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Currently several of the El Paso bands are preparing for the New Mexico Tournament of Bands Contest which will be held on 11/05/2011... With Del Valle and Bel Air not attending. Del Valle is preparing for the UIL State Contest and Bel Air is currently in San Antonio for the BOA event.

jmj, do not underestimate any of the El Paso bands, they are really coming off strong this marching season. With all the bands advancing from Region 22 I expect to see true contenders from EP-Coronado, EP- Hanks, EP-Bel Air, EP-Americas, EP-Franklin, who knows maybe all 5 of these will advance!

Thank one of your newest band directors: Ivan De La Cruz for them, he was one of the main reasons why Bel Air (El Paso) started using Contras back a few years ago.

Here are the Results from tonights (5a bands only) 10/16/2010 UIL Region 22 Contest. Division I El Dorado HS Hanks HS Franklin HS Bel Air HS Socorro HS Montwood HS Eastwood HS Coronado HS Americas HS All 9 of El Paso area HS Bands will advance to UIL Area (A) Contest at Odessa, TX Should be a pretty good line up of bands and a sweet competition.

Dan here is what happened, The mistake was a misinterpretation of the rules regarding "judges' preference." In UIL there is a rule that states if a band receives a ranking of 1,2,or 3 from at least 2 music judges and 1 marching judge, they will advance to the SMBC regardless of their final placement. Del Valle came in 5th overall but had a ranking of 2 and 4 in music, and a 3 in marching. ( Warning-- I have not seen the actual recaps-- this is hearsay, but from reliable sources!) The contest administrator apparently thought that since the AREA was advancing 4 bands to state, the ranking of "4" in music would count towards this policy. That was the mistake-- it should not have counted, the rules clearly state " 3 or higher". However, during the challenge time, where mistakes can be challenged and rectified before becoming official, no one questioned this. And so the results became "official" and were announced. About an hour later someone, apparently from the Austin office of UIL, clarified the rule, and Del Valle was informed they were not advancing. But an update from Uil, they had advanced Del Valle, which the band drew the 11th spot for preliminary at SMBC

You can now officially include Del Valle HS from the list to Area A advancing to the State Contest. Area A: Azle H.S. * Saginaw Boswell H.S. * Wolfforth Frenship H.S. Saginaw H.S. * Del Valle*

Area A: (Advancing to State) Azle Boswell Frenship Saginaw Del Valle

In update to the UIL Area Final Results... In a late breaking development, Del Valle's advancement to state has been, at least temporarily, rescinded! The issue came down to a misinterpretation of the UIL rules regarding judges' preference. (more can be found at eprocks.com and elpasotimes.com) Area A: (Advancing to State) Azle Boswell Frenship Saginaw

The Finals order in Odessa was 1 Frenship 2 Del Valle 3 Saginaw 4 Randall 5 Mountain View 6 Plainview 7 Boswell 8 Springtown 9 Azle 10 Ryan The results were Advancing to State: 1 Azle 2 Boswell 3 Frenship 4 Saginaw 5 Del Valle -- Del Valle advances on Judges' Perference Also competed: 6 Ryan 7 Springtown 8 Mountain View 9 Randall 10 Plainview

as reported at eprocks.com they have AREA A RESULTS Here is a quick rundown of the prelim results from the Area A contest in Odessa 1 Azle 2 Saginaw 3 Frenship 4 Del Valle 5 Boswell 6 Springtown 7 Ryan 8 Plainview 9 Mountain View 10 Randall

for those of you who like to watch band videos this is a place where they showcase West TX Bands and New Mexico, Local Marching Circuits; http://www.justin.tv/mbands

I dont know if its true or not Im not all that smart with the UIL system but, When a Band makes finals at Area, do they rank the bands by peforming time slots meaning the latest time bands scored the best than the early band schedule to perform in finals or vice versa, can someone please enlighten me?

Hey everyone these are the bands from Region 22 in El Paso TX that will go on to UIL Area Contest at Odessa (Area A) Im setting up these videos so you can be the Judge and give your score and Input, feel free to watch and Place them, as if you were the Judge dont forget to critique Bel Air: Eastwood: Americas: Franklin: Hanks:

As reported by EPRocks.com, Bel Air HS from El Paso,TX has withdrawn themselves from the Bands of America Super Regionals from San Antonio,TX. The Bel Air HS Band would have been the only marching band program this marching season to represent El Paso at the Super Regional, for more info log on to www.eprocks.com James Saulcedo Management at EPRocks.com

I called the 800 number it asks for the access code? is this phone number correct?

Hey does anyone know if UIL sells Video of the State marching band event or if there is a video production that sells them?

Hey you gotta give props to the Marcus High Band for a great season and becoming the TEXAS STATE Champs! Congrats Guys... LDBell Congrats to you guys to for a great marching show.

