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I agree. There's quite a lot of pressure placed on judges in WGI to conform to the overall consensus opinion. Few want to risk being the "weird one", because that means potentially tough conversations with both the team and the chief judge. We see this pressure between rounds a lot, too. Look at the A class results from Austin, for example. 1st place in finals was The Woodlands, but look at their prelims results. Yes, most of the judges had them 1st overall in prelims, too, but the two who didn't: Movement with a 20th place overall, and one of the GE judges with a tie for 13th overall. Both of them are new or relatively new to WGI, and both drastically fell in line after finals despite judging the exact same captions -- moving the unit up to 2nd and 1st, respectively. How much do you want to bet that those two judges saw the prelims results (or just the finals schedule) and went, "Uh-oh!" Happens all the time! This, of course, could lead us to argue that prelims results shouldn't be released before finals, and that the finals schedules should be randomized, to improve judging autonomy.

tw's standings have actually been fairly accurate predictors for them the past 3 yrs, despite coming from an earlier regional score. in 2023 their standing was 4th w/ a 90.5 compared to Avon's 3rd w/ a 90.8, pretty much exactly the gap that happened in finals, tho twhs did full-point Avon in semifinals. last yr they were slightly underrated compared to Tarpon. 89.8 to 90.2 in the standings. but then twhs beat tarpon by a full point in finals and won every judge over them i think. still, only a little over a point off is pretty accurate. i wanna say that that's just how good wgi's judges are, but the reality is that the standings send a strong message to all of em, esp in a class like SW where it's easier to keep track of all the guards. kinda makes me happy that twhs is doing Dallas this year, gives em another shot to make a statement.

I wanna say Hebron will win, but I don't think they've been the same level of excellence like they were in 21-23. I could totally see FloMo, Vandy, or Vista take home the gold

I'm actually most excited to see some of these DFW guards we haven't gotten a glimpse of yet. In particular, I'm hopeful that Emerson kills it in their new class and is in the running for Dayton finals. Texas scholastics are all quite strong this year, it seems. I wish we had an Independent World guard to match! Of course, I'm still looking forward to seeing Mirage and Menage. I bet they've made lots of improvements since that first regional. 👍

Just copy pasting an updated list here AS OF 03/05/2025 Attending*: Anderson County H.S., KY Avon H.S., IN Avon H.S., OH Bartlett H.S., TN Beechwood H.S., KY Bentonville H.S., AR Broken Arrow H.S., OK Brownsburg H.S., IN Campbell County H.S., KY Carmel H.S., IN Castle H.S., IN Center Grove H.S., IN Centerville H.S., OH Chattahoochee H.S., GA Columbus Schools, IN Coppell H.S., TX Dobyns-Bennett H.S., TN Dripping Springs H.S., TX Edwardsville H.S., IL Farmington H.S., UT Finneytown H.S., OH Fishers H.S., IN Flower Mound H.S., TX Franklin Community H.S., IN Goshen H.S., IN Greendale H.S., WI Jenison H.S., MI Jenks H.S., OK Kenai Central H.S., AK Lakota West H.S., OH Lambert H.S., GA Lawrence Township, IN Miamisburg H.S., OH Morton H.S., IL Munford H.S., TN Nation Ford H.S., SC Neosho H.S., MO Noblesville H.S., IN O'Fallon Township H.S., IL Plymouth-Canton E.P., MI Rockford H.S., MI Ronald Reagan H.S., TX Round Rock H.S., TX Russell Independent H.S., KY South Forsyth H.S., GA South Oldham H.S., KY Southlake Carroll H.S., TX Southmoore H.S., OK Sparkman H.S., AL The Woodlands H.S., TX Tri County H.S., MI Troy H.S., OH Walled Lake Schools, MI Wando H.S., SC William Mason H.S., OH Worthington Kilbourne H.S., OH Yukon H.S., OK

Cypress Park and Paetow might also be attending this contest. Their calendar says “Tentative Marching Contest” on Saturday, November 8. I’m just not sure if this will be the only contest happening in the Houston area on that day This contest will likely be competitive from the previous years 😃

Announcement 📣📣 Flower Mound is confirmed to be heading back to Grand Nats this year!! They have to be one of the favorites for the eagle, especially coming off of their BOA SA win.

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW EXCITED I AM TO SEE THEM LIVE!!! Will probably be crying after finals lol

That is a good point, @jmartin1056. Over the past three seasons, the WGI Austin Regional was TWHS’ final opportunity for a seeding score. Well, this season they are attending the Southwest Power Regional and will have a scoring opportunity in the final week of the season. Hard to say what difference that will make, if any. I can safely speak for all the parents and fans here north of Houston who are enjoying every single second to experience the amazing talent that these performers exhibit on the field and floor over these past three seasons!

I believe the year they almost medaled (2023) they were slotted pretty far from top 3 and then just barely missed out on a medal. Also last year I think they were pretty underrated going into Dayton. Seems to be a yearly thing where they are such an outlier at every regular season contest so it’s almost more of a guess for where there scores would line up with the Carmels and Arcadias of the SW realm.

Lovejoy is coming here per their Calander

Great analysis as always @packwick !!!

okie dokie, standings posted. strong majorities of units in every class have posted a score, tho some are a weeee bit old now. IW thrown into a lil bit of chaos after the judges smacked down fusion this weekend. blessed sac currently sitting on top despite being directly beaten by fusion. not surprised, fusion has an unconventional show, others much more typical imo. strongest TX possibilities for Dayton finalists in the standings rn: SA: Jordan 2nd, Melissa 5th, Veterans Memorial 8th, Tomball Memorial 13th, Dripping Springs 19th, Foster 22nd IA: RGV Winter Guard 12th SO: Pearland 2nd, Westlake 4th, James Bowie 7th, Little Elm 10th, Cy-Fair 11th IO: Undaunted 12th, Industry Independent 17th SW: The Woodlands 2nd IW: Invictus 13th, Mirage 15th, Menage 19th methinks arcadia's lead over tw in SW will widen the next two weeks before narrowing or vanishing the weekend of the West and Southwest power regionals. arcadia has wgi contests every weekend for the next 3 weeks. wowzer!! they gonna get them some feedback. don't really see em getting "fusioned" either. woodlands meanwhile shouldn't hope to rely on equipment and effect. need to up their mvmnt game and if possible restage at least a couple moments for added formal clarity/connectedness. i actually did think the opener looked much better at Austin. flags more in time w/ the music and less brightly colored, so our focus went more to the rifles. about a month left until Dayton. entering the final stretch already. crazy!!!