Rock Eisteddfod Challenge results (Australia) explained

These are the results of the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge in Australia, since 1984.

National results

Year	1st			2nd			3rd			Notes
	School	Musical item	State	School	Musical item	State	School	Musical item	State
1984
1985		House of Cards	NSW		Tour Egypt	NSW
1987			NSW	Sarah Redfern High	Desart	NSW
1988	Sarah Redfern High	Culprits
1989	Karingal Secondary
1990		Vivid Changes
1991			NSW
1992		JFK	Vic
1993	Rooty Hill High	Clash of the Tartans	NSW
1994	St. Columba's	Mediogre	Vic
1995	Rooty Hill High	Blaze of Glory	NSW
1995	Canberra High School	The Plight of the Farmer	ACT
1996		The Gallery of Life	NSW
1997		Let them eat cake	NSW
1998		Safari	Vic
1999		The Time Machine	NSW
2000	Bomaderry High	The Willow Pattern	NSW
2001	Terrigal High	Matroyska	NSW	Northmead High	So The Tale Goes	NSW	Bomaderry High	Swan Lake	NSW
2002	Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High	To Kill A Mockingbird	NSW		African Odyssey	NSW		Wild Wild West	NSW
2003	St Columba's	Cabaret Australia	Vic	Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High	The Secret Garden	NSW	Cranebrook High		NSW
2004	Northmead High	Sword of Qin	NSW		A Fine Line	NSW	Pymble Ladies	Degas	NSW
2005	Northmead High	Sins: Vice or Virtue	NSW	Cranebrook High	Ole	NSW		Hypothesis 2084	Vic
2006	St Columba's	Fear Or No Fear	Vic	Smiths Hill High	Tibet: Roof of the World	NSW	Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High	A League of Their Own	NSW	^[1]
2007	Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High	Tank Girl	NSW	Calwell High	Kokoda		Fairhills High	Japanime	Vic
2008	St Columba's	Women's Rites	Vic		The Barrier: An Irish Love Story	NSW	Terrigal High	Workforced	NSW
2009	Mackellar Girls High	The Grapes of Wrath	NSW	Sutherland PCYC	Rosa Parks: Woman of Colour	NSW			NSW
2011		MAX		Cranebrook High	Whaka	NSW
2012		The Tell Tale Heart	NSW	Knox United	93473	Vic	St Columba's	A Grim Tale	Vic

Molly Meldrum was a 1985 judge and reportedly said "Sarah Redfern High was easily best of the night and should have taken out first place".

