UIL 5A Area B 2025

[WanderingTraveler]

3 minutes ago, OGFISD99 said:

Lone Star got second behind Hebron at Melissa..... with that being said 1st is going to be really close this year between Wakeland and Lone Star..... I'm going out on a limb and saying Lone Star could win.... I know this comes up every year but there's something different about Lone Star and their show and drill......

Yeah, haven't seen Wakeland live yet, but as of now I would agree with you.

[Tubalord11]

1 hour ago, Dave609 said:

I believe melissa will also be at MMI, so should be helpful to understand a lot of Area B 5A

Yeah them and Lovejoy so it’s almost a preview for like 3-first couple out 

[Cluelessbanddad]

I understand why they do it logistically, but it’s a travesty that UIL limit areas to only four teams.  This area could’ve sent six to state last year and they likely all would’ve finished in the top 12.  Meanwhile, certain areas send same teams every year and they can’t make the top 20 let alone make finals.

[DrummersEcho]

1. Lone Star
2. Wakeland
3. LT
4. Argyle/MN (argyle lead)
5. MN/Reedy (Mn lead)
6. Emerson
7. Reedy
8. Walnut Grove
9. Heritage
10. Independence


Lonestar could medal this year, all i'm going to say. they have a brass power house full of demons. they scored very close up to hebron. that director made a deal with the devil because the amount of sound coming off the field when i walked by them in a warm up lot was literally the same feeling i felt when i heard carolina crown.

wakeland im sorry your show is a little boring i wish it was harder but the drill demand and players are absolutely awesome.

All of these bands sound good and made crazy improvments and comebacks
OKAY LEBANON TRAIL??? slammed a bunch of 6a bands including braswell rockhill argyle mckinney north. holy comeback. same for argyle 

honestly i am so surprised on how different all of these bands sound, would have never expected emerson and independence to ever end up one of my lists, but they truly sound crazy good. 

[cheesecurd21]

1 hour ago, DrummersEcho said:

1. Lone Star
2. Wakeland
3. LT
4. Argyle/MN (argyle lead)
5. MN/Reedy (Mn lead)
6. Emerson
7. Reedy
8. Walnut Grove
9. Heritage
10. Independence


Lonestar could medal this year, all i'm going to say. they have a brass power house full of demons. they scored very close up to hebron. that director made a deal with the devil because the amount of sound coming off the field when i walked by them in a warm up lot was literally the same feeling i felt when i heard carolina crown.

wakeland im sorry your show is a little boring i wish it was harder but the drill demand and players are absolutely awesome.

All of these bands sound good and made crazy improvments and comebacks
OKAY LEBANON TRAIL??? slammed a bunch of 6a bands including braswell rockhill argyle mckinney north. holy comeback. same for argyle 

honestly i am so surprised on how different all of these bands sound, would have never expected emerson and independence to ever end up one of my lists, but they truly sound crazy good. 

So many of these bands have gotten so much better. I still think Heritage will be either in 10th/out of finals but Indy/Emerson/Reedy all have very real chances of beating north/argyle to make state. Personally I don’t think north will make it again this year (nothing to do with the repeated jazz show thing), and LT will likely take that third spot 

[FullRetreat]

1 hour ago, DrummersEcho said:

1. Lone Star
2. Wakeland
3. LT
4. Argyle/MN (argyle lead)
5. MN/Reedy (Mn lead)
6. Emerson
7. Reedy
8. Walnut Grove
9. Heritage
10. Independence


Lonestar could medal this year, all i'm going to say. they have a brass power house full of demons. they scored very close up to hebron. that director made a deal with the devil because the amount of sound coming off the field when i walked by them in a warm up lot was literally the same feeling i felt when i heard carolina crown.

wakeland im sorry your show is a little boring i wish it was harder but the drill demand and players are absolutely awesome.

All of these bands sound good and made crazy improvments and comebacks
OKAY LEBANON TRAIL??? slammed a bunch of 6a bands including braswell rockhill argyle mckinney north. holy comeback. same for argyle 

honestly i am so surprised on how different all of these bands sound, would have never expected emerson and independence to ever end up one of my lists, but they truly sound crazy good. 

Honestly, I’d probably put Reedy and Walnut above Emerson. It’s still pretty early so things could change, but I liked Reedy’s show more at the Frisco Showcase than Emerson’s and Walnut has been sounding awesome.

[JFNDOWBFAN]

3 minutes ago, tubaplayer12 said:

Honestly, I’d probably put Reedy and Walnut above Emerson. It’s still pretty early so things could change, but I liked Reedy’s show more at the Frisco Showcase than Emerson’s and Walnut has been sounding awesome.

