WanderingTraveler

Congratulations to Mineola and all of the finals bands for 3A! Great way to end the season!

Seems it made finals!! Interested to watch!

Yes that would be ideal. Sorry I am just now seeing this response. @Clarinot Similar to below (USBands Open Class Example): “Flower Mound HS Hebron HS Marcus HS Burleson Centennial HS Forney HS The Colony HS”

Quick recap on the 2025 5A season before this forum gets closed: What a season! Congratulations to all the bands competing and those who made it to the SMBC. There were definitely some major shake ups not only from preseason thoughts, but even from even more recently! Regardless, crazy display of talent top to bottom. There were a few bands that have been active in this competition that were left out due to the strength of this competition, like Pieper and McKinney North to name a few. However, this state competition will look very different next year with a good chunk of bands moving 6A, and some 4As moving up. Congratulations to Cedar park on ending their 5A tenure with a exclamation mark before their move to 6A. The other medalists, Rouse and Wakeland, showing they can hang with the 6A bands at BOA SA with Rouse being 8th and Wakeland just on the outside looking in at 15th. Leander! I am glad you tried something new this year, despite the mixed feedback. Theres a few evolutions of the activity that would not happen if people didn’t take risks (take Bluecoats 2015 as an example). The area of doom and despair, Area B showed up once again, and showed up in a big way having every single band from that area in the Top 8. Despite the shake up from area, these bands from this area represented well, outstanding job! BC percussion, wow, thats it! Aledo, Im not sure if it will be trains or boats next season, but whatever it is, y'all will bring another thematically great show, as y'all did this year. Finally, Richland, McCallum, and Hays…most people, myself included were unaware of your game! Great showing from these bands, and you guys 100% deserved finals, and represented yalls bands well. I could ramble on but I’ll let the season breathe for now. This has been my favorite contest for quite some time, but I think next year I might detour and take a trip to either 6A SMBC or BOA San Antonio next year, but excited for next season nonetheless the less.

Time to just smile and move on, lol🫩

I will be traveling home during prelims here, but will have the audio turned on. As of now, this is what I am thinking for finalists predictions (alphabetical order): Atlanta HS Commerce HS Holliday HS Howe HS Mineola HS Raymondville HS Redwater HS TCLA HS Troy HS Whitesboro HS Excited to round out UIL state with our amazing 3A bands! Good luck everyone!

1A State Marching Finals Results 🥇: Cross Plains 🥈: Menard 🥉: Irion County 4: Claude 5: Knox City 6: Baird 7: Runge Great job to all the finalists bands, and congratulations to Cross Plains!!!

We will know in around an hour

I am not surprised, the BC battery was nails today (as well as most days). Super impressed.

Whos got the extended results sheets

5A State Marching Finals Results 🥇. Cedar Park 🥈. Rouse 🥉. Wakeland 4. Lebanon Trail 5. Argyle 6. Leander 7. Aledo 8. Lone Star 9. Burleson Centennial 10. Hays 11. Richland 12. McCallum

Outstanding performances from everyone in finals! There is not a single group that should not feel proud of the products put on the field today. Great job!

Hope the cnet who feel during Cedar Parks show is ok, crazy way to recover.

That Burleson Centennial drum break🔥🔥Especially the bass runs

Good afternoon 5A! Good luck to all the 5A bands competing in finals today. Hope all the bands have a great season ending performance, and that these seniors have an enjoyable final run! Super excited to watch how this unfolds and hope everyone has fun.

1A State Finals Schedule 7:45 - Runge 8:00 - Baird 8:15 - Knox City 8:30 - Cross Plains 8:45 - Claude 9:00 - Irion County 9:15 - Menard Great job to all these bands and our 1A finalists! Good luck in finals.

Great showing from the 1A bands today! Today was a good reminder of how strong the bands in texas are regardless of class! Good luck to all bands that participated.

Thats actually a wicked display of talent. Go them!

Good luck to the 1A bands performing today!

While I understand where you are coming from, Im never going to dog on anyone during my recaps. Im trying to construct a positive and informative audible replay of what happened for those that cant view the performance. Also, as I clearly stated, to me this is top 5 contention, this is my stance, and I don’t agree that it should be 9th (which is why I stated that I have no doubt that it will move up tomorrow). I think it was a bad run, not a nuclear bomb, they will still do well.

I would agree with this, especially seeing Vista Ridges placement at both state and BOA… While there are some confusing results, I also do not hear the judges tapes and dont see things from that perspective.

I want to take a step back and look at this from a completely subjective point of view. Do I believe there are some strange results here tonight, sure…However I think we are trying to make sense of too many loose variables. Let’s start with the obvious….trying to translate BOA to UIL. While scoring positively in BOA can be an indicator of success, it CANNOT be the only value used. GE is not a concept at the UIL level, which is a primary driver of why some bands can flip flop across contests. Secondly, we have to realize that run-per-run basis exists, and is exactly what is being judged. This isn’t the prediction game that some of us do that takes everything into account. This is ‘what did the band do on the field, right here and now’. Some bands have had successful seasons and didn’t have their best run, and vise versa…All in all, just because a band should beat someone, doesn’t mean they will. I’ll go top to bottom here with my thoughts. Cedar Park unanimously first, followed by Rouse…No issues here. Wakeland, especially from the UIL perspective, incredibly clean. Argyle, historically has been very precise and clean. They were like the 4A Hebron for a while in the way they approached the game and it’s paying off as they grow in number. Love it or hate it, this is the formula for success for these judging sheets. Leander got nuked in content and design, and I think this might be this first thing on the sheets that raise an eyebrow. All other scores make sense. LT under Argyle, after beating them outright at area, I would say yes in terms of todays run. Without getting to specific, especially musically, not LTs best run, despite their successful season. Aledo under Argyle doesnt surprise me after my commentary post-BOA. BC, great band, legendary percussion, content score was weird. Lone Star…had a bad run. I have seen this band a few times this season and this was off. However, do I think it was 9th? No. I have no doubt this could move up tomorrow. Top 5 show/band, maybe not top 5 run. Mentioned in my prelims comments that Richland had a good run and got rewarded for it! I think this fits perfectly. After this point I think the bubble becomes very strong, but heres a few notes: Poteet from a UIL perspective, very clean couldve made it in here. Lake Belton/Friendswood, two bands I predicted to make finals, just on the outside looking in from some great runs from the bubble bands that made it. I still personally would have taken Frindswood, but thats a one judge perspective. Again, tons of other bubble bands I commented on like Hendrickson, Roma, A&M Consolidated(I wouldve placed in finals), and the surprise of the day Harlingen South…but it is so complicated to place these bands near the bubble because of how competitive it is in 5A. Last comment I will make is regarding Midlothian. This was in my top 12 that I predicted. They had great season, but the run didn’t give them any brownie points. They had an incredible season, and they have a great production this year, that was super entertaining, but it fell short in prelims, and thats that. Again, this is prelims, and a lot could shift. Its more about getting the correct bands to finals. There is some funky stuff going on, sure, but also realize the game you are playing with the sheets. Which might be a reason Hebron didn’t win a state championship this year. This was a fairly blunt recap, but blaming judges outright is just lame IMO.

Full breakdown? Give me the over. Took 2 hours for 6A for me

5A State Finals Schedule 2:15 - Aledo 2:30 - McCallum 2:45 - Richland 3:00 - Lone Star 3:15 - BC 3:30 - Hays BREAK 4:00 - Rouse 4:15 - Leander 4:30 - Cedar Park 4:45 - LT 5:00 - Wakeland 5:15 - Argyle Congrats to all the bands today!