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I know this thread will be buried shortly, but anyway: Winter guard units are officially signing up for the World Championships in Dayton, Ohio! The Texas contingent will be solid again. I think we could see strong medalist contenders in all three scholastic classes, if the ones listed maintain their trajectories. (Note: Some are still signing up.) The ones from Texas currently on the lists: Scholastic A Azle HS Dripping Springs HS Emerson HS Foster HS Garland HS Hendrickson HS Hutto HS Jordan HS Katy HS Louis D. Brandeis HS Melissa HS The Colony HS Tomball Memorial HS Veterans Memorial HS Wylie HS Scholastic Open Cedar Ridge HS Cy-Fair HS James Bowie HS Little Elm HS Pearland HS Round Rock HS Southlake Carroll HS Timber Creek HS Westlake HS Scholastic World The Woodlands HS Independent A Allure Independent Black Gold Eagle Mountain Independent Ether Redemption Guard RGV Winter Guard Independent Open Industry Independent Undaunted Independent World Invictus Ménage Mirage

This is probably the best joke I have ever seen on this forum 😂😂😂

1. Bridgeland 2. Jordan 3. Cy-fair 4. Tompkins 5. Cy-woods 6. Seven Lakes 7. JET 8. Cy-Ranch/Langham Creek 9. Cy-Ranch/Langham Creek 10. Cy-Park/Paetow Overall huge improvements in the area, Langham Creek, Paetow, and Cypress Park,I have watched at football games and they have neat drill, clean sounds and cool choreo. I think these three are gonna be new area finalist in the coming years.

Absolutely AMAZING show. The musical talent, the dancing, the glass flipping, when they break out the trench coats...wow

Here's Hebron!

Here’s the Schedule: Freeman HS 11:00 AM Jordan HS 11:15 AM Westside 11:30 AM Morton Ranch HS 11:45 AM Katy HS 12:00 PM LUNCH 12:15 PM LUNCH 12:30 PM LUNCH 12:45 PM Langham Creek HS 1:00 PM Paetow HS 1:15 PM Hastings HS 1:30 PM Tompkins HS 1:45 PM Brehnam HS 2:00 PM Seven Lakes HS 2:15 PM Break 2:30 PM Elsik HS 2:45 PM Cinco Ranch HS 3:00 PM Bellaire HS 3:15 PM Mayde Creek HS 3:30 PM Churchill Fulshear HS 3:45 PM Taylor HS 4:00 PM

excited to see all the band's shows this weekend.

better watch that quick, Hebron is aggressive about taking down show videos during the season.

didn't even recognize Tomball Memorial tonite. major glow up w/ the full set and costuming. feast indeed. looks like they'll be doing part of their closer.

Wow, this lineup looks as good as just about any BOA. Hebron, Waxahachie, Keller, SLC, Wylie, Lake Travis, Keller Central... The list goes on and on but this is a great lineup!

A bunch of the bands from this area will be present tomorrow at Mesquite Marching Festival. Excited to see how they're gonna stack up against eachother, even during the early-mid season.

To protect copyright, I'll will have it as unlisted until after Area/State (for certain groups). But yes.

Idk, I mean at least BOA Austin happens at a facility whose mailing address is Austin not Buda? 🙄

UIL rule change if it happens so it would be everyone if implemented.

Where'd all the Jordan hype come from?

Excited to say that I will be attending this contest tomorrow! I want to wish the best of luck to all bands competing! I will be there all day.

Final Predictions-Not much shifting in placements but a few caption changes. 1st - Dripping Springs (Music and GE) 2nd - Claudia Taylor Johnson (Visual) 3rd - James Bowie 4th - Moe & Gene Johnson 5th- Robert E. Hendrickson 6th - McNeil 7th - Pieper 8th - Louis D. Brandies 9th - A&M Consolidated 10th - Liberty Hill 11th - William B. Travis 12th - Lockhart Class A: Manor New Tech Class AA: Lockhart Class AAA: Robert E. Hendrickson Class AAAA: Dripping Springs

Jordan has also improved quite a bit... I am very excited to watch all bands this year!

Yeah, my sons band (Cypress Park), went to a usbands and I expected them to place low in finals and they ended up beating springs and klein. 🙂

Sorry I just haven't watched bowie or mg johnson, I just know they're good enough to make finals.

