Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Un Vie de Matelot (A Sailor's Life) 1975
Adjudicators:	Alan Morrison , Andrea Price
Venue:	Jennifer Blackwell Performance Space, Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Sandhurst Silver	Joshua Ruck	14
2	Sovereign Brass	David Maplestone	11
3	Unite Scotland Kinneil	Allan Ramsay	9
4	Yorkshire Imperial	Ian McElligott	1
5	Roche Brass	Matt Green	12
6	Eccles Borough	Mareika Gray	5
7	Longridge	Mark Peacock	15
8	Newstead Brass	Martin Heartfield	7
9	City of Hull	Daniel Brooks	16
10	Newtongrange Silver	Anne Crookston	3
11	Dalkeith & Monktonhall	James Chamberlain	10
12	Brunel Brass	Daniel Hall	8
13	Parc & Dare	Chris Turner	17
14	Pontardulais	Gary Davies	13
15	Haydock	Mark Quinn	2
16	Lydbrook	David Barringer	18
17	Goodwick	Joshua Ruck	6
18	City of Cardiff (Melingriffith)	Robert Westacott	4
19	Tyldesley	Neil Samuel	20
20	Filton Concert Brass	Craig Williams	19

Best Soloist: Andrew Ashworth (Soprano Cornet), Sandhurst

Newly invited bands:
Lydbrook (Wychavon Festival of Brass)
Haydock (Fife Charities Band Association Contest)
Filton Concert Brass (Welsh Open Contest)
Sandhurst Silver (Rochdale Contest)
Sovereign Brass (invited to replace Enderby, who got promoted to the Senior Cup)
Brunel Brass (reinstated following Kingdom Brass' withdrawal)

Bands that declined an invitation: Kingdom Brass

Sandhurst Silver, Sovereign Brass, Unite Scotland Kinneil and Yorkshire Imperial will be promoted to the 2027 Senior Cup
Lydbrook, Goodwick, City of Cardiff (M1), Tyldesley and Filton Concert Brass will be relegated from the Senior Trophy and have to regain entry to the British Open Spring Festival