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The Birdville Marching Festival will be held on Saturday, Oct. 14, at the Birdville ISD Fine Arts/Athletics Complex in North Richland Hills. Confirmed: Aledo H.S. Arlington Heights H.S. Birdville H.S. (exhibition) Boswell H.S. Brewer H.S. Burleson H.S. Burleson Centennial H.S. Chisholm Trail H.S. Cleburne H.S. Colleyville Heritage H.S. Haltom H.S. (exhibition) Granbury H.S. J.J. Pearce H.S. Joshua H.S. Mesquite H.S. Newman Smith H.S. North Mesquite H.S. Richland H.S. (exhibition) Southwest H.S. Summit H.S. Timberview H.S. Not attending: Arlington H.S. Crowley H.S. John Horn H.S. Naaman Forest H.S. North Crowley H.S. Richardson H.S. (Homecoming) Rockwall H.S. (BOA Prosper) Saginaw H.S. Trinity H.S. (nothing planned for 10/14) Will be updated as more information becomes available. (Last updated 8/31)

8 as of now, but we might see more

Three different locations in three years? That's crazy.

It's an off week for Colleyville.

The McKinney Marching Invitational will be held on Saturday, October 7, at the McKinney ISD Stadium. Schedule: Prelims: 10:30 - Greenville H.S. 10:45 - Lakeview Centennial H.S. 11:00 - Anna H.S. 11:15 - Frisco Heritage H.S. 11:30 - Prestonwood Christian Academy 11:45 - Tyler Legacy H.S. 12:00 - BREAK 13:00 - Princeton H.S. 13:15 - Argyle H.S. 13:30 - Highland Park H.S. 13:45 - Walnut Grove H.S. 14:00 - BREAK 14:15 - Melissa H.S. 14:30 - Plano West Senior H.S. 14:45 - Sherman H.S. 15:00 - Wylie East H.S. 15:15 - BREAK 15:30 - Lewisville H.S. 15:45 - Plano East Senior H.S. 16:00 - Plano Senior H.S. 16:15 - Wylie H.S. 16:30 - McKinney North H.S. (exhibition) 16:45 - Prelims Awards Will be updated as more information becomes available. (Last updated 9/15)

The Wylie Marching Invitational will be held Saturday, Sept. 30, at the Wylie ISD Stadium. Confirmed: Allen H.S. Birdville H.S. Flower Mound H.S. Lake Ridge H.S. Lebanon Trail H.S. Lovejoy H.S. Lone Star H.S. McKinney H.S. McKinney Boyd H.S. McKinney North H.S. Midlothian H.S. Northwest H.S. Reedy H.S. Walnut Grove H.S. Wylie H.S. (exhibition) Appeared in 2022 Grand Prairie H.S. Not attending: Keller Central H.S. (HEB Marching Contest) Legacy H.S. Liberty H.S. (Princeton Sounds of Fall) Mansfield H.S. (USBands Dallas Regional) Sachse H.S. (BOA Midland) Summit H.S. (USBands Dallas Regional) Wylie East H.S. (BOA Conroe) Will be updated as more information becomes available. (Last updated 8/27)

The Mansfield Preview of Champions will be held on Saturday, Sept. 23, at Vernon Newsom Stadium in Mansfield. Schedule: Prelims: 12:30 - Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas 12:45 - North Side H.S. 13:00 - Sam Houston H.S. 13:15 - Teague H.S. 13:30 - Trimble Tech H.S. 13:45 - Ranchview H.S. 14:00 - BREAK 14:15 - DeSoto H.S. 14:30 - Mansfield Legacy H.S. 14:45 - Juan Seguin H.S. 15:00 - Timberview H.S. 15:15 - Summit H.S. 15:30 - BREAK 15:45 - Brewer H.S. 16:00 - L.V. Berkner H.S. 16:15 - Colleyville Heritage H.S. 16:30 - Lake Ridge H.S. 16:45 - University of Texas at Arlington Maverick Marching Band (exhibition) 17:00 - Prelims Awards Finals: 17:45 - Possible exhibition 1 18:00 - Possible exhibition 2 18:15 - Possible exhibition 3 18:30 - Possible exhibition 4 18:45 - Finalist 1 19:00 - Finalist 2 19:15 - Finalist 3 19:30 - Finalist 4 19:45 - Finalist 5 20:00 - BREAK 20:15 - Finalist 6 20:30 - Finalist 7 20:45 - Finalist 8 21:00 - Finalist 9 21:15 - Finalist 10 21:30 - Mansfield H.S. 22:00 - Finals Awards Information pretty much final. (Last updated 9/15)

James Bowie HS from Austin is confirmed! Their most recent appearances at Grand Nationals were in 2012 and 2016, finishing 6th and 18th respectively.

Add to confirmed: Clear Brook H.S., TX Summit H.S., TX not anymore lol Waxahachie H.S., TX

6A Area is on the 21st. This contest is the only mid-season BOA contest for 5As, so there will probably be a very significant number of 5As attending this event. Also, most DFW 6A powerhouses are doing Bedford so most of the 6As at Prosper are probably going to be 1 tier below the likes of Hebron, Coppell, FloMo, etc.

