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All 7 6A Region 5 bands got 1's!!!!!!!!! Congratulations and thank you for all the hard work, especially to all the groups that made 2's last year, that's an awesome accomplishment! Now all Area B needs is for the 3 Plano schools to get 1's on Saturday and Area B will advance 5 bands to State.

34 bands on Friday and 29 bands on Saturday for 63 bands in Prelims starting at 8:30am on Friday and 7:30am Saturday.

The 2016 Bands of America Super Regional at San Antonio, presented by Yamaha schedule is now up! http://www.musicforall.org/11-regionals/san-antonio-super-regional 2016 Schedule and Participating Bands As of: October 18, 2016 Friday, November 4, 2016 7:30 a.m. - Box Office Opens 8:00 a.m. - Stadium Gates Open 8:30 a.m. - Klein Forest H.S., TX 8:45 a.m. - Judson H.S., TX 9:00 a.m. - Calallen H.S., TX 9:15 a.m. - Fredericksburg H.S., TX 9:30 a.m. - Anderson H.S., TX 9:45 a.m. - Cedar Ridge H.S., TX 10:00 a.m. - Westlake H.S., TX 10:15 a.m. - Earl Warren H.S., TX 10:30 a.m. - Obra D. Tompkins H.S., TX 10:45 a.m. - Round Rock H.S., TX 11:00 a.m. - Lehman H.S., TX 11:15 a.m. - Sandra Day O'Connor H.S., TX BREAK 12:15 p.m. - Jack C. Hays H.S., TX 12:30 p.m. - Cedar Park H.S., TX 12:45 p.m. - Dripping Springs H.S., TX 1:00 p.m. - Keller Central H.S., TX 1:15 p.m. - Hendrickson H.S., TX 1:30 p.m. - Pflugerville H.S., TX 1:45 p.m. - Vista Ridge H.S., TX 2:00 p.m. - United H.S., TX 2:15 p.m. - Odem H.S., TX 2:30 p.m. - Lyndon B. Johnson H.S., TX 2:45 p.m. - United South H.S., TX BREAK 4:00 p.m. - Cypress Falls H.S., TX 4:15 p.m. - Westwood H.S., TX 4:30 p.m. - Lake Travis H.S., TX 4:45 p.m. - Vandegrift H.S., TX 5:00 p.m. - Claudia Taylor Johnson H.S., TX 5:15 p.m. - James Madison H.S., TX 5:30 p.m. - Ronald Reagan H.S., TX 5:45 p.m. - Robert E. Lee H.S., TX 6:00 p.m. - Rouse H.S., TX 6:15 p.m. - Winston Churchill H.S., TX 6:30 p.m. - Katy H.S., TX 6:45 p.m. - Friday Preliminary Competition Ends Saturday, November 5, 2016 6:15 a.m. - Box Office Opens 6:45 a.m. - Stadium Gates Open 7:30 a.m. - Tom C. Clark H.S., TX 7:45 a.m. - James Martin H.S., TX 8:00 a.m. - Colleyville Heritage H.S., TX 8:15 a.m. - Palmview H.S., TX 8:30 a.m. - Friendswood H.S., TX 8:45 a.m. - Hebron H.S., TX 9:00 a.m. - Roma H.S., TX 9:15 a.m. - Prosper H.S., TX 9:30 a.m. - L.D. Bell H.S., TX BREAK 10:30 a.m. - Aledo H.S., TX 10:45 a.m. - Plano East H.S., TX 11:00 a.m. - The Woodlands College Park H.S., TX 11:15 a.m. - Hidalgo Early College H.S., TX 11:30 a.m. - Pearland H.S., TX 11:45 a.m. - Wakeland H.S., TX 12:00 p.m. - Veterans Memorial Early College H.S., TX 12:15 p.m. - Marcus H.S., TX 12:30 p.m. - George Ranch H.S., TX 12:45 p.m. - Juarez-Lincoln H.S., TX LUNCH 1:45 p.m. - The Woodlands H.S., TX 2:00 p.m. - Saint James School, AL 2:15 p.m. - Azle H.S., TX 2:30 p.m. - Waller H.S., TX 2:45 p.m. - Oak Ridge H.S., TX 3:00 p.m. - Keller H.S., TX 3:15 p.m. - Lubbock-Cooper H.S., TX 3:30 p.m. - Alvin H.S., TX 3:45 p.m. - Leander H.S., TX 4:00 p.m. - Flower Mound H.S., TX 6:30 p.m. - GATES OPEN 7:00 p.m. - National Anthem/Introduction of Judges and Government Officials 7:30 p.m. - First Performing Finalist Band 11:00 p.m. - Finals Competition Ends 11:15 p.m. - Finale - Presentation of Awards

