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Any thoughts of a moving Grand National, the move each year is to one of the locations of BOA Super Regional?  I think this not only would continue to grow "Music For All and BOA's", but you may see many more bands make the trip to GA and San Antonio when the GN come.  Would they ever be open to this?

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Medal? They can win the Eagle. Tell me one band you know for sure would be ahead of them?

I don't mean that in a snarky way, just a way of saying they have as good of a chance if not better than any of the other bands...I'm a homer but if they finish a strong second here with a good cushion between them and any other Texas band I would almost think they WOULD. They can beat Tarpon, Avon, Carmel, Mason. Absolutely.

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Any thoughts of a moving Grand National, the move each year is to one of the locations of BOA Super Regional?  I think this not only would continue to grow "Music For All and BOA's", but you may see many more bands make the trip to GA and San Antonio when the GN come.  Would they ever be open to this?

 

This is mentioned every year.  It sounds nice in thought, but really there is no better place to have a marching band Grand National Championship than Indy right now.  There are very few locations who have the combination of accommodations that Indy has.  There are few other large stadiums who have the acoustic qualities that the Drum has.  I would love to see Grand Nats in Dallas, but there isn't a combination of facilities that could handle it.  Plus the acoustics in Jerry World are HORRIBLE.  

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To those speculating finals performance times were based on prelims results. Has it changed in the last 8-10 years? When I was in high school we got like 7th and performed last in finals (something close to that).

They changed it this year.  The bands finishing in the top 7 in prelims had the last 7 performance times in a draw. The second 7 had the first 7 performance times in a draw.

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Any thoughts of a moving Grand National, the move each year is to one of the locations of BOA Super Regional? I think this not only would continue to grow "Music For All and BOA's", but you may see many more bands make the trip to GA and San Antonio when the GN come. Would they ever be open to this?

This has been talked about many times. San Antonio isn't really set up very well logistically to handle that many bands, requiring a lot of practice space over several days.

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This is mentioned every year. It sounds nice in thought, but really there is no better place to have a marching band Grand National Championship than Indy right now. There are very few locations who have the combination of accommodations that Indy has. There are few other large stadiums who have the acoustic qualities that the Drum has. I would love to see Grand Nats in Dallas, but there isn't a combination of facilities that could handle it. Plus the acoustics in Jerry World are HORRIBLE.

Atlanta and St.Louis are probably the only options even close logistics-wise

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1. Flower Mound (93.30)

2. The Woodlands (91.25)

3. Leander (90.85)

4. Claudia Taylor Johnson (89.70)

5. Hebron (89.65)

6. Marcus (89.60) 

7. Vandegrift (89.30)

8. Ronald Reagan (88.25)

9. Cedar Park (87.65)

10. Round Rock (85.90)

11. Winston Churchill (84.90)

12. Hendrickson (84.20)

13. Keller (83.80)

14. Cypress Falls (82.40)

 

Outstanding Music: Flower Mound

Outstanding General Effect: Flower Mound

Outstanding Visual: Flower Mound

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Flower Mound did what I thought they would, impressive win for sure.

 

The Woodlands...shocker of the day.  I loved the show design.  Redemption from area for sure.  

 

Grand Nationals Attendees:

 

  1. Leander
  2. Claudia Taylor Johnson
  3. Ronald Reagan
  4. Cedar Park

Johnson and Leander far exceeded expectations.  

 

First 2 out:

 

- Cedar Ridge

- LD Bell

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