I don't know the full repertoire, but I can give you most of it. Opener intro: Dawn FM by The Weeknd Piccolo solo/woodwind feature up until brass feature: Cannon in D Minor by Thomas Bergersen (yes, it's spelled "cannon" not "canon") Opener ending: Rocket to the Moon by Thomas Bergersen Ballad: After The Love Has Gone (recorded by David Foster, Jay Graydon, and Bill Champlin; not the Earth, Wind & Fire one) Closer brass feature/sax quartet: Summer from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi End: Come Sail Away by Dennis DeYoung Still can't figure out what the 7lions part is.

MG Johnson was 12th in prelims and 15th in semis.

That score gap...

We did always have to pay. They just decided to allow us to watch the LAST 3 BANDS (only 2 finalists) for free.

I had an odd feeling/hope that Vandy would win state after watching their BOA Austin finals performance despite it being a video. That was quickly replaced by Hebron after watching them at Bedford... I was absolutely floored. The results were a bit of a shocker at first, but if you think about it, they really aren't that surprising. One main thing that stuck to me was that Hebron wasn't as visually clean this year compared to last season. Individual visuals were all over the place, and it really stuck out to me when I watched the BOA finals multicam. Choreography being a grace note to half a count late or early, flute angles being inconsistent, etc. That definitely explained their 2nd place in Visual Individual at SA finals. Visual ensemble took a hit too. In 2021, there was a huge parallelogram rotation/dilation towards the end of the closer. That was SO ****ING CLEAN at state finals. As in, BD 2022 line rotation/spiral level clean. Nearly picture perfect. This year, there was a similar drill move in the closer. It wasn't as clean. The lines didn't hit; some people consistently missed cover downs. Some of the box rotations before the waterfall in the opener also looked iffy during the move (cleaned up at the hold, which means someone was taking a curved path.) Overall, visuals just weren't at the level of cleanliness that they achieved in 2021. I can't comment much on music as it's not something I'm really good at comparing (I thought Round Rock's ensemble sound was worse than Keller's at SA finals, but Keller scored lower... thank god I'm not a judge) and because I wasn't there in person. However, the mello sustain at the very end wasn't in tune and was uncharacteristically metallic/buzzy in sound, though it did lock in at the end. I don't know if it was because of NFHS, but it sounded better at SA finals. So yeah, that's my analysis on why Hebron didn't win. A bit sad because I hoped for a double back-to-back state/SA title, but I'm also glad that Vandy won. (Reagan is now next in line for preferred first-time state champion candidate.)

I would also like to see them

2:00 PM - Pearland 2:15 PM - Waxahachie 2:30 PM - Round Rock 2:45 PM - Coppell 3:00 PM - Claudia Taylor Johnson 3:15 PM - Keller 3:30 PM - Marcus 4:00 PM - Ronald Reagan 4:15 PM - Vandegrift 4:30 PM - Cedar Ridge 4:45 PM - The Woodlands 5:00 PM - Flower Mound 5:15 PM - Vista Ridge 5:30 PM - Hebron

They must have seen how many views Box5 was getting on the results streams alone and figured that they could profit a lot from the contests. I hope they never do this again. State finals videos are usually the best videos out there, but this year is the exception.

oops That's still a W for the Wylie schools, we'll see how they do at state.

These results make me question reality and 6A state

21st - Rouse 22nd - L.D. Bell 23rd - Cypress Woods 24th - Seven Lakes 25th - Hendrickson 26th - Cy-Fair 27th - Wylie 28th - Wylie East 29th - Friendswood 30th - Lake Travis

Timber Creek 17th Keller Central 18th Westlake 19th Waxahachie 20th KISD triumvirate in top 20!!!

https://marching.musicforall.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/11/2022-San-Antonio-Prelims-Recap.pdf https://marching.musicforall.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/11/2022-San-Antonio-Finals-Recap.pdf

Let's, uhhh, look at my predictions txbands predictions. They're a bit old, but I forgot my newer one. 1. Hebron ✔ 2. Vandegrift ❌ (-2) 3. Ronald Reagan ✔ 4. Flower Mound ❌ (-3) 5. Cedar Ridge ❌ (-4) 6. CT Johnson ✔ 7. Vista Ridge ❌ (+2) 8. Marcus ❌ (-5) 9. Coppell ❌ (-2) 10. Cedar Park ✔ 11. The Woodlands ❌ (+9) 12. Round Rock ❌ (+4) 13. Westlake ❌ (not even in finals, -6) 14. Cy-Fair ❌ (not even in finals, -12) Music: Hebron ✔ Visual: Hebron ✔ GE: Hebron ❌ (The Woodlands)

Wait hold up these aren't recaps I WANT MY NONEXISTENT "ACCESSING BOA WEBSITE" FEES BACK