2025 US Bands Southwestern Championship

[bringthetreble]

Their world class division contest on October 28th 2025!! Right in the heart of the DFW, AT&T Stadium. 

[paradiddlesnodiddy]

Excited to see how this contest will turn out, its after area!

[crunchycookie3]

I’m shocked to see 7L come all the way up to DFW for this small show. This is an incredible group of 6!

[Thanos]

Wish this was livestreamed😢

[TrumpetDad2027]

8:15 pm	Seven Lakes High School Katy, TX	World
8:30 pm	Forney High School Forney, TX	World
8:45 pm	Burleson Centennial High School Burleson, TX	World
9:00 pm	Hebron High School Carrollton, TX	World
9:15 pm	Flower Mound High School Flower Mound, TX	World
9:30 pm	Marcus High School Flower Mound, TX

 

[Tubalord11]

2 hours ago, TrumpetDad2027 said:

8:15 pm	Seven Lakes High School Katy, TX	World
8:30 pm	Forney High School Forney, TX	World
8:45 pm	Burleson Centennial High School Burleson, TX	World
9:00 pm	Hebron High School Carrollton, TX	World
9:15 pm	Flower Mound High School Flower Mound, TX	World
9:30 pm	Marcus High School Flower Mound, TX

 

Oooo, S7! Sucks it’s a lot smaller (kinda) but still a solid block regardless 

[tenorz56]

20 hours ago, crunchycookie3 said:

I’m shocked to see 7L come all the way up to DFW for this small show. This is an incredible group of 6!

It's gonna be a long drive.. Considering we went to Waco Last year and not this year its like a "replacement"

[tenorz56]

4 hours ago, tenorz56 said:

It's gonna be a long drive.. Considering we went to Waco Last year and not this year its like a "replacement"

unfortunately, 7L is not going to this comp anymore because of district issues

[bandkidforever]

On 10/7/2025 at 12:36 PM, crunchycookie3 said:

I’m shocked to see 7L come all the way up to DFW for this small show. This is an incredible group of 6!

7L has decided to withdraw from this competition to due late performance time. The kid's would not be able to get home until very late into the night. The directors have decided to pull them, and also it would be the end of a grading period for them. 

[RonaldReaganOfficial]

On 10/7/2025 at 12:27 PM, paradiddlesnodiddy said:

Excited to see how this contest will turn out, its after area!

Not for everyone?

[paradiddlesnodiddy]

1 hour ago, RonaldReaganOfficial said:

Not for everyone?

oops sorry!! I know it’s definitely after area C’s competition this Saturday

[Bass5mom]

Granbury will preform at 7:00pm 🤩

[tubfluhor]

Good practice run for Marcus and Flo Mo before Grand Nationals and the rest for State/BOA San Antonio.  Only benefit to this comp is to practice in a large stadium.  

[slowbrass]

And as far as a listening environment goes, I can’t recall a more adverse situation. Sound just disappears in there.

[RyanRaider22]

This contest is kinda confusing to keep track of because the name is used for 3 different events at around the same time.

I found the Class I, II, and IV event that starts at 1 o'clock on the 28th before World Class that evening: https://usbands.org/events/details.php?ID=1274

As well as the Class III and V event the next day: https://usbands.org/events/details.php?ID=1274

[Im really cool]

1 hour ago, RyanRaider22 said:

This contest is kinda confusing to keep track of because the name is used for 3 different events at around the same time.

I found the Class I, II, and IV event that starts at 1 o'clock on the 28th before World Class that evening: https://usbands.org/events/details.php?ID=1274

As well as the Class III and V event the next day: https://usbands.org/events/details.php?ID=1274

Richardson won this in 2023 for group V I wonder how they’ll fare against Byron Nelson who are the reigning champs of open class, since Richardson didn’t compete here last year. Martin beat Richardson by 1 point at duncanville, though from what I know Richardson seems to have more US bands oriented shows than most in the area, favoring GE and Colorguard. As for world class I obviously see flomo winning, though maybe Hebron pulls through since it’s a different scoring system than BOA. I wish 7L was coming still, I’ve heard they’ve become quite the powerhouse as of recent too.

[Im really cool]

Just now, Im really cool said:

Richardson won this in 2023 for group V I wonder how they’ll fare against Byron Nelson who are the reigning champs of open class, since Richardson didn’t compete here last year. Martin beat Richardson by 1 point at duncanville, though from what I know Richardson seems to have more US bands oriented shows than most in the area, favoring GE and Colorguard. As for world class I obviously see flomo winning, though maybe Hebron pulls through since it’s a different scoring system than BOA. I wish 7L was coming still, I’ve heard they’ve become quite the powerhouse as of recent too.

As for the group IV day I see birdville most likely sweeping every caption, though I don’t know too much about 5A, they placed decent at duncanville as well

[Bandlife]

Does anyone know if the directors are who choose the group to put the bands in? 

[hsbandnerd212]

35 minutes ago, Bandlife said:

Does anyone know if the directors are who choose the group to put the bands in? 

This might only be the case for World Class (as in you have to choose to compete in World Class, otherwise you're assigned a Group)?

I found the following breakdown here: https://usbands.org/about/

[ColeHydro]

Don’t sleep on guyer, they’ve gotten really good these past couple years. I could definitely see them medaling.

[oddlynormal]

2 hours ago, ColeHydro said:

Don’t sleep on guyer, they’ve gotten really good these past couple years. I could definitely see them medaling.

Former head band director at L.D. Bell HS is the Associate Director at Guyer now.  This could be very accurate.

[Bandlife]

Looks like The Colony High School was added to the World Group. 

[Bandlife]

Looks like The Colony High School was added to the World Group. 

[WanderingTraveler]

On 10/25/2025 at 10:09 AM, Bandlife said:

Looks like The Colony High School was added to the World Group. 

Glad to see that the TCHS band, especially the seniors, will get another run of there show after getting DQed from area

[bandisfun124]

On 10/21/2025 at 12:29 AM, Im really cool said:

As for the group IV day I see birdville most likely sweeping every caption, though I don’t know too much about 5A, they placed decent at duncanville as well

I would second this. I think Granbury will be second, and then the next few placements are kind of a toss-up