UIL 6A Area B 2024

[lndn]

17 hours ago, BandNerd07 said:

Something I've decided to do this year is create area rankings that are updated weekly. Rankings are changed each week based on contest results, the likelihood of beating other bands ranked ahead of them, and UIL region results. Here's where the rankings currently stand as of this week:

1. Coppell

2. Timber Creek

3. Keller

4. LD Bell

5. Southlake Carroll

6. Haltom

7. Keller Central

8.  Boswell

9. Mansfield

10. Martin

11. Trinity

12. Lake Ridge

13. South Grand Prairie

14. Arlington

15. Legacy

16. Weatherford

17. Crowley

18. Lamar

19. North Crowley

20. Grand Prairie

21. Bowie

22. Cedar Hill

23. Sam Houston

This has gotta be one of the worst ranking I’ve seen in a while, 4 bands over Lake Ridge that have never beat them before, simply because of them beating out Martin at don hanna of all competitions… Mansfield is historically worse than Lake Ridge… but more power to ya

[CosmicLimbo]

1 hour ago, lndn said:

This has gotta be one of the worst ranking I’ve seen in a while, 4 bands over Lake Ridge that have never beat them before, simply because of them beating out Martin at don hanna of all competitions… Mansfield is historically worse than Lake Ridge… but more power to ya

Hey it’s okay to disagree with peoples predictions but let’s keep it respectful

[BandNerd07]

16 hours ago, lndn said:

This has gotta be one of the worst ranking I’ve seen in a while, 4 bands over Lake Ridge that have never beat them before, simply because of them beating out Martin at don hanna of all competitions… Mansfield is historically worse than Lake Ridge… but more power to ya

Dang, I'm sorry if I offended anyone. I ranked Martin really high because they beat bands like Birdville and Fossil Ridge, who are also state tier bands, and Mansfield beat Martin. Boswell's placement was high because they finished 3rd at BOA Odessa and Trinity placed 3rd at BOA McAllen. But I guess in a way it does kind of make sense why you may be concerned about Lake Ridge's placement, given that none of the 4 bands have head-to-head beat LR yet. Is this better?

8. Lake Ridge

9. Boswell

10. Mansfield

11. Martin

12. Trinity

So basically what I've done is boosted Lake Ridge up and just bumped everyone else down a spot. And again, it's my first time doing this, so I'm always looking for ways to improve this.

[TrenBS]

13 minutes ago, BandNerd07 said:

Dang, I'm sorry if I offended anyone. I ranked Martin really high because they beat bands like Birdville and Fossil Ridge, who are also state tier bands, and Mansfield beat Martin. Boswell's placement was high because they finished 3rd at BOA Odessa and Trinity placed 3rd at BOA McAllen. But I guess in a way it does kind of make sense why you may be concerned about Lake Ridge's placement, given that none of the 4 bands have head-to-head beat LR yet. Is this better?

8. Lake Ridge

9. Boswell

10. Mansfield

11. Martin

12. Trinity

So basically what I've done is boosted Lake Ridge up and just bumped everyone else down a spot. And again, it's my first time doing this, so I'm always looking for ways to improve this.

Honestly, dont change predictions on what other people say would be my advice, even if they end up being horribly wrong its your opinion, and making mistakes will let you become better next time, and who knows you may end up being right and making THEM look stupid🤷‍♂️

The thing with HS marching people tend to mess up which is a bi-product of how DCI functions is that nobody is entitled to positions, obviously legacy bands are going to be more likely to place high because they usually do, due to their staff and funding at the time being strong, but with Keller and CTJ you can see them placing low compared to how they usually place this year. We can probably expect this to keep happening with retirement of great staff and the development of new powerhouses (Pearland and Bridgeland Id say are the newest “powerhouses” given how recently successful they've been), so honestly do your opinions regardless of what others say, predictions are supposed to be fun and if theres only one “right” answer before a competition even begins, thats being tone deaf to the nature of HS marching

[Tubalord11]

55 minutes ago, BandNerd07 said:

Dang, I'm sorry if I offended anyone. I ranked Martin really high because they beat bands like Birdville and Fossil Ridge, who are also state tier bands, and Mansfield beat Martin. Boswell's placement was high because they finished 3rd at BOA Odessa and Trinity placed 3rd at BOA McAllen. But I guess in a way it does kind of make sense why you may be concerned about Lake Ridge's placement, given that none of the 4 bands have head-to-head beat LR yet. Is this better?

8. Lake Ridge

9. Boswell

10. Mansfield

11. Martin

12. Trinity

So basically what I've done is boosted Lake Ridge up and just bumped everyone else down a spot. And again, it's my first time doing this, so I'm always looking for ways to improve this.

