The DanPodcast - Cherry On UIL 2017

[Danpod]

Awesome job, UIL 2017!!!!  Let's put a cherry on you and wrap it all up!  With cherries.  Eww.  Thanks for the support!!!

 

 

[FriscoParent]

***Wakeland parent here so completely biased opinion and thoughts on the 5A competition. 

 

I thought all the bands were great. It was fun to have a few first timer bands in finals. All the band kids were very supportive and cheered them on. Band kids rock!

 

The judges scores and UIL scoring in general can be quite frustrating. A band receiving a 1 and 10 on the same performance seems crazy. I know that's just the way it is, but man............frustrating none the less.

 

Cedar Park and Dripping Springs were both well deserving of first and second place. Both shows sounded great, looked clean, and were fun to watch.

 

I never would have imagined there would have been three shows in finals to have a bride. That was pretty interesting. Poteet started their show and Wakeland ended their show with Elsa's Procession.

 

Poteet's show surprised me. I had to make a few adjustments to my predictions once I saw their show and add them to who I thought would make finals. Glad I did. They were great.

 

It stinks to lose a place (or medal in this case) due to judges choice, but because I really respect Waxahachie and like their program, that took some of the sting away. They are a great band.

 

Wakeland's run at BOA on Saturday was definitely not up to the quality in which they were capable of. They were over thinking everything and performed nervously. I was so happy with their performance for prelims, much better than their BOA performance. But their finals performance was absolutely awesome! They looked great and performed with so much more confidence. They truly left it all out on the field as they should have. So so so proud of them!!!