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  1. Hahaha, yup the amount of people that would just simply walk across the street to Buccees was insane not to mention the amount of money some of those band students dropped in that place.
  2. I think the last two years they did small school (2A/3A/4A) finals and a 5A/6A finals which I think the last award was given out near midnight. However, I'm hearing several schools decided not to go to Royse City this year because of other shows and also having to compete earlier this year in district/area.
  3. Here is the schedule I found. Bishop Lynch (2A) 8:15 Farmersville (4A) 8:30 Tom Bean (2A) 8:45 Collinsville (2A) 9:00 Whitewright (2A) 9:15 Honey Grove (2A) 9:30 BREAK S&S (3A) 10:00 Callisburg (3A) 10:15 Leonard (3A) 10:30 Gunter (3A) 10:45 Blue Ridge (3A) 11:00 Bells (3A) 11:15 Pilot Point (3A) 11:30 Howe (3A) 11:45 LUNCH Breckenridge (3A) 1:00 Queen City (3A) 1:15 Mineola (3A) 1:30 Community (4A) 1:45 Bonham (4A) 2:00 Van Alstyne (4A) 2:15 Wills Point (4A) 2:30 Pleasant Grove (4A) 2:45 Lorena (4A) 3:00 BREAK Denison (5A) 3:30 Terrell (5A) 3:45 South Garland (5A) 4:00 Red Oak (5A) 4:15 Sam Houston (6A) 4:30 James Martin (6A) 4:45 North Lamar (4A) 5:00 Tyler Junior College Exhibition 5:15 Drum Retreat 5:30 DINNER BREAK Celina Exhibition 7:00 Class 1A/2A Champion 7:15 Finals 1 7:30 Finals 2 7:45 Finals 3 8:00 Finals 4 8:15 Finals 5 8:30 Finals 6 8:45 BREAK Finals 7 9:15 Finals 8 9:30 Finals 9 9:45 Finals 10 10:00 Finals 11 10:15 Finals 12 10:30 FINALS RETREAT 10:45
  4. Yeah, I was at this show last year and it was hot hot hot hot. Not to mention it was the first show of the year and several schools didn't have all their props and perform the entire show. I would have loved to seen 3A Mineola at this show. I think they finished 12th in Finals and I know they beat Celina in Prelims at Royse City last year.
  5. If I remember this correctly, isn't this contest one where the bands go and get a rating and that is it? I known in the past several bands would go perform at this then go to another contest later that afternoon and perform.
  6. October 5th has several competitions going on around the DFW area and I think also with State now being every year it's causing some schools to cut back on the number of contests they go to because they don't have the budget.
  7. What about small bands? If you could go see some small bands who would you want to go see? I don't think small bands get a lot of love on here.
  8. I hope Area B does well but other then Whitesboro, Holliday and Howe, historically there isn't much competition there. The big battle for 3A usually goes on out East. I hope I am wrong because I wish more bands could go to state and experience the excitement.
  9. well that's probably because those programs overall have numerous more students and parents that talk about it. Several of your small schools run anywhere from 40-100 kids compared to a 4A who might 200 kids.
  10. I'm not shocked, they pretty much come in with a mission every year. I am looking forward to seeing what they do.
  11. If it is like last year then if a small school doesn't make the finals then they will probably have an exhibition. However, if I remember Mineola (3A) made it to the finals and they did not have an exhibition. With the amount of talent that was there last year and again this year, it's a huge measuring stick for a program and will be very difficult for a small school to make it to the finals.
  12. I guess there must be other competitions going on in the DFW area that weekend (Princeton, Mesquite). Usually the Sunnyvale competition has around 15-16 bands.
  13. Looks like a few Class 3A State Finalists get to take their first step to see how they compare against each other in this one.
  14. I believe signups are open until Sept 30th. I would expect a schedule to probably come out first week of October.
  15. I expect within the next week or two you will see a schedule come out. So far, I have been noticing that some of the competitions are not filling up like before which might be a result of State Competition every year and schools needing the funding for that. This might be the reason why some of the schools that went last year will not be there this year.
  16. As of now, unless the cutoff numbers go down which I doubt. SS and Lindale will stay in 4A. Kaufman is on the fence and Anna for sure is going to move up.
  17. I'm pretty sure the cutoff numbers are going to go up compared to what they were last year. How much higher it goes is unknown at this moment.
  18. Congrats on Whitesboro winning, I thought Holiday possibly could have squeaked out a victory. I have not seen the individual scoring cards yet but I think in the end it just depended on which judges liked which show. I could see one judging group choosing Holiday and a different group choosing Mineola. The prelims scores looked a bit all over the place with one judge. With the State Contest now every year I see Whitesboro/Mineola/Holiday on another level with Atlanta closing the gap.
  19. That’s what I heard several people telling me and that is what happened in the 5A Finals last night
  20. The bottom 5 go in random order 1st through 5th and the top 5 go in random order last 6th through 10.
  21. Every Prelim State Event has a college band performing in Exhibition to showcase their program if graduating seniors want to continue a music career.
  22. Lots of good shows to get us started in the morning block. Looking forward to seeing a few others in the 2nd set like Redwater and Whitesboro and Mineola to wrap up Prelims.
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