Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Four Dances from Checkmate 1978
Adjudicators:	Nicholas Childs , Robert Childs
Venue:	Winter Gardens, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Cwmaman Institute	John Hudson	11
2	Besses o' th' Barn	Lynda Nicholson	7
3	Flowers	Philip Harper	16
4	Aveley and Newham	Nigel Taken	13
5	Ransome	Peter Parkes	4
6	Fishburn	Graham O'Connor	6
7	Sellers International	Phillip McCann	17
8	Kibworth	John Berryman	18
9	JAG Mount Charles	Bryan Hurdley	14
10	Skelmanthorpe	Kevin Wadsworth	12
11	The BT Band	Michael Fowles	15
12	Seindorf Beaumaris	Gwyn Evans	10
13	Bodmin	Russell Gray	2
14	Newtongrange	Ray Farr	8
15	Rothwell Temperance	David Roberts	1
16	Peter Hawke Garages Lindley	Neil Jowett	9
17	Ashton Under Lyne	John Maines	3
18	Wingates	James Gourlay	5

Three of the four movements were used for the contest: The Red Knights Mazurka, The Ceremony Of The Red Bishops and the Finale.