All 5 6A bands in Area B Region 31 made 1's.

Per UILForms, there are only 6 6A bands performing at Region 18.

You are correct, and that is what I meant to say, but in all likelihood we will still have

In 2014, 6A Area B was held at HEB's Pennington Field, had 22 bands in Prelims, 10 in Finals, and advanced 4 bands to State. Marcus, Hebron, Flower Mound, and Haltom. LD Bell was the Alternate. Since then, the Regions and Areas have been re-aligned and Marcus, Hebron, and Flower Mound (all State Finalists) have been moved out of Area B, but Duncanville, Coppell, and Keller (also all State Finalists) were moved in. 2016 6A Area B will also be held at HEB's Pennington Field and looks very likely to have

Also of note, while FloMo won Finals by almost 4 points above both Marcus and Hebron, in Prelims they had already beaten Marcus by nearly 4 points and Hebron by almost 5! The gap was pretty definitive, consistent, and definitely real from how I viewed it from the stands.

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Yeah, at least one IndianaMarching person will be at BOA STL running a live blog in addition to the FloMarching video stream. I'm going to be running the scores booth at DMI on the 22nd, so I won't have time to run a blog, but I'm hoping to be able to tweet some pictures @TxBands like I did this weekend from UIL Region 20.

I meant that they were able to keep a comfortable enough lead to stay in the medals at BOA SA last year even though they already had a complete show at BOA Arlington. Although, comfortable is very relative.

Yup, Area B can't lose any more and 3 of the remaining schools got 2's last year.

Area B is in very serious trouble. Every single remaining band has to get a 1 in order to advance 5 to State. If even a single remaining band gets a 2 or lower then Area B only takes 4 to State. From a ridiculous list of attendees that I can't only pick 4 from.

I've updated with all of the results from October 15th contests. Area B is in very serious trouble. Every single remaining band has to get a 1 in order to advance 5 to State. If even a single remaining band gets a 2 or lower then Area B only takes 4 to State. From a ridiculous list of attendees that I can't only pick 4 from.

Thank you for putting this all together and for submitting suggestions in the first place! I know that most of these have been talked about before here, but I think this is the first time they've all been in one place. I am super excited about having 12 bands in 6A Finals (assuming 36 bands which is likely) and Full Retreat too! And having 6A Finals on Wednesday is going to help a lot with being able to have good performances with kids that are awake. Last year's 1A/5A competition on Tuesday was an absolute beast running from 7am to 1am; kids that performed around 8am in Prelims were asleep on the field when they had to perform after midnight in Finals.

Yeah, the FloMo Gap was real. That was crazy end of year level cleanliness for most groups that will be in Finals at BOA SA and fully deserved to score 90ish if it were to stand completely on its own or was against BOA SA level competition. FloMo did have a completed show this year while most others didn't, but they had that last year too and were still able to stay comfortably on top. And they do have quite a bit to add, especially in the musicality department where they can add a whole lot more dynamic range and interpretive nuance beyond just musical/visual cleaning. I do agree that the gap will likely get closed quite a bit, but I'm not sure that anybody will be able to fully catch up and pass them before BOA SA.

I believe that Plano is actually going to attend this year (assuming they qualify). It's more the large East Texas Military style bands that would choose to not attend Area.

