The Union City Invitational judges are well-established experts in the music education, marching and pageantry field with their educational philosophy and background taken into consideration as much as their career accomplishments. Bands receive recorded evaluation and score sheets from each judge. The emphasis is on the input the judge offers into the band's program via the recorded evaluation. The UCI adjudication system is based on the Tennessee Bandmasters Association (TBA) Marching Band evaluation system. We use a six-person adjudication panel using all of the sheets, the three music captions receive 200 points each, with the Visual Performance Individual and the Visual Performance Ensemble scores averaged for a possible 200 points, and the Visual Effect caption receiving another 200 points. The final score is achieved by multiplying the total points earned by .10. You can see detailed information about this system, as well as sample sheets by following this link. http://www.tennesseebandmasters.org/marching-band

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Along with the standard Visual and Music captions, we will be evaluating Percussion and Color Guard. New for 2026, we have decided to not judge drum majors for UCI. In the contest directors opinion, commentary from the music/visual individual adjudicators will be more beneficial for future competitions. We will be using the TBA score sheets for these captions. Please see link above to reference in detail. 

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