1/09/09 Meeting Notes + Some New Stuff

From the Meeting:
- Audio/Video = talk to Darren
- DVDs, figure that out!
- MC Ideas
- Maz
- Prices -- start to finalize (talk to Darren)
- Exact stage set-up (for 500)
- Set-up
- like spring concert? (stage = higher, wider)
- where do we store equipment during the concert?
- how do performers get in and out?
- figure out logistics of the performance
- Spiking (quadrants/grid system)
- 12 min performance per group (including all songs and transitions)
- Finale, 2 days


New Stuff:
- School list is listed in the general category
- Do Performance order
- Berkeley wants to perform Sat., Stanford wants Sunday, Jodaiko will perform last on Sunday
- Song lists, performance set-up + times, performance equipment lists, will be received with registration (feb 20, late march 15)
- Once Keith lets me know, I'll tell you the approx. length of the finale song.

School "Rankings"
(1-5)
UCI Jodaiko - 5
UCLA Kyodo - 5
Stanford - 5
LMU - 2? (i've never actually seen them play..)
TCNJ - 1/2
UCR Senryu - 3
CSUN Jishin - 3 (they fluctuate)
UCD Bakuhatsu - 3
Brown TAiko - ????
UCSD Asayake - 4ish
UCLA Yukai - 4
CAL Raijin - 3/4
CSULB Umidaiko - 1/2
USC Kazan - 2
(these are rough estimates, but yes.. spread them around)