The number of bands that qualify to advance out of the Region round determine how many will advance from Area to State. An Area gets to advance 1 band to State for every 5 bands that qualify for Area. 6A Area A: 15 (Advance 3 to State) Region 1: (1 max) - 1 Region 6: (6 max) - 6 Region 16: (1 max) - 1 Region 22: (7 max) - 7 6A Area B: 25 (Advance 5 to State) Region 5: (7 max) - 7 Region 20: (10 max) - 5 Region 24: (3 max) - 3 Region 30: (6 max) - 5 Region 31: (5 max) - 5 6A Area C: 26 (Advance 5 to State) Region 2: (6 max) - 6 Region 3: (13 max) - 12 Region 21: (4 max) - 3 Region 25: (6 max) - 5 6A Area D: 28 (Advance 5 to State) Region 8: (7 max) - 5 Region 12: (11 max) - 10 Region 18: (6 max) - 6 Region 26: (8 max) - 7 6A Area E: 40 (Advance 8 to State) Region 13: (9 max) - 7 Region 17: (9 max) - 9 Region 23: (14 max) - 12 Region 27: (15 max) - 12 6A Area F: 29 (Advance 5 to State) Region 9: (9 max) - 9 Region 10: (1 max) - 1 Region 19: (12 max) - 7 Region 33: (13 max) - 12 6A Area G: 24 (Advance 4 to State) Region 14: (4 max) - 4 Region 15: (14 max) - 12 Region 28: (8 max) - 8 6A Area H: 24 (Advance 4 to State) Region 11: (9 max) - 9 Region 29: (10 max) - 10 Region 32: (5 max) - 5

Looking at the list of 31 possible bands for Area B, I see losing anywhere from 4 to 7 of those. If we lose 6, we still have 25 and can advance 5. If we lose 7+, we can only advance 4 to State. We won't fully know until after Region 24 has their contest on October 22nd, but the Region 20 and Region 5 contests on October 15 and 18 respectively will be very telling.

While they may not attend, that won't affect the number of bands that advance to State this time. The advancement rules were changed from 1 for every 5 that compete at Area to 1 for every 5 that qualify for Area.

I personally had Coppell making Finals after seeing them. I thought they sounded fantastic, but they need more work on the visual side. The visual has been getting a whole lot better over the past few weeks, so it is something they will definitely be able to grow into later in the season.

I really really hope Area B takes 5.

Absolutely. Tonight's Bell run was hands down incredibly much better than the Prelims run. It is so hard going on that early in the morning, but tonight they showed exactly why they are who they are. Also, the Commandant's Own was Incredible! Feste Romane and Church Windows to no end!

7:45 p.m. – EXHIBITION: Southwest H.S., TX 8:00 p.m. – Waxahachie H.S., TX 8:15 p.m. – Winston Churchill H.S., TX 8:30 p.m. – James Martin H.S., TX 8:45 p.m. – Keller Central H.S., TX 9:00 p.m. – Keller H.S., TX 9:15 p.m. – Flower Mound H.S., TX 9:30 p.m. – L.D. Bell H.S., TX 9:45 p.m. – Marcus H.S., TX 10:00 p.m. – James Bowie H.S., TX 10:15 p.m. – Hebron H.S., TX 10:30 p.m. – EXHIBITION: Whitesboro H.S., TX 10:45 p.m. – EXHIBITION: "The Commandant's Own" Marine Drum and Bugle Corps

Prelims Results: AAAA: Music - Flower Mound Visual - Flower Mound GE - Flower Mound 1st - Flower Mound 2nd - Marcus 3rd - Hebron AAA: Music - Waxahachie Visual - Liberty GE - Wakeland 1st - Waxahachie 2nd - Wakeland 3rd - Liberty AA: Music - Southwest Visual - Southwest GE - Southwest 1st - Southwest 2nd - Lake Hamilton 3rd - Lubbock-Cooper A: Music - Whitesboro Visual - Whitesboro GE - Whitesboro 1st - Whitesboro Finalists: Flower Mound Keller Central Marcus Hebron Winston Churchill James Martin James Bowie Keller LD Bell Waxahachie