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LKendrick

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  1. Same here, they're developing an amazing ensemble sound, that was very evident at nationals last year.
  2. So after this weekend, thoughts? Flower Mound was interesting, I had them in the 5th - 8th range, as they were in prelims. Finals was kind of unexpected. At first that made me a little worried about nationals, but then I went back to last year: San Antonio last year: Cedar Ridge - 11th Round Rock - 11th LD Bell - 9th Marcus - 8th Grand Nationals last year: Prelims: The Woodlands - 1st Round Rock - 4th Marcus - 5th Cedar Ridge - 6th LD Bell - 13th Semifinals: The Woodlands - 1st Round Rock - 4th Cedar Ridge - 5th Marcus - 7th LD Bell - 8th Finals: The Woodlands - 1st Round Rock - 4th Marcus - 5th LD Bell - 10th Cedar Ridge - 11th Round Rock and Cedar Ridge really impressed me with the level of improvement they made from SA to Nationals last year, not just in scores, but I could tell their actual performances that they had kicked it into overdrive, I'm sure Flower Mound will rise to the task and be amazing, I'm predicting 8th at Nationals. And any news on Wakeland? I think they have a shot at sneaking in as well.
  3. I think my second favorite behind Leander is Cedar Park, if you closed your eyes, that 1812 Overture sounds just as good as any drum corps. The stereophonic bells ballad is really neat. They just sound SO good. And that color scheme is beautiful. Just a simple, and performed the heck out of show. Sometimes that's all you need.
  4. Or Haltom has really caught fire the last few weeks? Denton was almost a month ago and St. Louis 3 weeks, Haltom's just peaking when it matters, the Area video I saw was already VERY impressively cleaner than St. Louis, I can't imagine what they look like now. I think Haltom's just gotten into a groove these past few weeks and they're running with it, nobody remembers those early season contests, it's how you finish, and they're finishing out their season strong. At this rate it wouldn't surprise me to see them finish in the top 10 on Tuesday night. Area wasn't a fluke, and I don't think this was either. They're just getting better, and that's awesome! Love their show this year.
  5. I think my favorite moment of the contest is Leander's Rocky Point Holiday Climax SEAMLESSLY transitioning into Somewhere Over the Rainbow before they finish out with a Orawa reprise and then blowing your face off with that last hit. Just wow.
  6. They will be, along with Seth from Indiana Marching! Looking forward to their commentary.
  7. As far as I am concerned that's the place to be a music educator right now. They've got something special going on there.
  8. 13th - 30th, over 17 bands is a spread of just 6.65 points. THAT is a testament to how deep this competition is, that's insane. Shout out to Hendrickson, what an incredible show that is one of my favorites of the year, I was REALLY pulling for them to make it in, had them in 14th myself, but what a well deserved 15th at the most competitive contest of the year. That's quite an accomplishment.
  9. It's tempting, no doubt. Might be a winter break project, which is barely over a month away for me.
  10. I tried all prelims last year, it took me over an hour to do just Music last year and I gave up. Lol.
  11. Congrats to Ronald Reagan on being the most consistent band in finals.
  12. My Recap Breakdown for Finals Everyone! Some quick highlights before. Hebron 13th in Visual in finals. I might be eating some Crow Mr. Rubisco, because those GE Music 1 Rankings are pretty wack, as is the whole Music Effect sub-caption 1 and 2 from finals. Marcus was 12th from the Music Effect 1 judge (ARE YOU KIDDING?) and 2nd from the Music Effect 2 Judge. Flower Mound 14th in Music Effect 1, 4th in Music Effect 2. James Bowie 1st from Music Effect 1, 7th from Music Effect 2, Johnson 1st and 6th. Cedar Park was 2nd in Over Musical Effect. Leander was 5th in Music Effect 1, and 13th in Music Effect 2. Hebron wast 2nd and 9th. LD Bell 4th and 12th. HUGE disagreements here. The Woodlands were 10th from both Music Effect Judges. Cedar Park ties for 2nd in GE with James Bowie. Very surprised at The Woodlands GE scores, I thought that along with Visual, they'd be pretty strong. Interesting. Flower Mounds prelims to finals GE ordinals: Music 1 - 2nd/14th Music 2 - 7th/4th Visual - 4th/12th They didn't even win one in prelims, and won overall effect, and then were at the bottom and close in 2 in finals. Oi Vey. Leander was 1st to 13th in all captions. Wow. 1st in Visual Effect was VERY well deserved in my eyes, well done! After two disappointing near misses last year, this has to be some insanely good validation. Congrats Leander, I think everyone knew you would be up there, and you were for sure. Will be remembered for a LONG time! I might do prelims....I dunno. I don't know if my mind could break that all down. We'll see, anyways here you go! One of the craziest all over the place recaps I've seen. Had Leander not gotten that Music Effect 2 score....I dunno. Hebron was pretty consistently towards the top besides Visual. Anyways, congrats to everyone! I'll say it again, the best marching contest I've ever watched.
