Bandozer

Also, judges have no idea who's show is harder most of the time. They're looking for cleanliness, and a small part of their judgment comes down to difficulty when all of the top groups do difficult stuff. "Park and bark" is a common complaint in the band world but every single band does it. Some more than others. In DCI, everyone complains that The Blue Devils park and bark, but they've won more than everyone else. In the DCI percussion world, groups started uploading "learn the music" videos where the music is on the screen. These corps aren't really doing it for fans. I know for a fact that groups upload these videos for the judges so the judge can see just how hard a passage or feature is. Everyone knows that the better you can play something, the easier it looks. So a lot of these groups weren't getting credit because they made the music look easy. My point is, maybe Timber Creek's show is harder than Duncanville's. Maybe LD Bell's show was the hardest show on the field. Maybe the top 10 should have been much different. I have no idea. But judges cannot judge on "what if's" or "I think this show is a bit harder". They're mostly juding on cleanliness. You can disagree with the judges, but they have to judge what they see and think. They cannot make assumptions on difficulty when the shows are relatively close difficulty wise. Especially when every show is so different. The only true way to make UIL 100% fair would be to cap the number of marching members and make every band learn the exact same show. But obviously that will never happen. And remember, it's just band. Being hateful and bitter towards other groups won't help anything. Be positive and support everyone, because every band, student, parent, and staff member is doing their best and working their hardest.

So many salty people... Unfortunately marching band can only be judged based on opinion. It's not an activity where distance can be measured, or goals can be scored. It's judges who have a rubric and they score using their opinion on who best fits the criteria. It's not a perfect system, but it is what it is. A judge can be looking at side one and totally miss the hardest drill move on side two. Or they can miss a kid falling over. They can miss a musical tear because they don't know the music. Or they can even not understand how difficult a part of a show is. It happens all the time, even in DCI (I would argue it happens more in DCI, because the judges know every corps and have more biases). If there had been different judges, it could have gone another way. But those judges judged the way that they felt was correct. If you're upset, I understand. I've been on both extremes. But you can't base your season or happiness on the opinions of 5 people. You'll never enjoy the activity if you do. You need to judge your success on how you felt about your performance. Trust me, having an amazing performance is much more fulfilling than coming in first place.

This is accurate.

I was also very surprised. UIL is just a different animal than BOA.

Especially after the recap gets out.......... It was insanely close between 5-9. Especially Duncanville and Timber Creek.

Get ready for a couple of surprises....

7 and 9 were the accurate ones. The third music score was 22. But all of scores were similar. Most bands had at least 1 judge place them in finals. A lot had 2.

Equipment failure does not impact the score all that much because most of the time its completely out of the kid's hands. It might make the difference between 5th and 6th, but not enough to kick someone from 5th to 11th. Unless the 5-11 placements are within a point or something. Sometimes cables short out, microphones don't work, the stadium power doesn't work, etc. And judges, especially in UIL, are juding music and marching, not GE, which a lot of electronics fall into.

Yeah only two of those numbers are correct.

Yes, but they did not place in the top ten in marching from either judge. The scores are all over the place for almost every band.

Y'all really sleepin on Waxahachie. A birdy told me they got first in prelims, and LD Bell and Duncanville are tied for 5th... Also 4-7 are are anyones game, all scored very closely.