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Woodbrook Playboyz heads the pack going into the Finals on Sunday ..

The sounds of steel will resonate at the Basketball Court, Princess Royal Park, Arima, on Sunday January 14, as twenty (20) Single Pan Bands vie for pan music supremacy in their category.

With the amended theme “Steel Crescendo… an Explosion of Music and Rivalry”, this year’s Panorama competition, the 55^th edition, will be the culmination of eight days of preliminary judging at the participants’ pan yards across Trinidad & Tobago.

The finalists were announced on Friday morning at The Murchison Brown Auditorium, Knox Street, Port of Spain. Later that day, the bands’ representatives drew for playing position at Pan Trinbago’s Head Office.

Woodbrook Playboyz topped the Preliminary round with 278 points for the Michelle Huggins-Watt’s arrangement of “Ah Want It’ composed by Johnston King whilst defending champions Newtown Playboys Steel Ensemble amassed 270 points to tie with Pan Fanatics in the eighth position.

For Sunday’s competition, the adjudication panel will comprise Vorbin Cordice, Dr. Audley Timothy, Brendon Moore, Joslynne Sealey, Dexter Asson and Cuthbert Matthews. Bands will be judged on the basis of Arrangement (40), General Performance (40), Tone (10) and Rhythm (10) points.

The following is order of appearance with their scores:-

ORDER	BAND	SELECTION	PRELIMS POINTS
1	San Juan All Stars	Iron Man	269.0
2	Pan Fanatics	Doh Back Back	270.0
3	Pan Jammers	Signal to Lara	277.0
4	San Juan East Side Symphony	Dis Party Is It	267.0
5	UNI STARS	Bun Dem	270.0
6	SHADES IN STEEL	Bounce	269.0
7	Star Sapphire	Black Man Feeling to Party	267.0
8	Trinidad Nostalgic	By All Means	271.5
9	Curepe Polyphonics	Leave Me Alone (Remix)	267.0
10	EDINBURGH 500 STEEL ENSEMBLE	Rock It	269.0
11	Marsicans	Party Time Again	269.0
12	WOODBROOK PLAYBOYZ	Ah Want It	278.0
13	NEW TOWN PLAYBOYS STEEL SYMPHONY	The Hammer	270.0
14	Nu Pioneers Pan Groove	Black Man Feeling to Party	269.0
15	T&T FIRE SERVICE	Du Du Yemi- Natasha	277.0
16	LA FAMILLE UNITED	Golo	276.0
17	Chord Masters	Stranger	271.0
18	Metro Stars	Rant and Rave	272.0
19	Platinum	Soca Baptist	268.0
20	LA CREOLE PAN GROOVE	Signal to Lara	267.0