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Seeing how the event is coming up, anyone got some predictions? Here's mine 1. Westwood 2. Brandeis 3. New Braunfels 4. Anderson 5. McNeil 6. Taft 7. LASA 8. Glenn 9. Connally 10. J.P. Stevens

Looks like Weiss just dropped the contest and I just realized O'Connor isn't listed either ?

I think they grew to be 6A this year, but since realignments are every 2 years they haven't officially changed yet. I did the math to their 2020 numbers and I don't think they have 180 freshmen compared to the rest of the school to be UIL 5A and BOA AAAA at the same time

Don't think I've seen a thread about this yet. Should be a really good one. Here's all the 5A schools in Area D Alamo Heights Anderson Crockett Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA) McCallum Navarro Northeast Travis Bastrop Cedar Creek Comal Canyon Corsicana Dripping Springs Elgin Floresville East View Georgetown Buda Johnson Lehman Lockhart Manor Connally Hendrickson Pflugerville Weiss Seguin University

This one's looking to be a good one. Lots of bands that can make finals here

Ok here's my take from going today. Definitely gonna start with my alma mater. Insanely proud of those kids, they are something else this year. Getting 15th is pretty big, and 12th in GE? Insane. Their new director seems to be doing well with them. And here's my thoughts on finals: Bowie: Solid show, I just can't get it out of my mind that Bowie's show was the one in the background of the Flo video of Luke Gall calling Genesis 2021's uniforms, "poggers" Westwood: I loved this show. I did musical pit my junior year and the musical was Beauty and the Beast, so I was playing my timpani part along with the show Leander: Such a fun concept. It sounded great and I really enjoyed this one Westlake: Good stuff, really enjoyed the soloists Round Rock: I was blown away in prelims. Them being the first band I see live since 2019? Good stuff Weiss: The Golden Goddess moved onto 18th century France. So much good stuff going on, and the fan break! Rouse: Oh my gosh, 3rd? Amazing! Favorite part has to be the closer. Love seeing Bruckner's 8th actually being played as a closer. Vandegrift: Does anything more need to be said? Vandy Bandy! I wasn't too into it in prelims, but I got hooked in finals. The people around me saw me go crazy during that show for the music, just wow CTJ: Same thing. Absolutely phenomenal. Those pianos oh my gosh! No way that's a freshman playing piano. So much fun watching this one. CTJ brought decibels. Cedar Park: One of my favorites of the night. I really like the writing of this show. Never thought Medea and Somebody I Used to Know would sound so great together. And the crazy flowing drill the woodwinds do, just wow Cedar Ridge: Medea! Always got some of the best percussion in the area, if not the state. But WOW they played loud, great sound. I was blown away Vista Ridge: Such a good rendition of Barber 1. Crazy stuff going on visually it's so cool. I'm definitely not used to a fire drum break without them all spinning.

Yeah, my source says they'll most likely be going every other year now

Drop: Lubbock-Cooper

I've passed by the frisbee boxes and few times and I was very tempted to grab one

Yeah, my mom said the exact same thing. She didn't like Mandarins on Flo but loved them live. Quite interesting that there's that much of a difference on screen

I noticed the forums have been a bit quiet on drum corps lately, and I just came to ask everyone what y'all thought on any drum corps shows you've seen this past summer (especially if it's about the Genesis 2021 sound check at Mesquite and "finals")

Boy am I glad LISD is no longer in 5A Area D. That would be a fun competition though!

Updated participant list as of 4/15 4A Burnet Cuero Wimberley 5A Anderson Bastrop John B. Connally LASA Lehman Marble Falls Tom Glenn Weiss 6A Belton Louis D. Brandeis Jack C. Hays John Marshall McNeil Sandra Day O'Connor John Paul Stevens Stony Point William H. Taft

No, it's been cancelled.

Add 6A: Hutto HS And this caps off the competition. There is now a wait list for the competition.

Adding 4A: Wimberley HS Drop: Roma HS Here's a full list as of 5/17/20 4A Cuero HS Lampasas HS Manor New Tech HS Wimberley HS 5A Anderson HS Bastrop HS Cedar Creek HS Georgetown HS LBJ/LASA HS Lehman HS Marble Falls HS Robert E. Hendrickson HS Weiss HS 6A Akins HS Belton HS Earl Warren HS John Jay HS John Marshall HS John Paul Stevens HS Louis D. Brandeis HS McNeil HS New Braunfels HS Sandra Day O'Connor HS Stony Point HS William H. Taft HS

5/1/20 Add: 4A: Cuero HS Lampasas HS 5A: Georgetown HS 6A: Earl Warren HS

Anderson 2020-Transfiguration All I know is that it's about from going from black and white to color. Mishima Opening-Phillip Glass The Canyon-Phillip Glass (We played this piece in 2010, 10 year anniversary of playing it I guess) Everdream-Epic Soul Factory True Colors-Cyndi Lauper Persistence-Richard Saucedo

I really loved Johnson's 2019 show and the future is looking so bright for them. Weiss has also been having some tremendous growth.

Haven't seen anyone talk about this yet, but I was looking at the Vista Ridge website for results and I found that they had already listed 2020 registrants posted. This is looking to be a good one. https://www.vrhsband.org/marchingfestival/participants/ 4A Manor New Tech HS 5A Anderson HS Bastrop HS Lehman HS LBJ/LASA HS Marble Falls HS Robert E. Hendrickson HS Weiss HS 6A Akins HS Belton HS John Jay HS John Marshall HS John Paul Stevens HS Louis D. Brandeis HS McNeil HS New Braunfels HS Sandra Day O'Connor HS Stony Point HS William H. Taft HS

Glenn in Leander is looking pretty good as of right now, as well as Connally in Pflugerville. Also, holy cow McCallum came in strong this year.

Just saw an announcement. Crimson Rangers it seems to be their name

Somebody told me that Dripping Springs dropped because they were “saving their faces for state” but I can’t confirm that

Finals results 1. 95.9 Churchill (All captions) 2. 94.1 Sharyland 3. 92.2 LBJ 4. 91.9 Brennan 5. 90.1 Georgetown 6. 90.05 Johnson 7. 89.3 Anderson 8. 88 Canyon 9. 87.1 Edinburg 10. 84.9 Lehman 11. 84.25 John Marshall 12. 83.1 Crockett 13. 79.2 Central Catholic and Providence

Here's my wild and rushed predictions 1. Churchill 2. Dripping Springs 3. Sharyland 4. Anderson 5. Brennan 6. Georgetown 7. LBJ 8. Canyon 9. Johnson 10. Austin 11. Group 2 winner 12. Group 1 winner