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I see you were more interested in some other point than the one that came before “full stop”. And yes, tldr. Enjoy this week. Time to move on.

You’re entitled to your opinion. I’m entitled to mine. Yours is informed by no better evidence than mine is. But I will say that there is evidence. We will agree to disagree. I will say also that I have heard, with my own ears, directors communicating that the phenomena does occur. I’ve heard judges say it does occur. It’s theoretical impossible for it NOT to occur. (And if you would like to get into that erudition - we can take this outside of this forum) So it’s not just my opinion. If you reread my original post, I don’t quibble with it. Your esoteric explanation really dances around the key word- it’s subjective. Just like gymnastics and ice skating - and therefore it uses criterion that aren’t objective. Like reputation. Boxing. Same thing. my point is that when you see teams and people begin to overcome that - it’s far more than just perfunctory. That’s the whole point. Period. Full stop. And that’s irrefutable.

I’m saying that name recognition, similarly to gymnastics and ice skating in the Olympics clearly provides scaffolding for schools’ programs in competitions. It’s difficult to crack and it’s difficult to fall out. I’m not saying it can’t be done - nor am I saying it’s unfair- but I AM saying that listing rising schools’ achievements- however banal to you, is indeed meaningful and an important metric.

Given the propensity to apply Olympic level scaffolding to name recognition in marching band- I’d say it’s markedly more interesting.

Truly ! And got the 1 ordinal for individual visual! Clean!!!! Peaking at the right time!!

Berkner trumpet soloist valves froze and he couldn’t play it. He did everything he could to get it back and about 30 seconds later he got it back and the crowd gave him a nice hand. Band ended well.

Intermission- Berkner - bell - Carroll - TC

Coppell was startlingly good in finals. The complexity - the visuals - it’s just head and shoulders above everything else. A real wow.

Martin’s music was excellent and some very interesting moves too! Waxa uniforms were great and their finish was fantastic.

I’m interested to see the scores at the end. There are some bands here that are going to jump in UIL when the BOA factor is reduced.