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They are still there, I just didn't have a place to put them for the temporary video we have next to the blog. You can access them at http://live.txbands.com/default_blog.php

Scores for predictions are currently not accurate. We're working on getting the correct scores to calculate right now!

http://txbands.com/staff/ Fourth one down

Predictions for 1, 2 and 4A state are now up at http://www.txbands.com/predict. Don't forget to submit your predictions... less than a week!

If you have area contest results, feel free to post them here and I'll add them to the main post or share them in the live blog!

Below are the list of finalists for each of the area contests today. The results are not in any specific order, just the bands that will be competing in area finals. Bold schools are advancing to state. I'm updating this thread as results come in! For real-time results, check out the live blog at http://live.txbands.com 4A Area A Denton Ryan, Frenship, Boswell, Keller Timber Creek, Randall, Canyon, EP Del Valle, Springtown, Plainview, Azle Area B Liberty, Centennial, McKinney, Newman Smith, Sherman, Frisco, Southwest, Wakeland, Aledo, Birdville Area C Waxahachie, Poteet,Pearce,Forney, Rockwall, Highland Park, Ennis Area D Jack C Hays, Cedar Ridge, Hendrickson, Cedar Park, Connaly, New Braunfels Canyon, Lake Travis, Vista Ridge, Dripping Springs, Vandergrift Area E Area F Area G Roma, King, Alice, Calallen, Floresville, Victoria East, Veterans Memorial 2A Area A Stanton HS , Idalou HS ,Denver City HS, Crane HS, Jim Ned HS, Littlefield HS, Forsan HS Area B Area C Area D Clifton, Eastland, Cameron, Thorndale Area E Area F Area G 1A Area A Area B City View, Whitewright, Anson, Howe, Gunter, Melissa, Holliday Area C Area D Bremond, Irion County, Ranger, Rice, Somerville, Itasca, Shiner Area E Area F Area G

Anywhere but the Riverwalk!!

Only 4 more hours to make your predictions for BOA Conroe! It only takes about 30 seconds and you can win giftcards! http://www.txbands.com/predict/add_list.php?id=1

Last chance to make your predictions for BOA Conroe! Lots of great prizes, just for playing!

Well, according to TxBands Predictions, the current member consensus (as of the time of this post) is Marcus... http://www.txbands.com/predict/view_list.php?id=1, click on "Prediction List Analysis" and scroll to the bottom

Was anyone else having problems staying logged in to the forums even if you have it remember your login?

Also, if you submitted an application, please be patient!

It'll say thanks for applying... and yes, it did

Welcome back to the seventh season of TxBands.com fall marching band coverage! We have some exciting updates to predictions to share! http://www.txbands.com/predict Scoring Under the old system, you received 1 point every time you correctly predicted a band's placement. For example, if you said a band was going to be 7th and they were, you would get 1 point. If they were 6th or 8th, you wouldn't receive anything. The new system still gives you 1 point for every correct placement, but now gives fractional points within a margin of error up to +/- 3 placements. For example, if you predict a band as 7th and it was in 5th, you would still receive 0.5 points. We hope this new system better rewards people for having a good general idea of what bands will make finals and where they will place rather than only rewarding you for knowing exactly what the placements will be. Exact placement = 1.00 +/- 1 = 0.75 +/- 2 = 0.50 +/- 3 = 0.25 Prizes Prizes are back for this predictions season. Not only will we have prizes for the top scorers, but also other participants in predictions! All winners will receive Amazon.com giftcards, iTunes giftcards, or TxBands merchandise! 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Random member who has predicted in an event (predict in all possible events to increase your chances of winning this) Random member who has added an event (add local marching competitions where you'll know the roster and outcome to win this) Events Please suggest events to add! Not only does this increase your chance of winning a prize, it also helps out TxBands! If you add an event, make sure to follow the directions. We can only accept events where bands are ranked, so competition where ordinals or ratings are given out won't work. Also, if the event is a small one where it may be difficult for our staff to find the results, we'll probably be contacting you for help! http://www.txbands.com/predict Good luck this season!

Okay, so I should have just blocked all of Russia from accessing txbands. If anyone sees more spam show up in the forums, please alert me of it so I can diagnose!

Still working on another solution! Sorry about all the spam

Is playing with two accounts fair?

No idea where it's coming from actually. I don't understand why they'd want to spam us in Russian, we don't even know what they're saying!

Sorry about that! It was a failed attempt at filtering out our russian spam problem!

BOA has posted their 2011 fall schedule online at http://www.musicforall.org/what-we-do/marc...l-fall-schedule. Again, Texas will be hosting two regionals and a super regional championship. Sept. 24, 2011 Richmond, KY - Eastern Kentucky University North Huntingdon, PA - Norwin H.S. Stadium Oct. 1, 2011 Arlington, TX - University of Texas at Arlington Mason, OH - William Mason H.S. Stadium Oct. 8, 2011 Conroe, TX - Woodforest Bank Stadium (Site Tentative) Jacksonville, AL - Jacksonville State University Pontiac, MI - Silverdome Oct. 14-15, 2011 SUPER REGIONAL - St. Louis, MO - Edward Jones Dome Oct. 15, 2011 Akron, OH - University of Akron Oct. 22, 2011 Hemet, CA - West Valley H.S. Stadium Towson, MD - Towson University (Site Tentative) Oct. 28-29, 2011 SUPER REGIONAL - Atlanta, GA - Georgia Dome Oct. 29, 2011 St. George, UT - Dixie State College (Site Tentative) Nov. 5, 2011 SUPER REGIONAL - Indianapolis, IN - Lucas Oil Stadium Nov. 4-5, 2011 SUPER REGIONAL - San Antonio, TX - Alamodome Nov. 9-12, 2011 GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS - Indianapolis, IN - Lucas Oil Stadium

Agreed... the txbpress section is out of date and that tab will most likely be removed for our winter remodel. The blog itself has been replaced with the liveblog, and the podcast, well... no clue why it has an error!

You can comment, but everything has to be approved by the staff before it shows up, and the comments are hard to approve on iPad... We're working on it though!

FYI, 3A and 5A state predictions are now up! http://www.txbands.com/predict/

Agreed... I went in and deleted the 23 submissions that only had Friendswood because it was majorly skewing the predictions analysis (moved them from 15th to 1st). However, besides deleting manually, we don't really have a way to filter out people who do this.

I agree that it's obnoxious... however, it's not like the person submitting the list with all one band is actually going to have any advantage, considering they could only get one point right for the entire event