National TV Specials

Year	ACT	NSW	QLD	SA	TAS	VIC	WA	Wild card entrants	Notes
1993	Canberra Girls Grammar/Canberra Grammar School	Rooty Hill High School	Trinity College – Beenleigh	Victor Harbour High School	St Michael's Collegiate College	Lowther Hall Anglican School	Bunbury Senior High School Regional: Broome Youth Support Group
1994	St. Clare's College	Rooty Hill High School Regional: Trinity Catholic College	Miami State High School Regional: Yeppoon State High School	Norwood Morialta High School Darwin: Katherine High School NT: Centralian College	Penguin High School	St. Columba's College Regional: Bellarine Secondary College	Padbury Senior High School Regional: Mandurah Senior High School
1995	Canberra Grammar School	Pymble Ladies College South NSW Regional: Bathurst High School North NSW Regional: Toronto High School	Beaudesert State High School Regional: Harristown State High School	Seaview High School NT: Katherine High School	Riverside High School	Lowther Hall Anglican School Regional: Murray High School	Penrhos College Regional: Broome Youth Support Group
1996	St Peter's Catholic College	Pymble Ladies College Regional: Terrigal High School	Kawana Waters State High School Regional: Mt St Bernard's College	Morphett Vale High School	Guilford Young College Regional: Penguin High School	St. Columba's College Regional: Bellarine Secondary College	Perth Modern School Regional: Mandurah Senior High School
1997	St. Clare's College	Engadine High School Regional: Toronto High School	Ferny Grove State High Regional: Trinity Bay State High	Taperoo High School	Ogilvie High School	Bellarine Secondary College	Perth Modern School
1998	-	Terrigal High School Regional: Bomaderry High School	Shailer Park State High Regional: Dalby State High	The Heights School	St Patrick's College	Diamond Valley College	Mandurah Senior High School
1999	Merici College	Terra Sancta College Regional: Kelso High School	Keebra Park State High Regional: Harristown State High	Seaview High School	Ogilvie High School	Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School	Aranmore Catholic College
2000	Merici College	Bomdaerry High School Regional: PLC Armidale	Bribie Island State High Regional: Cairns State High	The Heights School	Guilford College	Bellarine Secondary College	Como Senior High School
2001	St Clare's College	Terrigal High School Regional: All Saints College	Harristown State High Regional: Trinity Bay State High	Seymour College	Launceston College	Bellarine Secondary College	Mandurah Combined School
2003	Lake Tuggeranong College	Cranebrook High School Regional: Toronto High School	Bribie Island State High Regional: Trinity Bay State High	Hallet Cove School	Bridgewater High School	St Columba's College	Ocean Reef Senior High
2005	Calwell High School	Northmead High School	Keebra Park High School	Fremont-Elizabeth High School	Newstead Secondary College	Parkdale Secondary College	Como Secondary College
2006	Calwell High	Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High	Marist College	Brighton Secondary	St Patrick's College	St Columba's College	Lesmurdie Senior High		^[2]
2007	Calwell High	Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High	Harristown State High	Woodville High	Riverside High	Brunswick Secondary	Belridge Senior High
2008	Calwell High	Pymble Ladies	St Mary's, Maryborough	Brighton Secondary	Bridgewater High	Fairhills High	Duncraig Senior High
2009	Calwell High	Mackellar Girls High	Beaudesert State High	Brighton Secondary	Riverside High	Fairhills High	Belridge Senior High

JRock Division
Year	1st		2nd		3rd		Notes
	School	State	School	State	School	State
2011	St Peter's Anglican primary schoolThe Hiding Place: the story of Corrie Ten Boom	NSW
2012		NSW	St Joseph's Catholic Primary	NSW		VIC

State and territory results

Australian Capital Territory

Open Division
Year	1st		2nd		3rd		Notes
	School	Musical item	School	Musical item	School	Musical item
1995	Canberra High School	The Plight of the Farmer
2003	Monaro High
2004				Monaro High
2005	Calwell High		Daramalan College
2006	Calwell High	The Devils in the Detail
2007	Calwell High		Daramalan College

New South Wales

Newcastle Finals

Year	1st		2nd		3rd		Notes
	School	Musical item	School	Musical item	School	Musical item
1998	All Saints College St Peter's Campus	All Saints College St Peter's Campus			Toronto High School		Waratah Technology High School
1992		What Time is Love	Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High
1999

