Fez76

Yes, it was an egregious oversight by the UIL to name a champion and then remove the title days later. It’s a dumb rule, too. Makes sense for determining if a band can advance to state, but not for placements. Woods has had a confusing and frustrating week for sure! I hope they take it as fuel to make them even stronger. There is so much talent in that program. The future is bright!

This is correct, but I didn’t say Woods was the champion. Woods score put them in 1st place, and that remains true.

Woods is slightly more BOA-oriented for sure, but it’s not like they can’t perform with UIL. People on this board are saying that the TMC and State score sheets are the same, and Woods did very well at TMC. Also, they took first place at Area, which is also UIL.

That would make sense for a little movement but 11 slots? Still think this is dumbfounding.

For Cypress Woods to go from 18th at BOA to 29th at State makes zero sense. Clearly the super early performance slot hurt them, but that can’t be the whole story. It was a good run. Truly—what in the world happened here? That show was incredible.

So sad that Cypress Woods didn’t make finals. When a 15th band was announced, I just knew it was them. Being in Panel 1 was a tough place to be for many bands. That show was something special, and they sounded so, so good. A crowd favorite for sure!

💯 They were amazing, but they aren’t doing the same skills. I love the move to include more guard captions, but those judges/criteria need to reflect the difficulty of the teams doing complex guard moves and tosses.

Some of them will be there but not all.

And keep in mind these results are without other Houston-area heavy hitters such as Pearland, Seven Lakes, Bridgeland, and Cypress Woods. Will be interesting to see how they shake things up when they enter the arena!

What happened to Jordan? 👀

B-land was 15th.

Ha! Yes, this comes from the merger of two smaller districts in the 1930s, and for many years Cy-Fair was the only high school until the area had a major growth explosion, and now there are 12.

Don’t sleep on Cypress Woods. They came out on top for Area I at both State and BOA SA last year despite the others beating them at Area. If they have an “on” day, they are fire. They are playing very difficult music very well. They beat Fair in prelims at Area this year (admittedly their finals run was not as good as their prelims run).

Holy smokes! This is just wild. Anyone seen the finals results?

The head director now is the same guy who has directed the marching band for the past 6ish years. The previous head who retired did not direct marching, only concert season. So not much will change for this band.