2024 BOA St. Louis Super Regional (Oct. 25-26)

[packwick]

marvelously strange show from Broken Arrow this yr. just about the highest compliment i can give.

show pulls you in and never lets up. music effect scores should be gigantic. was aaalways curious what Jon could do w/ a top HS band not restricted to 8 hrs of rehearsal. fabulous!!

a lil dirtier than normal visually tho, esp the guard, but they have 3 weeks. much harder show than normal. lots going on here.

[BandFan50]

Amazing job blue springs!!!

[Dallas Hobbs]

FINALS RESULTS (per hornrank)

 

1. Blue Springs- 92.325

2. Broken Arrow- 92.175

3. Bentonville- 89.975

4. McNeil- 87.55

5. O’Fallon Township- 87.30

6. Rosemount-84.55

7. Timber Creek- 84.40

8. Blue Springs South- 84.05

9. Lincoln- 82.30

10. Morton- 82.00

11. Union- 80.85

12. Bentonville West- 79.30

13. Lakota West- 79.15

14. Grain Valley- 79.00

 

Outstanding Music Performance: Broken Arrow 

Outstanding Visual Performance: Blue Springs

Outstanding General Effect: Blue Springs 

[Tubalord11]

 Good morning, all! As we possibly expected, the site, at least for me, was not loading, I'm guessing due to people wanting to see Area results, so that's what caused me to stop posting lol. Anyways, McNeil was fantastic, so much to love about that show, and they are executing on such a high level, I don't know over who, but they've got a ton of potential for making state next weekend. Broken Arrow was ridiculously good, no surprise, really loved their music book. Bentonville, God that show is just so powerful with emotion, the kids really put everything into the story, and they were just so good last night. And ofc Blue Springs, just wow. Such a magical show, from the beautiful music to the visuals that add some much depth, unreal. Really wish they were going to nats, because that's a possible Gold medal show right there, and they've already proven they can stick with Avon and Carmel. But yeah, I actually had them getting 1st and winning visual/GE, and BA second with music, but yeah, an amazing finals, great job everyone! 

[utee94]

Really thrilled for McNeil, I have friends with kids in the band there and they've been working so hard to improve and level up. I couldn't be happier for them and am really interested to see how they perform in UIL now.

[Rubisco]

  On 10/27/2024 at 2:41 AM, packwick said:

show pulls you in and never lets up. music effect scores should be gigantic.

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Agreed! But looking at the scores, only half the music GE judges had them first, and only by a small margin.

Coming into this contest, I thought Blue Springs could beat Broken Arrow. They had a lovely show. Yet, after watching all of prelims and finals, I'm quite surprised that happened. To my ears, Broken Arrow was superior in both repertoire and performance. Just so much more engaging from moment to moment -- fewer pacing issues. We shall see what the Nationals panel thinks! 👍

[packwick]

  On 10/27/2024 at 8:03 PM, Rubisco said:

Coming into this contest, I thought Blue Springs could beat Broken Arrow. They had a lovely show. Yet, after watching all of prelims and finals, I'm quite surprised that happened.

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well if it's a consolation, broken arrow would have won this contest if it were UIL style, not that most band ppl would ever want that lol. 4 of the 7 judges had BA first. other two had em 2nd. blue springs had some 3rds and even a 4th in music IA.

personally i can see the case for blue, esp visually, and even more specifically the guard, but musically i agree it's a little harder to hear. oh wellz.

[packwick]

*other three judges

7 total obviously