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Vandegrift's 2022 show will be called "Into The Grid" Musical Selections Include - "Into the Grid" - Daft Punk (Source Material for MVT 1) "MACHINE" From Symphony #5 - William Bolcom (Source Material for MVT 2) "Adagio" - Daft Punk (Source Material for MVT 3) "Masks and Machines" - Paul Dooley (Source Material for MVT 4) "Hymn of Acxiom"- Vienna Teng (Source Material for MVT 4) Original Material written by Shaw and Markworth From my understanding the show will contain some experimental marching and attempt to create a 3D effect on the field using formations of props and marchers.

Very excited to see who can medal. It’s looking like in A class we could have Westlake and Friendswood potentially medal or Bridgeland can even sneak back up. SO as Johnson and IO has Origins Open who are both having a very strong year! I’m also wondering if The Woodlands can hold on to that medal spot and bring home the first World class medal in Texas history! It’s going to be such a great week!

WGI World Championships in Dayton start tomorrow! Good luck to all competing units! Prelims for all classes are tomorrow. Semis for all classes are on Friday, with A class finals on Friday night. Open and World class finals are on Saturday.

It's hard to know for sure without seeing all the guards in the same venue, but the Texas groups should be excited. Texas has sent several strong contenders, and there's a possibility that they'll medal in every scholastic class, which Texas guards haven't done before. As far as actual predictions... I would give Pride of Cincinnati another gold medal over Diamante in Independent World, assuming Diamante as the default 2nd place group. There are several other IW shows I haven't seen yet. Avon has maintained a solid lead over the Carmel/The Woodlands/etc. cluster and is the front runner in SW. The show has a very classic emotional swell that will translate in effect. That being said, I was curious about the accuracy of the 1.5 point seeding increases and crunched the average point increase per week at WGI (or mostly WGI judged) shows for each of the SW groups (only 16 of them). First of all, the average increase was around 2.2 points, so 1.5 is a bit conservative. But then for kicks I extended each group's score out to "week 10" and was surprised to see the scores narrow at the top. The Woodlands and Avon were neck and neck, 97.01 to 96.96. I'd be surprised to see that happen, and for me TWHS is a bit of a wild card because they haven't competed against any groups directly the entire season. Scholastic A is always kind of a cluster F, for lack of a better phrase. Westlake pulled away recently score-wise, but Friendswood did beat them at Austin, and when you add groups like Somerset Academy, things get more complicated. I prefer both Kiski Area and Moe and Gene Johnson to Oveido, based on YouTube vids. I really like both shows and would be fine with either winning in Scholastic Open. Kiski Area dominated a very competitive field at Indy, so I'd give them the edge. But there are many others I haven't seen. Exciting weekend for sure!

u have any predictions? in most classes i don't see anything quite as obvious as BA's BOA Nats win. you could see that one from space, even before St. Louis.

I'm anxious to see what Westwood is going to put out this year. I know what their show is and it seems extremely ambitious. No doubt they can pull it off, but man, it's gonna be interesting.

The director at Brandeis is leaving at the end of May. It will informative about which direction NISD wants to go. Getting an assistant from another top program would show the district is serious about continuing to improve

Ah I remember him! I attended a school in NISD for middle school, he does really great with the district fine arts wise. There are some great directors in that district, some of those schools' programs are starting to grow really rapidly now, much of the district has stepped it up music wise over the last five years or so. For the longest time it was basically O'connor and Taft leading the district pretty far ahead of the pack. Now Brandeis, Warren, Clark and Brennan are really starting to come on strong, especially the first two. Happy to see the direction some of these programs are going in, hope to see them keep it up.

Wakeland HS 2022 : Spices, Perfumes, Toxins ( info from Instagram) Details like music selections are found on their Instagram account Winston Churchill HS 2022: Won't You Be My Neighbor (info from Hornrank) Musical Selection:"Let me be Frank With you" by John Mackey"Noisy Wheels of Joy & The Seal Lullaby" by Eric Whitacre"Everything is AWESOME!" by Tegan and Sara