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Indeed congratulations and well earned ist divisions for all! after watching the live stream quick takeaways: PG- Wow! Some really wonderful moments. Great low brass sound! Pine Tree- Cool show. But gotta get cleaned up before area. Really challenging. Sulphur- …… Just amazing! The Solos! The Hits! The Very clean Drill! The Power! Love Love Love it! North Lamar- I’m going to say this is a sleeping Giant. May be wrong, but if I’m not, everyone needs to get nervous Paris- This may be one of my favorite show concepts ever! So cool and entertaining. I think they have a shot at state! Seriously go check it out!

I would agree that Panther Creek is the odds on favorite. But what if numbers and power are rewarded? I don’t think anyone should write off China Spring. I have a friend that says Krum is on the way to being amazing. id be interested to see what Brock and Gatesville bring to the table. Both of them are great programs. I haven’t seen Springtown. That’s another I would watch out for. honestly, this may be the most compelling Area contest in 4A

My predictions. 1-Celina They would often get beat at contests in early season just to come back and beat everyone at state. 2-Sulphur Spring. They are just too good this year and their show is amazing. I love the concept, the music, the sound. They beat Farmersville, North Lamar, and Paris at the RC contest. 3-Canton/Farmersvile/North Lamar this is where it gets tricky for me. Cantons show is easy especially for them. Maybe if it is clean. It’s hard for me to ignore that they are the Canton Band and that they have been in the mix every year for decades. But generally, the show just doesn’t seem very cool. But I also haven’t seen a video in weeks. North Lamar is really good and their show is different. It’s like old school meets new school. I don’t think it’s done. That means they are in trouble. But what’s there I think is better than the other 2. If the end of the show is as good as the rest of it, then I could see them maybe challenging Sulphur Farmersville has great moments and it’s pretty clean but they rely heavily on the solo saxophone. Can they get a better or is this all they have? If they can get real clean they may take down Sulphur, They also beat NL 3 times yesterday so there’s that. On the edge- Paris, Van Alstyn, Lumberton, Bridge City, Pine Tree. All these bands are here for a reason. They are quality bands that you can’t ignore

Farmersville killed it at Aubrey, Canton and Sulphur beat Celinaat Sounds of Fall. And Pine Tree and Community were not competitive at that Contest. North Lamar looks like they are having a really bad time. I don’t know about this area. Has anyone seen a video of Paris? I also haven’t seen Lumberton or Bridge City.

I had a friend livestream a few bands from Melissa. She wasn’t there for the Canton or Celina. But another friend said that Sulphur was better than Canton for sure. NL was great until the very end. I think if they pulled it off they were better than Sulphur. Again second hand, but He told me China and Canton were very dirty. anyone have a clip of Farmersville? They seem to be getting a lot of buzz.

Out of curiosity, how did you hear that?

No way! There’s already nearly 5 minutes of show.

Are your directors feeling confident? I don’t wanna bag on you.

I don’t have inside info on NL. I thought Canton on that video was good. I don’t think there show is as hard as in the past. But they could make some waves. It’s early so who knows.

Bruh

After watching the Canton v NL halftimes again as well as Sulphur I wonder if Canton and SUlphur has shows that will translate to success at UIL. They are very big bold shows but not in a way that makes a lot of noise at UIL competitions. look at Panther Creek and Celina. They are very concert band on the field. Everything is in a box but challenging. What does North Lamar have left to put on the field? So far it is real good but not having a production is concerning. Making predictions in this area is hard.

Sulphur has a cool show. I don’t know if it’s the kinda show that will win over judges. I wish more bands did shows like this.

I don’t think the bands that won last year were park and bark. Anna moved a lot. Celina moves a lot and does a lot of choreo. Panther creek did the same. I would like to see a Wills Point comeback. Or someone new like Sunnyvale make some waves. Anybody seen Them.

I thought so. Better place than NL for sure. But not as flashy as past shows.

Any videos of Celina?