JTApex
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Just now, Tubalord11 said:
Can this affect their score in a super bad way? I'd imagine maybe some points off from the C/D caption but that's it, right?
If it was just the pre-show, it shouldn't impact at all.
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28 minutes ago, Minimaster said:
Hebron pops an 89.6
A quick look at MFA’s site shows that the DFW regional record was a 92 by LD Bell in 2001 contest. Incidentally, that was the earliest DFW regional I found. Hebron’s 89.6 is the second highest on record at this regional.
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50 minutes ago, Vidal28 said:That’s pretty much what I’m getting at. I’m personally already on board with anything I see from them, and I got to see them early hs football season EARLY, and they were already so good only seeing like 3 minutes of the show at that point😂 and also then a month later seeing them at BOA DFW always taking my place right up close just to the right of the 50, fully expecting to be blown away and still walking away amazed, for me the night was won by them, even then but the scores said otherwise. I think the direction that the students get at Hebron isn’t often discussed either, the students always are on the ball, focused and prepared, and it shows, always seeming like they make the challenge even more difficult every year when we’re all thinking, how does a high school do this? To begin with😂
As a parent of two former Hebron band members, I can’t even begin to express the appreciation I have for Mr. Sealy. He expects a high level of commitment, musicianship, and personal responsibility from his students all while making band an enjoyable experience. He is always teaching, teaching music, teaching professionalism, teaching sportsmanship, teaching work ethic, etc. My kids were better prepared than many of their friends to move on to college and beyond because of their association with the Hebron band and Andy Sealy.
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Is UIL finals still top 5 bottom 5?
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That was prelims. Claudia Taylor Johnson was third in Finals and Bowie was fourth. Flower Mound ended up 9th.
Long term storage not as accurate as it once was.
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Check your 2014 list, I think it should be:
1. Marcus
2. Hebron
3. FloMo
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BTW, what record was broken?
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I was thinking more of just getting into the finals at the Grand Nationals. About 15 who regularly make the finals fighting for those 12 spots, plus several bands that have been very close in the past as well.
I'm not sure that argument works. There are 17 bands on Horn Rank's Top 30 going to SA fighting for 14 (usually) spots in finals and 16 going to Nats fighting for 12 spots. Either way, you're looking at several really good bands not making finals.
Also, distance matters. There are several bands here in Texas that could make Grand Nat's finals "regularly", except they can't attend regularly. Marcus, Hebron, Flower Mound, CTJ, The Woodlands, Round Rock, Vandegrift, and others would all be contenders for GN finals. If they all went in a single year, what would Nats look like. If they all went every year, what would that top 15-20 band list fighting for finals be?
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If that happens San Antonio really will be harder than Grand Nationals as Avon has consistently been a medalist for quite some time.
The competition in San Antonio is objectively on par with (if not above) Grand Nats in terms of the depth of the competitive field. SA this year has more Top 30 and Top 10 bands (according to Horn Rank) than Nats.
I think the only thing that makes Nats harder to win is the third round of competition. To win Nats, a band must have 3 (relatively) consistently good runs in a very short period of time.
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The school is absolutely beautiful too.
Interesting note. FloMo's and Hebron's main campuses are identical (not that school design makes any difference in Band quality).
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Prediction threads already exist over in the upcoming contests section.
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flomo+marcus 2k17
Highly unlikely Lewisville ISD would allow both those schools to go in the same year.
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Seriously, can we just think about how dominate LISD could be at state this year? No one will touch flower mound at BOA. But state I'm predicting a UIL sweep
I think you left out one very important word "AGAIN" at the end of this statement.
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The cost per student/chaperone is derived by taking the total cost of the trip(travel, hotels, meals, tips, etc.) and dividing it by the number of PAYING participants. Realize that there may be twenty or more non-paying travelers (directors, student teachers, techs, etc.) so what it would cost you as an individual or small family does not scale properly to a group the size of a large high school band.
Also, if you want the best rehearsal spaces and closest hotels, you have to go through a particular travel agent which likely raises the rates some due to lack of competition.
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Is there a direct link to the live blog that works better on a mobile device?
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Indoor warm ups may be possible, but getting performers, instruments, flags, and props inside without getting wet is a problem that I don't think there are easy answers for.
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Can someone explain how the prediction analysis works (multipliers, etc.)? Just curious how you aggregate the data into a final prediction list.
JT
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Thanks! Perhaps that link should be included on the live.txbands.com front page, or added as an option on the top menu.
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Would it be possible to post links to the archived Live Blog Replays? Most interested in the BOA San Antonio SR, but there may be interest in other contests from earlier in the season.
Thanks!
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"I wonder if the results would be more normal if they dropped the highest and lowest?"
With 3 Music Judges and 2 Marching Judges, how exactly would that work? Drop the high and low music scores and the high and low marching scores? Drop the and low scores regardless of category (leaving you with the potential for some bands to be scored only on their music)? No, dropping scores does not work unless you dramatically expand the number of judges (to something like 7 music and 5 marching). So long as judging is subjective (and how can it not be), you are going to have "weird" results from time to time.
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Actually what I was looking at was Area A East Zone (Fort Worth, Keller, etc.) and Central Zone (Lubbock, Amarillo, etc.). There is apparently a West zone (El Paso), but I'm not seeing any information about an Area competition for that zone. If there is a competition in that zone and they send 1 band, that gets Area A to 4 bands as reported above.
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Does Area A advance 4 schools or 3? Near as I can tell, Area A has 18 schools participating in 2 zones (10 in the West zone and 8 in the East). In any other Area, 18 bands = 3 advancing to state. Am I missing something?
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2022 6A UIL State
in Past Contests, Events, and Festivals Archive
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IMO, the recaps never tell the full story. To truly understand, you'd need access to the full judging sheets that show their reasoning. In any activity that is judged subjectively, each judge has his/her own perspective and that will be reflected in how they rank each group. Note that I'm not saying they are slanted to one band over another, just that each may value each of the criteria they are responsible for a little differently.
With a field as good as the 14 finalists this year are, the judges may well have to focus on fairly minor, to us, things in order to create some real distinctions between several phenomenal groups.