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Full recaps posted as well. Prelims: https://www.region9music.com/_files/ugd/c869e1_98ab9a5ae7374bccb3399ba008ea8f16.pdf Finals: https://www.region9music.com/_files/ugd/c869e1_22f55c11c443491a97ed09fda0c505ae.pdf

Posting finals results in thread (with ordinal points). 1st - The Woodlands (7) 2nd - North Shore (13) 3rd - College Park (14) 4th - Tomball Memorial (20) 5th - Klein Oak (28) 6th - Grand Oaks (33) 7th - Oak Ridge (37) 8th - Tomball (39) 9th - Klein (42) 10th - Klein Collins (42)

I heard that they will only eliminate whichever slot doesn’t get drawn at the end of finals. Hopefully it doesn’t get drawn by anyone.

Only 10 to finals and 5 to state. It was discovered last minute that one of the Aldine schools had an ineligible marcher at Region which means only 29 bands qualified for Area.

I believe it's now official that all of the Houston Areas (E, F, I) have been moved to Monday.

Wow! Humble, MacArthur, Nimitz, and Davis all received 1's versus last year. Dekaney got 2's versus 1's last year but with a net gain of 3, Area F will qualify 6 bands for State if all the bands in Region 9 receive 1's on Tuesday. That would make the Area competition much more exciting and guarantee at least 1 new band going to state.

Possible, but unlikely given only 25 qualified last year. I do think Willis will get 1's instead of 2's plus I don't think there will be a fluke DQ like last year. Then you would need 3 of the Aldine high schools (Nimitz, Davis, McArthur) to go from 2's to 1's. That would get Area F to 30 assuming no one else dropped from 1's to 2's. We will know after the Region 33 contest on Saturday whether it is even a possibility when Region 9 holds their competition the following Tuesday.

The draw order was recently released: Area F Draw Order 2025 There were 10 bands from this area that did not attend in 2024: Did not qualify(6), Military(3), DQ(1)

Results from preliminary round taken as final due to inclement weather (with ordinal points). Top 5 advanced to state: 1st - The Woodlands (5) 2nd - North Shore (14) 3rd - College Park (15) 4th - Tomball Memorial (16) 5th - Klein Oak (27) 6th - Oak Ridge (41) 7th - Klein (46) 8th - Spring (46) 9th - Grand Oaks (47) 10th - Klein Cain (53)

It's really 32 bands in this area because Carver and Avalos Tech don't field Marching Bands as they are technology magnet schools in Aldine ISD. Also, for years now, MacArthur, Eisenhower, and Humble have received ratings of 2 and haven't qualified for Area. So, that really leaves this area stuck at 29 area qualifiers. Aldine MacArthur has been close to a 1 since they have gotten 1-2-2 from the 3 region judges two years in a row. That would be great to have 6 state qualifiers. The odds are definitely better with the additional of the Magnolia schools.

I don't think Houston has ever had 4 in finals before. Houston was very strong in the 90's but there were only 5 or 7 finalists total back then. In fact, the last time they had 3 in finals was 2004: Langham Creek, TWHS, Clements

The numbers do back that up, although the quality of bands is never evenly distributed. Avg # of Finalists Block 1 26 1 Block 2 29 1 Block 3 20 4 Block 4 16 5 Block 5 17 3

It will still be 5 bands that advance to State. Per UIL advancement procedures, it is based on the number of bands that QUALIFY for Area, not the number that actually attend. The same situation occurred in 2021 when 26 bands qualified for Area but only 23 attended. In that year, 5 went to State.

Kingwood, Atascocita, and Cleveland will all be preparing for the State Military contest and skip Area. This is what they did in 2021 and their calendar’s confirm this for 2023.

Does anyone know if full recaps will be posted? I don’t see them on the website but they were posted in prior years.