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Okay that’s great to hear, should pretty early make state and do so for a while unless they move back up or new areas alignments, super excited to see this program hopefully finally make state

Thanks for this! I’m only recently been getting into 4A but it’s only getting better and will be fully invested next season

I think top 3 in order will be Panther Creek, China Springs and Southwest, outside of that is fair game

This will be a very tough one to predict! I’d say at the moment Hendrickson is still the band to beat. Yes, last season wasn’t their best but it’s also Hendrickson. Piper could possibly win this comp, but I think they need a few more seasons to be that type of a powerhouse program. Some other programs like McCallum and Hays and a weird season last year. Here’s what I’m thinking right now assuming all 1’s 1st: Hendrickson 2nd: Pieper 3rd: McCallum 4th: Lake Belton 5th: New Braunels 6th-10th: Weiss/Hays/P-Ville/SV/Georgetown I am personally expecting Hays and McCallum to do much better, hopefully. I do thing NB is going to have success in 5A and could see them anywhere as high as 3rd. My 6-10 could be in any order, but I’d imagine finals will be mostly these programs. Another area that’s gonna be SUPER competitive

Oooo that would be fun to see!!

I wouldn’t be to fast to count out Highland Park. While they have struggled the past two seasons in 6A, I really think it was bc of their “silly” and fun show designs, bc they still looked and sounded good, and they had great success with those style of shows in 5A. So, assuming they do that type of show again, they could very much win, but I do agree the LC could win it as well, we really just won’t know till the season starts

I meant 4 😭

No it’s still every year for all conferences. There’s just been some changes in the schools in each area and creation/getting rid off some areas, but everyone can go to state every year!

Yes it looks like it, but we still will unfortunately only get 4 to state.

Yeah they still are

I’m super excited to see how this area turns out!! With the additions of bands like Pine Tree and Celina, it’s going to be a MASSIVE battle for finals and state. Throwing in my way to early predictions: 1st: Celina 2nd: Pine Tree (have a really good feeling about them) 3rd: Sulphur Springs 4th: North Lamar 5th: Canton (could be higher) 6th: Lumbertown 7th: Paris I’m only gonna to my top 7, if they end up sending ten there are a good amount of programs that could take the other 3 spots. Will be a fun one to watch!!

Do we know if bands like Lakeview Centennial that are opting up/down are competing here or at 6A area C? It seems like there’s still some confusion, as others have mentioned them competing in 6A and others in 5A. Assuming it’s 5A, which Imo is their best option for making state, I think they have a great shot at state. I’m imagining HP will once again run this area, as they did very well in 5A with their creative cute shows, and am thinking rn, assuming everyone stays in their actual class will look around these lines: 1st: Highland Park 2nd: Lakeview Centennial 3rd/4th: Poteet and North Mesquite-could be in any order 5th: Mount Pleasant(could be top 3) 6th: Red Oak 7th: West Mesquite 8th: Terrell 9th: Kaufman 10th: A lot of bands

The schedule had been posted for the World Championships! Marcus is indeed going, yay, and The Woodlands are the last group in SW to perform in prelims! Idk if having a later performance time is better for WGI stuff like marching band, but going right after Avon I think might help them in terms of comparison to the other top guards, especially if they have really good run!

100%! They had a great finish to their season and if they can build off that they could be top 5 here

Oh for sure anything could change between now and this comp!

Thanks sooo much for this and the other big updates you made today, really helpful and appreciated! I think right now, it’s safe to say Waxahachie, Forney, and I’d imagine Ducanville will be the top 3, in that order. I’d at the moment have Rockwall in the 4th spot, and hopefully a 5th band goes, not really any room for area at region, but if all goes well, I’d say the 5th spot could go anywhere between Berkner, who’d I have there, and could contest for the 4th spot, depends if they hold their momentum, or other bands like Lake Highlands, Richardson, North Forney, Sachse, Royce City, JJ Pearce(big dark horse) or Rockwall Heath. I could also see Rockwall in 3rd if they have another strong show like last year. Idk how many to finals, but if it’s 10 here’s what I’m thinking at the moment: 1st Waxahachie 2nd: Forney 3rd: Ducanville 4th: Rockwall 5th: LH/Berkner 6th: Berkner/LH 7th: JJ Pearce 8th: Sachse 9th: Richardson 10th: North Forney/Heath Pearce is the biggest dark horse for me. They could be as high as 4th, or as low as 9th. They have an Amazing concert program and did make finals at a super competitive Area B, don’t count them out, should be a super fun area, praying that all the bands get 1’s!

First off, do we know where this comp is being held, just wondering? I’m guessing the new Prosper or McKinney Stadium, and yeah, this is gonna be a bloodbath of an area. Area B, C and J are just now like 5A area B, and things are just now more competitive than ever. I think it’s safe to say we know the first 3 spots, thank the lord there is a 4th, which could do to either of the Wylie, McKinney or Prosper schools. We should have 10 to finals, so here’s my way to early predictions: 1st-3rd: LISD schools an any order 4th-7th(any order): Wylie/WE/Prosper/Mckinney Boyd 8th: Rock Hill 9th: Mckinney 10th: Braswell/Byron Nelson/Lewisville

Great breakdown! I think your predictions are spot on, and with programs on the rise, it will be very fun to see how things shake up, but my predictions are in line with yours

Dang wow okay this is crazy but exciting!

If this is actually the case, I think they will only send 3 to state, pretty sure it’s one band for every 5, which means probably the 3 LISD schools. If it’s 4, Prosper and the Wylie schools will be fighting for the last spot, Rock Hill could also make a move

ONLY 4 SPOTS😭😭😭 This might be the most competitive Area B ever simply bc of that. I fee Like Keller and Coppell are locks, TC and Bell will most likely take the other two spots but KC,SLC and some other programs will have a something to say as well, my god this is gonna be insane!!

And if so can you link the source you got this information from 🙃

WAIT IS THIS REAL?!?!?

This is already such a stacked lineup! Really happy they have this as a 12 finalist comp bc there are gonna be so many bands on the line of making finals. I’d say right now, here’s what I’m thinking (this is wayyyy to early but why not: 1st: Lone Star 2nd: Argyle/Lebanon Trail 3rd: LT/Argyle 4th: McKinney 5th: Frisco Independence 6th: Lovejoy 7th: Lake Highlands 8th: Lakeview Centennial 9th: Celina 10th: Frisco Memorial 11th: North Forney 12th: Anna/Rowlett these rankings are based off last season since we haven’t seen anything for the upcoming season, and I tried to base it off how these bands tend to do early season rather then late. I could very much see bands like Lovejoy anywhere from 5th-9th, they just tend to do well early and then fall of around area. Should be a really great finals to watch and somewhat of a early look at 5A area B

Thank you! I'd say scores seem about right, looking at the recap it looks like GE is what hurt Fisher but they are still moderately close to Carmel in the other categories, tied them in design analysis, and Avon with a 94.05!