  13. Prelims Top 20: 1) Leander - 93.0 2) Marcus - 92.15 3) The Woodlands - 91.8 4) Claudia Taylor Johnson - 91.8 5) James Bowie - 91.45 6) Hebron - 91.25 7) Flower Mound - 90.6 8) LD Bell - 89.85 9) Ronald Reagan - 89.55 10) Vandegrift - 88.85 11) Cedar Park - 87.0 12) Round Rock - 86.85 13) Vista Ridge - 85.95 14) Westlake - 85.7 15) Hendrickson - 85.1 16) Richland - 84.45 17) Friendswood - 84.3 18) Keller - 83.3 19) Berkner - 83.15 20) Keller Central - 83.05
  14. We'll agree to disagree then.
  15. I don't need to calm down when we're already discrediting the judges on all their work judging this contest for us and having to assign numbers to all those amazing performances. Show me these strong opinions that cloud their field of judgment and I'll buy it, other wise, I'd like to think that they know what they're doing and wouldn't let preconceived assumptions or opinions make decisions for them. I swear, first it was UIL, now it's BOA, next it'll be WGI, and after that it'll be DCI, judges can never get it right for some people.
  16. You're automatically jumping to that? Wow, haven't even seen the recaps and you're jumping to that already. Unless you were on the field watching those individual captions you have no idea, those can make it or break it some times, Grand Nationals 2012 for instance. I'd love to know which judges have "opinions".
  17. Wow. Just. Wow. Flower Mound is the only one I had a negative reaction to their placement. Marcus was complete shock. Just woah. That was the most unexpected Finals retreat I've ever watched, and not in a bad way! Excited to dig into those recaps. Congratulations Claudia Taylor Johnson on your first Super Regional Championship!
  18. Man, Haltoms coming to play this year!
  19. Alright, my top 14: 1st - Marcus 2nd - The Woodlands 3rd - Hebron 4th - Claudia Taylor Johnson 5th - James Bowie 6th - Leander 7th - Vandegrift 8th - LD Bell 9th - Flower Mound 10th - Ronald Reagan 11th - Round Rock 12th - Friendswood 13th - Cedar Park 14th - Westlake Don't ask why, lol I'm still not sure. Those last 3 spots in my opinion could go to A LOT of bands.
  20. It could end up being like last year with Hebron where the most consistent across the board, even if it's second in every caption ends up winning prelims, and win or be VERY close in finals.
  21. We'll see, Individual scores can throw a wrench in anyone's predictions (Broken Arrow at Nationals in 2012 anyone?).
  22. I do think the top 3 is The Woodlands, Hebron, and Marcus. I think Hebron/Marcus will win Music, The Woodlands/Marcus will win visual, and all 3 could win GE. Gonna be close! 4th - 10th or so and 11th - 16th is just going to be a bloodbath coming down to tenths and consistency across the board, one low score could kill anyone in those groupings.
  23. The reason I think Marcus wins Music is their Individual scores from the field are usually insanely high, I'm also taking that into account. We'll see. I think Marcus/Hebron will be close in Music, for sure.
  24. But I will say that I think that Marcus has the two performance captions locked up.
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