I tend to agree with your original rankings, and those are probably my top 10 as of now in that exact ranking. Regarding Lake Ridge, they are doing good, but they need to do some serious cleaning if they want a spot in finals. I think the current results of the comps they've attend show it, they were barely ahead of Lovejoy at Wylie, who was 3rd from last at Bedford, and got beat by Midlothian at Mansfield who somehow didn't make finals at US Bands Dallas this past weekend. But like @TrenBS said, I wouldn't change your rankings just because people say they are bad, your top 10 is very good and that could easily be our 10 finalist here 

[lndn]

1 hour ago, BandNerd07 said:

Dang, I'm sorry if I offended anyone. I ranked Martin really high because they beat bands like Birdville and Fossil Ridge, who are also state tier bands, and Mansfield beat Martin. Boswell's placement was high because they finished 3rd at BOA Odessa and Trinity placed 3rd at BOA McAllen. But I guess in a way it does kind of make sense why you may be concerned about Lake Ridge's placement, given that none of the 4 bands have head-to-head beat LR yet. Is this better?

8. Lake Ridge

9. Boswell

10. Mansfield

11. Martin

12. Trinity

So basically what I've done is boosted Lake Ridge up and just bumped everyone else down a spot. And again, it's my first time doing this, so I'm always looking for ways to improve this.

Didn’t mean to sound angry, and no need to conform to my opinion, I just think based off of the past and the current direction of the bands, especially the jump in quality for Lake Ridge and Martin compared to last year, it would be ok to assume that they would go back to higher placements. I also would like to recommend that yall go watch Lake Ridge’s most recent performances on YouTube, it might surprise

[Wannabebluecoat]

11 hours ago, Tubalord11 said:

I tend to agree with your original rankings, and those are probably my top 10 as of now in that exact ranking. Regarding Lake Ridge, they are doing good, but they need to do some serious cleaning if they want a spot in finals. I think the current results of the comps they've attend show it, they were barely ahead of Lovejoy at Wylie, who was 3rd from last at Bedford, and got beat by Midlothian at Mansfield who somehow didn't make finals at US Bands Dallas this past weekend. But like @TrenBS said, I wouldn't change your rankings just because people say they are bad, your top 10 is very good and that could easily be our 10 finalist here 

Now if ur saying this musically, I would say ur mistaken. Visual maybe, but that is the easiest to improve. Their music is probably the best it’s ever been(besides 2013). Taking music award from multiple state marching bands(Berkner)(colleyville). I’ve seen every band on this list, and can comfortably say lake ridge is better than most. My opinion may change come boa prosper, but as of now they are scoring better then they did with their show from 2022. Once again all opinion and I look forward to seeing if I’m wrong or right. 

[Wannabebluecoat]

On 10/9/2024 at 1:19 PM, BandNerd07 said:

Yeah I know that 4 bands (Boswell, Mansfield, Martin and Trinity) are currently ahead of LR, but let me explain it a bit. Martin had a really good showing at USBands Saginaw, winning it all and beating bands such as Fossil Ridge and Birdville. Mansfield beat Martin at Don Hanna this past week, boosting them up several spots (and also beat LR in music at area last year). Boswell and Trinity had BOA success a few weeks ago medaling at their respective contests. 

Also something to keep in mind is my rankings aren't solely based on a band beating so and so, but the likelihood of beating a band. For example, James Martin beat Birdville and Fossil Ridge at Saginaw, so they would be highly likely to beat some other bands ranked ahead of them. I do realize that this isn't a "perfect system" but I'm working my best at it though.

Also for James Martin beating birdvile

and them. The thing with that is lake ridge has beat birdville and fossil ridge and James Martin for the last four or 5 years. It’s difficult to compare scores at places and stuff because scores may be inflated, so I may see where you’re getting mixed up and things like that. I also see ur point on how your ranking is about being likely and everything like that, I just believe it’s more likely for lake ridge to get ahead of these said bands. Sorry if I came across as rude.☹️

[JFNDOWBFAN]

👀 

[txpurple21]

22 hours ago, Tubalord11 said:

and got beat by Midlothian at Mansfield who somehow didn't make finals at US Bands Dallas this past weekend. 

@Tubalord11 Midlothian High School from the Mansfield contest didn’t attend US Bands. You are thinking of the other Midlothian school, Midlothian Heritage, which always attends US Bands contests. 

