Hard Core Band Fan

Same props from their WGI colorguard show last season.

Pouring rain, thunder, and some lightning.

I was most impressed with Vista Ridge so far. Hope this rain stops!

I was most impressed with Vista Ridge so far. Hope this rain stops!

Sitting on the 50, row 17, ready!

Me! All day!

And please bring an umbrella! It can't rain if we all have umbrellas. And a raincoat or poncho. And maybe trash bags to keep your stuff in. The more prepared we are,...

I'm hoping it will be like it was in McAllen and clear up completely. Even in the morning the forecast was 60% for the evening, but by about 1:00 is was changed to 0%. Whatever you do, don't wash your car this week!

Using that same sort of analysis comparing CTJ directly against Carmel for the last 2 years - Carmel won the GN's both years and CTJ got 9th in 2016, so it would be more likely that Carmel would be ahead at this point. To me, none of it matters except this year and what's being done currently. I like both bands, but thought that Carmel, overall, was the better of the two on the 22nd, regardless of scores. I watched them both and used my 50+ years of experience and my formal music education as my basis for making that assessment. Scores are a snapshot in time and can change. Austin will be another opportunity for comparisons.

Fair enough. I wasn't making my assessment judging by enjoyment, which is an emotion, but by potential scoring. Thankfully, judges don't score strictly by emotion, but by a more analytical approach that makes their assessment more fair and consistent. There is always a human element, of course, which is useful as well.

So let me get this straight - your proof is that Centerville in two different years and with two different bands, at two different competitions, with two different judging panels made different scores is proof that CTJ making a 79.8 at McAllen is a higher score than Carmel getting an 83.3 in Oxford on the same day? Anyway, my initial post was just teasing LeanderMomma for using an absolte and stating that there was nothing better that she had seen that day than CTJ. I do respect her opinion and was just giving her grief in a playful way.

I agree.

Thanks for your wisdom, but 3 points is a pretty good margin between contests. Not only that, but I understand why Carmel scored the way they did and that is my real measure.

Think the judges were incorrect?

I hear you on that! But, if you do the 1-year subscription, you get all of the BOA season, all of the WGI season, and all of the DCI season for $150. Hard to beat that!

Except maybe Carmel (83.3)...

It's determined by scores, so there is nothing to pick. They all three had the same visual scores (Bowie, Marcus, and LD Bell). Marcus got music and GE as well.

But it is just one day at one competition at the beginning of the season. Things can change if the directors and students want it bad enough. Disappointment can be a great motivator!

Yes, I know and I wasn't being mean or anything like that. I've being doing this for a long time and I knew it just wasn't likely to happen today.

My stream cut out right in the middle though. Does anyone else get errors sometimes where it says that the stream is already being used on another device when you know for a fact it isn't? Or is FloMarching just really unsecured and my account is being compromised? Yes, had that several times today. I noticed that it would happen while I was watching from my PC and I was using my phone and something linked to the FLO site.

From the late 1980's until the early 2000's Westfield was a killer band and one of my favorites of all time. It's a very different program today.

Well, Carmel was Carmel and on a different level compared to 99.9% of what I've heard today. Even with a few "Oh, Sh#t" moments like the horns in the Wagner, they were impressive. Can't wait to hear them at the GN's.

Not seeing everyone there today, I really couldn't say. Very weak performance today, though.

Permian looked like 2 bands on the field. Big band!