Lustra.exe Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 Group II Manor - 72.20 Taylor - 74.70 Group III Elgin - 73.70 Group IV Dripping Springs - 79.20 Bastrop - 75.60 A&M Consolidated 75.90 Group V Lake Travis - 81.3 Stephen F. Austin - 74.00 LBJ - 79.85 Leander - 81.55 Pflugerville -78.80 Hays - 78.90 Group VI Bowie - 81.50 Quote
Danpod Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 That seems about right. I was impressed with Leander's show. I'll talk about what I saw at the USSBA Regional soon. Right now, I'm exhausted!!! Quote
txsweetheart183 Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 man that was fun .. a lot of work setting up but fun Quote
MarktheTrumpet Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 I didn't get to see many bands since I was working... but Bowie was amazing. Looked clean for this early in the season. And the show is really entertaining. Trumpet solo was nice too. Even though we wern't competing, Hendrickson still got scored. Theres a rumor going around that we got top scores... 82. something. Can anybody prove this? I guess we'll just have to wait for USSBA to hurry up and post the scores on the site. Quote
American920 Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 Long, long day, but the bands were all good, and that always makes up for being tired. Hopefully USSBA at HHS will grow in years to come and even more amazing schools will come Quote
snareyes07 Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 i agree.. the contest went really well. i really hope the contests grows over the years because it was a lot of fun to see some really great bands right at my school Quote
hhsquadguy Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 <insert corny comment about the growth and prosperity of marching bands at my school> From what I saw everyone was pretty good. Quote
Danpod Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 I was gone for most of the day so I was only able to catch Bowie and then the last few bands. Hendrickson....Fantastic show. I'll elaborate more later. Quote
jmj Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 This was a nice contest. I enjoyed a lot of the bands today. My favorite band of the day was Hendrickson. WOW! The music, the marching, the guard, the woodwinds, the brass, the percussion--all great. The show concept and use of Bach's Little Organ Fugue are cool as well. They did a fine job hosting this event, too. Quote
Montoya Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 What classification would Hendrickson have fit in? Also, are the sheets different from class to class? Quote
txsweetheart183 Posted October 2, 2006 Posted October 2, 2006 Danpod said: Hendrickson....Fantastic show. I'll elaborate more later. thanks..? Quote
Danpod Posted October 2, 2006 Posted October 2, 2006 No no, thank YOU for putting on a great show! Sorry for the utterly brief messages but I've been so tired that it has proved rather difficult to formulate complete thoughts. Quote
EuphToth Posted October 2, 2006 Posted October 2, 2006 I liked Hendrickson's show, but what was up with the chairs? Anyway, to us, our show was sooo bad. Feet everywhere in the 3rd, the music was so unclean, I could go on forever. I hope we do better at Arlington... but yall judge for yourselves. Quote
Claritone Posted October 3, 2006 Posted October 3, 2006 Quote I liked Hendrickson's show, but what was up with the chairs? Anyway, to us, our show was sooo bad. Feet everywhere in the 3rd, the music was so unclean, I could go on forever. I hope we do better at Arlington... but yall judge for yourselves. I think the chairs are supposed to represent an audience... or something. We dont really know yet. And Wild Nights was sweet. One of my fave songs ever and you guys pulled it off great. Quote
joemac Posted October 3, 2006 Posted October 3, 2006 yes our show was dirty, definetly not our best performance. However, i hope it was a wake up call to most of our marchers, especially with arlington being this weekend. But i think we can pull off something smooth. - - - - - - James Bowie. 06-07 A little Night Music 05-06 Essay Quote
QuadraticBeats Posted October 3, 2006 Posted October 3, 2006 I liked Hendrickson's show (what I saw of it in our football game, anyhow) last year more than I do this year. Maybe that's because I'm a pretty hard core corps fan- for instance, though I believed the Cadets to have been the most talented group by execution this year, I found their show to be abominable... if they'd cut the singing, and some of the props, they probably would've been able to win with it, nonetheless- however, theatre productions do not fit in the Drum Corps genre. Oh, and there was something funny I heard about our football team and something said to our representatives by your band... care to elaborate on that ? Just my two cents. Quote
QuadraticBeats Posted October 3, 2006 Posted October 3, 2006 Another thing I feel like pointing out... I noticed that most of the Hendrickson people on here are from the drumline. Quote
