My band (Judson) got a 10 15 12 13 and 27 at UiL Area D... our show was called gimmiky and immature (Once Upon a Time In Graceland... [original comp. by Richard Saucedo])... and yet to us, it was our best performance of the season thus far... of course BOA San Antonio was much better... needless to say I felt like we had been slapped in the face, to be rated 27th out of 28 bands... but whom am i to say we're better then anyother band y'know? That'd make me big headed... I'll just say that bands that have never beat us before, beat us and we felt like this was the best season our band has had in years... at BOA SA '03 (my freshman year) we scored a 79.9 and that was our highest score to date... i am now a senior and at BOA SA we scored a 78.35... what makes things worse is that i don't want us to seem as the band that got a lucky break at Houston BOA... i mean we were scared that we wouldn't even make finals at all considering our electronics kept spazzing out during prelims... we got 10th in prelims then 6th at finals... what i'm really trying to say is that we knew it was our best season but it seems like many other bands stepped it up as well... it's very difficult to hold your head up high in a system that is based solely by the numbers but hey, good job to all this year... i remember a comment left by Danpod about "Us Judson people needing to calm down and to let our performance do the talking"... Dan i understand that this whole judging thing is your thing... but it's very difficult when i truly believe in myself that our band gets better... but judges don't seem find the results we think we've got... in closing i don't want pitty for our band, i don't want sympathy i just want people to realize that it ain't always abotu number folks... we knew we had opur best season yet... and it didn't take numbers to show us that...