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bizarre!!

see i wasn't sure if she had done it or if Seth did it before he left. i really liked the choreo as well, esp in the ballad w/ the band members going down into the ground. really expressive, a clear shift in dynamics from the opening stuff. tricky to clean.

@TWHSPercDad or @WoodlandsMom4ever do u know who the guest choreographer is for tw this yr?? saw that the band now uses Samia Vanderkolff. dunno 'bout the guard side now that Seth is at M&G. know that Cyndi does a lot herself.

preseason thoughts not gonna pretend i watched all the guards going to Dayton but of the ones from tx i did see this marching season, imma say the class standouts were Wylie, Tomball, friendswood, and Pearland. A, A, A, + Open. friendswood back down in SA from SO intrigues me, like how Jordan did last yr. skills looked rock solidly A on the marching field, so maybe appropriate. Wylie + Pearland guards i watched over and over in disbelief lol. pushing the top of the class imo. sooo so much is gonna depend on the show design for these guards. woodlands for example has had the best guard on the marching field every year since at least 22 but has only once won gold at Dayton. reason?? design, design, design. also, overreaching w/ difficulty. also only rehearsing 8 hrs + others catching up, but that's a different conversation lol.

steering committee has released the summary of their 2025 Dallas meeting. https://www.wgi.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-CGSC-REPORT-FULL.pdf some changes to scheduling procedures. most notable changes = restructuring of the world class sheets to remove both Box 6 (standard setting) and the box thirds in Box 5. rationale = too hard to access videos of historical groups to make determination of standard setting + concerns about low scores in world class. first reason i don't get, videos of the absolute best of all time in each caption are easily watchable by a judge on YT just before world class finals. other reason, gonna guess that's the IW instructors complaining about their scores the past couple yrs. my response to that?? design and perform better shows!!

love seeing the A guard at more than one wgi event for a change, curious if they'll ever fly em up to Dayton like some of the other guards do w/ their jvs. would love to see the junior high sign up for a regional too if the staff can handle it. def been seeing more and more middle schools in wgi.

lol i know. it's too much effort tho, esp when i know lots of other ppl are recording them. if i really had the time id go back and rip the hi cams for all the dvds/VHSs. time consuming. think the late season one in Dfw is now at lake ridge hs. coppell's gym is amazing so kinda sad to see it not get used. all the ones marked w/ a + are double judge panel events. wgi decided to expand them this season which is nice, esp w/ the seeding process that uses regional scores and for the extra feedback.

im marching banded out ngl. ive stopped recording stuff. everyone at GN was great, my predictions, very accurate again besides bentonville. only a few quibbles w/ specific captions but overall picture fine. ppl have def taken the flomo loss hard, prob bc a.) they loved the show and b.) flomo were Texas's best this yr, it stings a lil more by extension. they were fab but avon's show was a teeny bit more effective and that's the game in boa. too bad the general in GE doesnt refer to the general audience but the totality of the show's effects. buuut if all this pushes tx bands to try out a new circuit w/ a 30-30-40 system w/ a guard and perc judge then im all for it!! tbh a lot of confusion would be fixed by learning more about how visual and effect are judged. that's 80% of the score. wgi is a great circuit to learn about visual.

Moe and gene should go if they can fit it into their schedule.

there were sooo many awesome tx guards on the marching field this yr and really excited to see some of the ones that impressed me the most make the Dayton trip, like Wylie and Westlake and Pearland and tomball and grand oaks and Etc. etc. and ORIGINS!!!! yessss!! hope they have something special for both their guards this season. curious about some of the new Dallas ones too w/ mirage/menage not fielding, or flooring?, anything this season. woodlands will be fine, will they win again??? hmmm, seems weird saying this since they won w/ a 98 last time, but i hope the design is a lil stronger this season, esp the staging, DA was their lowest caption average, 96 versus 98.5s. wanna see something that's as compelling upstairs from start to finish as the first parts of their How to Move show. ofc top to bottom their talent on the marching field this yr was still off the charts. just hoping for a lil better continuity of the phrases and higher risk skills, like they had last season from their main line. speeeaking of phrase length/continuity... actually my personal favorite way of putting it is phrase fullness, which encompasses both length and density... all guard directors should watch this Carmel clip from the Rosie Queen era, hot off of another wgi win and en route to another boa national championship. the craftsmanship and seamlessness of the phrases are so evident!!! the blending of the body w/ the spinning, + the traveling phrase at the end... just ugh!!! just ignore the crappy Flo music!!! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZafV0-rQ7E&pp=ygURQ2FybWVsIGd1YXJkIDIwMTc%3D

was cool seeing the Wilco drummer. so random but a nice surprise lol. he was pretty eloquent. went to lake park!! now there's a band you haven't heard about since i was in HS probably.

tbh the top half bottom half split looks almost exactly like i would have had it, miiiiight have thrown in B-ville over Reagan but Reagan is a perfectly reasonable choice. soooo thankful woodlands was able to hold on throughout the day, bodes well for them methinks. close it out strong, kiddos!! finals panel is great. one ge judge in particular can be a bit of a maverick across wgi/dci/boa. kinda hoping he mavericks his way to a Flomo win in finals lol. the scores have gotta be close.

i find the ties kinda hysterical. i was sooo close to posting about how this yr was gonna be like 04 where the top 2 stay the same across rounds but the rest is chaos. maybe that'll be true in the end!!! doesn't seem like the upstairs and downstairs music judges saw eye to eye to get that 4-way tie.

amen!!!!

ok well all 4 of the tx bands so far did their jobs. fabulous runs. it's out of their hands now.