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Additional information found in the Check In for Briefings.

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For more information, especially if this is your first contest with HHR4, please see Quartet FAQ and Chorus FAQ.

Quartet Pattern

• Quartet Pattern will start on the 2nd floor of the Northern Kentucky Convention Center outside the designated warm up room
• Quartets move through the pattern:
  
  • Move to the photo room.
  • Move to the warm-up room.
    • Each quartet will have 10 minutes in the warm-up room
  • Move to the pre-stage area
    • All belongings must be able to fit in a gallon sized ziplock type bag.  Your competitor AET must also be clearly visible inside this ziplock bag.  No other bags will be permitted in the pattern.
  • Walk to the stage entrance area and wait to be admitted.
  • Enter stage right quietly. You will enter stage center
  • Quartets- will have a table backstage to leave their items
  • Have fun performing!
  • Exit stage LEFT and retrieve belongings from back-stage area.
  • Head to lobby or audience.
  • Be a great audience for the rest of contest!

Chorus Pattern​

• Chorus Pattern will start on the 2^nd floor of the Northern Kentucky Convention Center outside the designated warm up room
  
  • There are no buses available this year so please make your own plans to get to the designated warm up room area. 
  • If you are staying at the Marriott, you can use the walkway located on the 2^nd (L) floor
  • If you are staying at the Embassy, you will need to walk outside so please plan accordingly for weather and timing.
• Choruses move through the pattern:
  
  • Warm-up Room
    • Each chorus will have 10 minutes in the warm-up room.
  • The chorus will move to the pre-stage area using the stairs and escalators or small elevator as needed.  Please reserve the elevator for only those people who need assistance:
    • All belongings must be able to fit in a gallon sized ziplock bag.  Your competitor AET must also be clearly visible inside this ziplock bag.  No other bags will be permitted in the pattern.
    • Choruses - will have to use a wagon/bags to contain individual members items to travel with them through the pattern. Leave wagon with designated person to take to the chorus exit area.
  • Walk to the stage entrance area and wait to be admitted.
  • Enter stage right quietly
  • Have fun performing
  • Exit stage left and go out toward lobby area
  • Meet designated person with the chorus cart at Chorus exit.
  • Be a great audience member for the rest of contest!

General Info

• There will be a light curtain for the contests.
• Stage monitors will be used during the quartet contest to help quartet members hear each other better.  
• There will be NO monitors for the chorus contest.
• There will be eleven sets of six-foot risers with back rails and the middle section will be inverted. 
• There will only be this one riser configuration for all chorus competitors.
• Please feel free to wear comfortable walking shoes in the pattern; there is time to change your shoes in the pre-stage area.  
• All belongings must be able to fit in a gallon sized ziplock type bag.  Your competitor AET must also be clearly visible inside this bag.  No other bags will be permitted in the pattern.
• Please be sure you label your bag of belongings with your name and your quartet /chorus name.  If your AET is clearly visible, then this is sufficient
• Contestants must have their name badge with them to enter the contest hall.

Special Needs
Please notify Donna Ebelhar and Jamie Kamin at [email protected], Co-Regional Competition Coordinators, about any competitor who is not able to walk through the pattern and needs to use an elevator for moving from the 2^nd to 1^st floor in the pattern.