UIL 6A 2023 State Finals

[mountainlympus]

WOW BRIDGELAND IN 10TH!!! Outstanding for a program that has only been open for 7 YEARS!!!! So proud to be an alumni and watch the continued success year after year. Are they the youngest school to make 6A Finals?

 

EDIT: CTJ also made 6A finals in their 7th year in existence.

[Iplaydadrum]

3 minutes ago, mountainlympus said:

WOW BRIDGELAND IN 10TH!!! Outstanding for a program that has only been open for 7 YEARS!!!! So proud to be an alumni and watch the continued success year after year. Are they the youngest school to make 6A Finals?

For 6a I think they are the youngest school. However, back when there was no 6a, and 5a was the largest, I think CTJ is technically the youngest school to make finals for the highest division. 

[seafoodbuffet]

6 minutes ago, Iplaydadrum said:

For 6a I think they are the youngest school. However, back when there was no 6a, and 5a was the largest, I think CTJ is technically the youngest school to make finals for the highest division. 

Bridgeland ties Vandegrift who made 6A finals in 2016 (Vandy was est in 2009)

[Iplaydadrum]

6 minutes ago, seafoodbuffet said:

Bridgeland ties Vandegrift who made 6A finals in 2016 (Vandy was est in 2009)

Thanks, I forgot Vandegrift moved up a division in 2016. It's actually so impressive how much they've managed to accomplish since 2009. The only thing left is to win San Antonio (hopefully this Saturday). 

[Tubalord11]

5 minutes ago, Iplaydadrum said:

Thanks, I forgot Vandegrift moved up a division in 2016. It's actually so impressive how much they've managed to accomplish since 2009. The only thing left is to win San Antonio (hopefully this Saturday). 

OMG your right!!! As much as I'd love for an upset, I really hope they win because then they will have everything you get from marching band (many regionals wins, 3x state (4A in 2013 and 6A in 2022/23), and GN's in 2019)! Also have won Honor band so like a SA win is all they need, lets go get it Vandergrift! 

[Dallas Hobbs]

Wow Marcus was first in brass in prelims and finals. Such tremendous improvement from last year for the program! 
 

also HUGE congrats to all Finalist bands! It was a big pleasure to watch these performances online!

[packwick]

34 minutes ago, mountainlympus said:

WOW BRIDGELAND IN 10TH!!! Outstanding for a program that has only been open for 7 YEARS!!!! So proud to be an alumni and watch the continued success year after year. Are they the youngest school to make 6A Finals?

 

EDIT: CTJ also made 6A finals in their 7th year in existence.

well deserved 10th place for B-land!! musically and esp visually they're hangin w/ the best of em this year. puuuure elegance, beautiful and clean vis program. 8th place ens vis, yep yep that checks out. can't wait to see their guard in WGI. large and in charge. gonna slay, can feel it.

twhs' 12th woodwind rank is yet another one of my early season predictions coming true, go figure. was raisin the alarms on that back in August. gotta have your ens woodwinds audible upstairs for more than 20 secs or whatever when you've got a ww judge up there! it's a band, not a drum corps! u could see they were nailed in ww content in prelims, guessin' same is true for finals. cost 'em 4th place.

other than that their ranks were fine. 5th ens music, 1st ens vis, 6th design, well that one's lower than id have it but im guessing it was a music person, either that or the UIL content caption is more focused on simultaneous demand and difficulty than variety/artistry/flow/creativity.

[justabandkid94]

6 minutes ago, Tubalord11 said:

OMG you’re right!!! As much as I'd love for an upset, I really hope they win because then they will have everything you get from marching band (many regionals wins, 3x state (4A in 2013 and 6A in 2022/23), and GN's in 2019)! Also have won Honor band so like a SA win is all they need, lets go get it Vandergrift! 

Tying out a meteoric decade by winning a back-to-back State championship on the 10th anniversary of your first. Cosmic stuff

[Tubalord11]

Also, I do want to give a HUGE Shoutout to Marcus!!! going from 13th at boa SA and 9th at state to 2ND at state... I don't think people understand HOW hard to pull off that type of jump in placements is, and Ik this is a completely different group and show, but that's still super impressive, they are my dark horse to win SA if Vandy or The Woodlands don't, but an absolute historic season for them, and my favorite show of theirs in a good while, although I LOVED the missing piece 

[cheeto2401]

rip that one guy from flower mound (he didn't die, just passed out)

 

AMAZING JOB MARCUS, THE SNARE TRANSITIONING TO TENORS WAS THE BEST THING IVE SEEN.

 

CONGRATS VANDY ON ANOTHER WIN

[FEDude]

Good for Vandegrift! My freshman year was 2013, so I remember hearing about a new school winning 4A state. That year, everyone was talking about CTJ (the acrobats!), Hebron, and especially The Woodland's shows. Vandegrift kinda flew under my radar. I'll admit, it was a gorgeous show, especially on the music side, but IDK if it would've made state finals today.

Vandegrift is making the same levels of growth as Marcus did from 2006 (where there could be a legitimate debate over who the champion should be) to 2012 (where there was honestly no question). So basically they're going from already at the top of the UIL latter, to even further up the latter. Great time to be a Vandegrift student!

