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Yup, graduated all the way back in the previous millennium, 1999.

I'll be helping with running the Tabulation Booth here and will try to post pictures to Twitter throughout the day. @txbands

The official Music For All Live Blog for the BOA Atlanta Super Regional is up and running, and you can read it at http://live.txbands.com or https://www.24liveblog.com/live/12363a36bbcf11e7841ef23c919295de

The 1A State Prelims Schedule is available: http://www.uiltexas.org/files/music/1A_Schedule.pdf Monday, November 6, 2017 8:00 - Ropes 8:14 - Rotan 8:28 - Nueces Canyon 8:42 - White Deer 8:56 - Bronte 9:10 - Santa Anna 9:24 - Booker Break 9:52 - Whiteface 10:06 - Cross Plains 10:20 - Springlake-Earth 10:34 - Water Valley 10:48 - May 11:02 - Eden 11:16 - Throckmorton 11:30 - Exhibition - University of the Incarnate Word 1:15 - Finals Opening Ceremony 1:30 - 1st of 7 Finalist bands

Schedule: http://www.duncanvilleisd.org/cms/lib6/TX01917816/Centricity/Domain/70/2017%20DMI%20Contact%20and%20Schedule%20-%20REVISED.pdf 11:00 - Rockwall 11:15 - Byron Nelson 11:30 - McKinney 11:45 - Keller Central 12:00 - Paschal 12:15 - Keller Fossil Ridge Break 1:15 - Wylie 1:30 - Marcus 1:45 - Berkner 2:00 - Hebron 2:15 - Keller Break 3:00 - McKinney Boyd 3:15 - Belton 3:30 - Canyon 3:45 - Sandra Day O'Connor 4:00 - William B Travis 4:15 - Exhibition - Duncanville 4:30 - Exhibition - University of Texas: Arlington 4:45ish - Prelims Awards 6:30 - First Finalist Band 9:00 - Last Finalist Band 9:15 - Exhibition - Texas Christian University 9:30ish - Finals Awards

Comparing scores across different contests is very problematic, but looking at the gap between groups is significantly less so. The 1.25 gap between Broken Arrow and Blue Springs was significantly smaller than expected when you consider that Broken Arrow was/is-currently in the #1 spot on HornRank and Blue Springs is #16. And then you add in that just the week before, LD Bell (#14) had a 0.55 gap over Blue Springs at a contest that uses the BOA sheets and a judging panel that was filled with very well respected BOA judges. Such relatively small gaps (those are gaps that can be made up in a week) lends at least a little bit of credence to the idea that either BA should be lower in the rankings and/or Bell and BS should be higher. But also, again, none of this should really change how anybody feels about these shows because all 3 of these are marvels at what they are doing.

They don't make it easy...

We are planning to provide some live twitter and facebook content from here.

Here is the schedule for the 25 bands at the USBands Southwestern Championship at AT&T Stadium: https://trigonroad.com/yea/eventDetail.cfm?searchState=&eventID=1821 9:30 - Italy 9:45 - Adamson 10:00 - Nolan Catholic 10:15 - Grandview 10:30 - Liberty-Eylau 10:45 - Anna 11:00 - Del Valle Break 12:00 - Kaufman 12:15 - W. Charles Akins 12:30 - Joshua 12:45 - Lamar 1:00 - Crowley 1:15 - Cleburne 1:30 - Colleyville Heritage 1:45 - Lorena 2:00 - Magnolia West Break 2:45 - Garland 3:00 - North Crowley 3:15 - Lafayette 3:30 - Saginaw 3:45 - Granbury 4:00 - Klein Forest 4:15 - Boswell 4:30 - Carroll 4:45 - Chisholm Trail Finals starts at 7:00pm.

https://trigonroad.com/yea/eventDetail.cfm?searchState=&eventID=1821

Remember that BOA St Louis starts tomorrow! There is an Official Music For All live blog for this event and we have TxB people helping out with it, so be sure to check that out at either: http://live.txbands.com or http://www.musicforall.org/blog/live-blog/live-blog-2017-st-louis-super-regional There are 3 Texas bands attending: - Saturday 11:00am - Anderson - Saturday 11:15am - Cy-Falls - Saturday 2:30pm - Westwood Also of note, the BOA Indianapolis Super Regional is also taking place and also has its own Official Music For All live blog at http://www.musicforall.org/blog/live-blog/live-blog-2017-indianapolis-super-regional Also, we will be live tweeting and facebooking from the USBands Southwestern Championship at the Cowboys' AT&T Stadium.

CTJ's director has stated that they will try to plan future GN trips on years where GN isn't the same week as a Wednesday UIL State day. Having 6A State Finals on Wednesday in 2016 was a relative surprise from a multi-year travel planning standpoint.

Enterprising Young Men is Star *Trek*, and yes that was Duncanville.

And Carmel.

4 way tie for Music?????

Oops! Thanks, fixed.

I don't know all the results but here is what I do know. 6A Music - Hebron Marching - Hebron General Effect - Flower Mound 1st - Hebron 2nd - Flower Mound 3rd - Duncanville I'm not sure about the other captions or classifications.

7:45 - Permian 8:00 - Berkner 8:15 - McNeil 8:30 - Lewisville 8:45 - Del Rio 9:00 - Claudia Taylor Johnson 9:15 - Timber Creek 9:30 - Bellevue West 9:45 - Clovis 10:00 - Sherman 10:15 - Exhibition - Plainview AAAA - Music - Claudia Taylor Johnson AAAA - Visual - Claudia Taylor Johnson AAAA - GE - Claudia Taylor Johnson 1st - Claudia Taylor Johnson 2nd - Timber Creek 3rd - McNeil AAA - Music - Bellevue West AAA - Visual - Bellevue West AAA - GE - Bellevue West 1st - Bellevue West 2nd - Clovis 3rd - Sherman AA - Music - Plainview AA - Visual - Plainview AA - GE - Plainview 1st - Plainview 2nd - Lubbock Cooper 3rd - Lake View A - Music - Pecos A - Visual - Pecos A - GE - Pecos 1st - Pecos 2nd - Estacado

The Live Blog has been going all morning so far: http://live.txbands.com

FYI in case you didn't read it on the blog. Coppell had transportation issues this morning and couldn't make it to Conroe, so they have pulled out here and will be performing at HEB at 12:00pm instead.

Coppell had to drop Conroe due to transportation issues today, so they are going to HEB at 12:00pm instead.

That was by far the best Seven Lakes show that I've seen. But you are absolutely right that the lost rehearsal time hurt.

The Live Blog is up and running! Cy-Springs steps off at 7:00am. http://live.txbands.com/

Yes, they did; plus a trumpet screamer that was dead on nails that evening.

I am also extremely surprised by this. Certainly there were issues, but there were also several very high points as well. I wasn't expecting anywhere near dead last in MPE.