2025 Texas Marching Classic (Oct. 11)

[itsjaredh97]

Good morning yall. Let’s have a day.

[AshTru9]

[WanderingTraveler]

3 hours ago, itsjaredh97 said:

Good morning yall. Let’s have a day.

You are there before the stadium lights are!!

[mussheet]

made it to the half way point and this is my ranking 

rouse

dripping

moe and gene

round rock

lake travis

hendrickson

pfulgerville

tom glenn

harlandale

 

 

 

[Origin]

Hmmm. Reagan’s gonna need to clean up that ensemble sound.

[mussheet]

ok 3/4s the way there 

 

vista ridge

ronald reagan

rouse

dripping

moe and gene

leander

round rock

mcneil

lake travis

hendrickson

winston churchill 

pfulgerville

tom glenn

harlandale

[mussheet]

Ok final ranking/prediction from prelims

1. Vandegrift
2. Vista Ridge
3. Ronald Reagan
4. Rouse
5. Dripping Springs
6. Moe & Gene Johnson
7. Leander
8. Round Rock
9. McNeil
10. Westwood
11. Lake Travis
12. Hendrickson

Mus-Vista Ridge

Vis-Vandegrift

GE-Vandegrift

Perc-Vandegrift

Aux-Ronald Reagan

[AshTru9]

Lake Travis missed finals 😳 Is this surprising to anyone or expected based on their show this year?

[Samuel Culper]

Does anyone have prelims placements/awards?

[mussheet]

1 minute ago, Samuel Culper said:

Does anyone have prelims placements/awards?

[jmartin1056]

Having seen Churchill at NEISD band night in September, it’s so amazing to see their progress! Such a cute show and the execution is great! Super happy to see the growth happening for them! Up in the stands on the 50. gotta say that there are some quality performances happening tonight!

[jmartin1056]

Super impressed by McNeil! Glad to see they are carrying over the success they had from last year! Loved the use of the capes. Also the closer being 525,600 minutes was so good!

[Josegjr]

15 minutes ago, jmartin1056 said:

Super impressed by McNeil! Glad to see they are carrying over the success they had from last year! Loved the use of the capes. Also the closer being 525,600 minutes was so good!

It was actually 9, 986,000 minutes from the office. Great choice! 

[Josegjr]

Leander amazing performance! I heard such a great show! I’m no judge I’m just a fan but I have to say I don’t know what the director was thinking with those screens. They don’t do anything for the show but take away from the kids great marching. I don’t see the value it added at all. 

[Josegjr]

Any body got any prelims scores? 
-asking for a friend

[Tubalord11]

M&G FREAKING JOHNSON!!! They’re on track for making state, possibly state finals and I’d be surprised if no SASR finals, WOW! Congrats to Vandy on the win and VR for keeping it close, as well as everyone who competed today!! 

[mussheet]

anyone have recaps???

[TexDad23]

[dullbanddad]

Question on scoring, Vandy had an issue in finals where their Clarinet solo didn't play over the speakers (mic cracked at the begining) where would they get deductions for that? I assumed it would be music but they somehow won it with a giant hole in their show

[WanderingTraveler]

1 hour ago, dullbanddad said:

Question on scoring, Vandy had an issue in finals where their Clarinet solo didn't play over the speakers (mic cracked at the begining) where would they get deductions for that? I assumed it would be music but they somehow won it with a giant hole in their show

It’s hard to assess errors vs ability in most cases. I would say despite the presence of an “issue”, the overall score was deserving of 1st. Despite this case being pretty obvious, most judges score shows in isolation and don’t understand what the show sounds like beforehand.

[dullbanddad]

5 hours ago, WanderingTraveler said:

It’s hard to assess errors vs ability in most cases. I would say despite the presence of an “issue”, the overall score was deserving of 1st. Despite this case being pretty obvious, most judges score shows in isolation and don’t understand what the show sounds like beforehand.

That makes sense. Their music is great, just didn't understand how the judges might score something like that. It was disappointing because that solo is awesome and I wanted to hear it in person 

[bchorn]

Recaps are up.

Prelims

Finals

[bchorn]

10 hours ago, dullbanddad said:

Question on scoring, Vandy had an issue in finals where their Clarinet solo didn't play over the speakers (mic cracked at the begining) where would they get deductions for that? I assumed it would be music but they somehow won it with a giant hole in their show

Judges do not take points off for mic issues.

[Tubalord11]

23 minutes ago, bchorn said:

Recaps are up.

Prelims

Finals

Wow, Johnson was locked in for finals! 

[seafoodbuffet]

Guessing they don't announce these things, but last night's winning score was a record high score for this contest.