1979-1980 (The only year of competition in AZ...Till 2005)

MARCHING
CORTEZ HIGH SCHOOL

• Walter Tholl/Bud Hilditch Directors

CONCERT BAND
CORTEZ & CAMELBACK HIGH SCHOOLS

• Cortez - Walter Tholl - Conductor
• Camelback - Bill Sylvester - Conductor

JAZZ
CORTEZ HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ ENSEMBLE II

• Bud Hilditch - Director
  

FUN ABODA MARCHING FACTS (got any more?)

• in 1980 ABODA Switched the format to Ratings only
• 1980-1982 you had to get a Superior at your first marching festival to go to State
• In 1983 you just had to get a Superior in one festival
• 1984-present: all you needed was an Excellent or Superior to qualify for State
• 1980-late 80's Ratings were by judges on overall performance
• late 80's until 2000: Points were out of 1000
  • 80% and above = superior , 60% to 79.9% = excellent, etc.
  • creation of categories (music, visual, per, aux, dm)
• also in the late 80s - state splits into 2 division (I and II/III with II/III having separate awards but the same site)
• early 90s: division III gets its own site with in-state judges
• 2001-2004 - points reduced to 100 and the scoing scale went to 90,80,70,60
• 2005 - a sliding scale is introduced