USBands Saginaw Regional (9/27)

[BandNerd07]

Performing Groups

Group I

• Grand Saline High School
  Grand Saline, TX
• Gunter High School
  Gunter, TX

Group II

• Eagle Mountain High School
  Fort Worth, TX

Group III

• Cleburne High School
  Cleburne, TX
• Crowley High School
  Crowley, TX
• Denton High School
  Denton, TX
• Frisco High School
  Frisco, TX
• Garland High School
  Garland, TX
• Lamar High School
  Arlington, TX
• Midlothian Heritage High School
  Midlothian, TX
• North Crowley High School
  Fort Worth, TX
• Paschal High School
  Fort Worth, TX
• Ryan High School
  Denton, TX
• Sanger High School
  Sanger, TX

Group IV

• Centennial High School
  Burleson, TX
• Chisholm Trail High School
  Fort Worth, TX
• Fossil Ridge High School
  Fort Worth, TX
• Richland High School
  North Richland Hills, TX
• V. R. Eaton High School
  Haslet, TX

Group V

• Lake Belton High School
  Temple, TX
• Richardson High School
  Richardson, TX
• Saginaw High School
  Saginaw, TX
• W.E. Boswell High School
  Fort Worth, TX
• Weatherford High School
  Weatherford, TX

[Tubalord11]

Early preds: 

1.Centennial 

2. Richland 

3. Boswell 

4. Eaton/Richardson 

5. Richardson/Eaton 

6. Fossil Ridge/Chisholm Trail 

7. CT/FR 

8. Frisco 

9. North Crowley 

10.  Saginaw 

11. Ryan 

12. everyone else  

[BandNerd07]

11 hours ago, Tubalord11 said:

Early preds: 

1.Centennial 

2. Richland 

3. Boswell 

4. Eaton/Richardson 

5. Richardson/Eaton 

6. Fossil Ridge/Chisholm Trail 

7. CT/FR 

8. Frisco 

9. North Crowley 

10.  Saginaw 

11. Ryan 

12. everyone else  

Respectable, I see how you have north Crowley back in finals. As an NC alumni now, last year was definitely a glitch. Several reasons why I think we didn’t do so well was our show was poorly designed, this show was a lot harder in both music and drill and we received music and drill music extremely late which resulted in limited preparation. But with this year’s show, they have potential to be great and the band has grown in numbers with the incoming freshmen which could result in them being moved up a group. Whatever happens, I am excited for north Crowley and I will definitely be rooting from the stands this year

[Tubalord11]

6 minutes ago, BandNerd07 said:

Respectable, I see how you have north Crowley back in finals. As an NC alumni now, last year was definitely a glitch. Several reasons why I think we didn’t do so well was our show was poorly designed, this show was a lot harder in both music and drill and we received music and drill music extremely late which resulted in limited preparation. But with this year’s show, they have potential to be great and the band has grown in numbers with the incoming freshmen which could result in them being moved up a group. Whatever happens, I am excited for north Crowley and I will definitely be rooting from the stands this year

Y’all have definitely been on the rise, would love to see them have a breakout year and make some history! 

[dfwhorn]

Some early predictions

Cen10
Richland
Boswell
Richardson
Fossil Ridge
Eaton
Frisco/Chisholm
Frisco/Chisholm
NC
Saginaw
Garland
Ryan
Paschal
Denton

I'm not as familiar with usbands stuff but I feel like this could be an interesting contest. Be on the lookout for Denton or North Crowley, Denton has a staff change and NC could definitely be a dark horse of this contest. I think the spot between Frisco and Chisholm will depend on who executes it better, I know that Frisco is having some gothic theme which could be sick

[dfwhorn]

Per the calendar of V.R Eaton H, they may only be performing in prelims for this contest. Not entirely sure if it is final.
From their calendar it says: "Our plan is to march Prelims only so that students who choose may still participate in Homecoming."

Might or might not change some of yalls predictions, just wanted to make you guys aware

[flutelife22]

what are y'all's predictions??? considering that this comp Is about less than 2 weeks away!

[Anthony V]

2 hours ago, flutelife22 said:

what are y'all's predictions??? considering that this comp Is about less than 2 weeks away!

I think TubaLord11's predictions from May are about right. We will have scarce data on most of these groups going into the competition and, in fact, this competition will be the first litmus test for most all of these bands.

There are only a couple significant changes since May: (1) V.R. Eaton is not marching finals and (2) Lake Belton is now attending.

In terms of rough groupings, not necessarily in order within those groupings:

1-4: Burleson Centennial, Richland, Lake Belton, Boswell.

5-7: Richardson, Fossil Ridge, Chisolm Trail

8-10+: Frisco, N. Crowley, Saginaw, Ryan (bubble?)

 

On 5/28/2025 at 12:59 AM, Tubalord11 said:

Early preds: 

1.Centennial 

2. Richland 

3. Boswell 

4. Eaton/Richardson 

5. Richardson/Eaton 

6. Fossil Ridge/Chisholm Trail 

7. CT/FR 

8. Frisco 

9. North Crowley 

10.  Saginaw 

11. Ryan 

12. everyone else  

 

[Tubalord11]

9 hours ago, Anthony V said:

I think TubaLord11's predictions from May are about right. We will have scarce data on most of these groups going into the competition and, in fact, this competition will be the first litmus test for most all of these bands.