Moose Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 QuadraticBeats said: I'm a pretty hard core corps fan- for instance, though I believed the Cadets to have been the most talented group by execution this year, I found their show to be abominable... if they'd cut the singing, and some of the props, they probably would've been able to win with it, nonetheless- however, theatre productions do not fit in the Drum Corps genre. What? The Cadets were: 6th in Visual Technique 5th in Visual total 5th in Brass 5th in Percussion 5th in Music total Thats not even close to winning it all. In fact, the only thing they scored above 5th in was General Effect, which you can bet the props and singing had a little bit to do with. They were not even close to being the best execution wise. And yea yea, its your opinion...but if you were really hard corps, you would know that the Cadets were not the best in execution... The Cadets could not execute their very difficult show...Execution was their problem. Quote
QuadraticBeats Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 First off... Judging is a rather subjective thing subject to the personal biases of the judges, and I've noticed that rather good shows have been rated more poorly in technical areas when coincidentally the audience doesn't identify/like it as much. The fact is, if the judge doesn't like the show and there is previous disdain towards it from earlier in the season, he/she is more likely to find/"find" errors and deduct points since they are actively looking for them- instead of looking to be impressed by the given group, they are looking for what is being done wrong in the performance. My favorite BS comment from judges- "You could be selling the show more." Now, there are cases where this is obvious- if the players do not look like they are focused or in any sort of character whatsoever, but just waltzing around the field like idiots, then the judges have a point. But, in most cases, this is a rather stupid, vague, useless, and biased comment. Once again... I wish judges would worry more about how well given groups did what they did as opposed to what or the way they did it. From what I've been able to deduct from various accounts, if the judges weren't relying on crediting shows for what they didn't do well on a given performance (*cough*... quarterfinals Cavies...), using the excuse "Oh, they might just be having a bad run but they're still worthy of this score", or previous scores throughout the season, and scored it in an objective manner based on the actual performance (not what they've heard or seen before the actual judging), as they are supposed to do, the World Championships should've looked like this- 1st Placements- Quarterfinals- Blue Devils Semifinals- Cavaliers Finals- Phantom Regiment Now, back to the Cadets... I don't think execution was the problem- they sounded amazing (at least on the recordings I've heard- the necessary talent was definitely there). But, even if it was, and if they didn't have it... I wouldn't like the show. The goal is to entertain the audience. The majority of people who see DCI did not come to see a show like the Cadets' in the drum corps genre, or so it would appear. Given, the judges get a different and more detailed sampling of what the corps is doing from where they are. However, from what one could hear and see from the stands, I would have to disagree with the technical scores. However, in order to ensure that the Cadets show received its proper place... it would be necessary to give it lower scores. In my perspective, this is just evidence of a general dislike of stuff that would be given amazing GE in high school shows from the corps community. No matter how good the Cadets' show got, most of the traditionalists (ironically not many high school band nerds, at least in my experience) would refuse to accept a show like the Cadets 2006, with all of its juvenile silliness. Again, just my thoughts. Quote
hhsquadguy Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 QuadraticBeats said: I liked Hendrickson's show (what I saw of it in our football game, anyhow) last year more than I do this year. Maybe that's because I'm a pretty hard core corps fan- for instance, though I believed the Cadets to have been the most talented group by execution this year, I found their show to be abominable... if they'd cut the singing, and some of the props, they probably would've been able to win with it, nonetheless- however, theatre productions do not fit in the Drum Corps genre.Oh, and there was something funny I heard about our football team and something said to our representatives by your band... care to elaborate on that ? Just my two cents. Ah, the wigalo(sp?) Yeah I wasn't too sure about having a speaker either....but really we need him to guide the audience through what our show is about... Dunno what the whole comment about the football team was about??? All I have to say is that ours really isn't that great this year. Hopefully we'll win a game or two. And they were talking about state too. I find it funny. Yes we have drumline people on here. But we have people from the other sections as well, look around. They don't all have "HHS BAND" in their sigs. Quote
Claritone Posted October 5, 2006 Posted October 5, 2006 There are a LOT of Hendrickson people here now. Quote
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