{"id":1261,"date":"2021-08-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging.pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/2021\/08\/11\/drum-major-trial-amendment\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T00:09:28","slug":"drum-major-trial-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/2021\/08\/11\/drum-major-trial-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Drum Major &#8211; Trial Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Council recently considered amendments to&nbsp;the current regulations surrounding the Drum Major solo event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trial rule was approved that firstly introduces a Juvenile grade event, and secondly changes the length of the course marched by competitors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This trial rule provides for, and with immediate effect, the course for the adult Drum Major event to be 4.5 laps of a 50-meter course and the new Juvenile event is to be conducted over 2.5 laps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These changes will bring our competition more closely in line with the RSPBA events.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Ballot of Bands will be conducted in due course so these changes can be considered for formal implementation in the contest regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council recently considered amendments to&nbsp;the current regulations surrounding the Drum Major solo event. A trial rule was approved that firstly introduces a Juvenile grade event, and secondly changes the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-competitions","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}