Sydney Finals

Sydney Open Division
Year	1st		2nd		3rd		Notes
	School	Musical item	School	Musical item	School	Musical item
1993	Terrigal High	Major Tom		The Sacred Covenant
1995		Luna Magic
1996				Hey Red
1997	| |||-| 1998 || Monaro High|| || Sarah Redfern High School || || Lisarow High|| |||-| 1999 || Northmead High|| Hawaii's Last Hope || Dubbo Christian School|| The lion the witch and the wardrobe || || Women on Mars || |-| 2000 || || To clone or not to clone || Woolooware High || || Lismore PCYC|| |||-| 2001 || Irrawang High || Brave || Mackellar Girls High || || Davidson High || |||-| 2002 || Marian College|| Vision ||colspan=4| |||-| 2003 || Colyton High|| Forever Young: The Matt Shepherd Story || Gosford Christian School|| || Sutherland PCYC|| Aitya |||-| 2004 || || || colspan=2 style="background: #cccccc;"| || Calwell High|| |||-| 2005 || St Peter's Catholic College || Guilty Til Proven Innocent || Kelso High || How Loved I Am || Cranebrook High|| Ole |||-| 2006 || Cranebrook High || Taj || || Mary Bryant: Her Amazing Escape From Botany Bay || Stella Maris College || I Hope This Finds You Well || |-| 2007 || Calwell High || || Chifley College|| || Woolooware High || |||-| 2008 || MLC School || The Shades of Grief || Bomaderry High|| Rusalka – legend of the lake || || |||-| 2009 || Sutherland PCYC|| Rosa Parks: Woman of Colour || Stella Maris College || || Springwood High || |||-!colspan=8 style="background: #cccccc;" | |-| 2011 || Stella Maris College || || Woolooware High || || Parramatta PCYC || || |-| 2012 || Tuggerah Lakes Secondary (Tumbi Umbi Campus) || || Northern Beaches Secondary || || Colyton High || |||} Sydney Premier Division Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 1993 Random Tox A Bicycle Ride in Hyde Park 1994 Sarah Redfern High A World Turning Rite De La Salle Ashfield 1995 Pymble Ladies College What A Buzz! Rooty Hill High Blaze of Glory Bomaderry High Let The Dream Come True 1996 Toll of Coal Pymble Ladies College The Gallery of Life Randwick Girls' and Wuthering Heights 1997 Toronto High Let Them Eat Cake Rooty Hill High The Mask of Zorro 1998 Pymble Ladies College Queen of the night the quest of Medusa Bomaderry High " Rhyme of the ancient Mariner " Terrigal High The black plague Toronto High 1999 Terrigal High Two Fathoms Deep Trivial Pursuit Dreamcatcher 2000 Bomaderry High The Willow Pattern 2001 Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High Othello Terrigal High Matryoshka Bomaderry High Swan Lake 2002 Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High To Kill A Mockingbird African Odyssey Monaro High Will You Look at Us by the River 2003 Monaro High Rising From The Static 2004 Mackellar Girls' High Fall River Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High Paikea – The Legend of the Whale Rider Northmead Highl Sword of Qin 2005 Northmead High Sins: Vice or Virtue Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High Let Me Entertain You - The Story of Miss Gypsy Rose Lee Mandela: Son of Africa 2006 Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High A League of Their Own Terrigal High I Am Sam Mackellar Girls' High A Streetcar Named Desire ^[3] 2007 Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High Tank Girl Smith's Hill High Turandot Northmead High Capone 2008 Pymble Ladies College Women Like Me Terrigal High Work Forced Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High Looking for Alibrandi 2009 Mackellar Girls (NSBC) The Grapes of Wrath Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High The House of Berlei: A Story of Our Nation's Foundations Terrigal High Doorways 2011 2012 Northmead Creative and erforming Arts High RAW Division Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 2006 Toronto High 2007 2008 Charlie Chaplin Control-controlled? Sutherland PCYC Beyond the Mirror ^[4] 2009 St Peter's Catholic College Randwick Girls' and 2011 St Peter's Catholic College Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High Ravenswood School for Girls 2012 Randwick Girls' and Randwick Boys' High Small Team Division Year Winner Notes School Musical item 2003 2004 Muirfield High 2005 Kingswood High 2006 Finals held in regional New South Wales Bathurst Open Division Year 1st 2nd Notes School Musical item School Musical item 1990 Diocesan Girls Catholic High School 1991 Annie - Trapped In The World of Gangsters 1992 Totalitaria 1993 Diocesan Girls Catholic High School Kelso The Seasons Bathurst The