All of these schools, though you be are starting to make names for themselves. Exciting times in this area. 

[theloudestmello]

3 hours ago, DrummersEcho said:

1. Lone Star
2. Wakeland
3. LT
4. Argyle/MN (argyle lead)
5. MN/Reedy (Mn lead)
6. Emerson
7. Reedy
8. Walnut Grove
9. Heritage
10. Independence


Lonestar could medal this year, all i'm going to say. they have a brass power house full of demons. they scored very close up to hebron. that director made a deal with the devil because the amount of sound coming off the field when i walked by them in a warm up lot was literally the same feeling i felt when i heard carolina crown.

wakeland im sorry your show is a little boring i wish it was harder but the drill demand and players are absolutely awesome.

All of these bands sound good and made crazy improvments and comebacks
OKAY LEBANON TRAIL??? slammed a bunch of 6a bands including braswell rockhill argyle mckinney north. holy comeback. same for argyle 

honestly i am so surprised on how different all of these bands sound, would have never expected emerson and independence to ever end up one of my lists, but they truly sound crazy good. 

I feel like Reedy has a really high chance at making state. After Wylie, I think independence could also rank in top 6 atleast. Mckinney comp will definitely reveal a lot of this area's rankings.

[percussionontop]

Do any of y'all have more info on walnut, I've heard they are stronger than last year, but I haven't seen anything yet. Apparently they won Mansfield? Are good bands there? I'm not familiar with that area. 

 

[cheesecurd21]

23 minutes ago, percussionontop331 said:

Do any of y'all have more info on walnut, I've heard they are stronger than last year, but I haven't seen anything yet. Apparently they won Mansfield? Are good bands there? I'm not familiar with that area. 

 

I don’t think the Mansfield comp was particularly “hard” but still an impressive first. They sounded pretty good at the Emerson vs Walnut game some weeks ago, crazy lead trumpet in there 

[percussionontop]

I was js researching, and saw a reel somewhere where they swept all captions in class c, and won percussion and music over Midlothian high school  but if it wasn't a hard contest I guess it doesn't mean that much. I also watched a vid  and their part two brass are pretty solid, that trumpet trio is so cool. 

 

[FullRetreat]

44 minutes ago, percussionontop331 said:

Do any of y'all have more info on walnut, I've heard they are stronger than last year, but I haven't seen anything yet. Apparently they won Mansfield? Are good bands there? I'm not familiar with that area. 

 

I think the only other “good” bands there to be frank were Berkner, Lake Ridge, SGP, and Midlothian. Still impressive, but definitely wasn’t the hardest competition in the metroplex.

[percussionontop]

Thanks! looking forward to how this outrageous area plays out this season!

 

[TrumpetLord]

11 hours ago, cheesecurd21 said:

I don’t think the Mansfield comp was particularly “hard” but still an impressive first. They sounded pretty good at the Emerson vs Walnut game some weeks ago, crazy lead trumpet in there 

yeah their lead guy is insane, met him at region once

[TrumpetLord]

my predictions so far 

1. Lone star; crazy brass right out the gate

2. Wakeland; really fun show design, the creep arrangement/flugel solo were sick

3-7: between Argyle, Reedy, McKinney north, WG, and LT. i havent seen much of argyle besides one early szn vid, their opening was interestin, hopefully it develops throughout the szn. Reedy has been doing very well, their wylie win was huge and the show is sounding really good. McKinney north doing the jazz theme again is expected, but i think they may get penalized seeing as theyve been doing the same theme for 4 years and the area sheets rely more on design now. WG also got a comp win from what i heard. theyve been making some moves this year and have a great chance at placing high. LT is looking and sounding very clean, them and the rest are going to be neck and neck for state

8-9. emerson/independence ; emerson sounded and looked clean from backfield at showcase XD, independence getting 2nd at wylie was huge for them, so they could place higher than emerson or even creep into top 7 

10. heritage: show looked really cool, but it could use some more depth in the visual design

 

this year is really neck and neck, 3-8 is gonna be a bloodbath

[thispersonlovesheybaby]

13 hours ago, percussionontop331 said:

I was js researching, and saw a reel somewhere where they swept all captions in class c, and won percussion and music over Midlothian high school  but if it wasn't a hard contest I guess it doesn't mean that much. I also watched a vid  and their part two brass are pretty solid, that trumpet trio is so cool. 