How about a review of all bands? lol is that asking to much?

Predictions for Finals, Heres mine PREDICTION ONLY 1 - Ronald Reagan H.S., TX 2 - L.D. Bell H.S., TX 3 - Westfield H.S., TX 4 - Marcus H.S., TX 5 - The Woodlands H.S., TX 6 - Winston Churchill H.S., TX 7 - Cedar Park H.S., TX 8 - Hebron H.S., TX 9 - Richland H.S., TX 10 - Haltom H.S., TX 11 - Clear Brook H.S., TX 12 - Westlake H.S., TX Music Caption - Marcus H.S., TX Visual Caption - Ronald Reagan H.S., TX GE Caption - Ronald Reagan H.S., TX

After Prelims: 1. L.D. Bell HS 2. The Woodlands HS 3. Reagan HS Caption Awards: Music: Marcus HS GE: The Woodlands HS Visual: L.D. Bell HS Finalists (12): Cedar Park HS Churchill HS Clear Brook HS Haltom HS Hebron HS L.D. Bell HS Marcus HS Reagan HS Richland HS Westfield HS Westlake HS The Woodlands HS FINALS Schedule 7:15 - Exhibition - Loveland H.S., CO 7:30 - Westfield H.S., TX 7:45 - The Woodlands H.S., TX 8:00 - Hebron H.S., TX 8:15 - Westlake H.S., TX 8:30 - Marcus H.S., TX 8:45 - Winston Churchill H.S., TX 9:00 - Haltom H.S., TX 9:15 - Cedar Park H.S., TX 9:30 - L.D. Bell H.S., TX 9:45 - Ronald Reagan H.S., TX 10:00 - Richland H.S., TX 10:15 - Clear Brook H.S., TX 10:30 - Exhibition - Hidalgo H.S., TX

Here is the Bel Air HS 2006 Show - El Paso: Bel Air http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...eoid=1376331205 Thats there official myspace page, if you go to their main page you will see years worth of marching videos from the band, the one listed above is this years show. I'll see if I can find anymore marching shows of other bands.

HERES THE OFFICIAL ARTICLE: AMERICAS BAND DISQUALIFIED Americas High School will not march for the state marching band championship next week because it used a student with failing grades during the qualification rounds to the tournament. Officials of the Socorro Independent School District confirmed late Thursday that the Univeristy Interscholastic League the body regulates sports, fine arts and other academic competitions in Texas - had told Americas it could no longer perform in the State Marching Band Contest on Tuesday at the Alamodome in San Antonio. This is very unfortunate, " said Tony Baca, socorro's assistant superintendent for secondary schools. "The band officials have met with the students, and the school has written a letter to send home to parents informing them of the situation." Baca said a student, who was not identified knew of the failing grades but still decided to play during both the area and regional qualifying rounds of the state tournament. He said the Americas band directors did not know of the failing grades, Baca said. As soon as the school learned of the ineligible student, they contacted UIL... it was self reporting," Baca added. "The school spent most of the day on the phone with UIL. We still don't know of any disciplinary action toward the student." Americas qualified for the state tournament by being one of the top three bands in the regional tournament last weekend. The fourth place band Bel Air High will now take its place. "There were a lot of people cheering in the halls when we knew we were going," said Alyssa Hernandez, as senior flute player at Bel Air. "We are sad for the Americas band because we know they were ready, but at the same time we are very excited to be going." Bel Air band director David Waters said his students were practicing for the Bands of America tournament also in San Antonio this weekend, so they will be ready for the UIL tournament Tuesday. "Our show is better than it was a week ago, and we are very confident," Waters said. "Hopefully we can go out there and represent El Paso well."

AMERICAS HS BAND HAS BEEN DISQUALIFIED AS OF 11/02/06 AND WILL NOT ADVANCE TO THE UIL STATE CONTEST. AMERICAS HS BAND HAD AN INELIGABLE BAND MEMBER PARTICIPATING AT THE AREA CONTEST AND THEREFORE WILL NOT MOVE ON, IN THERE PLACE WILL BE EL PASO: BEL AIR HS UIL AREA A BANDS ADVANCING TO STATE NORTHWEST JUSTIN HS KELLER HS EL PASO: BEL AIR HS

I think theres gonna be some re-adjustments to that schedule, According to Sources from the Area A region, Americas HS - El Paso has been DISQUALIFIED for marching and un-eligable (flag girl) in there place will be El Paso- Bel Air HS.

UIL AREA A Finalist Permian El Paso Americas El Paso Belair Midland Lee Keller Central Keller High Justin Northwest ADVANCING TO STATE: 1. Keller High 2. Northwest 3. Americas ALTERNATE: 4 - Bel Air 5 - Central HS - Keller 6 - Midland Lee 7 - Permian Source: EPRocks