Before I say anything and get called out on here, congratulations to McCallum, Hendrickson and Dripping Springs. Best of luck at state. All 7 finalists put on great shows, and it was a pleasure to watch - I truly mean that. Band students have to be some of the hardest workers out there. This is my first year as a band parent, and I've learned that Bandtober is a real thing.
I'm no expert and certainly don't know what details to look for to grade performances. I happened to be going through the score sheet looking at the results - I'm assuming the numbers in the smaller boxes are raw scores from the judges? If so, then based on just the raw performance scores, I see that Johnson scored higher than Dripping Springs. But, since the raw scores by judges are translated to 1-7 rankings (7 bands), Dripping Springs came out ahead of Johnson. Is this correct? I'm not saying it's fair or not fair, and I'm sure there's a reason it's done this way (I guess to normalize the results), but I just want to make sure I'm reading this correctly. The top 3 schools are certainly deserving of a trip to the state competition.
Again, congratulations to all of the bands. It was fun watching all of the performances.