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final scores posted https://recaps.competitionsuite.com/5f58fa14-b54b-4280-89f7-3ce99b3c45ce.htm scores in A class have def shot up a lot w/in a week. massive actually. higher scores than last yr despite being a week earlier. curious to see if the steering committee leaves Emerson in A or not. even if they don't, Melissa, Wylie, and Azle are all attending Dayton, too. open class: lil elm w/ a fab score to begin another Dayton year. scoring like they'll be back in finals and maybe top half. Coppell still doing very well also. where'd Marcus go?!! world class, flomo w/ maybe a lil bit of improvement yr over yr. scoring around where every other SW guard in the country seems to be scoring rn in their local circuits, including the regular Dayton finalists. mirage's score seems lower. TX IWs may have to sneak into finals this yr at Dayton, if they make the cut. weeee shall seeee. -
yeah, lots of huge week over week score gains this weekend in TX, both w/in the local circuits and entering wgi. not really surprised. shows should be mostly done by now. the huge shift b/w dripping springs and Brandeis this weekend versus last is def interesting. won't really know b/w those two until wgi Austin.
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cute lil music video from last weekend. just a small taste from a different, up close perspective. https://youtube.com/shorts/XG0ng0B0jGA?si=1i6rdF_JyAn6tMuO
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"Your attention is essential." seems like a pretty good opening line in retrospect lol. just now noticing the backstage side 2 sabre toss + partner lift + partner catch. super impressive. anywho, uploading vids to drive shortly. might take some timeeee. haven't actually looked at the drive in forever. haven't bothered w/ 2024 marching vids yet lol.
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lol okay, well, you're def preaching to the choir on that last part at least.
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sooo i got vids starting from Nat A to the end of the contest. not sure where ill upload them, seems kinda time consuming lol. think everyone was incomplete except for maybe 7L w/ their abacus show. like around 3 mins of show for everyone it seemed. lots of units w/o costumes, silks, etc. zoomed out a lot to take in the full floor, bc even at the top of the stands the view wasn't great, at least from a DA judge perspective. my A ordering was woodlands, grand oaks, cy woods, and tomball, who were the 4 that set themselves apart imo. expected the first 3, Tomball was a nice surprise. their show was Out in the Cold. lots of blue glacial imagery. they brought out stiff, "frozen" flags at one point, which was clever. woodlands A did a show called a The Joke w/ again a minimalist floor w/ just a spotlight on it. was sooo afraid it was going to be another stupid Joker show lol. but it was The Joke by Brandi Carlile, which is like a progressive country anthem about celebrating individual differences. so the spotlight here makes quite a bit of sense thematically. they won by like 4 points tonite, they were my clear first as well. there was just a lot more layering and motion to connect the events in this show than the others, which was a reflection of the denser, longer phrasing at the individual level. i love the opening staging, kinda sidereal, little dots around like constellations around the spotlight. so poised and articulate throughout both the movement and equipment skills. the flags were cleeeeaaan for Feb 1st. theyll be a real threat at wgi Austin, methinks. grand oaks was a mixed bag for me. i actually think i might like the staging a lil more than last yr, some cool moments, esp that unwinding pod around the circus top maypole thing at the beginning. they chose a better version of My Name is Carnival, w/ better builds, thankfully. individual perf, not as wowed as last yr. last yr around this time i thought, they might get, like, 5th at Dayton, bc the individuals were killing it + i loved the sheep floor lol. they got 9th. this yr im not so sure. group flag toss into the split was cool tho. Cywoods, i think the show is called Wildfire?? it was, like, a really cute horse show, i think. the fringe on the costumes looked kinda like manes lol. lots of little sautes as they spill out from the top of side 1 into a stage filled w/ barn fences. kinda like galloping? not as much motion to connect the events, aaaand a bit on the shorter side. some dead air in those phrases, but when they were spinning and tossing they did very well. just a cute, fairly clear show. i thought the opens here were works in progress tbh. cy fair was def my 1st place, a lil more elevated in the theming than im used to seeing from them. Somewhere to Belong. they had a lot of different colored see-through plastic screens in different shapes, each bending the floor a little w/ its own gravity. this was a hard one to interpret, but methinks maybe something about different cliques, and figuring out which one fits you. lots of really impressive individual skills, but some performance kinks to iron out. woodlands world is doing a show called Departures, which is about departing from an airport, and im sure hoping not an indication of an upcoming director change LOL. this set design is my favorite since their 2016 show. the floor is black w/ smeary pink and blue lights depicting airport gate signs, as if you're zipping past them in a plane taking off. brilliant. they have lots of airport benches, 3 connected blue seats on wheels. no costumes/custom silks. first improvement i noticed over previous couple years: attention to character!!! finally, i know who the performers are, as they slouch over the benches waiting to take off, pulling up to attention, and then rearranging the benches leapfrog style in a way that's incredibly aesthetically appealing from upstairs. aaaand when they take off, holy speed and fluency in the equipment skills. great continuity of the phrases. easy to see why they've got half a dozen performers heading into the Boston crusaders guard this season. insane difficulty and risk, and so clean for Feb 1st. sooo many moments where i was like, there's no way they're going to be clean on that ensemble toss w/ that many performers doing it, but then they were!! the timing, pitch of the equipment in the air, the placement of the hands, the centering of the body, they nail it waaaaay more often than they don't. i honestly would've given them a 77 or 78 in equipment, Sam gave em a 75... great, but a teeny bit stingy, like all these early scores seem to be. movement... still a lil too loosey goosey for me. the clarity of the lines w/ the body and the feet from person to person, plus all the timing w/ the bajillion things going on at once w/ the benches, not quite there yet. i wanna see them explore more skills of flexibility, pick up their feet a lil bit more, give me interesting shapes w/ the body. the middle slow section seemed pretty sparsely choregraphed rn as well, too much stillness. found myself both wanting more choreo + more distinct, character specific choreo. also think the flags could be brought out earlier in that section, and bring out more of them. lyrical flags are what cyndi does best, imo. ge judge behind me was criticizing them for pacing and clarity. to a degree, yes, lots going on, but not quite to the degree his score reflects, which also seemed a lil ignorant of the talent demonstrated imo. remember, effect is the totality!!! don't think he liked how suddenly the show takes off, whereas i found that appropriately thematic. planes go from 0 to 100 reeeaal fast. thaaat said, there's a distinctly relentless, epic quality to the opening music that almost negatively reminds me of an AMP show, sorry AMP fans!! like a lil bit exhausting, like an action movie, and could use clearer build-ups w/ tension and release. more of a fine wine approach. plus some lapses in staging clarity at this angle, but not that frequent. aaaand again a lil too uneventful in the middle section. bring in more of that goosebumpy emotional impact. overall, hope they figure out how to raise the other scores to the level of their equipment score. the three they got from the active wgi judges were all great rlly, but still a lilll lower than you'd expect given the skills of the performers. the two non wgi judge scores, both effect, were the worst. highest scoring SW guard atm, but room for growth for sure.
