Clarinot

Yeah that's what I was thinking... it sounds like they might have re-recorded the announcements and spliced them in due to the audio problems in the dome.

I think the requirement of 3 years of finals was Xenon's suggestion, not the actual rule

Is it just me or do the announcements sound kind of weird?

Alright deleted. you can go back and submit a new one now.

Which event did you mess up your predictions for?

sorry about that.. fixed

All done! http://www.txbands.com/predict Due to the way the predictions system was built, it can only handle 14 "finalist" bands. Since Lonestar Classic doesn't do finals, and just ranks the large number of bands, just predict the top 14 spots.

That would be a cool got milk ad... a drumline on the field with all the milk moustaches

So should we do 3 separate events (for standstill 1, standstill 2, and marching)?

Yes... do you know of the contest's website or have a roster of bands?

Well I couldn't decide... so I made it ends after friday night. what do you think?

Done. Enjoy the final predictions event of the season!

In addition, would it not be in the director's best interests to ensure students in their programs are sucessful academically? After all, students that fail cannot participate. I challenge the parent to find a band director who does not want the students in his or her program to suceed academically. Being a graduate from Cedar Park myself, I can say this is true for my school as well as the other schools in the district. If there was ever a need to miss marching rehearsal for school related issues, no questions are asked... the directors want students to pass. Since I have a little background on this issue, I might also point out that one of the parents in the article suggested counting travel time to football games, football games, and travel times to contests against the 8 hour rule. Uhh... not so much! As far as family vacations are concerned, I don't see how that differs from any other part of high school. You can't just leave school for a "trip with the family" or "weekend off" as the parent in the article put it. If you want to plan ahead of time, great! Most band programs put out a calendar for the year before marching season starts. Use it. [/end rant]

I think it was about sudoku...maybe?

Friday's comments are back up. The oldest are at the bottom.

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Results fixed and the 3 of you who predicted Pearce for 2nd got an extra point added on.

It has come to our attention that the original 4A state list for predictions had an error. Friendswood and Dickinson were merged together as one school. If you submitted a predictions list for UIL 4A State before this message was posted, you can delete your old list to submit a new one. http://www.txbands.com/repredict_4a.php Two things to note: -If you delete your old list, don't forget to make a new one. The old list is deleted as soon as you click the link on the page above. -If you don't repredict, you will still be scored on your old list. However, you will not receive credit for Friendswood or Dickinson.

Travis runs it... but someone else can do it if you want to keep it updated

It's always unfortunate when a few students can represent the whole band program negatively. It easily happens in uniform. I do remember some boos and negative comments from a few Duncanville kids at state in 2004. Too bad...

Since they weren't in the list, nobody could predict them. Therefore it wouldn't make any difference if they were included in the finals results list or if that spot was left blank.

All the predictions problems have been fixed. This has caused the scores to be recalculated. The updated scores are available at www.txbands.com/predict

Works for me... what goes wrong when you do it? http://www.txbands.com/forums/index.php?act=Search

The results have been corrected and scores were recalculated. For clarification, the official results are posted online at http://www.twhsband.com/Boosters/Fundraise...final_recap.htm and the caption results are as follows: The only questionable issue is the Visual tie between TWCP and Hendrickson. For the purpose of TxBands predictions, Hendrickson is considered the winner of the visual caption because their overall score is higher. Spring was indeed the winner of the percussion caption.

Only TxB Admin or the predictions moderator can enter results of contests. If you give me the link to the results I will enter them in.