Carolina sound and Carolina marching arts productions are proud to present tour of Champions season 40. This will be a true prelims and finals event with prelims on January 18th and finals on the 25th. Presenting the best of FMA. After some scheduling issues and applications issues from season 39. The tour of Champions board got together and came up with season 40 format. Prelims will occur on the 18th the Sunday before finals week. All groups applications will be accepted for all groups with applications in both events. On a first come first serve basis. TOC finals will occur on Sunday of finals week on the 25th. Applications will be reserved with the top 15 from prelims being admitted following prelims event. Moving TOC-finals to the Sunday of finals week eliminates the conflict brought about last season where applications could not be held due FMA rules allowing only 5 regular season shows a week. As finals week only has 3.