Sense of Urgency

My heart says Timber Creek for second, but my brain is telling me Bellevue. I pretty much agree with the rest of the predictions, however, I think Sherman might be able to pass Clovis.

This competition is always a fun one, and of course Pennington Field is awesome. Love getting to see some great, but less talked about bands here every year.

Just taking a quick glance at the bands participating, it looks to me like the battle for top three will be between Keller Central, Keller Timber Creek, and Wakeland. I'd say the next few bands will be Aledo, Boswell, Fossil Ridge, and perhaps Prosper. Unfortunately, I don't know much about the rest of the groups. Excellent adjudication staff for this contest, though.

Just went through the Prelims Scores on the BOA website and saw something rather surprising. In prelims competition, Timber Creek placed 11th. Coppell placed 10th, and beat Timber Creek by .5 of a point. Coppell also received a .5 point penalty, bringing them to a tie with Timber Creek for 10th. Crazy stuff. This band almost didn't make finals, and we would have missed out on a wonderful show. Anyone know what cause Coppell's penalty? Show too short? Timber ended up beating Coppell by a full point in finals though. Really impressed by this group.

If I recall correctly, performance times are split in two. 6-10th place get a random draw of the first five performance times, and 1-5th get the last five.

I mentioned it in the BOA Midland thread, but I really think they could take second out from under Bellevue, at least in prelims, since Bellevue is going first. It will be an interesting to see the outcome.

11 bands in finals. Never heard of this happening before. Very exciting stuff. 3 Keller ISD bands in finals, and Timber Creek's first BOA finals performance ever.

Very impressed by both Coppell and Timber Creek. Great way to start the block. Hoping to see them both in finals.

That's a rough draw for Bellevue. I haven't seen either schools show yet, but if what I have heard is true, perhaps Timber Creek might be able to steal second from them, at least in prelims. Finals will most likely be a different story. Overall, the school I am most excited for is Clovis. It will be very fun to see them back in action at a BOA competition.

Not to discredit the other Area B bands (Duncanville, Coppell, LD Bell), but once Keller fixed some minor issues from prelims, it was clear that they were head and shoulders above the rest in finals. If they can get another stellar performance like that out at State they could do very well I think.

I was surprised to see Plano East make such a leap. Any idea what caused their finals performance to be so much better? I didn't get to see them.