Jungle 1994 Arabian Nights Sleeping Beauty Meets Her Match 1995 Theseus and the Minotaur Bathurst 1000 - The Great Race 1996 The Hot Zone Alice In Wonderland 1997 Bathurst High Romeo & Juliet A Mid Summer Night's Dream 1998 Bathurst High When You Wish Upon A Star 1999 Kelso High Orpheus & Eurydice 2000 Kelso High Carmen's Heart Beats For Art 2001 Bathurst PCYC A Day In May Kelso High Joan of Arc 2002 The Red Shoes Bathurst PCYC Carpe Diem - Seize The Day 2003 Bathurst PCYC The Myst 2004 Bathurst PCYC Chan Kelso High Aleko & the Gypsies 2005 How Loved Am I? Bathurst PCYC 1:23am 2006 Vampire Bathurst PCYC And Now For Something Completely Different 2007 Bathurst PCYC Into The Arms Of Angels Kelso High Erika's Story ^[5] 2008 Bathurst PCYC Saturday Morning Bond, James Bond Newcastle Year Winner Notes School Musical item 1998 2001 All Saints', Maitland (St Peter's campus) 2006 Wollongong Premier Division Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 2007 St Joseph's Catholic High Bomaderry High 2011 Smith's Hill High Cranebrook High Queensland Finals held in Brisbane Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 1984 Relax Fashion Look Back in Anger 1985 Winners Sunnybank High Two Tribes Pinball Wizard 1992 The Liberation' 1st place Dakabin State High School 2nd place Kawana Waters State High School 3rd place - 1994 Television the Drug of the Nation 1997 Salome – Dance of Death I Believe in a God that can Dance Tibet – The Chinese Invasion of Tibet 1998 Shailer Park State High Atlantis – The Lost City Keebra Park State High The Spirit of Ireland Miles State High Awaken The Spirits 1999 Save the day 2000 Bundaberg North State High Open Division Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 1995 Kelvin Grove State High Shailer Park State High 1996 Child abuse Living on the Edge of a Rainbow 2002 Dalby District 2003 2004 Palm Beach Currumbin State High Alexandra Hills State High Beenleigh State High 2005 Beaudesert State High 2006 Marist College Ashgrove Born To Be Wild Bundaberg North State High Palm Beach-Currumbin State High ^[6] 2011 2012 Riverside State RAW Division Year Winner Notes School Musical item 2011 2012 Mitchelton State High Small Team Division Year Winner Notes School Musical item 2002 Jandowae State 2005 Whites Hill State College 2004 Jandowae State Finals held in regional Queensland Cairns Open Division Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 2003 Trinity Bay College 2006 2008 Cairns State High Townsville South Australia Open Division Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 1996 Morphett Vale High Simply Individual 1999 Seaview High 2000 2001 Banksia Park International High Maitland Area School 2002 Seaview High Sacred Heart College 2003 Brighton Secondary Banksia Park International High 2004 Brighton Secondary Woodville High 2005 Sacred Heart College Woodville High Brighton Secondary 2006 Brighton Secondary Flight of Fancy Seaford 6–12 School 21st Century Vitruvian Man Then there were none 2007 Woodville High Brighton Secondary Salisbury High 2008 Brighton Secondary Bordertown High 2012 Kangaroo Island Community Education Centre Blackwood High Small Team Division Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 2002 Trinity College Blakeview 2004 Murray Bridge High 2005 Tasmania Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 1997 Spiritual Ritual Tribal Habitual ^[7] 2000 2002 2003 2004 St Patrick's, Launceston Launceston College Open Division Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 2005 2006 St Patrick's, Launceston Clear The Way Kings Meadows School 2007 2011 Launceston Church Grammar Riverside High 2012 St Patrick's, Launceston King's Christian College RAW Division Year Winner Notes School Musical item 2006 Amazed 2007 St Patrick's, Launceston Victoria Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 1987 1989 Wild Boys 1991 Amadeus 1993 Pure Imagination'’ Playing to Win Boronia Heights Secondary Creation, Mechanisation and Imagination Open Division Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 1994 Timboon P12 School 1995 The Magic of Camelot Gaia’s Vengence Creation 1996 We Came in Peace Fitzroy Festival Dragon Slayer 1997 Strathmore Secondary Timboon P-12 School 1998 Russian Revolution 1999 Mount Clear Secondary College 2000 Choose Life Geelong Northern Education Complex 2001 The American Dream Gazuntite 2002 Mowbray Secondary 2003 Emerald Secondary 2004 Where Art Thou? 2005 Emerald Secondary Beware The Dragon