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@Clarinot has been working hard all week to get the forums back up and running again and we are finally back in business! I will get all of the BOA regionals attendance lists updated a little later this evening. Welcome back!!

something i also picked up for the first time when watching arcadia last week and watching carmel today was how both have a full line of dancers that never really pick up and spin a piece of guard equipment. not exactly on the sheets as a POC, besides maybe difficulty and risk, but at the world class level i find it kinda odd. heck, even most of the top scholastic As i've seen have all of their members spinning at some point. like, beautiful shows, both of em, lots of craftsmanship, but kinda playin' it safe.

carmel cleaning up and overtaking the Mid-East group as expected. might not get a Carmel-less top 3 at Dayton after all. other SWs at Mid-East a lil more iffy, but mostly better today in finals than yesterday in prelims. for the life of me still can't figure out why fusion got smacked down after watching the IWs at both southeast and mideast. id have it fusion then fantasia then pride rn. fusion's show stands out as waaay more forward thinking and imaginative imo. takes you more places emotionally and intellectually, too. the others don't strike me as prob being cleaner than fusion, either. lots of errors today from all three of pride, paramount, and etude. verrrry interested to see what happens at the east power regional next weekend. meanwhile in San Antonio, those A guards got smacked down HARD. don't really get it, comparing the scores from the groups at the power regionals i watched yesterday and today to the guards i saw 2 weeks ago at Austin. did they reeeally screw up that bad? methinks the judges were just way stingy. unfortunately, the tcgc a class qualifier is next week. those A guards are prob wishing they could have signed up for Dallas instead, to get the double panel. the San Antonio scores will prob handicap them at Dayton. arcadia back up over woodlands in standings by 0.1 after trailing them by just over a point after the Manhattan Beach regional. super experienced panel seemed to kinda send a message w/ those scores, esp w/ El dorado winning effect. gotta say, i came away from watching that regional feeling woodlands should comfortably win gold at Dayton. we'll see what happens next weekend tho. scores trending low in the world classes. + Dayton is a week earlier. yikes!!

@Rubisco def get it about the dynamic efforts, you'll get some hand-wavy explanations about that stuff in critique. buuuut methinks it would also be reeeeally hard to separate a lot of guards w/o it bc so many do the exact same skills, often combined in similar ways. not possible to just count up all the various skills a guard attempts either, unless AI can do it for us. too much going on at once!!! LOL at the Hebron reference. it's kinda true tho, isn't it?? technically on a diff plane of existence vs. doing things just a lil bit more dynamically/musically. btw, chronic offender personally. i thought Carmel should have won BOA in 2023 lol. in my defense, thru music GE, not perf.

Ah, the forum is back. I thought it might have died for good! Unfortunately, the rankings for all of those units will probably drop even more after next weekend. But there are some other Dayton-bound A class guards that will be at the Southwest Power Regional and could earn high scores at that event. "Playing it safe." That about sums up why I'm not loving most of the world class shows this year. The same criticism you make here could be leveled against Pride of Cincinnati, for example, who have performers who only pick up flags at the very end. And Pride of Cincinnati doesn't have recruiting issues, I can assure you! To put things into perspective: TWHS does more full-ensemble spinning and tossing than Pride of Cincinnati does this year. Let that sink in. Also, maybe that's why you find the TWHS show a little too busy at times. 😉 To my mind, the world class is supposed to be about performers and designers taking big risks. But that doesn't always or even often happen. And perhaps the biggest reason is because the people judging send mixed messages with what they reward. Truly, I think if Paramount had their full 40-member guard cleanly toss and catch 8s on rifle with 3-turns under them, they still might not win equipment over a guard that tosses no higher than small ensemble 6s, as long as that guard does things a little more fast/slow, heavy/light, and so on and so forth -- the subjective "dynamic efforts." It's like when Hebron loses ensemble music performance to Carmel. It is what it is, I suppose. 🤷

Happy the site is fixed! Very much looking forward to next weekend and seeing all these awesome guards!

Thank you to everyone who helped bring them site back online, happy we’re back!

A recent update evidently screwed things up a bit.

Flomo also won SA in 2015 and 2016, before dropping to 6th at SA and 5th at GN in 2017. Consistently holding the top spot in Texas is so difficult. But Flomo taking home the eagle is one of my top wishes for marching band history. Listening to their video last year explaining their approach to design definitely gives me high hopes

Agreed about our Texas guards performing in San Antonio. For example, Jordan HS went from 3rd in SA seeding last week, to 23rd this week. That is a KILLER!!!!

So my question is: what HAPPENED? 😭

We're back!! I have updated the confirmed bands as they currently stand. Lake Highlands will go to Wylie instead of Melissa.

Almost 100% guaranteed I’ll be here, can’t wait!! Insane lineup, getting to see some of these groups love (TW’s!) live is going to be a blast 🤩

Wylie vs Wylie East is a big one too, especially with them both now being 6A

This sucks they’ve grown so much in the last 10 years I thought this would be a great year for them to go

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Unfortunately Coppell had to drop this contest.