St Mar­garet's Su­per­stars and Katzen­jam­mers Steel Or­ches­tras scored the most points in their re­spec­tive cat­e­gories in the blink/bmo­bile Na­tion­al Panora­ma Small and Medi­um Con­ven­tion­al Bands Pre­lim­i­nar­ies.

The Ju­nior Panora­ma win­ner 2009, St Mar­garet's Su­per­stars, ap­pear­ing at po­si­tion 11, played Call­ing Meh arranged by Shenelle Abra­ham. For its ef­fort, the band amassed 271 points. In the Medi­um Band cat­e­go­ry, Katzen­jam­mers, of To­ba­go, placed first with a to­tal of 252 points. Their tune of choice was Ed­win Pouchet's arrange­ment of Wake Up.

The qual­i­fy­ing round, which was held over four days in To­ba­go, North, South-Cen­tral and East, saw a to­tal of 87 steel­bands vy­ing for places in the semi­fi­nal round. While the 16 Large Bands were not judged, they played their Panora­ma piece and were sub­ject­ed to a band count. At the end of the pre­lim­i­nar­ies, 44 bands will pro­ceed to the blink/bmo­bile Na­tion­al Panora­ma semi­fi­nals, aka "Sa­van­nah Par­ty", on Sun­day at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, from 9 am. Tick­ets are priced at $300 North Stand and $260 Grand Stand. The out­lets are NCC Tick­et Booth, Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do and Pan Trin­ba­go Head Of­fice, Port-of-Spain.