Benalla Youth Group Performers Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight Our Lady of The Sacred Heart, Bentleigh Time Equals Change, Or Does It? 2006 Overload Gaia Retrogradation (Life in Reverse) 2007 Such Is Life Make Poverty History Head Trip 2008 After The Thunder Frida Echuca College The Story of Mother Theresa 2009 Diamonds Are Forever Penleigh and Essendon Grammar Hotel Rwanda 2011 Knox United No One Mourns the Wicked Montmorency Secondary Gladstone Park Secondary 2012 Premier Division Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 1994 Mediogre They Said It Could Never Happen Tour de France 1995 Langwarrin Secondary Oklahoma Werribee Secondary College Noah's Ark 1996 Batmania St Columba's College The X-Files Conspiracy Langwarrin Secondary Don't Stop The Rain 1997 Bellarine Secondary Something Wicked This Way Comes Shelford Girls' Silence of the Lambs Belmont High Chariots of the Gods 1998 Crime & Cupid in Cuba Bellarine Secondary Platform 2000 Monterey Secondary Thunderbirds Are Go 1999 China – Awakening Dragon Virtual Excursion Mt Eliza Secondary College A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That 2000 Monterey Secondary The Ice Maiden Bellarine Secondary Mystery Flight – Destination Unknown A Night at Coco's 2001 Bellarine Secondary With A Turn of the Page Bound Western Heights College Perdu Dans La Cite – Lost in the City of Love 2002 Howzat Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Belmont High Public Enemy No.1 2003 St Columba's College Cabaret Australia Parkdale Secondary Politix the Cabaret Bellarine Secondary 2004 Bellarine Secondary The Voice Within Spellbound Who Are You? 2005 Fairhills High Hypothesis: 2084 Penleigh and Essendon Grammar Painted Land Bellarine Secondary Gone But Not Forgotten 2006 St Columba's College Fear or No Fear Fairhills High The Greatest Show on Earth Rhythm and Soul 2007 Solstice Fairhills High Japanime Emerald Secondary Labyrinth 2008 Fairhills High Oceania St Columba's College Women's Rites Brunswick Secondary Glitch 2009 Fairhills High Bon Appetit The Masks We Wear Parkdale Secondary The Dream Stealers 2011 Brunswick Secondary College Submerged Lara Secondary Peter and the Wolf The Strange Case... 2012 Brunswick Secondary RAW Division Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 2006 2007 2009 Leaving Home Flash Point 2011 Our Lady of The Sacred Heart, Bentleigh 2012 Bendigo Senior Secondary Lyndhurst Secondary Small Team Division Year Winner Notes School Musical item 2002 2003 Benalla Youth Group Performers 2004 2005 2006 Maranatha Christian College Prodigal's Daughter Western Australia Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 1992 1993 Changing Channels – Will the Family Survive? Choices – Past, Present and Future 1994 Blackboard Jungle Let The Ocean Nourish Our Existence Stars and Stripes Stereotyped 1995 Penrhos College Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries Mandurah Senior High Dorothy Downunder – The Making of Oz 1996 Fashion Frenzy Perth Modern Technology: Helpful or Deceitful? Mandurah Senior High Celebrations 1997 Perth Modern Berlin “Multiculturalism” Open Division Year 1st 2nd 3rd Notes School Musical item School Musical item School Musical item 2001 Perth Modern 2002 2003 2004 Perth Modern 2005 Belridge Senior High 2006 Jekyll & Pride Perth Modern 2007 Belridge Senior High ^[8] 2008 2009 2011 Perth Modern RAW Division Year Winner Notes School Musical item 2006 2011 Small Team Division Year Winner Notes School Musical item 2002 2004 Kearnan College 2006 Graphs References

Notes and References

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Y22d3aeHk YouTube Video
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Y22d3aeHk YouTube Video
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Y22d3aeHk YouTube Video
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYaUJ0Npwrc YouTube video
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoEarA3EcEo YouTube Video
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBaJhKM3c-w YouTube Video
7. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: 1997 Tasmanian Rockeistedfod. Taroona High School . YouTube.
8. Web site: Rock Eisteddfod Challenge Perth Results . 2 July 2007 . 2 July 2007 . Rock Eisteddfod Challenge Official Site . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928063135/http://www.rockchallenge.com.au/modules.php?op=modload&name=PagEd&file=index&topic_id=0&page_id=55 . 28 September 2007.