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Sudler Shield to Leander, Southlake Carroll, and Wakeland. 

Sudler Shield to Leander, Southlake Carroll, and Wakeland. 

Sudler Shield to Leander, Southlake Carroll, and Wakeland. 

Sudler Shield to Leander, Southlake Carroll, and Wakeland. 

Sudler Shield to Leander, Southlake Carroll, and Wakeland. 

Sudler Shield to Leander, Southlake Carroll, and Wakeland. 

Sudler Shield to Leander, Southlake Carroll, and Wakeland. 

Sudler Shield to Leander, Southlake Carroll, and Wakeland. 

Sudler Shield to Leander, Southlake Carroll, and Wakeland. 

If anyone is in the Lewisville area, Hebron will be doing a send-off performance of their show tomorrow night! Pull this information from a Facebook post:
The Hebron's Band Tournament of Roses send off performance will be Monday, December 13th @ 7:00 pm at Hawk Stadium. For their sendoff to the Tournament of Roses parade, the Hebron Band will have an encore performance of their 1st Place BOA San Antonio and their Gold Medal State Marching Competition show titled “Pen Stripe"

You’re my favorite!!! If you’re in Indy I would love to offer an adult beverage as thanks for the highlight of the season after prelims or finals!

The only bands to have ever swept captions in San Antonio finals are LISD-North bands.
Marcus 2007, 2012
Flower Mound 2016
Hebron 2021

Everyone else is playing for second.

Very happy for The Woodlands and Marcus. Nice to see them both back in the top half. I guess technically Marcus never really left it, but the fact that they're able to hold on like this after Drinkwater left is fantastic.

The only bands to have ever swept captions in San Antonio finals are LISD-North bands.
Marcus 2007, 2012
Flower Mound 2016
Hebron 2021

None of the full recaps will be released until after finals tomorrow

https://imgur.com/a/hudqKr2
 
it’s in recap order 

I’ve been a Round Rock fan for a while, and was a massive defender of them in 2017 and 2019. But I just don’t think it happens this time. It’s not the kids—they’re doing their job and pushing hard. It’s the show. I would love to be proved wrong, but…

I’ve been a Round Rock fan for a while, and was a massive defender of them in 2017 and 2019. But I just don’t think it happens this time. It’s not the kids—they’re doing their job and pushing hard. It’s the show. I would love to be proved wrong, but…

I was sitting in a far recess of the 300 club level for a work call, and the crowd was so ON FIRE for TWHS that I heard the applause clearly, distracting me from my call and reminding me of the joy I was missing. 

I can only hear what the box5 mics are picking up, but it sounds like FloMo was able to fix a majority of the ensemble tuning issues they were having. That performance felt just the slightest bit unstable from a timing standpoint but I have no doubt that that was the weakest performance we will see from them this weekend. What a stellar show.
Also that field exit announcement script is EVERYTHING. First time hearing it and I love it so much.
 

I'm definitely going to agree with this, we're a day or so away from watching more greatness up in Indy.
I graduated from the Hebron Band 5 or 6 years ago and have kind of lost touch of the band at this point, but just seeing how happy Andy Sealy and the kids in those pinstriped uniforms were, brought back an enormous wave of nostalgia for this activity and community as a whole. I still remember hopping on these forums every once in a while after one of our competitions to see what people were saying, and so to come back and see all of these people happy that Hebron broke our curse made me super happy. Can't be thankful enough for what the Texas high school marching community has given to me in my life.

By outro, do you mean the thing the announcer reads as they are rolling everything off the field after the performance? If so, thanks for noticing and listening--I wrote that! (Rhyming something with Midwest Clinic, not so easy!)

To understand why both UIL and BOA scoring - indeed any subjective scoring systems - are imperfect (maybe to different degrees), you have to consider variability and unconscious bias.  Read the book "Noise," by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, for example.  
One you accept this, it makes the competitions more enjoyable because your expectations are more calibrated.