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Got results?

As the curator of @CLHSBand, you made my day.

We did a short throwdown show on Friday so Friendswood could do all their show in prep for BOA and State. Wow. It was worth it. There were kids everywhere! Very nice. Good luck to them.

Agreed. It looked like was a remarkable consistency except for Pearland marching. Wow. One worst, the other judge almost best. Wonder if there has ever been an eight place gap between two judges. Only way it could be bigger would be one judge says they're the best, one judge says they're the worst. I always jump to the band that barely missed. If you look at J2, he/she has Dickinson and CP 8 and 9 with a 15 point difference or J3 with a 20 point difference. Either of those two go the other way, and the outcome is different. Life may have been better before the days of the internet when disappointed students, teachers, and parents could spend weeks dissecting results.

Oh, to have a band/guard that large. Don't get me wrong. Beautiful show (even as I watch it with sound off). Just beautiful. And those are the beautiful things you can do with that many kids. Not surprised at all that Friendswood took the finals. Hopefully they'll perform their full show at halftime against Clear Lake so I can see it first hand. I had all the bands called except I had Brazoswood and CP making finals and moving on, so I was surprised by North Shore. I thought Dickinson and Dawson would be bubble bands for state. Three points between them, so it was awfully close. Anyway, tough day for our kids finishing 11th in prelims, but sincere congratulations to all the programs moving on. They are a joy to watch. ... and REALLY can't wait to see Friendswood on Friday.

Woodlands college park Friendswood Brazoswood Spring Pearland Dickinson Dawson Oak ridge North Shore Senior

I think you just named 9 of the 10 finalists.

http://www.uilforms.com/regions/19/AreaMarchingENTRY.htm Look for the Schedules & Programs link.

AREA F: 35 BANDS!

Waiting stinks. Westbrook is on the draw list. Someone just wake me up at 11:00 p.m. on Saturday night for the finals results. Probably won't sleep until then anyway. Ugh.

Does that mean Region 10 sends two bands to Area F and not one taking the total to 35?

I think you're looking at the draw order, not the eligible bands. You have to go to http://www.txbands.com/forums/index.php?/topic/6437-2014-uil-region-results/ to see the results from the Regions. As of this afternoon, Area F looks like this: F - Region 9, Region 10(1), Region 17(11), Region 19(10) The numbers in parentheses are the number of schools from each region who received 1s at Region. So far there are 22 schools eligible for Area - add up all the parentheses. If no schools from Region 9 qualified, only four schools would go to state from this Area (22 / 5 = 4 with some remainder, = 4 schools). If I read the Region 9 website correctly, there are only 12 bands competing on Tuesday for their Regional. If all 12 bands from Region 9 made 1s and chose to compete at Area, that would only leave six schools from this Area (34 / 5 = 6 with some remainder, = 6 schools). As someone rooting for Clear Lake, the math is deeply disappointing. The addition of Friendswood and Dawson was a double-whammy. UPDATE: obviously I also missed the subtlety the two band minimum. I'm a lot more optimistic about Clear Lake squeezing into 7th than 6th. Bring on Saturday!

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