Bptt Renegades has retained its lead in the National Panorama competition topping the semifinal round three points ahead of pan rival Desperadoes with an aggregate of 279 points.
The defending champion playing a Duvone Stewart arrangement of Batson/George/Galt/Hilsmeier/Henry collaboration of Hookin Meh vocalised by Farmer Nappy performed at position four in the large band category.
Also maintaining its lead in the medium band category was Pan Elders.
The Southern-based steel orchestra wowed the adjudication panel with its rendition of Scrunter’s (Owen Reyes Johnson) The Will. They amassed 275 points. Ten bands in the medium and an equal number in the large band category will compete in the Panorama finals at Carnival City, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, on March 2.