[2016 BOA San Antonio]

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

[2016 BOA San Antonio]

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

[2016 UIL Region Contests]

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

[2016 UIL Region Contests]

Not that it matters, but in Area D, Region 18 has 7 6A bands making the total for Area D of 33 bands.

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

[2016 6A Area B]

the band advancing to state just depends on how many bands get 1s in uil. If 25 bands in our area get 1s and move onto area then 5 bands will advance

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

[2016 6A Area B]

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

[2016 6A State Predictions]

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.

[Fall HS Marching Shows 2016]

Duncanville: Postcards From Paris

Music from: Satie, Milhaud, Delibes, Ravel and Offenbach.

A very, very different sound from Duncanville this year, excited for what's to come!

Gymnopédie No.1 - Erik Satie

Suite Française Mvt #3 - Darius Milhaud

Pizzicato from Sylvia - Léo Delibes

Pavane for a Dead Princess - Maurice Ravel

Infernal Galop from Orpheus in the Underworld - Jacques Offenbach (commonly known as the Can-Can)

[BOA - St Louis]

Will any staff members be there at the event? For some reason I had some vague memory of something remotely like that happening at some point in the past. But maybe I'm just fooling myself.

 

Maybe I'll try and watch on FloMarching or something.

 

 

Daniel (Xenon) blogs Nationals pretty much every year from Indy.  Other than that, we've never had staffers at out-of-state regionals.  I think Zach blogged a Colorado invitational once when he was at UC Boulder I think in 2007 or 2008, but never a BOA regional.

 

Music for All recently started contracting with Indiana Marching to send their people to the various Super Regionals....that might be what you're thinking.

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.

[2016 BOA San Antonio Predictions]

I wouldn't say they were comfortable on top for finals at BOA Arlington, while they beat hebron by over a point in prelims, they won finals by .1, mainly because of their GE advantage.

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.

[2016 6A Area B]

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

[2016 6A Area B]

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.

[2016 UIL Region Contests]

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.

[2016-2017 UIL Music Updates (A bit late to post this)]

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.

[2016 BOA San Antonio Predictions]

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.

[Area C Predictions?]

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.

[2016 UIL Region Contests]

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

[2016 6A Area B]

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.

[Area C Predictions?]

Most likely you won't see the military bands from Lufkin or Longview go to Area if history is any indicator.

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.

[BOA Plano - October 8th]

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.

[2016 6A Area B]

I really really hope Area B takes 5.

[BOA Plano - October 8th]

Bell, at least on the webcast, was a notable step up from earlier today with a much better musical run. I think we all know winning is out of the question, but would love to see a medal for them.

 

 

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!

[BOA Plano - October 8th]

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

[BOA Plano - October 8th]

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

[BOA Plano - October 8th]

Interesting stats for BOA Plano. The single most stacked (Non-Super) BOA Regional this year.

 

32 - Bands

1 - BOA GN Champion

7 - BOA GN Finalists

18? - BOA Regional Finalists

4 - UIL State Champions (in any class)

17? - UIL State Finalists (in any class)

6 - Former BOA Regional Finalists in just the first block of 8 bands