Pennsylvania Interscholastic Marching Band Association

	Pennsylvania Interscholastic Marching Band Association
Division:	PFCJ (Pennsylvania Federation of Contest Judges)
Activity:	Marching Band Festival Adjudication
Founded:	1996
Country:	United States (Western Pennsylvania)
Official Website:	http://www.pimba.org

The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Marching Band Association (PIMBA) is a nonprofit organization that serves as a competitive adjudication circuit for high school marching bands in western Pennsylvania. Founded in 1996 from the PFCJ marching band circuit, the organization now includes 20 member bands[1] who perform at both local festivals as well as the PIMBA Championships. Member bands host the adjudications throughout the fall season.

Background

PIMBA events provide both healthy competition and constructive feedback for performing bands. Directors pay membership dues in order for their ensemble to be classified as a member of the circuit. Classifications are broken down by the number of performing instrumentalists per ensemble. The current classifications are as follows:[2]

Class A: 1–40 instrumentalists
Class AA: 41– 60 instrumentalists
Class AAA: 61–85 instrumentalists
Class AAAA: 86+ instrumentalists

Directors may also choose to have their ensemble perform in judged exhibition or Festival Class. These bands will not be placed but will still receive judges' commentary and an individual score. From 1997 to 2012, PIMBA also featured a National Class– qualifications for this class included placing in the top five at BOA Regional competitions for two consecutive years or by special request of the director.

The final competition to take place for each season is the PIMBA Championships. At the championships, bands receive final scoring in their respective classes with the top scoring band from each class being crowned a PIMBA Class Champion. The championships has historically been held at the following locations:

Elizabeth Forward High School– 3 times (2003, 2005, 2007)
Gateway High School– 7 times (2008, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020*)
Moon Area High School– 2 times (2016, 2018)
North Allegheny Senior High School– 1 time (1996)
Norwin High School– 4 times (2000, 2002, 2006, and 2011)
Penn-Trafford High School– 6 times (1999, 2001, 2004, 2010, 2012, and 2014)
South Park High School– 1 time (1998)[3]

*the 2020 PIMBA season will not feature in-person performances due to COVID-19

Scoring is based upon the same system used by Bands of America, featuring a Musical Performance category (worth 20 points), a Visual Performance category (worth 20 points), and a General Effect category (worth 60 points). Unlike BOA, the raw total from these three categories is divided by two and raised by 50 to establish an ensemble's final score.[4][5][6] [7]

PIMBA Championship Results: 1996-2021

Throughout PIMBA's history, there have been 24 Championship competitions. While many class champions have been crowned, there have been several changes and cancellations over the course of PIMBA's existence:

1996: No National Class (AAAA was "Open Class")
1999: No Class AAA, AAAA, or National Class Champions (Field Washout)
Post-2013: No National Class (Absorbed into AAAA; instrumentalist numbers reclassified for each class)
2019: No Class AAA or AAAA Champions (Weather Cancellation)
2020: No PIMBA Festivals or Championships (COVID-19)

Listed below are all of the class champion bands by year and class. Also included with each champion is the title of their field show and their score if found. Next to the name of the champion in parentheses is the # of times that band has been crowned a class champion. Additional Note: the current scoring system for PIMBA was introduced in the 2004 season with revisions also being made for the 2013 and 2018 seasons, respectively.

