J-Mike16

Well! Here are the results from yesterday's event! *1st - North Lamar (2022: 1st) *2nd - Sulphur Springs (2022: 2nd) *3rd - Paris (2022: 3rd) *4th - Lumberton (2022: 4th) *5th - Bridge City (2022: 5th) 6th - Pleasant Grove (2022: 6th) 7th - Little Cypress-Mauriceville (2022: 10th) 8th - Splendora (2022: 8th) 9th - Liberty-Eylau (2022: 7th) 10th - Livingston (2022: 12th) 11th - Palestine (2022: 9th) 12th - Hargrave (2022: 11th) 13th - Silsbee (2022: 14th) 14th - West Fork (2022: Did not compete. Brand New School) 15th - Liberty (2022: Received a 2 at Region) This was the only area where the top 6 placed in the same order just like last year. Congratulations to all the Advancing bands from Area C along with everyone else! Some pretty impressive stuff here in Southeast/East Texas.

That's the schedule from 2021.

From a non-biased point of view, Lumberton has stepped it up musically and visually. The show this year is just on another level compared to the last few. The only thing they need to do is just clean in both visual and music. If they can clean the show up (specifically the closer. They just learned it last week!), then they could potentially be a frontrunner to win Area and to then make State Finals.

They haven't released it yet.

Full Predictions on how I think it will be.... 1st - Sulphur Springs* 2nd - Lumberton* 3rd - North Lamar 4th - Bridge City 5th - Paris 6th - West Fork 7th - Little Cypress-Mauriceville 8th - Pleasant Grove 9th - Palestine 10th - Splendora ----- 11th - Liberty-Eylau 12th - Livingston 13th - Huffman Hargrave 14th - Liberty 15th - Silsbee I put asterisks on both SS and Lumberton because I can see both taking 1st.

So max would be 27 bands at 4A State. Just 1 more than 4A State in 2021 where 26 competed.

Hey everyone! Hope all is well during this chaotic marching season! I am here tonight (Actually early morning lol) to announce a new feature with our Predictions Game. This idea was brought to me from @Dave609. His idea was what if the predictors got something at the end of the season like a badge to showcase to all for their "impeccable predicting skills". Well, @Clarinot and I am here to tell y'all what we have made to share with everyone. We have made a badge for those who predict the best! Now here is how it will work. Every hour the website will automatically calculate the standings of all the predictors for the current standings. Those in the top 10 will be rewarded with the badge. NOW, the next time the website updates (for example, when scores get added), anyone who drops out of the top 10 will get their badge revoked and then anyone who moves up into the top 10 will be rewarded with a badge. This will continue until the season is over, by then the final top 10 will keep their badge forever. Every year there will be a new badge ready to be awarded. We hope this will increase in the competitiveness in predicting and hope some of yall work even harder to get into one of the coveted 10 spots I will now list the current top 10 Predictors who should have a badge in their profile. celesta J-Mike16 MrMusic5002 Tubalord11 brandonlfoskett bxOxAxUIL Dave609 RottenPredictions AKNOX BigBassBoi One more thing! Please, please, please double check any lineups for events before submitting. I've already had a couple Area Contests submitted with multiple bands who did not advance. Thank yall for participating in our 2023 TXBands Predictions Game! We are now getting into the intense part of the season. Go Band!

That's just the Area intent. That's just all the bands who would go to Area if they got a 1. Now, they take out all the bands who did not advance to then make a schedule.

Ross Boothman was a director from Lumberton, 1992 to 2014. Awesome guy!

Region 10 Results 2A: Corrigan-Camden - 2 Deweyville - 2 West Hardin - 2 3A: Anahuac - 1 (Advances to Area) Buna - 1 (Advances to Military State) East Chambers - 2 Hardin - 1 (Advances to Area) Kirbyville - 2 Kountze - 1 (Advances to Area) Orangefield - 1 (Advances to Area) Warren - 2 Woodville - 2 4A: Bridge City - 1 (Advances to Area) Hamshire-Fannett - 2 Hardin Jefferson - 1 (Advances to Military State) Hargrave - 1 (Advances to Area) Jasper - 2 Liberty - 1 (Advances to Area) Little Cypress-Mauriceville - 1 (Advances to Area) Livingston - 1 (Advances to Area) Lumberton - 1 (Advances to Area) Silsbee - 1 (Advances to Area) Vidor - 1 (Advances to Military State) West Orange-Stark - 2 5A: Dayton - 1 (Advances to Area) Nederland - 1 (Would advance to Military State. Don't think they are going) Port Neches-Groves - 1 (Advances to Area) 6A: Beaumont United - 3 West Brook - 2

I can post the results from Region 10

Depends on how many bands perform in prelims. For this contest, 12 advance to Finals.

Texas City is Non-Varsity this year.

I'm saying it now. Rouse is bringing the house down this year and will win State. I do think Cedar Park will be really close though in 2nd of course.

At the start of Rouse's closer, the baritones and tubas are doing some pretty fast backwards marching and the entire tuba line struggled, which resulted in 1 falling and 2 almost colliding.

I highly doubt that UIL would lower the classes. Lately, they have been going up.

I believe in the past, they took 14 to finals. Are they not doing that this year?

Varsity mean all band students on the field in the show are in High School. Var-Composite means that along with the High Schoolers, you also have middle school band kids in the show as well. Normally a lot of the smaller schools will be Var-Composite. If I'm wrong on any of this, I'm sorry!

I know the band program was pretty successful at UIL State in the 90's/2000's, but unfortunately has slipped downwards since then. However, I think the program has been on a rise in the last couple years.

This is hilarious, cause as I'm reading through the topic, I tell myself "I bet they couldn't find Region 10 stuff" XD Location is at Port Neches-Groves High School, Port Neches Texas. Date will be October 14th.

Oh! I almost forgot, if any of yall know/have the results for the following contests, please share them! Seguin Marching Festival (September 23rd) Cypress Marching Showcase (September 30th) Mesquite Marching Festival (September 30th) I'm having the hardest time finding any sorts of results from these 3 events.

Hey yall! We are making our way into the start of the Prestigious UIL Process of the season, and I just wanted to make this statement. Any Regional events that get submitted will get declined as Region is not a competition between other bands. It should get renamed to UIL Regional Evaluation. Now come Area, that is where the actual competition will start. Thanks for understanding and have a wonderful Monday!

Were there Caption Awards given out? and if so, who won them?

Thank you!. I will just use the Prelims Captions Winner for Finals.

I think a lot of people had Lumberton in Finals last year. I really think they could make it this time around. Will have to wait and see.