Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Elgar Variations 2006
Adjudicators:	Stephen Cobb , Mareika Gray
Venue:	Huddersfield Town Hall, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Hepworth	Ryan Watkins	9
2	Grimethorpe Colliery	Frans Violet	8
3	Brighouse & Rastrick	David King	12
4	Black Dyke	Nicholas Childs	2
5	Rothwell Temperance	David Roberts	4
6	Hammonds	Morgan Griffiths	5
7	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Allan Withington	11
8	Yorkshire Imperial	Ian McElligott	3
9	Stannington	Sam Fisher	10
10	Skelmanthorpe	Jonathan Bates	6
11	Unite the Union	Jonathan Beatty	1
12	Old Silkstone	Norman Law	7

Best Soloist receiving a Kirklees Music of Brighouse Trophy & Voucher: Noah Mallinson, flugel horn, Hammonds
Best Principal Cornet receiving The Bernard Bygrave Trophy: Adam Hofland-Ward, Hepworth
Best Instrumentalist receiving The Eddie Noble MBE Memorial Trophy: Chris Robertson, Euphonium, Brighouse & Rastrick
Best Percussion receiving the Ray Payne Trophy: Rothwell
Youngest Player receiving The James Shepherd Trophy and Scholarship award by The Yorkshire Music Future Foward Trust: Sebastian McClade (trombone, aged 15), Unite the Union

First Prize: The People Challenge Cup and £200
Second Prize: The Lou Renshaw Cup and £125
Third Prize: The Hall Memorial Trophy and £100
Winning Conductor: Roy Newsome Trophy

Black Dyke have prequalified for the Championship Section National Finals 2026 from placing 2nd at the Championship Section National Finals 2025.

Hepworth and Grimethorpe Colliery receive an invitation to represent Yorkshire at the Championship Section National Finals 2026.
Old Silkstone and Skelmanthorpe will be relegated to the Yorkshire Area First Section in 2027.