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In a email today from General Effect Media they listed all the States with the number of Bands by state attending BOA competitions in 2023 (665 Bands total). I thought it would be interesting to find the weighted midpoint location in the US for the attending Bands. I used the Website "geomidpoint.com" and plotted the Lat. and Long. for each state capitol city with the weight being the number of attending Bands in that State. I found the closest Major Cities to the midpoint are Little Rock & Memphis. The midpoint itself is the town of Melbourne Arkansas. My main question on this is for LeanderMomma as I think this is not far from her home. Was the location you selected for your move out of Texas planned based on being close to the center of the BOA Band World? 🤪List of Bands by State from GEM:

The schedule generally comes out a week or 2 before the comp, so expect it soon

i forgot cedar ridge, i’d put them at like 4th

schedule for PEMI!! Good luck to everyone competing! PEMI_Schedule_2023.pdf

Probably never but all I know is Southlake got 7th at nats and Keller made 14th at San Antonio. From what I see, Southlake is only getting better.

Oh that's really sad! I know those are important nights for the band, too because it shows the middle schoolers what they have to look forward to and helps with retention.

I’m rooting for The Colony too. Best of luck to you guys!

Glad to see The Colony so high! We just came off of an amazing season and it’s going really well for mid September, it’s our first year at this competition (every year we have gone to HEB) so it’s exciting to see how this will go!

Supeerrrrr excited for Duncanville show this year. Their theme is a very interesting theme with good music, and ive also heard that they have a different uniform for every section. Which will be amazing visually on the field.

Here is the schedule. Lots big hitters (and now Hebron also as seafoodbuffet stated) will be interesting to see how this play's out! I love how the groups are classified a bit differently than UIL and BOA with Cedar Park competing with the Advanced Large Group. CP has done very well in the past competing at this level in this contest. SCHOOL CLASS PERFORMANCE TIME Sonia Sotomayor Intermediate Small 10:00 AM Austin High Intermediate Small 10:15 AM Wimberly Intermediate Small 10:30 AM Lockhart Intermediate Small 10:45 AM C.E. Ellison Intermediate Small 11:00 AM East View Intermediate Small 11:15 AM Cedar Creek Intermediate Small 11:30 AM Break 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Pieper Intermediate Large 12:00 PM Weiss Intermediate Large 12:15 PM New Braunfels Intermediate Large 12:30 PM Akins Intermediate Large 12:45 PM Bastrop Intermediate Large 1:00 PM Medina Valley Intermediate Large 1:15 PM Break 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM John Jay Intermediate Large 1:45 PM Temple Intermediate Large 2:00 PM Moe & Gene Johnson Intermediate Large 2:15 PM San Marcos Intermediate Large 2:30PM Copperas Cove Intermediate Large 2:45 PM William Howard Taft Intermediate Large 3:00 PM Intermediate Awards/ Lunch Break 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM 3:30 PM Awards SCHOOL CLASS PERFORMANCE TIME Brandeis Advanced Small 4:45 PM Tomball Advanced Small 5:00 PM Georgetown Advanced Small 5:15 PM Rouse Advanced Small 5:30 PM McCallum Advanced Small 5:45 PM Break 6:00 PM - 6:15 PM Dripping Springs Exhibition 6:15 PM Sandra Day O'Conner Advanced Large 6:30 PM Lake Travis Advanced Large 6:45 PM Hebron Advanced Large 7:00 PM Hutto Advanced Large 7:15 PM James Bowie Advanced Large 7:30 PM Break 7:45 PM - 8:00 PM Winston Churchill Advanced Large 8:00 PM Cedar Park Advanced Large 8:15 PM Vandegrift Advanced Large 8:30 PM Leander Advanced Large 8:45 PM Vista Ridge Advanced Large 9:00 PM Coppell Advanced Large 9:15 PM Awards 9:45 PM

