MikeKyu

Look out Texas. Stay away from wines right now..Grapes are sour!!

NO, the director of Cedar Park was not judging this contest. The first director of Cedar Park was judgeing the contest, not the current one. The first director of Cedar Park is no longer affiliated with the school or band. I was sitting next to his wife at the Area H contest (and confirmed he was judging are and I watched the current director of Cedar Park Band come into the stands to watch HIS band compete.

This contest was a pleasure. Cedar Park - Congratulations Rouse - What a beautiful show. Leander - This is so much fun. Tom Glenn - Welcome back to SMBC!! (I'll get this posted tomorrow) Liberty Hill - I knew you made it at the end of your show! Congratulations. Great work tongiht. (I'll post this tomorrow too)

I'm missing a few. Announcer is unintelligible Champion Boerne ? ? ? ? Leander Glenn Rouse Cedar Park Liberty Hill

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That is not true. Every finalist at GN would seriously compete for top 6 here, every year. To believe otherwise is absurd. Your statement is essentially saying: Carmel Avon Tarpon Springs Blue Springs Broken Arrow O'Fallon And Dobbins Bennett Are all pushovers that can compete in the national stage but would not be nearly as competitive in a Super? Bollocks! Is the San Antonio regional the strongest of Super Regionals? Absolutely. Is it tougher than GN? Not a chance.

The Westlake show is beautiful. The guard alone is stunning to watch. Musically they are taking their concert strengths and putting them in the field now. This show is one of my favorites of the season.

Awesome. It looks like I need to put in an order now.

Shotgun mics are designed to pick up a very narrow diameter cone of sound over a long distance (usually) and are not ever used by any band. This meme of shotgun mics in Texas is really just an incredible flaunting of ignorance mixed with scary sounding terms. Loudest bands with quality 6A: Hebron 5A: Cedar Park

The Leander Festival of bands is Monday. Band for band, minute for minute, there is not a show or contest that performs at such a high level. I'll be there. Anyone else? I'll also be posting videos.

And to clarify even more: There are only 2 judging panels...not a different panel for each block.

Yeah, it's been so much hotter at Rouse high school than it has been at Leander, Cedar Park, Vista Ridge or Vandegrift. 😕

Hot take here: I can see Vandegrift not winning music tonight. They brought the hardest book and it is still a work in cleaning. I think Vista Ridge may steal music tonight.

And that's my issue with BOA scoring. Separate or combine but don't separate them combine the scores for 60% of the score

Any guesses on the winning score? I am going to guess 86.2 (yep, it's high for this time of year but have you watched what they are cookin' this year?) Visual and GE will be split. Visual: Cedar Park or Cedar Ridge (I'm torn) GE: Vandegrift Music is up for grabs between: Vandy, Cedar Park, Vista, and Rouse 1. Vandegrift 2. Cedar Park 3. Rouse 4. Cedar Ridge 5. Vista Ridge 6. Westlake 7. Leander 8. Round Rock 9. Klein Cain 10. Westwood 11. Lake Travis 12. Hutto

If you watch this page you will see the full recap pdf appear some time tonight: https://marching.musicforall.org/result/round-rock-tx-2024/

Gatesville goes last or first.

Happy that my eyes and ears still haven't deceived me. Prelims went as I expected with placements that seem about right for this morning's performances. This is going to be a wild top 5 shootout tonight. If you have a hat bring some string because you are going to need something to hold them on.

It will take some time for scores to come out. Probably sometime during finals

5A Area H is never to be discussed

They did the same thing last year at the beginning of the year then moved off of yard lines as the season progressed.

Here was Vandy's performance from tonight. This show is going to be fun to watch develop. Ripping runs from brass and woodwinds. There's some great articulation across the field. I mention "too much bass" in one part of this video and it doesn't translate in the video. But there is a synth bass that is way too loud at the point just before that so that instead of an addition to the show it became the feature of the show. Once they get that under control it's going to be a super effective part of the show. Great performance tonight Vandy. It did feel good to leave a CP --Vandy game where CP wasn't just demolished during the show on either side of the main event.

This year is a little different. This is the best I have seen them in week 2 since I started going to all of their performance in 2015. The marching form is advanced beyond anything I've ever seen from CP this early (as a whole). The guard is gigantic (finally) for Cedar Park! They were at a little disadvantage tonight as their front ensemble truck did not make the game. The front ensemble features were mostly silent for the show tonight. Luckily Vandy allowed the front ensemble to use their set. Mighty sporting of Vandegrift. LISD is truly One Team. I hate how this phone compresses the audio. They were much more dynamic than this video's recording but, it's what I had on me. And this video should clear up as it finishes processing

Oh my.... If Cedar Park looks this good already ..look out Loretta! They are gonna turn heads this year.

I am planning on being at the Cedar Park vs Vandegrift show...maybe a football game will break out too.