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I thought they would have placed a little higher. Still, I think that scoring technique is the most fair. I think it would have worked out better if the band that performed first was one that placed somewhere in the 15th-25th range so that they have more room to score the "better" and "worse" bands. Then again, there is no way to tell who would be in that range until the scores actually come out...(The chicken or the egg?)

I never thought of that scoring technique. That's such a good idea. I was wondering what judges would do if they accidentally scored a band too high or too low in the beginning. That means O'Connor' performance would have served as a standard. Do you by chance know what place O'Connor got?

Thanks for the info. That means I can watch as many of the bands as my schedule permits. I don't know if I can go through all thirty-somewhat bands, though. After Saturday, sitting in the hot sun at McAllen watching about 35 performances (twelve hours straight, literally), I don't know if I can have that kind of patience again. Not to mention getting about 4-5 hours of sleep the night before because of a looong road trip from San Antonio.

Does anybody know how the tickets work? I know there are single session passes and all day passes for prelims and finals. How do the single session tickets work? Is it just for one block of bands and then they make you leave?

Out of NISD I think the schools to watch out for are O'Connor, Clark, Taft, and Brandeis. (I think Brandeis is pretty new, but they are good.) Don't know about Marshall. I saw them a while back but I can't remember much. Who knows though. It all depends on which bands can peak right around this time.

I would venture to say the following will move on. O'Connor Harlingen Donna Hanna I don't know much about the bands either.