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New additions: Newman Smith L.D. Bell Mansfield Southlake Carroll This now makes for a very interesting contest now.

With the absolutely absurd growth of the Melissa contest, I'm not sure what the future holds for WMI. And we just found out that BOA Bedford got moved up a week, so that complicates things even more than it already was. They need to get on the new area sheets or they won't have many bands competing here. Wasn't too long ago when Flower Mound was here... just shows how much can change in just a couple of years.

Yes, but they'll have to go against Region 2 as well as Region 25 groups in the AREA round.

This is a thing on HornRank, and I thought it would be cool to have a dedicated topic on these forums for Texas-specific staff changes. Here's what we know so far for 2026: Who is currently searching for new head directors? - - - - Cedar Park Medina Valley Creek View (new school) Tomball West (new school) Tivy Bremond Hillsboro Elkhart Coupland (new school; their district will finally serve grades 9-12) Lorena Little Cypress-Mauriceville Ranger Gunter Palestine Westwood Mineola has already promoted assistant director Donald Myers to the head director role.

UIL Marching Areas will be determined in March. There is some movement in between regions, but the big one is: Forney ISD from Region 3 to Region 20. It wouldn't change anything marching band related, especially if Area C stays together. But this is huge for the All-State process, as their students would now be auditioning for state in Area D rather than Area C.

C1 - Placing high in your area would now actually have some value. It would also help with areas not getting screwed with performance times just because their contest was postponed due to weather (i.e. Sachse in 2024). D1 - This would open the door for Division II contests, like it is for football. However, I highly doubt this would pass, as I feel it would oversaturate the state marching contest as a whole. D2 - Basically, if your area has 16 bands, you now get 4 to state; if there are 21 bands, you now get 5 to state; and vice versa. This would seem to account for declining enrollment across the state. D3 - This completely changes the game regarding how summer band is approached. More and more districts in Texas are starting to begin school on the second week of August, and under the current August 1 rule, it cuts a significant amount of drill time from most programs. We would see Texas bands score higher at BOA contests in general, simply because of more reps, and having more of a chance at knocking off one of the Indiana bands at Grand Nats more often. D4 - Too many people feel like the top half/bottom half draw cements a program's fate. This doesn't really seem to be a problem in BOA; we see changes between prelims and finals all the time. D5 - Having a chief judge could help with the bias of a top half/bottom half draw a little bit. D9 - If you know, you know. lol

If it is held at McLane Stadium, most likely going to be October 24th, as Baylor has a home game on the 17th.

Now that TXbands is fixed (hooray!) we can finally discuss the rule changes that UIL proposed in their fall meeting agenda. The most interesting ones to me are the guard judge at the 5A/6A SMBC and rules 2, 3, 5, 7, and 9 (9 for a completely different reason than the others). This could change the near future structure of UIL marching and have major implications for future changes moving forward, but what do yall think?

ITS FIXED YAY

I believe Gene Tomas's junior high feeder program also won their first ever event with a high score. Speaking of Gene, Moe and Gene Johnson absolutely dominated the National A class at the first TCGC event in Austin -- with a new director at the helm, too. Can't wait to see how they do in WGI!

any up dates on this comp? Im interested to go watch if the line up is good.

Several more Texas groups have been added to the confirmed list so far!

Guess I’ll start it off… Thomas Randle HS getting 92 points their first comp, and then skyrocketing from Scholastic Regional A to National A as of yesterday after making WGI finals! Same story with Galena Park! This is a wonderful achievement especially with a program like Randle who’s been only doing TCGC for 4 years, so congrats for both programs!!! Gene Tomas HS making 1st place yesterday at their first winter competition of their program’s history and especially in a class as competitive as AA! What a wonderful way to start off their season

Final Scores Scholastic Regional A 1. 73.180 - Clear Lake HS, TX 2. 71.140 - Tompkins HS, TX 3. 68.920 - Sonia Sotomayor HS JV, TX Scholastic A 1. 78.140 - Friendswood HS, TX 2. 77.080 - The Woodlands HS, TX 3. 76.600 - Jersey Village HS, TX 4. 74.170 - College Park HS, TX 5. 72.620 - Jordan HS, TX 6. 71.710 - Tomball Memorial HS, TX 7. 71.280 - Katy HS Varsity, TX 8. 70.890 - Oak Ridge HS, TX 9. 69.000 - George Ranch HS, TX 10. 68.780 - Dripping Springs HS Varsity, TX 10. 67.290 - Galena Park HS, TX 11. 67.120 - Foster HS, TX 13. 65.730 - Cypress Woods HS, TX 14. 65.300 - Thomas Randle HS, TX 15. 64.420 - Clements HS, TX 16. 64.030 - Pearland HS, TX Independent A 1. 69.650 - Seven Lakes, TX 2. 64.570 - Redemption Guard, TX Scholastic Open 1. 72.000 - Pearland HS, TX 2. 70.700 - Cy-Fair HS, TX 3. 69.600 - Bridgeland HS, TX 4. 66.700 - Clear Brook HS, TX 5. 65.100 - Sonia Sotomayor HS, TX 6. 64.500 - Dawson HS, TX Independent Open 1. 74.100 - Undaunted, TX 2. 71.000 - Industry Independent, TX

