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Who is participating?

They pushed it back. First band goes on in 15 mins.

Presentation at 7:30 for finalist and finals will begin at 8:24

There is a heat-related show delay in the interest of safety and well-being of the student performers and all in attendance. Preliminary performance will resume as follows: 6:24 p.m. Del Rio H.S., TX 6:36 p.m. Hidalgo Early College H.S., TX 6:48 p.m. McAllen Memorial H.S., TX 7:00 p.m. Roma H.S., TX 7:12 p.m. In Exhibition University of Houston Cougar Marching Band 7:27 p.m. – Presentation of Awards FINALS 8:24 p.m. – First Performing Finalist Band 12 total Finalist bands, the Finals performance schedule will be posted here when available

This is always a good contest. The valley always comes to compete against each other. It is always so competitive in south Texas. A few staff changes and changes in programs hopefully it does not affect programs too much. Best of luck to all the bands huge shout out to the always underrated underdogs of the valley the John B Alexander band. I hope last years momentum from BOA super regional continues and they make a statement with a championship! Also a special mention to the Longhorn band under new leadership I hope this change continues with the tradition of excellence that was left from your previous director! Good luck to all the bands! Hope to see a great competition as always in the valley! I hope everyone has a great start to the Texas marching season!

Ahh ahhhhhhh!!!!(In Dennis’s voice)

I’m completely speechless! That was honestly such an amazing performance! I have not seen Avon or Carmel but they have some very serious competition with Hebron and The Woodlands! I have seen The Woodlands and they are amazing! I’m hoping 1st and 2nd for team Texas!

Still true today!

Thank you

Question how many advance to semifinals?

Let’s go team Texas! Hoping all the Texas bands make finals!

I honestly think that we should all just boycott Box 5 next! Total waste of money and they always blame the problem on us the consumers! They suck!!!!!!

Cedar Park!!!! Way to open this competition! As always setting the bar high! Amazing performance!

2:15 Coppell 2:30 RR 2:45 Keller 3:00 Bridgeland 3:15 Waxahachie 3:30 Cy Fair 3:45 Pearland 4:15 Vandy 4:30 TWHS 4:45 Hebron 5:00 Flowermound 5:15 Marcus 5:30 Vista Ridge 5:45 Ronald Reagan

NFHS very much improved! I’m glad that I have been on the road and flights and I honestly haven’t missed a thing. Box 5 is still extremely terrible! Super ridiculously overpriced and extremely terrible customer service.

Couldn’t agree more!

Well it’s not up to us to decide. The best school did win. We are not judges and we have to respect the outcome. At the end of the day the state qualifiers earned their spot. We shouldn’t make them feel as though they didn’t deserve their rightful spot in the state marching contest.

I disagree. It did happen in Area D this year. One thing I will say is we at Area G we are competitive but not as competitive as some of the other major schools. It’s not about individual funding to the schools. It is money though, when students take weekly lessons(on their own dime or parents dime) and they continue to improve as players. Ex(Hebron 23 All state players last year) It is a huge benefit to the entire ensemble. How many schools in South Texas really do that? Not many that I’ve heard of. The biggest problem that we have in Area G is pride.(I’m just as guilty of this back when I marched and Harlingen would destroy everyone)We always want our Alma mater or current school to win but that’s not always the case. We have to respect the decisions by the judges whether we agree with them or not. Music judging is completely subjective it’s not like everyone plays the exact same thing like in region contest. They are as fair as possible.

You da real MVP!

Edinburg North was great! Weslaco did better than this morning!

Congrats to United! Great surprise!

JBA (will probably take 4A)

Robert Vela H.S., TXPioneer H.S., TX United H.S., TX Pieper H.S., TX H.S., TX (they killed it! Will probably win 3A)

Del Rio and Roma sounded great. They have been the standouts so far.

Anyone have videos of last night bake off finals?