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absolutely horrifying. i was hearing murmurs of an active shooter from others at Morton ranch today but didn't realize it was at a tcgc event. thank goodness the parent took him down. absolute hero. waaaay too close to home. the world seems to be getting sicker and sicker. stay safe, everyone!!!
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lotsa contests all over the country today, lotsa first performances. Lockhart JH continuing to slayyy, outscoring all the HS regional As in this early batch of results. McCullough JH also had both their teams win, but both scored over a dozen points lower than usual. wonderin what's up w/ that...
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assuming i didn't mess that up, that means... Texas: 37 medals; 12 Gold, 11 Silver, 14 Bronze; 16 Independent + 21 Scholastic -Houston area: 14 medals; 6 Gold, 4 Silver, 4 Bronze; 4 Independent + 10 Scholastic -DFW area: 13 medals; 4 Gold, 3 Silver, 6 Bronze; 10 Independent + 3 Scholastic -Central Texas (Austin, San Antonio, San Marcos, and New Braunfels): 8 medals; 2 Gold, 2 Silver, 4 Bronze; 2 Independent + 6 Scholastic -El Paso area: 2 medals; 2 Silver; 2 Scholastic -1980s: 3 medals -1990s: 4 medals -2000s: 6 medals -2010s: 19 medals -2020s (so far): 5 medals -TX Guards w/ more than one medal: Odyssey (2), Nolan (2), The Woodlands HS (3), Code Black (3), and Little Elm HS (2)
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little elm earned a gold and a bronze in A, but hasn't medaled in open yet. they placed top half in SO finals three times in a row before covid. Texas medals in chron order 1984 Odyssey - IA Bronze; Main Event (South San Antonio HS) - Scholastic Bronze 1986 Odyssey - IO Gold 1993 Nouveau - IA Gold 1994 Klein Forest HS - SA Silver 1998 Nolan Catholic - IA Gold 1999 Nolan Independent - IO Gold 2001 Winston Churchill - SO Bronze 2003 Insignia - IA Bronze; James E. Taylor HS - SA Bronze 2004 The Woodlands HS - SO Gold 2007 Code Black - IO Gold; Americas HS - SA Silver 2010 Ars Nova - IA Silver; Code Black - IA Bronze; Little Elm HS - SA Gold 2011 Oak Ridge HS - SO Gold; White Gold - IA Bronze 2012 Dekaney HS - SA Silver 2013 Identity - IO Gold; Code Black - IO Silver; Claudia Taylor Johnson HS - SO Silver 2014 Spring HS - SO Gold; Brenham Independent - IA Silver; Little Elm HS - SA Bronze 2015 Marcus HS - SO Bronze; Eastlake HS - SA Silver 2017 Klein Oak HS - SA Gold 2018 CGT Denton - IO Silver; Black Gold A - IA Silver; Leander HS - SA Gold 2019 Dripping Springs HS - SO Bronze 2022 The Woodlands HS - SW Bronze; Westlake HS - SA Bronze 2023 Clear Brook HS - SA Silver 2024 The Woodlands HS - SW Bronze; Menage - IO Bronze
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aaaand here's barbers hill from a couple weeks ago. a lil more relevant for this thread.
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ok, well, here's a Hannibal Lecter show from FIU World to hold u over LOL good luck hearing the soundtrack over the screaming girls!!
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Lockhart ftw tonite in dripping springs!! both in Nat A and their junior high cadet regional A too, which outscored all the high school regional As at the contest except for westlake's jv. dripping springs in 2nd. strong upper 60s scores, w/ some 70+s in upstairs content. none of the scores scream reclassification or A class medalist at Dayton, but we'll see. super duper early.
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dripping springs scores should be in soon. def interested in any in-person perspectives!! biding my time by looking at recaps around the country. surprised to see tarpon w/ an over 7 point drop yr over yr at their first contest, w/ the same effect panel too, and mostly wgi judges. maybe more incomplete show than usual or just a more fun show, bc they aren't attending Dayton?? they do have a habit of going back and forth b/w gold medal worthy shows and middle of the pack ones.
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little elm with a fab first score tonite. nearly a 70 in open class in late Jan. actually all but on judge had them over 70, including all the active wgi judges. scholastic open scores tend to run a lil low for whatever reason. growing pains?? lol