nightlife

Wylie (Vis/GE tie) Clements (Music) Duncanville Tomball Memorial (GE tie) Berkner Cinco Ranch Del Valle Sachse Permian Del Valle Trinity Canton Pine Tree Chisholm Trail Clear Springs After a free afternoon, here's what we came up with

Thanks for the lists guys! We will get to it

A friend and I have decided to hold some faux regionals in the offseason to tide us over until the real season starts. These are a fun way for us to practice our judging skills and see how programs that don’t usually compete head to head compare. We take the latest videos of the previous season, randomize the list, and place them. Our first regional contained 12 bands: Pearland, Wylie, Cedar Park, Leander, MG Johnson, Klein Oak, Clear Brook, Keller Central, Burleson Centennial, TW College Park, Azle, and Bridgeland. The results were as follows: 1. Bridgeland (GE) (vis/tie) 2. Cedar Park (vis/tie) 3. Pearland (music) 4. Burleson Centennial 5. Leander 6. Keller Central 7. Wylie 8. College Park 9. Clear Brook 10. MG Johnson 11. Azle 12. Klein oak Would love to have recommendations of 10-15 groups you’d like us to compare

Seeing some of these show reveals, coupled with the shows I know of that haven’t been revealed, this area will probably be a bigger shock than usual. -cinco seems to have gone 180° on design, who knows if that’ll be good for them or not -bridgeland just isn’t clicking yet for me.. I’ll say that it took a while for last year’s to jive too though. I just hope they’re not biting off more than they can chew -cy fair seems to have found their niche and stuck with it. I like their creative ideas that haven’t really been seen before in that capacity in hs bands in their echelon. -Jordan has a much more approachable show this year that’s really going to set them up for success. If they can get their visual program up to 2022 standards when they beat 7L in vis, I could see them turning heads…

I agree, I’m leaning more towards >1 new Texas finalist this year. Directly comparing Friendswood to some of last year’s finalists has me pretty confident in them, furthermore Argyle did beat fwood soooo

Since I love rumors, I’d love to know more about the rumors of Pearland returning, Cyfair, Bridgeland, and Rouse going next year…

their check was too small

That other forum does think a lot don’t they

So does saucedo.

Call me spoiled with the Texas sound but I had to turn down the volume and at times step away from the computer during that show

Still though, do one or the other. I have a hard time believing that there is no one who doesn’t design for finalists that isn’t qualified to be head judge.

Also if Carmel was “technically best” how come they didn’t win music OR visual?

Are you kidding?! That explains a lot… If Wes Cartwright, the Ventos, or Harloff even said a word to a judge that would cause hellfire ?! But I guess since it’s Carmel…

I cannot be the only one who is so fed up with Carmel. They were the band who I was least “generally effect”ed by in ALL of semis. I’m so over it. They performed just fine, but if that’s not the most boring show in finals… by FAR. Texas is pushing the activity musically and GE wise, and if they had more time to explore visual they absolutely would be pushing there too. rant over.. for now. See ya next season!

it’s just so formulaic these days. give me an emoji and 3 overplayed pieces of music and I gotchu 🫡 🦊: The Quick Brown Fox 🌲: Amongst the Arbor ⭐️: Starstruck 🥭: A Tropical Escape

Okay so it looks like we’ll have probably at least 3 Cartwright shows in finals. I cannot personally stand the design, but each band performing those shows is doing so extremely extremely well, so kudos to the staff and performers for that! As for the design… these shows lack emotion, story, diversity, etc. It seems like they pick an Emoji with one or two colors and build a show around that. And it only seems to work with larger bands. Block here, curvilinear there, pods there, etc. Pearland: 🌕 brownsburg: 🪈 Mason: ✨ Prosper: 🇨🇱 broken arrow: ➰ Bentonville: 🌻 Honorable mentions: Pearland 2022: 🦄 broken arrow 2019: 🤠 Prosper 2022: 🪑 I will, however, reiterate that the kids and the staff are doing WONDERFUL things with their shows and each of the aforementioned bands moves and plays like the top bands they are

Be quick v2 👀 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xF9Bvmkz43kaHbuQYnhF6UHJeQjWQBeN/view?usp=drivesdk

My current rankings: Pearland Wylie Reagan Bell CTJ Round Rock Coppell Cy-Fair Timber Creek Cy Woods Prosper Waxahachie Lake Travis Tompkins Wylie East Klein Oak College Park Haltom Dickinson JBA Pebble Hills Coronado Midland

Rankings thus far: Wylie Reagan Bell CTJ Coppell Timber Creek Prosper Tompkins Wylie East Klein Oak College Park Haltom Dickinson JBA Pebble Hills Midland

To the kids watching: none of the negatives are a critique on you, rather the program and its coordinators.

No yeah I do think that this will lead to some very interesting results for both of these schools. At least it should… I could name 5 Houston and 10 Dallas “bubble” bands that sound and march better. makes you wonder what anonymous performances would do to the final ranking…

Whattttt no bell?? they should invite them and Marcus ?!

It may sound harder as of right now because of the difference in musical clarity. Good for them! Would love to see a tie for 5th to allow for 6 bands to state!

I felt like 7L was struggling with their music book the last few times I heard them. Has that improved? Vertical alignment and timing were their main issues and it seemed like the drum majors and the drum line were constantly fighting for tempo/downbeats. It’s a tough show musically. Bold considering how little content is weighted at area.