Draak Vader

Have the scores been released and posted anywhere?

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I have a question that perhaps some of you who are more knowledgeable in the ways of BOA might be able to answer. There are 29 bands playing in prelims on Friday and 29 playing in prelims on Saturday in San Antonio. As I understand it, there will be 14 finalists after all is said and done on Saturday evening. With that configuration, any Friday band that's not in the top 14 after the Friday prelims would have no mathematical possibility of being included in the finals. The Saturday prelims would have no bearing on that; if you're not in the top 14 from Friday it's impossible for you to be one of the overall 14 finalists on Saturday. That means 15 bands are out on Friday and BOA will know which bands right after the last one plays that evening. Does BOA inform these 15 Friday bands that they're out of the running in some way BEFORE they load their kids and equipment and come back on Saturday, hoping that they're in finals; and if not, why not?

Having witnessed Saturday's contest at Vista Ridge first hand as well, I think predicting the BOA chances of any of the bands that participated in the VRMF based on their resulting scores and rank positions, in prelims and/or finals, would yield dubious results at best. Am I being cryptic enough?

Yep, this band looks, marches, and sounds very good. I definitely would NOT count them out of the mix in SA. Looks like there might be some shades of Round Rock's 'The Dragon' show from last year in their show. I think they won the Pomona Festival this year. Does anyone know for sure?

Hmmm, I guess any high school band is free to file a copyright for their performance(s) as intellectual property (as they see fit), but this seems far more like games-[man/woman]-ship than anything else (see Marcus and/or L.D. Bell). If I'm not mistaken, Bowie uses, or at least used (last year), the same drill writer and/or music writer as some of the other bands in their 'geographical region' (Round Rock, for instance). These other bands don't seem to be nearly so constrained by, so called, copyright restrictions when posting videos of their drills/shows (some of these drills/shows have even made their way to bands outside the state of Texas, with corresponding YouTube videos currently available). Just sayin'.... The Austin American Statesman has an early version of the Bowie show on their 'Battle of the Bands' web section for 'week 1' of this year (vs. Westwood). http://www.statesman.com/news/bowie-high-s...nd-1834623.html Also, here's Round Rock's 10-8-2011 performance at the Westlake Marching Festival, sans any apparent copyright restriction(s): One is left to wonder whether Bowie, or any other "copyright sensitive" band, would pursue legal action if their drills/shows were legitimately recorded at a football game or competition, and subsequently posted by the person who recorded them? These are high school marching band shows we're all talking about here; they're supposed to be fun for the students, the parents, and the competing bands. C'mon, let's get a grip.