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2023 BOA Grand National Championships (Nov. 9-11)
BlastFromThePast replied to josephbandfan's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
I know, I know, different performances, different set of judges. Scores can't be compared directly between semis and finals. STILL, interesting to see the shifting. -
2023 BOA Grand National Championships (Nov. 9-11)
BlastFromThePast replied to josephbandfan's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
TW went in 2006 (where they were class champs but placed 4th in finals, after drawing 1st performance slot). They went again in 2007 and have alternated years since then as to not conflict with UIL State. Wonder how UIL State being every year now will affect TX representation at Grand Nats. -
2023 BOA Grand National Championships (Nov. 9-11)
BlastFromThePast replied to josephbandfan's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
Seems Hebron & Carmel will be duking it out at the top, and Avon & TW just under them. Agree we should probably (?) see a captions split, but there are always surprises. Amazing level of accomplishment by all these bands. -
2023 BOA Grand National Championships (Nov. 9-11)
BlastFromThePast replied to josephbandfan's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
Yes, this show had me a little confused. Some visual parts didn’t seem to complement the music very well. Nice color effects though. -
2023 BOA Grand National Championships (Nov. 9-11)
BlastFromThePast replied to josephbandfan's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
Pearland, what a striking show. I like the traditional symmetric design punctuated by key moments of asymmetry. Their program has come a long ways competitively these last few years. Looking forward to their finals performance. -
2023 BOA Grand National Championships (Nov. 9-11)
BlastFromThePast replied to josephbandfan's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
Go TWHS! (my hometown). Love the tight design and focused energy of this show, been really fun to watch it develop over the season. Wondering if the relative sparseness of the music will be an issue in scoring. -
2023 BOA Grand National Championships (Nov. 9-11)
BlastFromThePast replied to josephbandfan's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
Avon had eye-popping visuals with those uniforms and frames but I think they will be held back a bit musically. -
2023 BOA Grand National Championships (Nov. 9-11)
BlastFromThePast replied to josephbandfan's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
Nothing like a concert hall performance while doing insane marching. Amazing Carmel. -
2023 BOA Grand National Championships (Nov. 9-11)
BlastFromThePast replied to josephbandfan's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
Agree, I hear Carmel is incredible this year and there are other serious contenders this afternoon. Hebron was amazing but nothing is a given at this point. -
2023 BOA Grand National Championships (Nov. 9-11)
BlastFromThePast replied to josephbandfan's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
Incredible. Nobody blows the top off the stadium like Hebron. I regret not being there just for this. #nevermissagain -
2023 BOA Grand National Championships (Nov. 9-11)
BlastFromThePast replied to josephbandfan's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
And just like that, another top-level marching band from TX arrives on the scene. Is this their first GN? Amazing the support for bands in this state. -
2023 BOA Grand National Championships (Nov. 9-11)
BlastFromThePast replied to josephbandfan's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
Wondering if I can get one of those Morton set pieces for my backyard (before they put the covers on). Nice contrabass clarinet, don't hear that often in marching band! -
2023 BOA Grand National Championships (Nov. 9-11)
BlastFromThePast replied to josephbandfan's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
Playing that soprano sax solo with such expression would be very nerve wracking in that huge suspended silence! Excellent. -
2023 BOA San Antonio Super Regional (Nov. 3 & 4)
BlastFromThePast replied to LeanderMomma's topic in UIL: Upcoming Contests
Here's a visualization of the finals scoresheet (data taken from finals recap PDF posted by BOA). I'll post one after Indy GN finals too. -
The ordinals system is mathematically, er, "challenged". It introduces an element of randomness (you could say spiciness) into the overall rankings. Thus there can be position shuffling in the overall placements that have little to do with the judges' actual scores. Without seeing the score sheets, I can't say that happened in this particular contest. But being a "fuzzy" subjective contest in the first place, IMHO it'd be better if the scoring system wouldn't add this additional spice. Then again, maybe it just adds to the excitement.
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Agree that scores from different contests can't be directly merged and compared like that. Yet, I also agree it is useful. If you look at any given band's BOA scores throughout the season, they nearly always increase from contest to contest (e.g., Regional -> Super Regional -> GN). Placement changes from contest to contest happen because a band improves their score over time more than other bands, rather than bands' scores declining. So it seems reasonable to assume that most, if not all, of the SA finals scores represent a minimum of what they would have scored at GN (barring a major disaster of course). What's more unpredictable is how much higher these bands would have scored at GN.
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2022 6A UIL State
BlastFromThePast replied to BandFan59's topic in Past Contests, Events, and Festivals Archive
Yep. Mapping each judge's score to an ordinal before adding them together introduces statistically random "noise" into the total score for each band. Perhaps this is what makes UIL results more surprising/unpredictable than other contests -- the element of randomness. Maybe this approach is meant to counter some of the subjectiveness.