[Dallas Hobbs]

Here are placements within each overall caption (I combined the music and visual sub-caption ordinals into their respective caption, and left the Content & Design caption as separate)

 

Music (Ens. + WW + Brass + Perc.)

1. Hebron (10)

2. Marcus/Vandegrift (11)

4. Flower Mound (17)

5. Vista Ridge (21)

6. The Woodlands (29) 

7. Waxahachie (33)

8. Ronald Reagan (35)

9. Pearland (36)

10. Bridgeland (38)

11. Coppell (41)

12. Round Rock (43)

13. Cy-Fair (47)

14. Keller (48)

 

Visual (Ens. + Ind.)

1. Vandegrift (3)

2. The Woodlands (4)

3. Marcus (9)

4. Hebron/ Flower Mound/ Vista Ridge/ Ronald Reagan (12) 

8. Cy-Fair (15)

9. Coppell (16)

10. Bridgeland (19)

11. Pearland (20)

12. Round Rock (24)

13. Keller (25)

14. Waxahachie (27)

 

Content & Design

1. Hebron 
2. Marcus
3. Vandegrift 
4. Vista Ridge
5. Ronald Reagan
6. The Woodlands 
7. Cy-Fair
8. Flower Mound
9. Coppell
10. Pearland
11. Bridgeland
12. Round Rock
13. Keller
14. Waxahachie 

[boppellband]

I’d be interested to see why Coppells percussion score is so low, seeing as they seem to win everything else, and from what I know are a top 3 percussion program in the nation. Would anyone be able to explain it to me? Not a percussion guy so not entirely sure how it’s scored.

[Iplaydadrum]

3 minutes ago, boppellband said:

I’d be interested to see why Coppells percussion score is so low, seeing as they seem to win everything else, and from what I know are a top 3 percussion program in the nation. Would anyone be able to explain it to me? Not a percussion guy so not entirely sure how it’s scored.

Coppell does both a percussion show and their show music during the competition season. I'm pretty sure that their percussion show is way harder than their show music and they likely spend more time on their percussion show. If both were hard it'd be pretty hard to get either one clean by the end of the season. 

[Ruprecht88]

13 minutes ago, Iplaydadrum said:

Coppell does both a percussion show and their show music during the competition season. I'm pretty sure that their percussion show is way harder than their show music and they likely spend more time on their percussion show. If both were hard it'd be pretty hard to get either one clean by the end of the season. 

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[BoAisBetter]

9 minutes ago, Ruprecht88 said:

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No offense to any Vandy fans here, but I genuinely hope Marcus wipes the floor with Vandegrift at SA SR.

“Dance team,” no props, and frankly easy music…

Genuinely no idea why they’ve struck gold these last 2 years at UIL. 

[SomeBandNerd]

Anyone have a video of Hebron's final performance?

[whitewing09]

1 hour ago, FEDude said:

Good for Vandegrift! My freshman year was 2013, so I remember hearing about a new school winning 4A state. That year, everyone was talking about CTJ (the acrobats!), Hebron, and especially The Woodland's shows. Vandegrift kinda flew under my radar. I'll admit, it was a gorgeous show, especially on the music side, but IDK if it would've made state finals today.

Vandegrift is making the same levels of growth as Marcus did from 2006 (where there could be a legitimate debate over who the champion should be) to 2012 (where there was honestly no question). So basically they're going from already at the top of the UIL latter, to even further up the latter. Great time to be a Vandegrift student!

I believe that was the first year Vandy made BOA SA FINALS 😍 I still remember that show. The Alexander Nevsky 😍

[whitewing09]

The contrast of Hebron’s music vs the TWHS visual prowess is going to be very interesting for BOA. 

It’s pretty wild that Vandy won because Hebron/Marcus lagged a bit in visual. Hebron still has time to work on vis, but 🚩 

[tubapop]

Can someone explain woodlands' high visual score? What exactly about their show earns that score? 

[zoomer]

7 minutes ago, tubapop said:

Can someone explain woodlands' high visual score? What exactly about their show earns that score? 

They move so well together, not sure there's much else to say

[Ruprecht88]

5 minutes ago, tubapop said:

Can someone explain woodlands' high visual score? What exactly about their show earns that score? 

Their guard is unrealistically good, and the visual judges may get a little over focused on that aspect 

[zoomer]

29 minutes ago, BoAisBetter said:

No offense to any Vandy fans here, but I genuinely hope Marcus wipes the floor with Vandegrift at SA SR.

“Dance team,” no props, and frankly easy music…

Genuinely no idea why they’ve struck gold these last 2 years at UIL. 

That "dance team" won them nationals 😄

[tubapop]

Just now, Ruprecht88 said:

Their guard is unrealistically good, and the visual judges may get a little over focused on that aspect 

I also frankly don't know what makes good colorguard. They all look the same to me. What are specific things to look for that set a great guard apart from a poor one?

[zoomer]

Just now, tubapop said:

I also frankly don't know what makes good colorguard. They all look the same to me. What are specific things to look for that set a great guard apart from a poor one?

Just the fact that TWHS is probably the only guard in Texas that can toss 7's all at once, you  don't really see that in Texas. An easy indicator is flags being in time as well.