Toasted Almond
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36 minutes ago, stix said:
I’m curious if someone could explain how the judging works for state? There are 12 judges, do they have panels like BOA super regional/grand nats? And what are the judging categories?
Judges for 6a- Steve Bentley, Jeff Brooks, Darrin Davis, Glenn Fugett, Mark Hoskins, Jay Kennedy, Kyle Miller, Carl Nelson, Chris Romanowski, Mike Stone, Jim Sturgeon, Steve Wessels
If I had to guess, I'd speculate that the 12 judges are cumulative across the two days, especially when you consider that 5 of the 12 judges listed for 6A are also listed to judge 2A on Tuesday.
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1 minute ago, Dave609 said:
that was a typo.
Oh I agree. But being a band parent for a 6A Area B band, we received a tentative schedule today (unlikely it will change after Region 31 goes tomorrow), and Crowley isn't on it.... only 34 bands are listed. #nervous
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4 hours ago, Dave609 said:
If all Region 31 bands receive a divison 1, than 35 bands in total will be at this contest. They forgot to include Crowley HS, who is a 6A, not a 5A.
Crowley was also listed as 5A on the region schedule from last Tuesday...
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15 minutes ago, Dallas Hobbs said:
How many bands have qualified so far for area, and are there any bands left that need to do their region contests?
30 have qualified so far, with the last 5 bands of Region 31 doing their region tomorrow (Tues 17 Oct)
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1 minute ago, brassyboi said:
Does area start before noon? Usually?
With the 99.9% certainty of 35 bands competing, the start time would certainly have to be early.
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6 minutes ago, brassyboi said:
When will the area performance schedule be released?
Sometime either late on Tuesday 10/17 or early Wednesday 10/18
Have to wait for Region 31 on Tues, 10/17
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Electronics failures and malfunctions are probably one of the most frustrating things in marching band today (we didn't have electronics on the field back in my days of marching band.) If it hasn't happened to your program, it will, and its probably one of the hardest things to watch as a spectator - all those kids, getting more anxious and nervous by the second as their performance time ticks away, the fear of going over and being penalized, all while expected to perform at their best!
Watching Hebron last night, the seconds seemed to go on forever while they worked to fix their electronic issues. That has absolutely nothing to do with the caliber of their performance. But I do agree that it does sit a little uneasy that the recap sheets posted by BoA are cut off at the end and do not include the column that would show any penalties assessed, while all the other recaps from BoA contests thus far this season are not cut off. I think compassion and grace are important things and if the judges chose not to assess penalties to Hebron that is certainly their prerogative. The rules absolutely allow this. A full, uncropped recap sheet would provide full transparency and help to dispel any whispers of favoritism or "special treatment". -
In looking at the recaps, its curious that Azle was actually 10th in prelims, but did not make an appearance in finals. Was this perhaps their homecoming weekend? I know several bands have elected not to participate in finals (should they qualify) so their students could participate in homecoming activities.
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Fun little detail - there will be a partial solar eclipse during this contest!
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What methods do you folks use to move your cases of plumes? Do you use the little plastic dollies that come with them? Just plain old carry them around? Use a cart or wagon? Do you take them to football games / contests in something other than the 63-tube cases they are stored in? Just looking for ideas or ways that might be better than what we're doing right now.
In our program, the chaperones handle pluming and de-pluming the kids. Our plumes are transported in their cases on the buses with us and the kids, so we either have multiple people each carrying a case, or we have used a collapsible wagon as well. The plumes used to go on the truck, but we actually had the truck guys forget to load them once - like literally we were driving off and there was a little stack of plume cases sitting all by it's self in the middle of the parking lot 😆 - so we've just brought them with us on the buses ever since.
But they're bulky and cumbersome and sometimes we have to trek a good distance from the buses to where we're actually going to plume the kids.
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On 8/7/2023 at 11:13 PM, Percplayer19 said:
Haltom is a dark horse. They had a good show last year but didn’t make state. Mr. Hull knows how to get this group back to form and will get them back to state even though they are not ever considered by the talking heads.
