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Here's my top 20. I think it'd be unnecessary to go any further than that. This is roughly in order (give or take a few spots)

1. Reagan

2. FloMo

3. Vandegrift

4. Hebron

5. Leander

6. CTJ

7. Vista Ridge

8. Bowie

9. Marcus

10. Cedar Ridge

11. LD Bell

12. Woodlands

13. Cedar Park

14. Keller

 

15. Rouse

16. Coppell

17. Westwood

18. Westlake

19. Wakeland

20. Round Rock

 

There's so many good bands. It's gonna be insane.

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Cedar Park’s show is so obviously a state show (which it should be). There is hardly any exposed playing. It is all ensemble focused because there are no individual judges in UIL. Cedar Park is playing right into the UIL judges hands this year. But CP is having a fantastic year so far and I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see them return to SA Finals and then win state just after that.

I do love their show and I’ve been predicting another state win for them all season, but there are a couple of 5A bands that are making me wonder...

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So from my list yesterday, 23 bands are in panel 1:

 

Panel 1

Block 1

Katy

Tompkins

New Braunfels

Cedar Ridge

Block 3

Keller Central

John B Alexander

Keller

Hendrickson

James Bowie

Ronald Reagan

Clear Brook

Claudia Taylor Johnson

Block 5

Round Rock

Coppell

Flower Mound

Rouse

Vista Murrieta

Lake Travis

Block 7

The Woodlands

Roma

Cy-Fair

Oak Ridge

Wakeland


And 17 are on panel 2:

Panel 2

Block 2

Westwood

Westlake

Block 4

Vandegrift

Leander

Vista Ridge

Cedar Park

Cypress Falls

Block 6

Marcus

Hebron

Timber Creek

Pearland

Block 8

College Park

Dawson

Prosper

North Shore

LD Bell

Aledo


My top 5 predictions for panel 1:
Cedar Ridge

Ronald Reagan

Claudia Taylor Johnson

Flower Mound

The Woodlands

 

Top 5 for panel 2:

Vandegrift

Leander

Vista Ridge

Hebron

LD Bell

 

The next 4:

Keller (panel 1)

James Bowie (panel 1)

Marcus (panel 2)

Westwood (panel 2)

 

Just out:

Cedar Park (panel 2)

Westlake (panel 2)

Rouse (panel 1)

Coppell (panel 1)

 

I expect to miss this and be surprised, of course. Everyone still has to go out and actually perform on the field. But still fun to consider....

 

Oh, and Vista Murrieta is still a complete unknown at this point.

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Hebron chose to only perform their opener and ballad because they have a percussion feature that would have put them right at the 8 minute mark and it didn’t make sense to end it on that. At least, so I’ve been told. Also keeps some secrecy.

Marcus stopped their closer in the middle. Same reason. : ) 

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So from my list yesterday, 23 bands are in panel 1:

 

Panel 1

Block 1

Katy

Tompkins

New Braunfels

Cedar Ridge

Block 3

Keller Central

John B Alexander

Keller

Hendrickson

James Bowie

Ronald Reagan

Clear Brook

Claudia Taylor Johnson

Block 5

Round Rock

Coppell

Flower Mound

Rouse

Vista Murrieta

Lake Travis

Block 7

The Woodlands

Roma

Cy-Fair

Oak Ridge

Wakeland

 

And 17 are on panel 2:

Panel 2

Block 2

Westwood

Westlake

Block 4

Vandegrift

Leander

Vista Ridge

Cedar Park

Cypress Falls

Block 6

Marcus

Hebron

Timber Creek

Pearland

Block 8

College Park

Dawson

Prosper

North Shore

LD Bell

Aledo

 

My top 5 predictions for panel 1:

Cedar Ridge

Ronald Reagan

Claudia Taylor Johnson

Flower Mound

The Woodlands

 

Top 5 for panel 2:

Vandegrift

Leander

Vista Ridge

Hebron

LD Bell

 

The next 4:

Keller (panel 1)

James Bowie (panel 1)

Marcus (panel 2)

Westwood (panel 2)

 

Just out:

Cedar Park (panel 2)

Westlake (panel 2)

Rouse (panel 1)

Coppell (panel 1)

 

I expect to miss this and be surprised, of course. Everyone still has to go out and actually perform on the field. But still fun to consider....

 

Oh, and Vista Murrieta is still a complete unknown at this point.

Is there a published schedule?  I don't recall seeing it.  Trying to figure out my travel logistics......

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I agree. That’s the only part I don’t like about the show. The judges also mentioned that to them at BOA Austin according to a Rouse mom friend of mine, and I have noticed that there’s not as much of the shrill whistling as there was at first.

it worries me what the more conservative old school uil judges will say about it

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Just to throw my own predictions in here :)

 

1. Reagan (Absolutely love their show this year, it's so fun!)

2. Hebron (Love their ballad!)

3. Vandegrift (Again, love the ballad!)

4. FloMo (Haven't gotten a chance to see their show yet, but it's FloMo so I'm sure it's amazing)

5. Leander (that's me! my favorite of the three shows I've been in, it's so physically taxing and a blast) 

6. CTJ (I've heard they've made a lot of changes to their show since Austin, and I'm excited to see how they do! Big fan!)

7. Vista Ridge (Really good brass here, got to hear a bit in warm-up this weekend and really enjoyed it once again)

 

Everything in the bottom seven is even more guesswork as I haven't gotten the chance to watch a lot of these shows

 

8. The Woodlands

9. Marcus

10. James Bowie

11. Keller

12. Cedar Park

13. Cedar Ridge

14. Rouse

 

Music: Hebron

GE: Reagan

Visual: Reagan

 

I don't see anyone sweeping captions this year in finals. As everyone else says, it's going to be an interesting and fun year!

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I do love their show and I’ve been predicting another state win for them all season, but there are a couple of 5A bands that are making me wonder...

I predicted them to win 2 years ago when everyone else got moved up to 6A :-)    They were a powerhouse before and most of the competition got moved.  Rouse is on the upswing over the last few years, I can't wait to see that pattern continue.

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