Pre-Area

Arrival information: Please do not arrive earlier than 4:45pm. You will need to enter on the same driveway where all of the parent pickup is located.

Parking Information:

Cars may park in the front parking lot. There is not a rear campus entry point. Please walk around to the front of the building for entry.

Student Registration & Procedures:

Registration will open at 5:30pm in the cafeteria.
We will close registration at 6:00pm or when the last school arrives.
We will not start until all campuses have checked in and all students run cuts in the Cafeteria.
Please have students remain in the Cafeteria/holding area.
This round of auditions will involve a holding room for each round, similar to what you will experience at the Area round in January.
Sequence of auditions will be:
- Round 1: Literature cuts
  - Warm-up/cuts in cafeteria
  - Move to holding room & complete literature audition
  - After you complete Round 1, return to the cafeteria to wait for Round 2.
- Round 2: Sight Reading auditions
  - Move to holding room & complete Round 2 audition
  - After you complete Round 2, return to the cafeteria. You may retrieve your personal belongings, check out with chaperons, and head home.

Concessions for Students & Chaperones

Student Expectations:

Be sure to bring pencils, water and money (cash/card/Tap to pay) for concessions.
Original copies are required to audition and will be checked before entering the audition room.
Phones/Digital devices must be turned off and given to your campus chaperone. This includes tablets, computers, and smartwatches.
Once you’re finished with your sight reading audition, you may retrieve your electronics from the call table and exit the building through the same door used to enter the building.
Once you’ve exited the building, you may not re-enter. Students waiting for transportation can wait outside the building under the awnings. There are benches, chairs, tables available for seating.
Results will be posted on the TMEA Region 26 Website after 72 hours.

4:00 – Dismissal from classes to beat traffic
- Individual transportation to CRHS
- Eat dinner on the way
5:30 Registration opens and dinner for judges
6:00 Registration closes and judges meeting
6:05 Warmup and reading of the cuts
6:15 Judges move to the audition rooms
6:30 Round 1 (singing) begins
7:30 Round 2 (sr) begins
9:00 Audition complete

Students are assigned a badge number (see registration below)
Students sing in order in their room, 1, 2, 3… until the last person in that room has sung.
Students should be picked up at McNeil HS.
What is different about this audition?
- At this round, students audition on the prepared literature as well as sight-reading.
- Since this round involves sight-reading, students are not permitted to leave the audition (or retrieve phones) until the completion of the audition for all voice parts. This is designed to ensure maximum test security with regard to the sight-reading prompt.

Results are NO LONGER PUBLICLY announced at this round.

Once all judging panels are released, we can see the provisional results.
Once directors are released, we will ask you to call your parents for pickup.
Once the area around our table has been cleaned up and all calls made for parents, directors will announce results to our own campuses.

Original copies of the audition literature (no photocopies allowed) and a pencil.
Money for snacks and drinks.
Students MAY NOT bring electronic devices into the audition venue – this includes cell phones and chromebooks!
If students bring a cell phone, they MUST give it to a chaperone to hold until they leave the contest site.
If students must use a cell phone after they audition they may do so ONLY in the presence of an adult and ONLY to call for a ride home.
Students MAY be disqualified if they are caught using it NOT in the presence of an adult.

Registration runs from 5:30 – 5:45 pm.
Upon arrival, All sections will register at their respective tables.
Students will sign in, receive a badge which they MUST wear at all times, and a copy of the cuts.
Immediately after registering, they should proceed to the cafeteria where they are to remain until further instructed.
No PM singers are permitted at this round.