Yes they are 5A now!

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I'll be there for sure! Always one of my favorite times to preform. This year though we're getting clinicians and people to give us feedback. So it has the all the comp environment feelings, we just won't get placed or any of that. Makes it ten times better than before!

Great tune up for state. Could see many of these bands in San Antonio.

Awesome, good to know, thanks!

round rock has been added in A and timber creek in open. no origins at all is really sad, no tarpon either, but looking forward to pride of cincinnati's return.

FINAL PRELIMS SCHEDULE 10:15 - San Marcos H.S., TX 10:30 - Douglas MacArthur H.S., TX 10:45 - John B. Connally H.S., TX 11:00 - Legacy of Educational Excellence H.S., TX 11:15 - Veterans Memorial H.S., TX 11:30 - Shoemaker H.S., TX 11:45 - William B. Travis H.S., TX 12:00 - Lockhart H.S., TX 12:15 - A&M Consolidated H.S., TX 12:30 - Long Creek H.S., TX 12:45 - BREAK 1:30 - Louis D. Brandeis H.S., TX 1:45 - Pieper H.S., TX 2:00 - M.G. Johnson H.S., TX 2:15 - Chaparral H.S., TX 2:30 - Liberty Hill H.S., TX 2:45 - James Bowie H.S., TX 3:00 - Claudia Taylor Johnson H.S., TX 3:15 - McNeil H.S., TX 3:30 - Manor New Tech H.S., TX 3:45 - Robert E. Hendrickson H.S., TX 4:00 - Dripping Springs H.S., TX CLASS A: Long Creek H.S., TX Manor New Tech H.S., TX CLASS AA: Lockhart H.S., TX Veterans Memorial H.S., TX CLASS AAA: A&M Consolidated H.S., TX Chaparral H.S., TX Douglas MacArthur H.S., TX John B. Connally H.S., TX Legacy of Educational Excellence H.S., TX Liberty Hill H.S., TX Pieper H.S., TX Robert E. Hendrickson H.S., TX San Marcos H.S., TX Shoemaker H.S., TX CLASS AAAA: Claudia Taylor Johnson H.S., TX Dripping Springs H.S., TX James Bowie H.S., TX Louis D. Brandeis H.S., TX M.G. Johnson H.S., TX McNeil H.S., TX William B. Travis H.S., TX

yeah both. honestly i feel like lakeridge's drill and choreo was more challenging last year than this year's. the harder the drill the better your visual score will be (if clean ofc) so like i dont see them improving visually this year.

Yep. Sounds like they will be another semi finalist at grand nations.

Well Said. Curious .

Disastrous? How so? This contest is very underrated and has been run very well the last 2 years and years before that. I really wish we saw more of the north Dallas suburb schools at this contest. Plano East invitational isn’t the best venue and those schools would have a better exp at POC. Same with Mesquite marching festival. Top 3 at this contest: 1. Lake Ridge 2. Colleyville 3. Berkner I really think it’ll be a toss up between these 3 groups.

I couldn't upload the pdf, so here's a typed out version PRELIMS Band - Perform Time Whitney - 9:30 Ponder - 9:45 Grandview - 10:00 Maypearl - 10:15 Peaster - 10:30 BREAK Millsap - 11:00 Bosqueville - 11:15 Glen Rose - 11:30 Lorena - 11:45 Lake Worth - 12:00 LUNCH BREAK Bridgeport - 1:15 Venus - 1:30 Benbrook - 1:45 Brock - 2:00 BREAK Granbury - 2:30 North Side - 2:45 South Hills - 3:00 Everman - 3:15 James Bowie - 3:30 Troy - 3:45 Dm RETREAT/AWARDS - 5:00 FINALS Godley EXH - 6:30 CLASS EXH - 6:45 (IF NEEDED) Finals 1 - 7:00 Finals 2 - 7:15 Finals 3 - 7:30 Finals 4 - 7:45 Finals 5 - 8:00 BREAK Finals 6 - 8:30 Finals 7 - 8:45 Finals 8 - 9:00 Finals 9 - 9:15 Finals 10 - 9:30 DM RETREAT/AWARDS - 10:00

The opening hit caught me off guard, my was that fantastic!

