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Best general effect: CTJ Best visual: Avon Best music: Hebron Best visual concept: CTJ Best show idea/concept: Hendrickson Best solo: CTJ Trombone Best feature: Woodlands Ballad Brass Best musical selection: CTJ Most innovative show: Leander Most original concept: Marcus Best crowd appeal: Hendrickson Most underrated: Keller Most improved: Keller Best colorguard: Bowie Best pit: Hendrickson Best drumline: Vandegrift Best brass: Hebron Best woodwinds: Hebron Best prop: Avon Best uniforms: Hebron Best guard uniforms: Reagan Best overall pre-show: HENDRICKSON Best overall opener: CTJ Best overall ballad: WOODLANDS Best overall closer: Hendrickson/Avon/Cedar Ridge

Just watching from the live stream, I don’t think any bands matched the sound quality (tuning and tone) that was put out by flomo and Marcus. Yes BA and Avon were loud, but to me, marcus and flomo sound like they are in an entirely different league of playing.

Ban the dand man

The woodlands ballad this year was one of my all-time favorites along with Keller’s. And Hennys closer hit had me screaming the lyrics to Pink Floyd!

Hendrickson uses a full gaurd, and they have a successful one at that

Am I the only one that literally cannot sleep?

Pflugerville ISD: Hendrickson HS Pflugerville HS Connally HS Weiss HS

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I think it had more to do with the bands they competed against than the specific placement. Notice after they won austin against many more “top 30” bands, they jumped significantly, but after this weekend of placing 1st over bands not on the top 30 list, the competition was probably not weighted the same. And I doubt scores themselves have much weight in the ranking system. Scores are completely isolated to each competition and are related to the DIFFERENCES between bands a little more than a score like on a math test. My history teacher gave his definition of “sports” (with which I disagree) but he has a good point. A sport is an activity where people DIRECTLY compete against each other using specific rules to achieve quantifiable results. Shooting balls into hoops, finishing a race before the person next to you. Things like gymnastics aren’t considered sports (to him) because although you are competing against people, the goal is to perform without flaws, and things like style come into play. He argued that even though band competitions are huge, that band wasn’t a sport because the goal of the competition was unquantifiable other than with adjectives like “good” “perfect” “moving” There are some quantifiable aspects to marching band, like specific technique, but even that is getting blurry with bands like vandegrift and Reagan competing head-to-head and both schools marching totally different styles. I just think it’s unfair to complain about a ranking system when the things being ranked are only competitive based on subjective rules/opinions. It’s not like class rank with gpa

Just from reading around recently (and from my own personal interest) I would like this to be a thing. Like hoodies, hats, shirts, sweats. I think band kids/parents/enthusiasts wild aboulutely eat it up.

Recently Pflugerville ISD had a fine arts director change and things have been... Different. Not necessarily bad, but different in terms of funding and priority.

I agree with these, except I would put Hendrickson where Bowie is and after Conroe, Reagan might be higher

I think Hendrickson H.S. has a good shot at those last 4-5 places with any of those bands, and based on what Hebron H.S. does with their music, I would have moved them above Leander H.S., but honestly this competition is too hard to predict accurately. I wish they had multiple prelims rounds like they do at grand nats, as this competition is arguably just as competitive if not more. If nothing else, that additional round would help prove consistency

Just wanted to start some early predictions. These will change of course as more bands join. 1: Ronald Reagan HS 2: Vandegrift HS 3: Hendrickson HS 4: Westwood HS 5: Pflugerville HS Thats about as far as I would like to go, as I haven't seen shows from any of the other currently competing bands. Another thing to keep in mind however is that Cedar Ridge HS will be performing in exhibition (according to TMC website) and if they were to perform in competition, they would likely have a close bout with Hendrickson for that 3rd place finish. Reagan and Vandegrift also seem like they could be switched as well, but based on what I saw personally last year, Reagan comes out hitting hard at the start of the season. We shall soon see!