Mansfield POC September 25 2021

[ViewFromTheBox]

Wonderful job tonight Lake Ridge. Such a good concert band sound on the field. Love the Stardust ballad. Best of luck this season!

[ViewFromTheBox]

Nice job in finals tonight Midlothian! Love the musical selections and you perform the so well. See you at Area F!

[ViewFromTheBox]

Great job tonight Colleyville Heritage! Love the electronic oboe(?) solo. Ensemble sound is strong. Good luck this season!

[Quadmom68]

18 minutes ago, ViewFromTheBox said:

Nice job in finals tonight Midlothian! Love the musical selections and you perform the so well. See you at Area F!

Midlothian's guard was just beautiful! 

[ViewFromTheBox]

I’m still amazed with how far Summit has come since I graduated. The double touching section with the brass in the second movement would have never been even a thought. Great job tonight, y’all!

[ViewFromTheBox]

Well done Highland Park. That’s a fun show. Love everything about the ballad. Best of luck this season!

[ViewFromTheBox]

Wonderful performance tonight McKinney! So much to like about this show. Best of luck this season!

[ViewFromTheBox]

Heads up, apparently Burleson got added to the finals line up. Not sure what the story is with that. Anyway, good luck!

[ViewFromTheBox]

Much improved performance for Burleson here in finals! Great job. Good luck this season!

[Quadmom68]

15 minutes ago, ViewFromTheBox said:

Heads up, apparently Burleson got added to the finals line up. Not sure what the story is with that. Anyway, good luck!

Maybe because Southlake didn't stay for the finals? 

[ViewFromTheBox]

That’s a really fun show Mansfield. And y’all performed it superbly! Great way to close the night.

Scores coming shortly.

[ViewFromTheBox]

11 minutes ago, Quadmom68 said:

Maybe because Southlake didn't stay for the finals? 

I don’t think so? The announced bands filled out the schedule perfectly unless I missed something. I hightailed it out of the stadium to find dinner right after the schedule was announced.

[ViewFromTheBox]

44 minutes ago, ViewFromTheBox said:

I don’t think so? The announced bands filled out the schedule perfectly unless I missed something. I hightailed it out of the stadium to find dinner right after the schedule was announced.

This does allow me to bring up a somewhat entertaining related story. In 2009 at the Desoto contest, we thought we missed finals but were shortly told that they miscalculated. Meanwhile, the trucks were halfway back to the school. Eventually we finished 11th out of 10 bands in finals.

[ViewFromTheBox]

Music - McKinney

Visual - McKinney

Percussion - Colleyville Heritage

Guard - McKinney

 

1 - McKinney - 93.1

2 - Highland Park - 91.85

3 - Colleyville Heritage - 88.4

4 - Legacy - 84.2

5 - Midlothian - 84.05

6 - Summit - 81.6

7 - Lake Ridge - 81.05

8 - Trinity - 80.75

9 - Burleson - 78.6

10 - Martin - 78.2

11 - Fossil Ridge - 74.9

[Dave609]

Good for McKinney HS! Possibly they will be able to make State this year?

[LostChoirGuy]

Some VERY surprising results here.  Martin seems extremely low and I had no idea McKinney was so good.

[Quadmom68]

27 minutes ago, ViewFromTheBox said:

I don’t think so? The announced bands filled out the schedule perfectly unless I missed something. I hightailed it out of the stadium to find dinner right after the schedule was announced.

I was just guessing. Maybe they miscalculated and didn't want to send a band home after telling them that they made finals? 

[ViewFromTheBox]

I’m really having a hard time putting any stock into tonight’s scores. I know that I’m obviously not a judge (and thank goodness for that), but those scores don’t align with what I saw tonight. Martin was not the tenth place band tonight. Plain and simple. Like that result is making me shake my head more than anything, and I’m a Summit person. Just so odd. Really the same with Fossil Ridge.

[ViewFromTheBox]

https://www.mhsband.com/results

Basic recaps there if anyone wants to see. There were tabulation errors with the class A results (hence why Timberview won the class when they announce Cleburne won 3 of 4). Would not surprise me if that was the case with finals slots too.

Final thoughts tonight before I turn out the lights, the more I think about it, the more I think you throw tonight’s results in the trash for predicting future results. I’m not sure what the scoring system is for this contest, but I know it’s not the UIL sheets and I’m pretty sure it’s not the BOA system either. Most valuable things bands can take from tonight are the judges comments.

Oh well, glad that band is back and just as good as it’s ever been. Good luck to all of the groups this season!

[Tubalord11]

I feel like a lot of contest might be like that this year.

[ViewFromTheBox]

9 minutes ago, Quadmom68 said:

I was just guessing. Maybe they miscalculated and didn't want to send a band home after telling them that they made finals? 

Yeah, I probably bet on it be a miscalculation. They had issues with the class A results too.

[DallasFan]

32 minutes ago, Dave609 said:

Good for McKinney HS! Possibly they will be able to make State this year?

That'll definitely be tough, Area C is no joke. The max they can send is 5 and the top 3 are "locks" with FloMo, Hebron, and Marcus. Prosper, rockwall, wylie, mckinney, sachse. There's a lot of bands fighting to get in for those last couple spots but good for Mckinney!

[Quadmom68]

Everyone where I was sitting in the stands was SHOCKED that Martin got tenth place. I thought they deserved better than that, too. ?

[Vidal28]

Definitely find that placement quite bizarre too, and I know that they were hoping for more tonight, but all they can do is move forward to their next rehearsal and their next contest which is BOA DFW, a real bloodbath coming their way, I know they’ll be hungry to snatch a finals spot there?

[Band_Rulz_116]

Judging was terrible for the entire contest, especially in finals. Definitely because of the weirdly devised rubric which made the job incredibly difficult for the judges to properly evaluate.