I would put james martin top 2 I’ve heard they’ve have a couple of changes and improvement since the previous year

I will report on the Canyon kids faces when Hebron and many of the other bands perform in finals. We don't get to see that in the panhandle

Ive been loving the representation of other states in these competitive competitions in Texas (BOA Prosper as another example), it makes me wish in a vacuum that Texas was a little smaller or that transportation technology and expense was better, but Texas must be big to fit as many HEBs and Buccees we can lol

(Edited on 10/6/2024) 1st — Keller 2nd — Burleson Centennial 3rd — Colleyville Heritage 4th — The Colony/Sachse 5th — Sachse/The Colony 6th — Duncanville/Mansfield 7th — Mansfield/Duncanville 8th — Emerson 9th — Byron Nelson 10th — Brewer Lmk what y’all think 👀

I completely agree. I would also tentatively add Clear Lake, Klein Cain, Cy Ranch, and JET, to the mix. I have been really impressed with all of their early season showings. Depends on how they all clean and refine these next two weeks. Very deep contest.

I’m going to start referring to this as BOA Ducanville 😂

I thought I remembered Marcus doing this one year when I was poring over smbc archives but I could be wrong. Edit: yes, Marcus did it in 2021. From 7 to 3. But you could argue that Marcus isn’t exactly a stranger to top half placements and that an up and coming band might not have the same ability to jump. And perhaps the low prelims placement in 2021 was due to some fluke, so it’s possibly not a good example of a band’s ability to jump.

30th Annual DMI Hebron Arlington Lamar Weatherford Southlake Carroll James Martin Rockwall Plano Senior Wylie Keller Central Lake Ridge Plano East Keller JJ Pearce Waxahachie Lake Travis Canyon All bands to finals! Live on field interviews post performance, fan favorite votes and "chill" areas to relax midvday if needed.

Scoring is the big difference. For boa, you’ve got music and visual, both having an individual and ensemble judge, both being 20% of the overall score (the two judges give each band a score out of twenty, then they add and divide the two for an average)Then there’s General effect (GE), where there are two music ge and one visual ge judge. Each score out of 20 and then the three are added up for total ge which is added two the two averages of music and visual. The website Hornrank does an amazing job with breaking down results. Captions for prelims are given to each of 4 classes (A, AA, AAA and AAAA) or 1A-4A. Size is based on enrollment grades 10-12. 12 bands to finals based on score regardless of class and class championships do exhibition if they don’t make finals. Other than scoring it’s just another marching contest. Have fun here, I’ll be around as well to see these awesome programs!

This will be my first time attending a BOA comp, I've almost always only gone to UIL comps instead since my band (Plano Sr) never went to BOA at least while I was there. Does anyone have a quick rundown of how BOA could differ from UIL comps, or is it gonna be largely the same?

Nope, but they schedule is out! 11:15- Como-Pickton HS 11:30- Alba-golden HS 11:45- Whitewright HS 12:00- Whitesboro Lunch break 1:15- Gainesville HS 1:30- Community HS 1:45-Van Alstyne HS 2:00- Pine Tree HS 2:15- Sulphur Springs HS 2:30-Celina Break 3:00- Grand Saline HS 3:15- Sherman HS 3:30- Frisco Liberty HS 3:45- Canton HS 4:00- Royse City HS 4:15- Prosper HS 12 to finals, finals starts at 7 PM with class exhibitions for 2A and 3A if needed starting at 6:30. Will be an easy win for prosper but everything else is up for grabs. Here's my early predictions: 1. Prosper (sweep) 2. Royse City 3. Liberty 4. Celina 5. Sherman 6. Celina 7. Sulphur Springs 8. Pine Tree 9. Canton 10. Whitesboro

1) Rockwall 2) Lakeview 3) HP 4) RHHS 5) Tyler Legacy Think I’m missing someone 🤔 🤔 🤔 Nope, that’s the Top 5 😂

It is really kinda nuts that within a single event, you've got: * The reigning UIL 5A 1st, 2nd, and 4th place finishers * The reigning UIL 6A 1st and 5th place finishers * 80% of the programs you'll see were finalists in last year's BOA SA * This year's reigning BOA Austin AAA 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, AAAA 1st and 3rd place finishers I can't imagine any other event where you get this density of pedigreed programs all on the same night. Plus tickets are like $8. The's some crazy-good value...