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Well today's the day. Good luck and safe travels to all participants, and attendees!! I hope every single student that performs today comes off the field proud of all of the accomplishments they have made this season, and regardless of results, are happy with their performances today. Once again, good luck everybody!

Area D was wack lol

I could see that happening. I also could see most any of those groups taking it. Silver 1 is so insanely cracked this year, even with just 6 ensembles. I also think there will be pretty good representation from the Austin area between vista ridge, McNeil, and Westwood

So I was curious why flowermound wasn't coming this year. I can't open the calendar and y'all aren't going to grand nats so do you have the answer?

Looks like for standstill 1 - silver there's only 6 schools now, that means 3 schools dropped the competition. Does anyone know why?

I suppose that makes sense, I guess I was just expecting the differences to be like 5 places from each other, not 1st vs barely making finals. Also things like Bowie at 9th when they were in contention for those 2 State spots?

Who chooses these judges? Cause like how can they disagree that much?? CTJ and round rock in prelims, one judge gave 10th and another gave 1st... do they even know what they're judging? There are so many more rankings like that, it makes me question the validaty of these scores. Or is there something else I'm missing or don't know about uil? Maybe a random number generator?

It's hard to say. The only competition with a percussion score that they've been to has been birdville and they did get 2nd, but the competition definitely wasn't the same as TMC Historically though, they've always done decent at Lonestar, we'll just have to see 🤷‍♂️

Looks like a lot of similar schools from last year are going this year as well. Coppell, Vista ridge, McNeil, Byron Nelson, I also think Westwood and Hebron are coming back Most of this based off of band calendars*

But still class size is based off of school size if I'm not wrong, not band size? And blue springs is 3a so it's not just 4a bands that are good But yeah, noticeably less 4a schools

I know it's still fairly early, but I didn't see a topic on this competition yet so I figured I'd make one. For anyone that doesn't know this is a very late season drumline competition, one of the biggest in the state of Texas, and it should have a lot of really good competition this year. I don't see a schedule or school list yet but when that comes out I'll definitely upload that here. Anyways I'd love to hear y'all's thoughts and predictions!!!

To be fair, McNeil perc director is the director of RF independent world and front caption head for the blue stars, also some other noticeable staff like the cadets center (rip 🙏) As for Westwood, they do also have a pretty strong staff (the first half of the season most of their staff was actually gone because they were away working with dci groups) And at least percussion-wise, McNeil got 3rd and 5th at TMC last year as opposed to this years 2nd and 3rd so their percussion has been up there And yeah, Lonestar comp last year McNeil got 3rd behind vista and coppell up a division and they're better now so should be some more good competition this year