westtexasparent

Wow I’m being rude, when I posted this I felt I was taking up for the the other 11 bands that was in El Paso last weekend, I was not trying to not disrespecting either school that are advancing I’m a frenship and a PHS fan and btw the props that fell was from PHS.and couldn’t hear. All I was trying to do get the attention to the scope cards because how can like 2 marching judges have a band at 3 ‘s and one at a 11 just as example. That’s all I’m saying, I’m a fan of these kids and even have a kid still in a program.

I’m not saying that at all, when a band gets to that level of competition, the formality have bands that moves on should be decided on how they perform as a whole, including the props, guard, and even road crew, from the time the band enters the parking lot to the time they leave.

If I was was the only one that saw it then I would just say ok, as we was walking out of the stadium after the results we heard several people making commits about the same thing, no matter what bands we represent we need to support the kids, they see it, they are wanting to throw everything down the drain because the same bands keeps advancing, Not because of past history of the school but of current status.

I’m not just making this up you can look up the results from the weekend and look for yourself.

To all of the bands that put in hours on in of practice to be judged from a blinded eye and when it comes to getting judged it seems that the bands that actual get to deserve to go to state always get passed by, let me explain, this past weekend 13 bands traveled to El Paso for 6A Area, they only picked two bands out of 13 to move forward to state, we witnessed one of the two bands moving on to state props falling down, players out of step and falling, and color guard dropping flags, and can barely hear the band half the time, whereas the two bands right before them had some flaws but at least you could hear them. If you look at the score cards from the judges they are all over the place on the placement. I feel this isn't fair nor right. I feel the UIL needs to review the recordings of the performances from Saturday and make there decision from a unbias, these kids have worked to hard to just turn their shoulder on them. Hopefully someone will see this before its to late and the bands that actually that deserve to move forward does.