As an individual who has heard the from primary source and is extremely frustrated and disappointed about the situation, here is exactly what happened to Wakeland.
yes the show is more than 8 minutes so they planned to start during announcements.
the macbook they use to run everything decided to reboot as announcements were going off
they decided to wait for it to finish hoping for the best
unfortunately they went overtime by about 22 seconds
initially they were sent home with all 1's but the morning after it was changed to all 2's
hence, disqualification
Although this is very upsetting, there is nothing anyone could have done about it and it was a simple unfortunate event. There is no one to blame and Wakeland is very grateful for the opening at Duncanville and the opportunity to end their season with a couple more chances to perform and have fun.
notes: wakeland has never had a set time to start they always start when the director calls up the drum majors. (which at UIL is almost always during announcements), the director was caught up in pulling a tarp off the field that was being blown away whilst the macbook was also rebooting, and yes a failsafe would have been nice but wakeland has never really had/needed one before and the most unexpected things took place. it was an unfortunate circumstance all around and because of that no one has any right to point fingers especially with how upset wakeland already is.