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I expect Keller Central to place in the top 6 here. Their general effect score usually sinks them at boa contests but it won’t at uil. Their sound is great this year.

So leandermomma moves to Bentonville and they suddenly get 3rd at St. Louis???? They’ve made finals before but never that high!

I was there in person and live in Keller isd and Keller had some serious issues tonight in person, don’t see them moving up. Wasn’t crazy about Marcus’ show but it was technically correct for the most part. Definitely agree with Hebron taking the first spot followed by flower mound.

I heard kc practicing this morning at the high school while going for a walk in my neighborhood(heritage). I figured they were going to a contest today since practicing on Saturday morning only reason I logged on this morning. Band sounds great by the way, I like the score more than the last couple of years!! But Central always sounds great!! Good Luck!

Wow, that’s a pretty good line up for wmi this year. Tempted to make the drive to Wylie for finals on this plus the rare chance to see Lebanon Trail outside of uil. I don’t remember Flower Mound or Keller Central attending wmi before.

Have a question about reserve seating at San Antonio super regional. Are the reserve seats still placed well for getting a good view of the bands? Won’t be arriving until 5 or 6 from Fort Worth for finals on Saturday so feel like reserved seating will be necessary to get a good seat. Any insight on this would be appreciated:). Thank You

Just a funny from a band geek mind. Last night I was watching Yo-Yo Ma performing amazing grace before transitioned to Dvorak’s symphony for a new world. My honest first thought while listening to this was”wow, did he get this version of amazing grace from Vista Ridge circa 2018”.? I came to my senses after a couple of minutes.

Well it fits Well it fits the mood right now?

Goodness, isn’t that the truth.

I am in one of the families that has stayed quarantined since March because my wife is high risk. I’m fortunate that I have remained well and employed. Fall has always been my favorite season for multiple reasons but marching band contests have been fall mainstays for 35 years(dang I’m getting old?) for me as a former band member and music major. I am one who errs on the side of proactive prevention of the spread of Covid. That being said, I’m sure I’m in the company of everyone on these forums on the probable implications of Covid 19 on marching this fall. Despite what is decided from the tmea and uil I won’t go to band contests this year in the dfw area where I live for the first fall since I started marching band in 1985 simply because of crowd exposure. I know there’s bigger things to worry about right now, but I’m heartbroken over that for myself but also the implications of all band parents and students. Band was my life for 15 years from 7th grade through college, those experiences still form a core of my life experience. I still find myself trying to get in step while walking with other people and even though I played a trumpet I still have a virtual 24 hour drum line within the confines of my nerdy mind. Another loss of normalcy during this strange time. I hope this doesn’t leave a lasting affect in marching band given funding issues, continuity of practice issues etc.

I’m glad, they have a great program, East Texas needs some good 5a/6a corps style marching bands. the Tyler bands aren’t really competitive. Btw, I’ve marched in a “milicorps” before. I haven’t heard that term since I moved to dfw 20 years ago. Milicorps to me is military. Mineola is outstanding of course, but they’re still 3a.

I’m not sure about the football=high attendance schools. Longview has been winning for years in 6a. They go up and down from 6a to 5a every time realignment comes up. Lufkin is the same. As far as band goes they are both great military bands, so they’ll be in the new military band state contest if they go. I’d love say I’m very interested in the new military band state contest but that’s just not my thing. I had enough of that growing up in East Texas.

I believe Longview Pine Tree briefly changed to corps style and swiftly returned to military style marching. The five high schools serving portions of Longview are all military.

That’s one reason why we moved to n fort worth(Keller) from Frisco. People here think traffic has us bad but it’s not even in the same hemisphere as Frisco traffic. I’m not sure about the small school philosophy at Frisco and now Prosper. At least in terms of parent and crowd support, the 4 6a high schools in Keller isd get a lot more support than Frisco’s legion of 5a schools.

Absolutely, and those flo sports ads were horrible with the volume. I tried to use flo sports app on fire tv and it just spun forever, had to use an internet browser to watch Boa SA and grand nationals.

Jarrett Lipman, my compliments to CTJ being a very classy organization and please never conform. I absolutely love y’alls shows

Outstanding! Go Vandy!!!!!!

Wow, somebody in the video department had an epic fail it looks like

Big congrats to Vandy and Leander. Both have been my favorite shows this year from the beginning of the year. Glad to see Hebron in the top 3 for 4a. But great job Team Texas, hopefully someone from Texas brings home the eagle tonight. Saying hopefully because I felt this way before, when Hebron scored 97.85 in prelims in 2015. I thought they were perhaps a lock for the eagle and still lost to Broken Arrow and Avon in finals.

Absolutely, I noticed that on flo marching as well. CTJ just oozes energy during their performance. Avon was very good as was William Mason in my opinion, but Texas bias here, CTJ won the night.

CTJ brought down the house tonight. Awesome showing for them, some dirt but that is a great show and I agree that that show was much improved from San Antonio boa. I was impressed with Avon as well tonight and I have to take back my previous snoozer tag for Carmel. I enjoyed their show despite some marching issues.

Wow, William Mason is a treat to watch. Im sure they’ll be in semifinals as usual. First time I have watched them.

Not quite sure where you’re going with this but you probably should stay vague. I have no idea what you’re trying to say but it doesn’t sound like something that should be aired on a band forum. If you have a complaint it should be filed with your local school district or other proper authorities.

Rosemount barely made finals in St Louis. GN already has Harrison, ga, Park Vista Fl., Union OK., the Indiana bands and so on. Add in the Texas bands and it sounds pretty festive to me.

I like that north and south national champion thing. Don’t think they’ll ever do it, but that’s thinking out of the box band dad 84! Having grand nats in Texas every other year may lower out of state competition though. That’s what we surmised last year while having this same discussion. However, north and south champions wasn’t brought up last year. BOA needs to do something though, there is no super regional equal to boa SA, even the Indy sr.