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  1. There's a (sorta perverse) incentive to produce results even if it means you're not going up against the biggest competition. At the end of the day, you get to say that you made a BOA Super Regional Finals, even if it costs more money and the competition may or may not be as strong. There's also something to say about morale and band attitude that comes from doing well. Who knows if making a Super Regional finals for the first time or first time in a while ends up being the boost to create a strong program that does well in Texas? Maybe a band wants to challenge for a championship or land in the top half and sees a better opportunity to do so elsewhere. Additionally, I won't contest that San Antonio is the toughest Super Regional, but I don't think the differential is *that* large - definitely not at the top at all of the other Super Regionals, and even at the bottom of their more competitive years / San Antonio's weaker years.
  2. I think I remember seeing that James E Taylor in Katy was looking at making the trip sometime in the near future.
  3. Air Academy also almost made BOA San Antonio finals in 2011 at 17th, I believe, beating out a strong Vandegrift for the class 2A title.
  4. Word has been buzzing through reddit and the BOA forums that CTJ isn't going this year, but we'll see. Bowie is apparently also not happening coming off a big London trip. It seems as if Hebron is going for real this year. I would expect The Woodlands as well, along with Cedar Ridge and Round Rock. I would bet on Reagan going because it's been a while. Bell is a bit more iffy. I would assume that Leander ISD will have at least one representative in 2016.
  5. This is the first regional outside of the Texas Triangle since 2007, correct?
  6. Orawa by Wojciech Kilar, The River Cam by Eric Whitacre, and Rocky Point Holiday by Ron Nelson
  7. For what it's worth, this means that CTJ won prelims as well, with Leander in 2nd and Marcus in 3rd.
  8. All of the Indiana bands will come of course. (And I hope this includes Homestead!) One can expect Mason, Centerville, O'Fallon Township and Marian Catholic as well. Broken Arrow is likely to come back, and Owasso and Union are less likely, but possible. Tarpon will likely not come back and Kennesaw Mountain won't, but Harrison may come back. Franklin and Dobyns-Bennett will both probably return. Blue Springs apparently is coming back as well. PCEP is taking next year off. Wando probably won't come back - I think they're on an every three or so schedule. I think Ayala is also every three, but American Fork is on every two if I remember correctly and should be back next year. Fun fact: The first band from Hawaii is coming in 2015!
  9. Wakeland came in 15th! What an amazing finish for them! Glad to have been wrong about their placement as well!
  10. Amazing showing by our Texas bands, and a great night ahead! I'm thinking the eagle is going to fly back south to a state it hasn't been to in a long while based on the semi-finals results and from what I saw on the live stream.
  11. So basically, the advancers are: Top 11 from both days of prelims The next eight highest scores regardless of day Any class representation necessary to make sure at least two bands from each class from each day performs Then the performance schedule is The class advancers (5 this year) 4 of the bands ranked 23-30 of the advancers (I'm not sure how common it is, but it's very possible that a band could be in the top 30 overall, yet not make semi-finals because of severely imbalanced days - 11 bands have to make it from both days. So say 11 made it from Friday, and all of the next 8 made it from Friday too and they were all the top 19 overall. Say the 20th place band was also from Friday, and 21-31 were all from Thursday. Unless 20th place needed to make it in on class representation, they would not make semi-finals, while 31st did.) the top 22 of the advancers, regardless of day, regardless of who was top 11 on whatever day (for example, this year there are 8 from Thursday and 14 on Friday) The other 4 bands ranked 23-30 of the advancers Kinda confusing, but that's how it is. And you can backtrack and figure out where all the bands placed in prelims.
  12. Flower Mound was absolutely spectacular. They should definitely be in finals, and I'm thinking they'll land towards the middle of the pack (6-9). Wakeland was great as well, but it's a really competitive year on the bubble. I think they'll end around 18-26, which is more than great for a first showing. They'll probably advance on next 8, seeing that Friday is extremely loaded - to the point where all the medalists and more than half of the finalists (9 even?) could come from today alone.
  13. This year also marks the first time a DFW band didn't medal at San Antonio in about a decade as well. However, 2006 Churchill won the bronze (and it should have been outright).
  14. Leander hasn't had a main director change in almost seven years, and hasn't had a colorguard director change in almost four. A change in design team, newer teachers becoming experienced, and having a larger feeder system than the other schools in the district all helped. As for LISD in general, the district decided to expand Leander (capacity ~2600 from ~1800) instead of opening a new high school in the northwest corner of the district, so Leander should be back in 6A soon. Cedar Park and Vandegrift are more or less built out (CP much more so), and should stay in 5A for the time being. Vista Ridge and Rouse would be projected to grow more because of huge housing complexes going up between Leander/Cedar Park and Round Rock/Georgetown, but High School #6 is instead going to open in the far eastern side of the district, which should take Rouse back down to 5A and keep Vista Ridge there.
  15. Agh! Third 4th place in a row for Bowie, although they have nothing to feel bad about. They still put on aa spectacular show with a UIL placement that's nothing to scoff at, along with their highest BOA San Antonio placement ever this weekend. There's always 2016!
  16. After seeing Bowie this weekend, I would be shocked if they didn't take home a medal on Tuesday night. And I'm not sure it'll be the third place one, either.
  17. An average of 5 or 6 bands a year from Texas. There are five bands from outside of Texas that I would certainly bet on (especially this year) and about four or five bands from Texas that I also would bet on. The last two or three spots just kind of depend, but Texas should take at least one as well just because of depth alone. Which bands, you can decide (:
  18. As much as I love Cedar Ridge's show and want to see them in, I get afraid that the relative lack of playing throughout the first two movements will hurt them. The show is quite progressive in that regard, and may not be as well received by UIL.
  19. Fun Fact 2: This is Vista Ridge's first appearance in any BOA finals. So great for them and the whole Leander ISD! The last couple of years have really showcased this district to BOA and UIL. There's something in the water in Northwest Austin.
  20. Coppell's definitely in the toughest TMEA Area. They have to compete with Duncanville and the rest of central and south Dallas, North Austin where the LISD schools generally compete up in 6A and RRISD with Westwood in particular as a big all state factory, and North Houston where Conroe ISD, Klein ISD and Spring ISD push tons and tons of fantastic players as well. If anything Coppell's area alignment affirms this record and makes it even more impressive.
  21. I really question how much the raw scores really matter in both the grand scheme of things and on a smaller level. Yeah, there's a rubric, but it just seems like judges throw out a semi-random number for the first couple of bands and work everyone else around that. Knowing the UIL rubric, I can't see any reason for that wide a discrepancy between Marcus and Hebron in any case. I sort of even think that the fact that only the ordinals matter for advancing actually encourages what seems like random raw scores with fairly improbable gaps. As long as the ten are in order, it effectively doesn't matter if you used 981-990 to rank the groups versus 1-10 or the full 1-1000.
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