They're definitely taking Area seriously... so seriously that they're not even attending their own home football game the night before Area. Game location is NOT the nice BISD turf field, but the old grass field that Haltom and Richland used up until the new turf field at Birdville was built. They don't want to risk twisted ankles or ruined props due to an uneven grass field, so they got permission to not even attend this game.
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Marcus has this on their calendar.
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On 4/15/2023 at 1:39 AM, josephbandfan said:
Timber Creek HS: “Aurora”
Link to video reveal: https://youtu.be/SOMaN7gLR2Y
Philip Glass: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Jay Bocook: Liquid
Sarah Cothran: As the World Caves In
Frank Ticheli: Nitro
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Link to video reveal: https://youtu.be/SOMaN7gLR2Y
Philip Glass: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Jay Bocook: Liquid
Sarah Cothran: As the World Caves In
Frank Ticheli: Nitro
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2 hours ago, RaElk99 said:
That actual wordage:
A. Brief Explanation of Proposed Recommendation This amendment to Section 1107, State Marching Band Contest, would change the contest from an alternating-year format to an every-year format.
B. Factual and Policy Justifications The state marching contest is currently held in alternating years with 1A/3A/5A conferences competing in odd years and 2A/4A/6A conferences competing in even years. This is the only UIL contest across all divisions – athletics, academics, and music – that is held in an alternating year format. Statewide band director survey has indicated support for holding the contest every year for all conferences and the marching band rules advisory committee has passed a proposal recommending that the contest be held every year for all conferences. Superintendent survey would provide more input to determine the level of member school support for this rule change. This proposal could become effective either in the 2023-24 or 2024-25 school year, pending all logistics being determined.
C. Proposed Recommendation Section 1107(a) of the UIL Constitution and Contest Rules would be amended as follows, pending approval by the Commissioner of Education: Section 1107: STATE MARCHING BAND CONTEST. (a) CONTEST SCHEDULE. The state marching band contest will be held ANNUALLY FOR EACH CONFERENCE. on the following schedule: (1) Odd Numbered Years: Conferences 5A, 3A and 1A (2) Even Numbered Years: Conferences 6A, 4A and 2A D. Potential Fiscal Impact of the Proposed Rule to Member Schools Participating schools would incur related expenses. E. Legislative Council Consideration; Effective Date The Standing Committee on Music moves that the Legislative Council pass this amendment, to be effective August 1, 2023, if approved by the Commissioner of Education.Last hurdle is approval by the Commissioner of Education.
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4 hours ago, celesta said:
9:45 - Joshua HS
10:00 -
Timbercreek HS- Timberview HS (not to be confused with the 6A Timbercreek in Region 30, Area
10:15 - Creekview HS
10:30 - Granbury HS
10:45 - Southwest HS
11:00 - Aledo HS
11:30 - Arlington Heights HS
11:45 - Summit HS
12:00 - South Hills HS
12:15 - Azle HS
12:30 - Newman Smith HS
1:30 - Cleburne HS
1:45 - Brewer HS
2:00 - Midlothian HS
2:15 - Richland HS
2:30 - Colleyville Heritage HS
2:45 - Midlothian Heritage HS
3:15 - R.L. Turner HS
3:30 - Grapevine HS
3:45 - Birdville HS
4:00 - Saginaw HS
4:15 - Burleson HS
5:00 - Awards
10:00am slot is Timberview HS, not to be confused with the 6A Timbercreek in Region 30, Area B
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10 hours ago, Dave609 said:
Hey everyone, please help me in congratulating these 7 bands from Region 5 6A on receiving a 1st Division at their Regional Contest!
These bands will be advancing to the UIL 6A Area B Marching Contest!-
Arlington
Cedar Hill
Lake Ridge
Legacy
Mansfield
Paschal
South Grand PrairieUIL Forms shows Martin also received 1st division ratings..?