Early Predictions: 1st: Wylie (music/guard) 2nd: Wylie East (Visual) 3rd: Argyle (Percussion) 4th: Highland Park 5th: Lewisville 6th: Plano East 7th: Melissa 8th: Plano Senior 9th: Walnut Grove 10th: Plano West/Heritage 4A: 1st Anna (all captions) 5A: 1st: Argyle (Music/visual/percussion) 2nd: Melissa (guard) 3rd: Walnut Grove 6A: 1st: Wylie (music/guard/percussion) 2nd: Wylie East (visual) 3rd: Highland Park

here's the schedule

I could argue that this would be more accurate for this season, but I'll have to see as the season goes on 1. Pearland (of course) 2/3. Dawson (I believe that they have a good chance at maintaining that second spot at finals) 2/3/4. Dickinson (Their show has a lot of potential, but I could see them floating between the 2nd through 4th spot) 3/4. Clear Brook (Looking at their show it had a lot of good potential and maybe they would be able to jump up to that third spot) 4/5. SFA (Mainly going from last year, but I think they have a good shot at a state spot and i heard that they have more people this year) 5/6/7/8 Shadow Creek/ Clements/ Brazoswood (I believe that each of these bands could have a good chance at being able to get that 5th spot in finals mainly Clements or Brazoswood. With how these bands are, theres a good chance that the 5th-9th spots will change between prelims and finals) 7/8/9. Clear Falls (With how competitive the top bands are in this area, I find it hard to think they would be able to get that 5th spot in finals) 9/10. Clear Lake (Of course I believe that we'll also see Clear Lake in finals) Maybe perhaps Travis and Pasadena Memorial could show at finals this year,depending on how well their shows are.

Last year I would have given you that Coppell was better than Keller. Waxahachie I didn’t quite see it, but yes they did make finals. Timber Creek over Keller was a big surprise to me that seemed more correct at State.

Idk if I’d say that. I’ve seen their ht show and maybe it’s not as many as usual, but they are still huge in numbers. They do however look snd sound pretty good, very excited to see them here! Anytime by chance have the schedule for this comp?

rooting for the underdog is always more fun

6A Area E - State Advancement : 1. Pearland 2/3. SFA/Dawson, 4/5. Dickinson/ Shadow Creek Other guaranteed (sort of) finalists are between Clear Brook, Clements, Brazoswood, and Clear Falls

Mesquite always has a band competition every year. However, there are several other competitions around the area that same weekend as well. I know there is a big one the same day in Princeton as well.

One of their recent shows looked really promising. Plenty of ensemble GE moments as well some good arrangements. Nice musical moments as well

Oh, I guess Sachse making finals then lol

After seeing some online performances, there are some pretty strong contenders this year for the top spot IMO: Roma, Del Rio, Pioneer, and JBA Their shows seem to check off all the boxes well: Content & design, ensemble sound, guard work and of course the all mighty GE. Lots of bands seem like they are in much better positions for this time of year than in the recent past, which is going to create a wonderful show for both 6A and 5A Area. Early finalist predictions: Roma, Del Rio, Pioneer, JBA, Pieper, Hidalgo, Edinburg, United, PSJA, PSJA SW, Weslaco, Pace (bubble) Vela, Ed North, RGC

Predictions: 1. Hebron, TX 2. Flower Mound, TX 3. Wakeland, TX 4. Coppell, TX 5. Southlake Carroll, TX 6. Marcus, TX 7. Waxahachie, TX 8. Jenks, TX 9. L.D. Bell, TX 10. Keller Central, TX 11. Timber Creek, TX 12. Sachse, TX

looooove College Park's music, that opening is so interesting, well done by the trpts. turpits!! also euphonium ensemble Electric Counterpoint ftw. kinda got a little bit of goosebumps from the ballad too. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s5f_w8cyfRk stiiill need to focus on improving vis performance imo, like down to the level of fundamental marching technique. they've got the resources for that + one of the best music programs in the state. no excuses!!! u can do it!!! guard's unis are such a mood lol. love the futuristic visors. wonder if it makes things harder to see tho. camera just had to cut away right before that girl finished her front walkover toss!! ugh!!! does this guard also benefit from junior high guard classes for PE credit? just curious.

I thought it would be cool to post some band videos this year in this area. So here's a few I found: Boswell HS: Chisholm Trail HS: Trinity HS: Lake Ridge HS: North Crowley HS: Fossil Ridge HS: