The Official Contest of Carnival Groups (COAC) continues this Tuesday, February 7, with about a dozen groups going up to the stage of the Teatro Gran Falla in Cádiz to face the public and the jury and give the best of themselves in order to get the highest possible score. After two weeks of preliminaries, this Monday began the phase of quarter finalsin which some 60 groups participate and which runs until Saturday, the day on which the the list of chirigotas, comparsas, quartets and choirs who will go to the COAC semifinal.
But until then, keep the party going! On Tuesday night he does it with the participation of one of the chirigotas of the year, the one with the biscuit, which this year participates under the name of Los mi alma and in which, in addition, the presenter of laSexta José Yélamo also sings. The my soul have become one of the favorites of the 2023 edition of the COAC. On this occasion, the Bizcocho chirigota will perform in fourth position: taking into account that the session starts at 8:30 p.m. at the Gran Falla and that each group has half an hour to show their entire repertoire on stage, with the times of rest between the performance of Los mi alma is estimated to start around 10:45 p.m. These are the nine groups (two choirs, four comparsas and three chirigotas) that will perform this Tuesday at the Gran Falla:
COAC 2023: order of action for this Tuesday, February 7
How the scores work during the COAC quarterfinals
As in the preliminary phase, the COAC jury takes their notes daily, during each of the sessions, ‘in situ’ and in secret, but it is not until the phase ends when some scores are made public, not all, only “the names and scores of the groups that do not go to the following”, as can be read in the contest rules. Of course, at this stage of the quarterfinals the groups that pass They have not carried over the points obtained in the qualifyingbut all have started with 0 points, other things being equal.
However, as the phase progresses, they are known the scores awarded by the alternative and unofficial juries, which are a series of juries created by the Cadiz media, who give their estimates of points to each of the groups. They are not official by any means, but some of the jurors follow the same criteria as the official ones, so it is possible that they are similar. Here you can check how the scores are going:
Can you follow the COAC quarterfinal phase live?
Like the preliminary sessions, all quarterfinal phases can be followed live. The tickets to go see the performances in the theater were sold out the same day they went on sale, as were those of each and every one of the sessions of the qualifying phase and also those of the semifinal, the last to go on sale. sale. It is something usual: in Cádiz there is a lot of expectation for the COAC and the locations run out in a few hours.
However, thanks to Onda Cádiz Carnival you can follow livethanks to its retransmission through YouTube, all the sessions of the quarterfinal phase, as well as those of the semifinal, although not those of the final.
Source: Lasexta
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