2025 WGI Color Guard World Championships (April 3-5)

[packwick]

now i wanna see Origins return next yr and win Independent World gold. that's the last prize Texas has technically never won, unless u include the tie for Independent Open gold from Odyssey back in the 80s. based on the recent IW chaos, i think the top of that class is more open than it has been!!

fitting for tw to be the first Texas group to get the world class gold, bc they were also the first tx group to win any scholastic gold back in 2004. took em over 20 years of bouncing around the classes to finally snag that gold medal in the highest class. better late than never!!!

[Rubisco]

I am overjoyed to see the results of these Texas scholastic guards at Dayton! You know, guard in Texas hasn't always been a big thing. There was a time in the now distant past when Marie Czapinski gave clinics at the Texas Bandmasters Association convention to advocate for color guard, because the state was all about drill teams back then. Fast-forward decades later, and Texas is well-represented at Dayton in A and Open finals; nabs a silver medal in A; earns gold with a record score in Open; and achieves their first World class gold medal by a three-and-a-half point margin, the 2nd biggest ever in the Scholastic World class. (The biggest gap was James Logan 2001.)

There's talk of adding a guard judge at UIL State for some of the bigger classes. Looking at these Dayton results, I think there are quite a few bands that would appreciate the efforts of their guards being rewarded at State! 👍

[packwick]

finally got around to watching some of those IW finalists from last nite. i woulda given the gold to Paramount. wouldn't have thought that coming into the contest, but they had the cleanest run + just a lil more creative than the other two that got slotted for the top 3. not in love w/ any of the designs but the performers continue to blow me away.

[LeanderMomma]

Testing. My app won’t let me like any posts today!  Will it even let me create a post?

[LeanderMomma]

  On 4/6/2025 at 8:04 AM, Rubisco said:

I am overjoyed to see the results of these Texas scholastic guards at Dayton! You know, guard in Texas hasn't always been a big thing.

There's talk of adding a guard judge at UIL State for some of the bigger classes. Looking at these Dayton results, I think there are quite a few bands that would appreciate the efforts of their guards being rewarded at State! 👍

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I wanted to comment something along the same lines. It hasn’t been very long at all when there was a time where Texas wasn’t all that good at guard. I’m so happy to see how hugely this has changed and how quickly!  Texas is FINALLY making themselves known in the Scholastic guard classes. Now it’s time to see the same thing happen in Independent!  Hopefully it’s just a matter of time. (I miss those two incredible pre-Covid groups from Denton and Dallas soooooo much). 
 

I also love the idea of UIL adding a guard judge at state. Let’s get these hard working kids some recognition dadgummit!  🤪