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Pushing the activity in terms of music, that is for sure.

Same I need hebron's performance

It is nice to have summit advance to state. First Mansfield school since lake ridge in 2013.

Alright. The “preferably at the same time” remark probably makes more sense spoken aloud. Just in this post it came off weird.

Legacy kids had their hopes up too. But getting 10th twice… they didn’t see that coming.

I’m a legacy homer too. The kids were stunned.

This contest is lethal. It is a shame these bands are all in Area F.

Well it wasn’t really just that one contest for legacy (I apologize for my wording). They had a one year band director that was forced to resign after 2015 and half the program left so their performance reflected the chaos. That’s what I was trying to get across.

Frustrating thing with legacy is they have refused to do any BOA since 2015 because of how miserably they performed at the Arlington contest that season. That was the year that sent them into the desert. I think they are more prepared than ever to get back into the BOA circuit. https://marching.musicforall.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/08/2015.10.10_Arlington_TX_Prelims.pdf

This will be a great Area contest. Burleson centennial will be the heavy favorites but everyone is out for blood.

Legacy is sneaky this year

Oh forgive me, I understand. Yes the judging panel was complained about between a lot the bands there. Bands like Wakeland were given strange placements. The Legacy band kind of went under reconstruction the past few years. 4 head band directors since 2015. Recently, they made area finals the first time since 2009 in a tough, Area F. You seem to be familiar with the Mansfield area as well so you probably know what I’m talking about. Mansfield bands, in general, are getting better.

Well I’m just going off of what a lot of witnesses have told me. If what I’m saying is true, the judges swapped legacy and lake ridge’s scores around therefore, sending lake ridge to state. I agree that lake ridge was doing quite well around this time. However, it has become clear that to me and the legacy members who were there, that lake ridge went in legacy’s place.

The tale of the Mansfield Legacy High School Band in 2013 is difficult to explain. I did not march this show but it appears that TMEA accidentally sent the wrong band to state and had to issue an official apology to the Legacy band at that time. The people that I have talked to (I marched with this school from 2016-2019) say that Legacy was first place in prelims at 4A Area B. However, finals got rained out and the people that chose bands to go to state looked at the performance order and picked Lake Ridge instead of Legacy. Lake Ridge's show was good, but since TMEA would have felt bad telling the Lake Ridge kids "Just kidding, we meant to say Mansfield Legacy" and it was Lake Ridge's first area contest, TMEA let Lake Ridge go to state in Legacy's place. I also heard that the judging was wack with every band there. There's a forum on this site from 2013 that showed confusion from people with every band's placement (http://www.txbands.com/forums/topic/4684-uil-area-b-marching-contest/page/2/). With all of that being said, Legacy's 2013 program "Sakura" would have been remembered more if it had the opportunity to be at the state contest. Here it is: