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
1997	Lake Tuggeranong College	Dracula: Thriller
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	Albion Park High
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			Lismore PCYC
2001		Brave
2002	Marian College	Vision
2003	Colyton High	Forever Young: The Matt Shepherd Story	Gosford Christian School		Sutherland PCYC	Aitya
2004				Calwell High
2005		Guilty Til Proven Innocent		How Loved I Am	Cranebrook High	Ole
2006	Cranebrook High	Taj		Mary Bryant Her Amazing Escape From Botany Bay		I Hope This Finds You Well
2007	Calwell High		Chifley College		Woolooware High
2008		The Shades of Grief	Bomaderry High	Rusalka – legend of the lake
2009	Sutherland PCYC	Rosa Parks: Woman of Colour	Stella Maris College
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

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.