Final Scores Scholastic Regional A 1. 74.000 - Sanger HS, TX 2. 69.340 - Lone Star HS, TX 3. 68.700 - Hebron HS JV, TX 4. 64.760 - Plano East HS JV, TX Scholastic A 1. 80.160 - Wylie HS, TX 2. 78.730 - Rock Hill HS, TX 3. 77.910 - Azle HS, TX 4. 76.420 - Walnut Grove HS, TX 5. 75.750 - McKinney HS, TX 6. 75.160 - Hebron HS, TX 7. 73.810 - Aledo HS, TX 8. 72.440 - Independence HS, TX 9. 72.300 - McKinney North HS, TX 10. 71.770 - Prosper HS, TX 11. 70.250 - Coppell HS A, TX 12. 68.800 - Celina HS, TX 13. 68.000 - Odessa HS, TX 14. 67.260 - Waxahachie HS, TX 15. 67.200 - The Colony HS, TX Independent A 1. 68.230 - DTX Independent, TX Scholastic Open 1. 77.100 - Marcus HS, TX 2. 72.400 - Melissa HS, TX 3. 67.500 - Southlake Carroll HS, TX 4. 67.400 - Timber Creek HS, TX 5. 64.600 - Emerson HS, TX 6. 61.600 - Coppell HS, TX Independent Open 1. 81.300 - ORIGINS Open, TX 2. 78.500 - NOVA Independent Winterguard, TX Scholastic World 1. 74.200 - Little Elm HS, TX 2. 70.600 - Flower Mound HS, TX Independent World 1. 77.400 - ORIGINS, TX

Between the time posting broke on this website and it coming back, Melissa came up with a SECOND contest, and SOLD IT OUT already. Lineup: Bells HS Blue Ridge HS Bonham HS Brock HS Canton HS Caddo Mills HS China Spring HS Cooper HS Collinsville HS Commerce HS Farmersville HS Ferris HS Grand Saline HS Howe HS Honey Grove HS Kaufman HS Kennedale HS Krum HS North Lamar HS Paris HS Pine Tree HS Pleasant Grove HS Pottsboro HS Rains HS Rivercrest HS Sunnyvale HS Sulphur Springs HS Van Alstyne HS Valley View HS Wills Point HS Wolfe City HS This features last year's 2A State Champion Rivercrest, 2A State Finalist Cooper, 3A State Finalist Howe, 4A State Finalists Sulphur Springs, China Spring, North Lamar, 4A State Participants Krum, Pine Tree, Valley View, Canton, and 5A State Participant Kaufman (now 4A as well) For what the original contest has in a stacked lineup, this is a similarly stacked lineup of small school programs.

So....... Things have developed a bit. The most current participant list on the site, from January 20th is: Argyle HS Berkner HS (Richardson) Braswell HS (Denton) Burleson Centennial HS Celina HS The Colony HS Forney HS Garland HS James Martin HS (Arlington) Hebron HS Heritage HS (Frisco) Highland Park HS Lakeview Centennial HS (Garland) Lebanon Trail HS (Frisco) Liberty HS (Frisco) Little Elm HS Lone Star HS (Frisco) McKinney HS Memorial HS (Frisco) North Forney HS Panther Creek HS (Frisco) Prosper HS Rock Hill HS (Prosper) Wylie East HS Added: Berkner, Braswell, Burleson Centennial, Forney, Prosper, and Rock Hill. And...... drop Bell. We found out a few days later why Bell dropped. The BOA Bedford contest moved up to this same weekend. So..... there's a lot of unknowns as to what parts of this list are still accurate. I'm quite upset this happened because I thought for SURE this was the contest I was going to travel for this weekend.

Thread's gonna need a rename! Date change!

Wow

Sorry if I started this topic before anyone else who was planning to 😅 just super excited about this season and now that the site is back up it can finally be discussed!

I'll give $100 to any band doing a Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Show!

Would be totally down! Bummed that Hebron appears to be skipping this one but I'm excited to see FloMo, provided they are indeed going.

Hooray!!!

I think we are! Thank you @Clarinot!

anyone know which bands are coming and share your predictions