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2017 USBands Southwestern Championship


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https://yea.org/news/1663-introducing-new-usbands-southwestern-championships-at-at-t-stadium-in-dallas

 

On October 21st, 2017, USBands will be holding the first ever marching band competition to be hosted in the Cowboys' AT&T Stadium. They are targeting enrollment to be "up to 60" bands.

 

This is the week before 1A/2A/3A/5A Area on the same day as several UIL Region competitions, so we will have to see about attendance.

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I've noticed more and more regions moving their UIL competitions to weekday evenings, and I could also see plenty of bands double booking this with UIL, just for the opportunity to play there. USBands isn't my favorite in terms of judging rubrics but this seems like a great season ender for smaller programs and a good warm up for State/super regional for some bigger programs

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  • 5 months later...

Here is the schedule for the 25 bands at the USBands Southwestern Championship at AT&T Stadium: https://trigonroad.com/yea/eventDetail.cfm?searchState=&eventID=1821

 

9:30 - Italy

9:45 - Adamson

10:00 - Nolan Catholic

10:15 - Grandview

10:30 - Liberty-Eylau

10:45 - Anna

11:00 - Del Valle

Break

12:00 - Kaufman

12:15 - W. Charles Akins

12:30 - Joshua

12:45 - Lamar

1:00 - Crowley

1:15 - Cleburne

1:30 - Colleyville Heritage

1:45 - Lorena

2:00 - Magnolia West

Break

2:45 - Garland

3:00 - North Crowley

3:15 - Lafayette

3:30 - Saginaw

3:45 - Granbury

4:00 - Klein Forest

4:15 - Boswell

4:30 - Carroll

4:45 - Chisholm Trail

 

Finals starts at 7:00pm.

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what do you think the chances are we see a band like Marcus or Flower Mound attend?

It is UIL weekend. They won't be there.

 

From what I understand USBands is a completely different scoring system than BOA. I saw the list of bands competing and really didn't recognize hardly any of them.

 

If the Carroll is Southlake Carroll then they should do OK. I saw them at UIL a couple years ago and they put on a good show. They have rec'd a 1 rating the last few years at UIL region

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Prelim scores from Group 3 (Anna, Del Valle, and Liberty-Eylau)

 

3rd place: Anna HS (82.6125) - Caption awards for Percussion and Music

2nd place: Del Valle HS (82.6375) - Caption award for Colorguard

1st place: Liberty-Eylau HS (82.75) - Caption award for Overall Effect

 

LE moves on to finals as well. I'm not sure if Anna or Del Valle do.

 

I don't really know much more because that's all that was posted to LE's page.

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13th - 85.3125 - Liberty-Eylau

12th - 85.5625 - Nolan Catholic

11th - 86.8000 - North Crowley

10th - 88.8250 - W Charles Akins

9th - 89.3875 - Granbury

8th - 89.8125 - Garland

7th - 89.9375 - Boswell

6th - 92.0000 - Saginaw

5th - 92.3625 - Chisholm Trail (Percussion)

4th - 92.5625 - Colleyville Heritage

3rd - 92.6250 - Klein Forest

2nd - 94.3500 - Southlake Carroll (Music)

1st - 94.9250 - Lafayette (Visual, GE, Guard)
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13th - 85.3125 - Liberty-Eylau
12th - 85.5625 - Nolan Catholic
11th - 86.8000 - North Crowley
10th - 88.8250 - W Charles Akins
9th - 89.3875 - Granbury
8th - 89.8125 - Garland
7th - 89.9375 - Boswell
6th - 92.0000 - Saginaw
5th - 92.3625 - Chisholm Trail (Percussion)
4th - 92.5625 - Colleyville Heritage
3rd - 92.6250 - Klein Forest
2nd - 94.3500 - Southlake Carroll (Music)
1st - 94.9250 - Lafayette (Visual, GE, Guard)

 

So this is Lafayette High from Lafayette, Louisiana?

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Correct!

 

Okay, I thought so. I'm old, so I go way back to where most of the marching bands in this part of the country marched military style. In the early to mid 70's, we kept hearing about this awesome "corps style" band in Lafayette -  Acadiana HS. We had a week with no football game, so we drove to Lafayette to watch them at their halftime to see what all the excitement was about. They were awesome and it changed all of our lives forever! After then, military bands just seemed less exciting and left me wanting something else. Kind of like eating cookies with half the sugar all of your life and then eating one with all of the sugar. Those half-sweet cookies just don't satisfy you anymore.

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Liberty-Eylau did a lot better than I expected them to here, even though they did come in last in finals, but they were really motivated at this contest as well (they were really quite upset after UIL and were pretty hellbent on proving them wrong in a way), as well as putting on the best show they've done in years. I'm proud of them.

 

And congratulations to the winning bands as well! I know I didn't see their shows, but I bet they were awesome.

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