, but i can’t tell you about that, it’s top secret information. We ended up coming first in our main challenge AND our main challenge. I had a lot of fun this year and I’m sad that I won’t be doing it next year.