TexasStrangers

This Melissa contest is worth the money to attend. There are some heavy heavy heavy hitters in this. Yes it is early in the contest season but it's defiantly a measuring stick for your program against other big hitters.

Looks like this could be a nice event for some schools to join. Good job on getting schools to book already before the school year is out.

Unless something crazy happens and the UIL cutoffs numbers rise a bit I see several schools competing at 4A for the last time in the 2025 school year. I bet some schools will survive but just barely.

I was at the Celina Competition they hosted this year to watch Celina, North Lamar, Farmersville and Mineola and a person working there told me they are in the process of building a 2nd high school. I know there is a tremendous amount of school construction going on there.

Well under the current threshold yes, but UIL always raises the cutoffs to try and keep an even number of schools in each classification. There were several schools last year that were over the threshold for going up to 4A and going up to 5A but when UIL released the cutoffs they stayed where they were because the cutoffs got raised. I figured Panther Creek is a 100% moving up. I might be wrong but last year the school was only 9th/10th grade right and they added 11th this year?

I think you will see several of the usual players that are involved on a yearly basis. I do think based on student counts that were turned in for this year and if the trend continues next year then there will be several schools jumping to 5A for the 2026 yr. Of course the question would be where would the cutoff number be. I expect the number to go up but how much is to be determined.

Mineola did it 3 times in a row in 3A before getting 2nd place last year. They won their 4th State Title this year out of the last 5 Competitions.

UIL many years ago use to post the Raw scores from each Judge in each State Competition so you could actually see how close the scoring was. Now, they only post rankings from each judge on the schools. So, if a school was ranked 2nd and another 3rd. You don't know how far apart it was or was it really close. The directors have the raw scores but most of them do not share that stuff online.

Prelims looked to be a blowout on the score card. The Finals had the top 3 separated by 2pts. Panther Creek/Davenport tied but because 4 of the 7 judges had Panther over Davenport so Panther gets 2nd.

Anyone live streaming the results?

Brand new judges in finals

I know several years ago UIL use to post the ordinals after the contests online so people could see how close it was and then they stopped doing it and now just show you placement for each judge.

So Panther Creek, Sulphur Springs, China Springs, Celina and Davenport are the Top 5 in some order after prelims.

The directors typically get ordinals and then they shared them if they want. Most directors don't share them.

I didn't get to see the shows but I guess something happened in the Rivercrest show from them to go from a 2-2 in Visuals to a 6-5 which hurt them big time. Congrats to all the winners.