Champion by Year and Classification[8]
	Class A	Class AA	Class AAA	Class AAAA	National Class
1996	North Catholic⁽¹⁾ Show Title Unknown Score Unknown	Mars Area⁽¹⁾ The Beatles 87.10	East Allegheny⁽¹⁾ Show Title Unknown Score Unknown	Kiski Area⁽¹⁾ The Music of Gershwin Score Unknown
1997	Serra Catholic⁽¹⁾ Show Title Unknown Score Unknown	Beaver Area⁽¹⁾ Damn Yankees Score Unknown	Gateway⁽¹⁾ Slavonic Dances Score Unknown	West Allegheny⁽¹⁾ Show Title Unknown Score Unknown	Norwin⁽¹⁾ Hollywood Classics Score Unknown
1998[9]	No Participants in Class	Mars Area⁽²⁾ The Music of Buddy Rich 87.70	Gateway⁽²⁾ Emotions of the Soul 92.45	McKeesport⁽¹⁾ Earth, Wind, and Fire 89.40	Norwin⁽²⁾ Kozhevnikov's "Symphony #3" 96.60
1999	South Park⁽¹⁾ Show Title Unknown Score Unknown	Mars Area⁽³⁾ Swingin' into the Next Millennium Score Unknown	Cancelled: No Champion
2000	South Park⁽²⁾ Show Title Unknown Score Unknown	Mars Area⁽⁴⁾ Lucy's Back with an Attitude 86.00	West Allegheny⁽²⁾ Jesus Christ Superstar Score Unknown	Gateway⁽³⁾ The Odyssey Score Unknown	Norwin⁽³⁾ Reflections of Earth Score Unknown
2001[10]	Beaver Area⁽²⁾ Les Misérables 81.75	Southmoreland⁽¹⁾ The Jackson Five 87.90	Deer Lakes⁽¹⁾ Fiddler on the Roof 89.80	Trinity⁽¹⁾ Show Title Unknown 92.85	Norwin⁽⁴⁾ Knights of Honour 94.95
2002[11]	Beaver Area⁽³⁾ Show Title Unknown 82.70	Elizabeth Forward⁽²⁾ Pianoforte 81.60	Mars Area⁽⁵⁾ City of Angels 91.15	Trinity⁽²⁾ Show Title Unknown 88.65	Kiski Area⁽²⁾ Route 66: Enjoy the Ride! 96.15
2003[12]	Cochranton⁽¹⁾ Show Title Unknown 82.35	East Allegheny⁽²⁾ The Music of Gershwin 81.20	Mars Area⁽⁶⁾ Going Slightly Insane 91.00	Trinity⁽³⁾ The Music of Chase 88.35	Kiski Area⁽³⁾ Head, Hands, and Feet 95.80
2004[13]	Quaker Valley⁽¹⁾ Cirque du Soleil 84.83	Blackhawk⁽¹⁾ Show Title Unknown 90.03	Gateway⁽⁴⁾ Locomotion 92.50	Trinity⁽⁴⁾ Once Upon A Time 90.03	Norwin⁽⁵⁾ Fiesta! 96.48
2005[14]	Beaver Area⁽⁴⁾ Show Title Unknown 83.30	Fox Chapel⁽¹⁾ Show Title Unknown 89.13	Gateway⁽⁵⁾ Reflections 91.68	Trinity⁽⁵⁾ Wicked 89.95	Norwin⁽⁶⁾ Grooves in Motion 94.35
2006[15]	Deer Lakes⁽²⁾ Cirque du Soleil 83.53	Fox Chapel⁽²⁾ Paint Me a Picture 86.65	West Allegheny⁽³⁾ Black, White, and Red All Over 88.23	Trinity⁽⁶⁾ Show Title Unknown 89.43	Kiski Area⁽⁴⁾ Viva Las Vegas 94.63
2007[16]	Beaver Area⁽⁵⁾ Show Title Unknown 82.88	Blackhawk⁽²⁾ Sesame Street 89.10	Gateway⁽⁶⁾ From the New World 90.98	Trinity⁽⁷⁾ New York, New York 90.58	Kiski Area⁽⁵⁾ The Rhythm of Life 94.45
2008[17]	Fox Chapel⁽³⁾ Out of the Box 85.65	Mars Area⁽⁷⁾ Songs of the Beatles 87.80	Trinity⁽⁸⁾ Cloudburst 90.30	Gateway⁽⁷⁾ Canon 92.20	Kiski Area⁽⁶⁾ Click 95.45
2009[18]	Cochranton⁽²⁾ Clockworks 86.40	Mars Area⁽⁸⁾ Blood, Sweat, and Tears 86.45	Trinity⁽⁹⁾ Frequency 85.33	Gateway⁽⁸⁾ Winter Sketches 88.83	Kiski Area⁽⁷⁾ Pursuit 94.55
2010[19]	Fox Chapel⁽⁴⁾ Rebound 84.83	Blackhawk⁽³⁾ This is Halloween 86.48	Mars Area⁽⁹⁾ The Music of Kansas 86.15	Moon Area⁽¹⁾ Renaissance 88.80	Kiski Area⁽⁸⁾ Imaginarium 93.35
2011[20]	Deer Lakes⁽³⁾ Rivers 79.53	Blackhawk⁽⁴⁾ The Wicked Wiz of Oz 86.35	Trinity⁽¹⁰⁾ Kaleidoscope 85.63	Moon Area⁽²⁾ To the Top 89.58	Norwin⁽⁷⁾ Salvation 93.30
2012[21]	East Allegheny⁽³⁾ Only the Good Die Young 77.78	McGuffey⁽¹⁾ New Orleans Sketches 80.18	West Allegheny⁽⁴⁾ Brazil 83.43	Gateway⁽⁹⁾ Beyond the Forest's Edge 87.68	Norwin⁽⁸⁾ The Road to You 93.20
2013[22]	Blackhawk⁽⁵⁾ Les Misérables 83.73	Mars Area⁽¹⁰⁾ A Night in the City 86.73	Gateway⁽¹⁰⁾ It Just Ain't Right 90.00	Norwin⁽⁹⁾ The Rise of the Knight 93.60
2014[23]	Blackhawk⁽⁶⁾ Mirage 80.85	Mars Area⁽¹¹⁾ The Phantom of the Opera 86.00	Gateway⁽¹¹⁾ Flashback 88.78	Norwin⁽¹⁰⁾ When Worlds Collide 92.80
2015[24]	Blackhawk⁽⁷⁾ Through the Window 78.23	Deer Lakes⁽⁴⁾ The Hero in Us All 80.73	Gateway⁽¹²⁾ Egyptian Impressions 86.88	Kiski Area⁽⁹⁾ Origins 90.98
2016[25]	Leechburg⁽¹⁾ The Drake Equation 77.75	Deer Lakes⁽⁵⁾ MI-6: The 007 Archives 80.48	Gateway⁽¹³⁾ Puppet Master 84.75	Norwin⁽¹¹⁾ Con4mity 89.78
2017	Leechburg⁽²⁾ Connected 80.13	Southmoreland⁽²⁾ I am... 83.83	Mars Area⁽¹²⁾ Beethoven: Artistry in Motion 85.40	Norwin⁽¹²⁾ RunAway 92.35
2018	Blackhawk⁽⁸⁾ A Darkness Beckons 76.325	Deer Lakes⁽⁶⁾ Stories from the West Side 80.710	Gateway⁽¹⁴⁾ Enigma 86.710	Kiski Area⁽¹⁰⁾ Out of the Blue 92.790
2019	Leechburg⁽³⁾ Show Title Unknown 77.15	Fox Chapel Area⁽⁵⁾ Conquest 81.075	Cancelled: No Champion

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