[Tubalord11]

29 minutes ago, purplskylr said:

@Tubalord11 Midlothian High School from the Mansfield contest didn’t attend US Bands. You are thinking of the other Midlothian school, Midlothian Heritage, which always attends US Bands contests. 

Ohhhhh okay thank you! For some reason the recap just said Midlothian, which again I was confused considering how well they did at POC

[BandNerd07]

Region 30 and 31 just had their region contests today and the following bands received a 1st division:

Boswell

Coppell

Crowley

L.D. Bell

North Crowley 

Trinity 

Weatherford 

Still waiting for Carroll and Haltom but there's a 99.9% chance they get 1's as well.

[Toasted Almond]

4 hours ago, BandNerd07 said:

Region 30 and 31 just had their region contests today and the following bands received a 1st division:

Boswell

Coppell

Crowley

L.D. Bell

North Crowley 

Trinity 

Weatherford 

Still waiting for Carroll and Haltom but there's a 99.9% chance they get 1's as well.

Well, *most* of Region 30.

Keller ISD is on fall break this week, so Keller, Keller-Central, and Timber Creek will have their Region contest on Thursday, 10/17. Still, barring anything absurd, they should all get 1's which will bring us up to 12 so far.

Then we have the LOOOOONNNNGGGG wait until next Tuesday for Region 5.

[Hornymchornface]

4 hours ago, BandNerd07 said:

Region 30 and 31 just had their region contests today and the following bands received a 1st division:

Boswell

Coppell

Crowley

L.D. Bell

North Crowley 

Trinity 

Weatherford 

Still waiting for Carroll and Haltom but there's a 99.9% chance they get 1's as well.

Website still isn't updated, but Carroll and Haltom both posted on social media that they got 1's

[DBPman]

Have y'all seen Martin this year...

[DBPman]

On 8/25/2024 at 11:19 PM, BANDKIDCORE said:

if you even go off of last years area results. SGP at 17 is crazy to me. they beat arlington, crowley, martin, north crowley and was 1 below mansfield. it’s really crazy to put arlington over sgp when they’ve constantly beaten them at area. also marin hoping form 21 to 11 is highly questionable. north crowley over legacy??

Yeah martin got a new set of directors and they have been progressing a lot.

[vandi]

I heard some regions are doing caption awards. is this true?

[J-Mike16]

27 minutes ago, vandi said:

I heard some regions are doing caption awards. is this true?

I have not heard of this, and that would be seem so out of place because the Regional level is not even competitive between the bands. It's more on each band and if they are able to get that 1 to then move onto the competitive Area level.

[Samuel Culper]

48 minutes ago, vandi said:

I heard some regions are doing caption awards. is this true?

Makes no sense. Region contest is not a contest against other bands.

And UIL has never done caption awards that I am aware of.

[Debw]

Keller and Keller Central all 1's. 

[Gerys_Goulash]

Timber got all 1s

[vandi]

19 hours ago, Samuel Culper said:

Makes no sense. Region contest is not a contest against other bands.

And UIL has never done caption awards that I am aware of.

jeez sorry!! Just a rumor I heard...😂

[Gehrig4]

Timber Creek put all four movements on the field at region and it did make a huge difference in their program.   I thought - of the three 6A that were there, they were clearly above Keller and KC.    A few thoughts -  

Their program has changed so much since HEB -- it doesn't even look like the same program.   

The finish is really great and adds a ton to the program.  

Why grey uniforms?   The swing flags are amazing.  Wouldn't it had a much better GE with covers on grey?

2 seconds left on the clock when they finished - 2!!   might want to tighten that up a bit.

Its clearly the most ambitious and difficult program they have ever attempted.  Like in gymnastics - they are going to get degree of difficulty points that others wont.    We will see if they peak at the right time for Area.    Cant take anything for granted. 

Keller's program has great musicality, and to my taste, is a little less "arty" than the last few years (a good thing to me, but what do I know?)    They have a lot of strength in their horns.    Always worry at the end for them - but the judges seem to love their late improvements year after year -    They seem to get beat by TC early and overcome them late in the season.  it may be another one of those years.   we will see.

KC program has also developed as the year has gone on.   They are the smallest corps of the three there at region - but they do have a great sound for their size.    Their program is recognizable and interesting.   The music is approachable and accentuates their strengths.    I found is very likeable.   Dont sleep on them.   If they add something flashy here at the end, they could surprise.

 

 

[Fishy506]

Anyone have any full predictions now that we are 2 weeks out?

[josephbandfan]

Keller still has quite a bit to add including another minute to their closer. Like every year, just have to hope they can clean enough by area. Especially with only 4 or 3 bands advancing to state