The Major Season "kicks off" in Scotland

A little background information on the RSPBA and the "5 Majors". The most central of the world associations is called the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association and it is based in Glasgow, Scotland.  They run a great number of contests throughout the calendar year and have 5 major contests affectionately known as "the majors" and at the last major competition, the winners of the league of all 5 majors are crowned Champions of Champions.  The 5 majors are The Scottish Championships, The British Championships, The European Championships, The World Championships and The Cowal Championships and it is at Cowal every year that the Champions of Champions are announced.  The RSPBA have an excellent and very current website where you can search on the results of all contests and the champions tables.  It is even updated as the results are being read out direct from the contest field.  The website can be found here: http://www.rspba.org/html/results.php