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Westlake's performance from Areq D prelims is at . Skip to 4:50 (there's a link in the description) to see the show and skip the entry and assembly of the grand staircase.

Bowie's skins haven't yet arrived for their planets. They are hoping to have them by state. One of the Bowie parents told me that one of the BOA Denton judges was puzzled by their "mouse traps."

I was impressed that the Round Rock band stayed through almost all of the finals. Yes, they left right before Westlake performed, but it took a lot of character to sit through all of those shows after the obvious disappointment of not making finals. I only got to sit in the stands for the first three shows in the finals (I push part of Westlake's staircase) and we sat up in the stands to the upper left of the Round Rock kids. I saw no misbehavior of any kind out of the group - I don't know how well I would have kept my composure in the same situation at that age. We were shocked that Round Rock didn't go though to the finals.

That's the number submitted by Connally to the festival. It's possible that they are counting something other than the band on the field, I suppose. Round Rock submitted 300, Anderson 270, Westlake 240. Looking at that again, that probably does include the support team. In any case, assuming all of the bands used the same criteria to set their number, Connally is still larger than the most of the 5A bands, and by a good amount. Several of the 5A bands submitted numbers of 160 or smaller.

The schedule had been updated - Llano, Georgetown (to TxMarchClassic), and Weslaco dropped out and Harper (1A) and Lago Vista (2A) added in. New schedule is: 1A 11:15 Harper 2A 11:30 Lago Vista 4A 11:45 Lockhart 12:00 Hays 12:15 Connally 12:30 Dripping Springs 5A 1:30 Wagner 1:45 Vista Ridge 2:15 Judson 2:30 John Marshall 3:00 Hendrickson 3:15 Economedes 3:30 Clark 3:45 Lake Travis 4:15 new Braunfels 4:30 O'Connor 4:45 Edinburg North 5:00 Anderson 5:15 Round Rock Finals start at 7:00 with Westlake exhibition followed by 10 bands. Last band scheduled to perform at 10:00. Trivia: Connally's band (220) is larger than all of the 5A bands competing (that excludes Westlake) except for O'Connor, Anderson, and Round Rock.

Thanks!

There was a rumor that Johnson received a penalty in the prelims for going over time (by 2 seconds). I haven't seen anything in here or anywhere else on that subject. Was it just a wild rumor, or did Johnson incur some sort of penalty?