There are only a couple significant changes since May: (1) V.R. Eaton is not marching finals and (2) Lake Belton is now attending.

In terms of rough groupings, not necessarily in order within those groupings:

1-4: Burleson Centennial, Richland, Lake Belton, Boswell.

5-7: Richardson, Fossil Ridge, Chisolm Trail

8-10+: Frisco, N. Crowley, Saginaw, Ryan (bubble?)

 

 

Yes

[LockedIn]

On 9/17/2025 at 12:22 AM, Tubalord11 said:

Yes

richardson is NOT attending, theyre going to plano east instead that day

[fruitiestflute]

aaa!!! its competition week!! how are yall feeling? im anxious!

[KendrickL]

49 minutes ago, fruitiestflute said:

aaa!!! its competition week!! how are yall feeling? im anxious!

we boutta sweep this whole comp (im from paschal)

[fruitiestflute]

3 hours ago, BillClintonOfficial said:

we boutta sweep this whole comp (im from paschal)

cant wait to see yalls show !!!

[Anthony V]

Finals schedule below, from USBands website. I think it's reverse placement order.

(Well, here's what the info packet says: "The advancing 12 ensembles will be re-sorted by score. / The lowest scoring ensemble will perform first. / The highest scoring ensemble will perform last." I assume the middle 10 bands are not randomized but re-sorted by score in ascending order, which would be reverse placement order.)

6:00 pm	Grand Saline High School
6:15 pm	Chisholm Trail High School
6:30 pm	Eagle Mountain High School
6:45 pm	Frisco High School
7:00 pm	Fossil Ridge High School
7:15 pm	Cleburne High School
7:30 pm	Ryan High School
7:45 pm	INTERMISSION
8:00 pm	Saginaw High School
8:15 pm	Garland High School
8:30 pm	Richland High School
8:45 pm	Lake Belton High School
9:00 pm	W.E. Boswell High School
9:15 pm	Centennial High School

https://usbands.org/events/details.php?ID=1128

[PercDad4Life]

Missed the first half of finals, but Saginaw did well to open the final set with great Arabian music.  Wasn't their full show, but an enjoyable performance. 

[PercDad4Life]

Garland stepped up and aroused the crowd with some solid power and exciting music.  Drill needs some tightening up, but overall a nice show. Shout out to the trombone soloist....  Great job.

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[PercDad4Life]

RICHLAND came to play.  Very cool iridescent props and possibly the biggest sound at this competition. They will be a force once they put their whole show on the field.  

[PercDad4Life]

Nice work Lake Belton.  Definitely the biggest band at this competition and they used their size and power to deliver a very nice performance.   Loved the 1812 overture closer!! Colorguard should win their caption.

[PercDad4Life]

Well done Boswell.  Very cool "jazzy" ballad and wonderful colorguard.  BHS Percussion stood out as a positive also. They definitely made a play for 1st place.

[fruitiestflute]

HOLY SOPRANO SAX BATMAN

[PercDad4Life]

Centennial percussion was 🔥 and drill was 🔥.  Good blended sound but they need more power at key moments to really pop.  Huge shoutout to the saprano sax soloist...🔥

Great job overall.   Should be another great year for the Spartan Regiment. 

[PercDad4Life]

Top 3 Final Results and captions prediction based on my eye/ear.  Which is nothing to take too seriously. 

1. Centennial (Percussion,  Music)

2. Boswell (Overall effect)

3. Richland (Visual)

Lake Belton (Colorguard)

[PercDad4Life]

US Bands Saginaw Final Results

13. 70.8, Grand Saline

12. 75.1, Chisholm Trail

11. 75.6, Eagle Mountain 

10. 75.9, Frisco

9. 78.8, Fossil Ridge

8. 79.8, Cleburne 

7. 80.2, Saginaw 

6. 80.5, Ryan

5. 81.6, Garland

4. 84.2, Lake Belton

3. 85.0, Richland

2. 86.2, Boswell

1. 87.5, Centennial 

Captions:

Music: Centennial 

Visual: Centennial 

Overall Effect: Centennial 

Percussion: Centennial 

Colorguard: Centennial 

 

[Anthony V]

Re: finals results. I'm a little puzzled to see Fossil Ridge so low. But I'm happily surprised to see a strong showing from Boswell. We also saw a Richland prelims-to-finals bump -- so congrats to them on another top-3 contest finish. And congrats to Burleson Centennial on another contest win! This bodes well for them, especially when auxiliary captions count at UIL.

It's too bad Richardson had to cancel and V.R. Eaton had other obligations. A semi-educated guess is that Richardson, Garland, and V.R. Eaton would have filled out 5th-7th had they all been in finals.

 

Re: prelims results. Follow link: https://usbands.org/events/files-events/1000/1128/SAGINAW-PRELIMS-RESULTS.pdf

It looks like Krum withdrew, in addition to Richardson's cancelation! 

Looks like Lake Belton and Richland were "tied" for 3rd (tie broken in favor of Lake Belton), and V.R. Eaton was in 6th (behind Garland but ahead of Saginaw).

[Percplayer19]

Congratulations to all the bands and special shoutout to the great folks in the stands for enduring so brutal weather. Richland is not peaking yet but headed in the right direction. I can’t wait for the final product in the Area contest. I believe they will do very well.