CPGuardDad

Marcus' show should come with a seizure warning! This was my first time seeing it, and it's one of my favorites this year.

Welcome to FANS of America's San Antonio Super Regional! We're super excited to listen to you chat, walk in and out, loudly tell people they're in your seat, all with bands playing and marching in the background! That's right, everyone's here to see and hear you! Now that that's of my chest... Woodlands guard is always so much fun to watch. What a crazy finals.

That was exactly my thought. I like what they are doing a lot.

I think easier is maybe not the right term. I think there are fewer variables outside of your control (wind, lights, how a dropped weapon bounces, etc) with dance vs guard. To add to that my wife (a ballerina into her 20s, high school dance team, dance instructor, and color guard mom/board member) said she absolutely agreed that dance as a whole is not easier. However, she felt the routine Vandy was using could be picked up fairly easily by the Woodlands guard, but the Vandy dance team would have a rough time picking up the Woodland's guard performance. That's pretty much the best two bands at their particular craft so it may well not be the same between Vandy and Vista for example. One interesting note, my daughter regularly interacts with the Vandy dance team members and they always want to play with her weapons and have stated that they would like the opportunity to use weapons. Again, not trying to knock anyone or their performance. I literally turned to my wife and the Vandy parents next to us after the Woodlands was announced and told them Vandy was going to win with a record new high score. They are amazing and deserved their win.

I would love that! I posted on another thread, but it always seems like the shows I find the most fun/entertaining get punished by the judges. Think ROUS (Rodents of unusual Size) from last year and CTJ from this year. Both are super fun and obvious audience favorites that the judges didn't seem to think were as good as some of the less university style shows.

I agree, it's not my favorite. If the world was run by me we'd have a requirement for two types of equipment used by guard/dance team or whatever you want to call it, but luckily for us all I'm not in charge of the world! Nothing against Vandy, they were amazing last night and I loved their show. They deserved their 97.60. I think my favorite was Reagan, they have a good mix of talented dance team and a strong guard that uses flags, rifles, sabers, etc.

Woodlands guard is so incredible. I loved them on Tuesday night and I think they were better tonight. So many great shows tonight performed by amazing bands.

I love when the snare is left alone then picked back up by the rest of the core.

That's what I was wondering

I'm almost glad this is the last performance. I don't think my heart can take too many more performances!

I think you forgot an LISD band. Vandy, Vista, Rouse, Cedar Park, and Leander. By my country that's 5, but I'm old and use old math

CTJ's Flamingo is even better in person. I love it so much. On a side note, any Final Fantasy nerds out there think it looked like they were riding pink chocobos?

LISD Sweeps 3A! Great job guys.

Does it make me a bad person that it irritates me how good Vandy is? Their music is so technical and they pull it off so well. The precision in their drill always amazes me too.

Anyone know what's up with Vandegrift? Schedule says they are next, but it's going to a break.

You can tell the Westlake kids are much better rested than their state prelims run. Really nice clean run. I hope that gets them through to finals cause I wanna watch in person again. I am always so impressed with the front walkover and rifle toss when I watch this show.

I loved it too, which is partially why I can't help but think the judges will be harsh on it. Seems like the shows I think are the most entertaining get beat up by the judges.

I quite enjoyed CTJ's show. The flamingos running around the field and the flamingo formations were fun. I can't help but think though that being fun hurts them. It always seems to me that fun shows are penalized by judges.

Everyone was just left speechless by Vista's performance

I don't know if you're still looking, but the band's official YouTube channel has the run posted. https://www.youtube.com/@VistaRidgeBandVideo

Is UIL and BoA scoring that different that Reagan will be able to move that far? My wife and I were at finals last night and were both dumbfounded that Reagan was 7th. Both of us felt that there was no way there were six shows better than them. It might have been the high that I was on after seeing our show, but I personally loved Reagan's show and thought it was the best all around. Even being a total homer I was ok with Reagan being first and Vista being second It's crazy, just as soon as I start thinking I have this thing figured out they remind me I know nothing.

Oh man the Marcus drum core was awesome. It was obvious by the crowd reaction that I wasn't the only one that thought so.

Much appreciated, I was able to find it there.

Do you have more information about the Show of Shows? I can't find it online with the exception of someone's Smores posting and that says 4:00pm.

I've noticed there are some bands that tend to peak early. I'm not sure if that's because they stop adding elements or have a simpler performance so it's easier to master or something all together different. I can only speak about our band, but I know the directors are constantly adding elements and tweaking things to get more points. I can't tell you how many times I've mentioned to my daughter that I hadn't ever seen this or that in past performances to have her tell me that it was the first time it had been added in.