UIL 6A 2023 State Marching Band Contest (Oct. 30. & 31)

[Gehrig4]

3 minutes ago, packwick said:

oooo, some seemingly really nutty results in those ordinals. uil, gurl, u spicy!!!

This is HILARIOUS!!

[quenslays]

where can one find these results 

[Dallas Hobbs]

I just realized that Hebron’s closer is “Go the distance” from Hercules!

[packwick]

soooo happy to see 4 H-town bands in finals!!!

Bridgelanddd, yassss! they SO earned it!! and dude i predicted this band would be great on a soundless vid back in August lol. feeling very self satisfied rn too lol.

[JWork]

Just now, Dallas Hobbs said:

I just realized that Hebron’s closer is “Go the distance” from Hercules!

I like Hercules!

[LostChoirGuy]

I'm very impressed with the overall improvement and growth in Houston area bands this year.  Congrats to Cy- Fair and Bridgeland on very deserving finals placements.

Also- Keller keeps doing its Keller thing haha. Seems pretty safe to pencil them in as a bottom half finalist in every late season contest for the next decade or two no matter how their season starts.  

[Gehrig4]

Just now, LostChoirGuy said:

I'm very impressed with the overall improvement and growth in Houston area bands this year.  Congrats to Cy- Fair and Bridgeland on very deserving finals placements.

Also- Keller keeps doing its Keller thing haha. Seems pretty safe to pencil them in as a bottom half finalist in every late season contest for the next decade or two no matter how their season starts.  

And it didn’t start well at all.  It would be interesting to see if we could white brand bands and just judge them on their programs —-    

[packwick]

tw's music ordinals are kinda iffy. what happened? bad run? didn't watch anything but based on area vids id have them higher.

[scratchyballs12]

Does anyone have a link or image of the prelims results? I’d really love to see them!

[sogeg]

I have been avoiding talking on here this season- Keller REALLY likes to stress me out with their early season placements- but now I can say


GO BIG BLUEEEEE

[Toodles2000shawtys]

How did Dripping do?

[lost]

A lot can (and will) change between today and tomorrow.

[LostChoirGuy]

1 minute ago, Gehrig4 said:

And it didn’t start well at all.  It would be interesting to see if we could white brand bands and just judge them on their programs —-    

I'd argue that the fact that Keller's late season success doesn't result in early season success is pretty decent evidence that brand name isn't as impactful as you seem to think it is.  I do think it affects us somewhat because we expect great things from groups like Hebron and Vandegrift before we even see their shows, but that is probably more of an audience thing than a judge thing.

[josephbandfan]

Just now, sogeg said:

I have been avoiding talking on here this season- Keller REALLY likes to stress me out with their early season placements- but now I can say


GO BIG BLUEEEEE

They also stressed me a bit during the first half of the season. But after their area performance, I already knew they’d make state.

Cant wait to drive down tomorrow to watch finals

[Saxplayer6]

I know it was a while ago lol but if anyone saw how was Wylie East 

also can not wait for finals that last block is going to be electric!

[Dallas Hobbs]

4 minutes ago, Toodles2000shawtys said:

How did Dripping do?

17th place 

[Tubalord11]

4 minutes ago, packwick said:

tw's music ordinals are kinda iffy. what happened? bad run? didn't watch anything but based on area vids id have them higher.

Personally thought they had a great run! I will admit, I think they lacked a decent amount of Dynamics and there weren’t any moments on the stream at least that got me all excited, so I’m guessing so. Im still surprised they were that low but we should hopefully see some improvement tomorrow, probably just individually stuff we couldn’t here 

[Tubalord11]

3 minutes ago, Saxplayer6 said:

I know it was a while ago lol but if anyone saw how was Wylie East 

also can not wait for finals that last block is going to be electric!

There’s totally, definitely not a video of their performance on YT

[Rubisco]

12 minutes ago, packwick said:

tw's music ordinals are kinda iffy. what happened? bad run? didn't watch anything but based on area vids id have them higher.

They were definitely stronger visually than they were musically. (I'm surprised they weren't outright first in ensemble visual. 1st in execution, but 10th in content, which is baffling to me coming from the BOA system.) Anyway, musically, they seemed a little fatigued compared to area videos, and they definitely didn't project the full, rich ensemble sound of groups like Marcus and Flower Mound, for example. Soloists had rough runs, too. But, their music ordinals are still quite a bit lower than I would have had them. Not sure what to make of it for BOA this week and next!

[Broke College Band Kid]

6 minutes ago, Dallas Hobbs said:

17th place 

That's actually kinda crazy that Dripping got 17th and Wylie got 29th when they were basically equal at Waco with only .5 difference (and I heard Wylie had an amazing run too)

[uhblivion]

does anyone have the score sheets from today

[minorsax]

4 minutes ago, Broke College Band Kid said:

That's actually kinda crazy that Dripping got 17th and Wylie got 29th when they were basically equal at Waco with only .5 difference (and I heard Wylie had an amazing run too)

they had our brass 39th…

[Nny14]

25 minutes ago, packwick said:

tw's music ordinals are kinda iffy. what happened? bad run? didn't watch anything but based on area vids id have them higher.

UIL has always been cooler on The Woodlands compared to BOA. I don't think they have ever medaled at state, which is crazy considering their success at SA and Nationals.

[scratchyballs12]

11 minutes ago, minorsax said:

they had our brass 39th…

where are you getting your info? is there anyway to see the score sheet?

[CosmicLimbo]

Anyone know what happened to Timber Creek? Score seems surprising low to me compared to how they had been doing the whole season.