(I wasn't at Region 5 yesterday, and UIL Forms has already cause a ruckus with the Aledo snafu, so not going to bet the farm on their information)
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1 hour ago, Niceone said:
Has band ever moved from bottom half to top half in prelims to finals?
Not in Texas yet this year, and I don't think there was movement between top/bottom in Texas last year. From what I can see only 1 band in any BoA contest this season has pushed from the bottom half to the top half, and that was Dublin Coffman H.S. moving from 7th in prelims to 6th in finals in Toledo 2 weeks ago (Plymouth-Canton dropped from 5th to 9th, which is likely what allowed them to move up).
On a personal note, I have questioned the top/bottom performance split for finals for just this reason... if you're in the bottom, its virtually impossible to move up. Plenty of movement within the two groups of 1-6 and 7-12 (for example, Oak Ridge going from 8th to 12th and Seven Lakes going from 12th to 7th), but rarely any movement between the groups. -
On 9/15/2022 at 10:04 PM, josephbandfan said:
Participation numbers from the last decade:
2012: 12
2013: 14
2014: 16
2015: 11
2016: 21
2017: 17
2018: 22
2019: 23
2020: COVID
2021: 15
2022: 15Yea, I guess I'm remembering the couple of years just before Covid, when 12 to finals from 20+ seemed a bigger deal then 12 to finals from 15. Either way, the competition will be fantastic with some incredible programs. Always look forward to this contest. And maybe I'm just greedy and want more bands to enjoy! lol.
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At Pennington Field again this year. This contest gets smaller and smaller every year.
11:45 - TBD
12:00 - The Colony H.S. (5A)
12:15 - Chisholm Trail H.S. (6A)
12:30 - Byron Nelson H.S. (6A)
12:45 - Burleson H.S. (5A)
1:00 - Keller H.S. (6A)
1:15 - BREAK
1:30 - Saginaw H.S. (5A)
1:45 - Prosper H.S. (6A)
2:00 - Richardson H.S. (6A)
2:15 - Wakeland H.S. (5A)
2:30 - Grapevine HS (5A)
2:45 - BREAK
3:00 - Coppell H.S. (6A)
3:15 - Forney H.S. (5A)
3:30 - Haltom H.S. (6A)
3:45 - Timber Creek H.S. (6A)
4:00 - Marcus H.S. (6A)
4:15 - L.D. Bell H.S. Exhibition
4:30 - Prelims awards ceremony
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On 9/10/2022 at 9:15 AM, LeanderMomma said:
Schedule is out and the original post has been revised to include it.
Looks like there was an update over on Horn Rank:
(dropped Melissa H.S., shifted morning start by 15 minutes)
OFFICIAL PRELIMS SCHEDULE AS OF 09/13/2022
8:15 - Highland Park H.S., TX
8:30 - Whitesboro H.S., TX
8:45 - Wakeland H.S., TX
9:00 - Aledo H.S., TX
9:15 - China Spring H.S., TX
BREAK
10:00 - Marcus H.S., TX
10:15 - Waller H.S., TX
10:30 - Hebron H.S., TX
10:45 - Trinity H.S., TX
11:00 - Lone Star H.S., TX
11:15 - James Martin H.S., TX
BREAK
12:15 - Waxahachie H.S., TX
12:30 - Rick Reedy H.S., TX
12:45 - Keller H.S., TX
1:00 - Southlake Carroll H.S., TX
1:15 - Rock Hill H.S., TX
1:30 - Timber Creek H.S., TX
1:45 - L.D. Bell H.S., TX
BREAK
2:30 - Lebanon Trail H.S., TX
2:45 - Coppell H.S., TX
3:00 - Iowa Park H.S., TX
3:15 - Brock H.S., TX
3:30 - Krum H.S., TX
3:45 - Flower Mound H.S., TX
4:00 - EXH: University of North Texas
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Timber Creek H.S., TX
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UIL 5A Area F 2023
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I think just the competition has to conclude before midnight. Announcement of results can be after midnight I think.