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avon has medaled for many straight years at gns - they came to sa in 2017 and got 4th (well within said streak). not entirely unfair to assume that broken arrow could see a similar outcome if they came to sa on the wrong year.

money does play a factor and likely always will, but its definitely not through props or uniforms or whatever people like to argue. more affluent programs have access to more expensive lesson teachers and clinicians, an easier time getting instruments repaired, reliable electronics (these don’t actually exist haha), and more time can be spent rehearsing because salaried parents can take more time off to help out and whatever. adding a spending cap effectively does nothing at all to boost programs without these inherent benefits.

avon 2010 was similarly technically impressive and clean to hebron this year, but idk if they did what they did with the sheer musicality and tonal purity hebron did it with this year

-vista ridge will be back in top 5 -ctj will do one of their most straightforward, simple boa shows in recent memory -someone from lewisville isd will win music

hebron would have gotten a 99 had they gone to nats

LETS GO VISTA

castle is a texas band at heart, that was incredible

wow, that middle block is going to be a treat

sounds like carmel to me! i kid, i kid……………….. they are very great

i feel that way about like ten different programs this year i don’t know if we’ll see the highest scores ever tomorrow, but we are definitely gonna be seeing some of the closest scores ever

tomorrow, like many past years of GNs, is going to be absolutely epic

ugh, the judges just couldnt give them the 96 in finals, could they???

personally i find this carmel design much more appealing than their eagle-winning 2017 and 2018 designs, it’s more in line with their 2016 show. usually when i like a carmel show they don’t win, but maybe this year will be different 😂

musically speaking, i can’t think of any better ones. avon’s 3-peat years had some technical features that were similarly crazy clean and hard, but they definitely didn’t have the richness of ensemble sound that hebron pulled off this year. it’ll be a while before anyone else pulls off that type of feat again, for sure

carmel did beat avon at boa, though all i know is i wish hebron were going, but even without them i think texas has some strong chances to crash that ba/avon/carmel party. (woodlands DEFINITELY among them, with the right panel)