12VOLT CENTRAL STUDIOS (07.29.2021) – The HARV Arena at the Mountaineer Casino and Resort, in New Cumberland WV, was home to the Steel Valley Regional IX July 24th and 25th presented by ARC Audio.
“This year’s show had over 150 competition entries including IASCA, MECA and EMMA Sound Quality and Install categories. The Top 40 cars were judged by 5 judges using selected music readily available on Amazon and Apple Music. In the end the car’s scores were averaged and ranked from 40th to 1st place. The cars and competitors came from as far away as California, Texas, Florida and the Midwest” Larry Chijner, the man behind the Steel Valley Regional IX event, related.
Some of the old time competitors attended to judge and some to listen to the cars all weekend. That group included Earl, Zausmer, Harry Kimura, Steve Cornell, Ron Buffungton, Jeff Smith, Brian Huston, Tony Pasquale, Tim Goudy, Keith Turner and more.
Continuing, Chijner stated, “Prizes and Trophies were presented to all who competed. Judges for this event are Harry Kimura, Brian Huston, Tony Pasquale, Scott Welch, Ron Buffington and Keith Turner. Scott Welch from ARPA Of America was a Judge from California. Klifton Keplinger and I were the Head Judges for the event as well as as all scoring tabulations.”
12volt companies that participated on site at the event included ARC Audio, ORCA Design, Focal, Mosconi, Gladden, Black Hole, TRU Technology, JL Audio, ARPA of America, Dynaudio, Zapco, Accuton Automotive, ESB Audio, Stinger, Hybrid Technologies, Xcelsus, Mercury, Audio Visions, Quartorgio, Audio Wave Ltd, Italia HiFi, ResoNix, German Maestro, Kharma Audio, Vibe Audio and Davis Distribution.
See a complete list of SVR IX winners on the web: www.steelvalleyregional.com
IASCA’s Travis Chin commented, “The Steel Valley Regional was a premier SQ event. It began a string of triple point events that will help members acquire enough points to earn an invite to our North American Championship in October. There were plenty of top sound quality vehicles to check out as they prepared for their run for the championship.” IASCA Judges were Keith Turner and Travis Chin.
MECA Commish stated, “Larry Chijner’s SVR is always a premier event on the MECA SQL schedule. This year we brought our enhanced 4X SQL program to the SVR, as part of SQOLOGY, sponsored by ARC Audio. Three of our top SQL judges rated each system’s Sound Quality, individually, and scores were averaged for the most fair outcome. Judges gave detailed notes for improvement which will lead to better scores for all MECA competitors. The MECA 4X events were designed to help prepare MECA competitors for our Finals event October 23/24 in Bentonville AR were contests will include 7 Sound Quality classes, 4 install classes, RTA Freq Out and two 2 seat (old School) SQ classes.”
Continuing, Stern offered, “Judges at the SVR included Mike Flanagan (MS), Joseph Hedden (IL), Tony Horton and Mic Wallace (NC). A big thanks as always to Larry and Klifton from SQOLOGY who worked to make this year’s SVR a highlight of the MECA season.”
EMMA Judges were Jeff Smith and Tom Meyers.
Concluding, Chijner relayed, “We look forward to seeing everyone at the SVR X which is planned for late July 2022 back at The HARV. The date will be announced next week.”
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