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That's easily the best performance I've ever seen (or been in) from that program, even through a livestream. They've already had an incredible season and just being at state is an accomplishment, but they took it one step farther and gave *that* performance. I'll admit I'm a very biased alum but I sure hope they get a finalist spot, even though that'll be very difficult given the obvious strength of the competition.

Is anyone recording the performances? I have the livestream but there's some shows I haven't been able to see. I also selfishly want a recording of my alma mater (Carroll) but won't be able to record them with the computer I have. I'm sure someone out there is recording them, so if you'd send that folder (or even just my band once they go) my way I would greatly appreciate it.

I'm so proud of Southlake Carroll. When I was freshman just four years ago, making finals at Area or BOA was a longshot, and now they've qualified for state with a 3rd place finish in the most competitive area in Texas. I saw a video of the drum majors' reaction and it shows just how much this means to this them. It's tough to see so many great bands not advance, but to see my school's name listed above such storied programs like LD Bell and Duncanville is unbelievable.

The predictions page for Mansfield Preview of Champions lists Burleson Centennial instead of Lakeview Centennial. Any way that can be fixed? EDIT: Burleson Centennial is attending Mansfield, must have been a later addition when they dropped BOA Austin. Burleson Centennial has it on their calendar but hasn't been put on the schedule on the website. However, I think Lakeview Centennial is still missing from the predictions list despite being on the schedule and having it on their calendar. Sorry for any confusion! There's too many high schools with similar names...

For anyone making predictions, Carroll will not be performing in finals due to their homecoming being that weekend.

It makes sense if Marcus can't go, but why not Hebron? They don't have Nats the next week like FloMo and Marcus. Does their Rose Parade trip cause them to any school? I guess it's still a big financial commitment either way.

Interesting side effect of the current schedule for state next year: for 2021, the Alamodome will overtake Lucas Oil Stadium in the number of days it holds marching band events. for the past several years, Lucas Oil has had the most days of marching competitions, but with the addition of three more days for UIL, the Alamodome takes the lead. Lucas Oil: Grand Nationals (3 days), Indy Super Regional (2 days), ISSMA State (1 day): 6 total Alamodome: SA Super Regional (2 days), UIL State (normally 3 days, now 6): 8 total

Just watched Hebron at Area C. Several holes, but WOW do they still sound great. Huge sound, amazing technical features and great ensemble blend. No big props, but still a substantial amount of complex choreography considering there’s no GE caption to worry about this year. Shorter than last years show, but I wouldn’t expect any band to go longer than the 8 minutes this year. Some cleaning to be done before state, but they’re still the Hebron we all know and love. Very good chance they win tonight.

Does anyone know if the Area contests (specifically B and C) are open to the public? Reading the Area C website it sounds like that's the case there, especially if the TXBands team will be there, but I want to make sure before trying to go.

Keller isn't doing UIL this year

Thanks for the correction! Either way, Flower Mound, Hebron, and Marcus can all still advance to state.

Oh boy, it's been awhile since I've been on here. Good to be back! Anyways, I don't think this will be the case. Looking at the 6A Area C performance order (which was published before any Region contests took place), there are 17 bands that intend to participate in the Area contest. The UIL rule for advancing to state basically says that for every 5 bands at Area, 1 advances to state, with a minimum of 2 advancing. This means that Area C will advance 3 bands assuming all 17 bands advance to the Area contest. Of those 17, the five 6A bands in Regions 2 and 25 performed Saturday and all earned 1st divisions and will advance. The remaining 12 (11 in Region 3 and 1 in Region 21) have their Region contests tomorrow (Nov. 18th), but I find it unlikely that any 3 of those would fail to advance to Area and thus have only 14 bands at Area and causing only two would advance. Bottom line: we will most likely see all three Lewisville ISD powerhouses in San Antonio. Sorry if that's a lot of information, we're not doing UIL so I've got way too much time on my hands.

That sounds right. For example, at the BOA D/FW regional last year, two UIL 4A schools attended, of those, Anna HS was 2A, but Krum HS was 1A. In my opinion, it's hard to say how good smaller Texas schools do in BOA since there's not that many that do BOA. Compare BOA San Antonio and Grand Nationals: Of the 84 bands at SA, there were 52 4A bands, 22 in 3A, 5 in 2A and 5 in 3A, but at GN, out of 91 bands, 30 were 4A, only 9 were 3A, 30 were 2A, and 22 were 1A. For whatever reason, smaller Texas schools just don't do BOA as much

BOA has four classes: 1A, 2A, 3A, and 4A, with 4A being the largest. Classification is determined by the number of students at the school in grades 10-12. UIL has six conferences: 1A through 6A, with 6A being the largest. Conference is determined by number of students at the school in grades 9-12. I'd have to look up the exact cutoff numbers for those, but they both change every couple years to make each group roughly even. The two systems are completely independent of each other, so it can be confusing which group bands are placed in since sometimes they overlap. Generally, UIL 6A bands are 4A bands in BOA, but some smaller 6A schools (e.g. Leander this past year) might be 3A in BOA. Similarly, UIL 5A schools tend to be BOA 3A, but sometimes they end up in 2A for BOA. I could go into much more detail about the differences, but hopefully that clears things up for you

I think this is a great idea and I love that I've seen several bands doing it. Now to convince my director to let us do this...