Friendship Cup

The Friendship Cup is a competitive circuit for high school marching bands in the Rocky Mountain Region. Unlike CBA Sanctioned shows, The Friendship Cup competitions allow bands to compete with other similarly-sized bands, not based on school classification (meaning the bands compete with similarly sized bands as opposed to similarly sized high schools). Ralston Valley falls into the AA Class (41-70 performers) according to the Friendship Cup classification system for 2025. 

The Friendship Cup is offering three different events in 2025. RV is attending the Eaton High School event, which is a traditional prelims/finals format. Only twelve bands will advance from prelims to finals.   

If you would like to volunteer on the day of the competition, please click here.

RV Competition Day Schedule:

6:15 a.m.: Students arrive at RV

6:15 a.m.: Drop off food donations at RV

8:30 a.m.: Props/Pit Volunteers and Uniform/Water Helpers arrive at Eaton High School

10:15 a.m.: Prelims Performance

10:35 a.m.: Hospitality Lunch Servers meet at the hospitality trailer immediately after the prelims performance

~11:10 a.m.: Lunch

1.5 hours before finals performance: Props/Pit Volunteers and Uniform/Water Helpers meet at RV trailers

Finals Performance will likely start sometime between 4:00 and 6:15 p.m. The exact time depends on the prelims score and won't be published until after 12:45 p.m.

Time TBD: Dinner

7:25 p.m.: Drum Major Retreat (Finals)

~9:00 p.m.: Students arrive back at RV

~9:15 p.m.: Parents to pick up students at RV

Ticketing Information:

Tickets may be purchased at the gate. Cash and credit cards are accepted. Tickets for prelims and finals are sold separately. A combination ticket for admission to both prelims and finals is available at a reduced rate; however we don't know for sure that we will move on to finals.

Ticket pricing is as follows:

Competition Schedule:

Parking and Other Information:

• Please use County Road 35 to access the spectator parking lot, which is just west of the stadium (see map below).

• Concessions will be available. Cash and credit card payments are accepted.

• There will be a festival merchandise table. Cash and credit card payments are accepted.