 Nine of these games, plus the Annual Gathering (an indoor piping and drumming competition with no other events) are sanctioned by the BCPA and produce aggregate points in solo piping and drumming, as well as pipe band competition, for an overall Grand Aggregate prize, announced at the end of each competition season.From the settlement of Vancouver to the association's founding in 1932, there were a few attempts to establish a piping society, all of which had failed shortly after they were founded.There were a handful of pipe bands, and annual games were put on by the Vancouver St. Andrews & Caledonian Society.