 

Some bands will go to contests outside of their county to get new eyes and unbiased critique on their show. Walnut Grove is still a pretty new school (I think it's their 3rd year open?) so places like Mansfield who are fairly unfamiliar of the band could provide necessary feedback solely based on performance quality and not reputation. So I don't think it was really based on the difficulty of the competition but rather than getting as much feedback as they can to set themselves up for success later in the season. I think its really smart to do something like that, especially when your a new but fast growing band. Props to you Walnut Grove👏👏

[percussionontop]

that makes lots of sense, so its more of a move for growth and development for themselves, than a move for an easy win?

[Brassmaster22]

I also think its impressive that WG beat a few 6a schools that have been really solid throughout their whole existence, Midlothian, Lake ridge, south Grand prairie...

 

[percussionontop]

2 hours ago, TrumpetLord said:

my predictions so far 

1. Lone star; crazy brass right out the gate

2. Wakeland; really fun show design, the creep arrangement/flugel solo were sick

3-7: between Argyle, Reedy, McKinney north, WG, and LT. i havent seen much of argyle besides one early szn vid, their opening was interestin, hopefully it develops throughout the szn. Reedy has been doing very well, their wylie win was huge and the show is sounding really good. McKinney north doing the jazz theme again is expected, but i think they may get penalized seeing as theyve been doing the same theme for 4 years and the area sheets rely more on design now. WG also got a comp win from what i heard. theyve been making some moves this year and have a great chance at placing high. LT is looking and sounding very clean, them and the rest are going to be neck and neck for state

8-9. emerson/independence ; emerson sounded and looked clean from backfield at showcase XD, independence getting 2nd at wylie was huge for them, so they could place higher than emerson or even creep into top 7 

10. heritage: show looked really cool, but it could use some more depth in the visual design

 

this year is really neck and neck, 3-8 is gonna be a bloodbath

you really think they could place that high? have they gotten that much better this year? I know that this is the first time they have an actual developed show.

[Brassmaster22]

I believe wg might have a chance at state this year if they really lock in. From what I hear, their show has a very high skill cap.

 

 

[WanderingTraveler]

2 hours ago, TrumpetLord said:

my predictions so far 

1. Lone star; crazy brass right out the gate

2. Wakeland; really fun show design, the creep arrangement/flugel solo were sick

3-7: between Argyle, Reedy, McKinney north, WG, and LT. i havent seen much of argyle besides one early szn vid, their opening was interestin, hopefully it develops throughout the szn. Reedy has been doing very well, their wylie win was huge and the show is sounding really good. McKinney north doing the jazz theme again is expected, but i think they may get penalized seeing as theyve been doing the same theme for 4 years and the area sheets rely more on design now. WG also got a comp win from what i heard. theyve been making some moves this year and have a great chance at placing high. LT is looking and sounding very clean, them and the rest are going to be neck and neck for state

8-9. emerson/independence ; emerson sounded and looked clean from backfield at showcase XD, independence getting 2nd at wylie was huge for them, so they could place higher than emerson or even creep into top 7 

10. heritage: show looked really cool, but it could use some more depth in the visual design

 

this year is really neck and neck, 3-8 is gonna be a bloodbath

Predictions make sense, but really confused where the idea of a band getting penalized for using the same style of music year to year is coming from. The theme is different, as is the show, they just have a jazz identity as of the past few years.

[percussionontop]

that would be awesome, their director lead hp to state so who knows, anything could happen. 

6 minutes ago, Brassmaster22 said:

I believe wg might have a chance at state this year if they really lock in. From what I hear, their show has a very high skill cap.

 

 

[percussionontop]

now I'm curious to see them live, I think they have a game this weekend, so Im gonna try and go

[Brassmaster22]

Oh yeah that's cool, hope to see good things from them this year.

 

[Beanbag52]

18 hours ago, Cluelessbanddad said:

I understand why they do it logistically, but it’s a travesty that UIL limit areas to only four teams.  This area could’ve sent six to state last year and they likely all would’ve finished in the top 12.  Meanwhile, certain areas send same teams every year and they can’t make the top 20 let alone make finals.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that there's a new rule that says for every medaling band, their area gets an extra place to advance to state. This seems good on paper until you realize that the 3 bands that medaled last year are all in the same area, and are really the only competitive 5A bands in that area. Whereas all band from Area B made the top 10 at state. (Wakeland 4, Lone Star 6, Argyle 7, McN 10) and LT probably would have been in the top 12 as well if there was a 5th spot at area B.

It's a good rule on paper as I said, but doesn't really work well in the 5A class right now. I'm not sure if it's real, just a rumor I heard...