Westlake Marching Festival

[SerialSleeper90]

Well then think of it like this...

 

"... But the way we've been playing, it's more like kissing a really hot stepsister." - Billy Bob Thornton in Bad News Bears

[whitewing09]

  borchnork said:

wow, Conally's placement is shocking to me.

 

I know that some of the kids from the school have been saying they don't expect to make state, and I was kinda ignoring it for a while, but after that... scary.

 

 

well you have to consider that its Westlakes which isnt a 2nd rate competition, it really starts to heat up i mean most the bands that made finals are well known bands who are very good and very clean

[LikeABandNerd]

Cedar Park is a wild card this year, and in many ways I enjoy filling that role. After Westlake I think I can say that we are good, but not yet consistent. We have good potential this year and neither the preliminary nor the finals performances were up to par with what Cedar Park has done at football games and rehearsals. Additionally, our show will gain a new dimension when released from the UIL 8:00 limit. Now that my school sees that it can still be competitive with a more jovial show, I'm looking forward to seeing what this old UIL dog does with some new BOA tricks.

[takigan]

  LikeABandNerd said:

Cedar Park is a wild card this year, and in many ways I enjoy filling that role. After Westlake I think I can say that we are good, but not yet consistent. We have good potential this year and neither the preliminary nor the finals performances were up to par with what Cedar Park has done at football games and rehearsals. Additionally, our show will gain a new dimension when released from the UIL 8:00 limit. Now that my school sees that it can still be competitive with a more jovial show, I'm looking forward to seeing what this old UIL dog does with some new BOA tricks.

 

?

 

Are you implying that CP is going to abandon UIL's rulings and go exclusively BOA?

 

Or is UIL changing their ruling on the 8:00 thing?

[Danpod]

  takigan said:

?

 

Are you implying that CP is going to abandon UIL's rulings and go exclusively BOA?

 

Or is UIL changing their ruling on the 8:00 thing?

 

I believe the poster was referring to the fact that they will be able to perform a show longer than the UIL mandated eight minute limit. The day UIL changes the eight minute show limit rule, I will buy everyone on this Forum board pizza.

[Dynasty]

It should be noted that CP had 0:04 left on the clock after both performances. And they stopped it as soon as the drum major put her hands down.

[Xenon]

It should also be noted that the 8 minute performance rule was a mandate from the Football arm of the UIL that decided that half times were taking too long...

 

Also, I loved it in 1996 when Duncanville was at the Carrolton TOC and we got off the field with 2 seconds left on the clock.

[whitewing09]

i thought BOA shows are like 12 minutes

[Serardian]

UIL Maximum Time - 8 minutes

BOA Maximum Time - 11 minutes

[chickora]

The drum caption was given to Round Rock with a drum score of 99.5/100 during preliminaries and a 99.54/100 in finals.

 

CRAZY.

What brought us down was our marching.

But yeahhh...

I'm very happy to find out all the bands that placed ahead of us were bands that placed ahead of us at finals in Area of last year.

And I'm also happy that Rock Drums redeemed themselves.

 

SO GOOD COMPETITION! I am proud of our 5th place trophy.

[MaverickBand15]

I wasn't at Westlake marching contest, but i saw that RRHS almost got a perfect score in percussion. Last week they could barley hold their own against Westwood and got beat out by McNeil and Hendrickson. I honestly think that the judges at Westlake must like synthesizers much more that at Cap. City. RR's show in the PIT wise is about 80% Synth, which i don't personally enjoy. I think the judges at Cap. City were more on about where there percussion stands. I think electronics have taken over RR's shows, which will only make their program decline. Cedar Park on the other hand, from what i saw at the game has an awesome show. I love the smiley face set at the end!

[flutearmy]

thanks maverick!

the smiley face is definitely a crowd pleaser

[MaverickBand15]

  flutearmy said:

thanks maverick!

the smiley face is definitely a crowd pleaser

Doesn't it wink?

[flutearmy]

yup, in the second to last set

[whitewing09]

  MaverickBand15 said:

I wasn't at Westlake marching contest, but i saw that RRHS almost got a perfect score in percussion. Last week they could barley hold their own against Westwood and got beat out by McNeil and Hendrickson. I honestly think that the judges at Westlake must like synthesizers much more that at Cap. City. RR's show in the PIT wise is about 80% Synth, which i don't personally enjoy. I think the judges at Cap. City were more on about where there percussion stands. I think electronics have taken over RR's shows, which will only make their program decline. Cedar Park on the other hand, from what i saw at the game has an awesome show. I love the smiley face set at the end!

 

 

lol they also have a good drum line on the field cant forget that...

[urkadrums]

yeah gtown percussion didnt do as well at westlake as we did at cap city.

the pit tore and oh we were so depressed.

 

but we're even with our main rivals rr.

we beat them at cap city

and they beat us at westlake.

:]

 

 

idk if they went to belton drumline comp. we didnt, we went to plano drumline comp.

 

but now we'll see them at lonestar drumline comp, and see what happens.

[MaverickBand15]

Of course RR has a good DL on the field. As they always do, but its not as good as last year. i think Cap City was a better measure of them. I have a feeling G-Town will win at Lonestar. and its just my opinion about the electronics. I don't like a show with 80% synth.

[QuadraticBeats]

Congrats to all of the competing bands, the judging was mostly accurate insofar as I could tell, excepting that I felt that Leander and Akins should have been placed higher. Of course, facing the show from the back is not a great place to judge from, but anyhow, my sentiment remains the same.

 

Now, for a critique of my own school, simply for closure () and my own entertainment, as well as an explanation to anyone who is curious at all.

 

As my unknown peer mentioned earlier, we got 11th. This was due to a last place guard that was more than just a few points off of the next highest place. We also got 14th visual - something that wouldn't have happened with our ex-assistant director and recent Cavies ageout (and Cavies visual tech as of this last summer) still in the program. Horrible indeed, but that's what a lack of practice on marching fundamentals does for you - as well as a guard performance like the one we apparently had. Everything else was good enough that if the guard had done better, we would have made finals. Not making finals after working all of the years to do so is rather excruciatingly annoying for me as a senior, but whatever, 'twas fun. Plus... the section that I am involved in got 4th overall. So apparently, the drums are not a problem.

 

As we move toward UIL, the drumline is left to do what little it can in the UIL venue, and hope that the winds and guard pull it together in the visual caption. As far as I'm concerned, we should just cut everything down to the very minimum that can be done well visually, but if the directors wish to commit competitive suicide by adding more stuff that will be dirty (mainly due to the lack of aforementioned fundamentals required to do these things), alas, we shall not see state this year, and probably never will unless they decide to stop taking shortcuts in the program.

 

I can now sympathize somewhat with what the Marcus drumline went through before last year's season... you have the best drumline in the nation and your band can't get to state. I'd have to imagine that to have been very annoying.

 

Three other comments about the competition:

Cedar Park: The prelims performance was amazing, as I am sure any one who also viewed that performance or is marching in CP right now will attest to - the scores also reflect how good it was. Let's not mention finals.

Bowie: Loud, aggressive show with interesting drill. The only thing I found lacking was hornline balance, but that didn't hold them back in finals competition.

Leander: I only saw the finals performance, and it was from the back stands, but nonetheless, from back there, the show seemed amazing. Great balance to the sound, enjoyable music. The program is back on its feet and is heading back to its tradition of success.

 

Good luck to all bands in the upcoming UIL competitions or otherwise.

[QuadraticBeats]

  MaverickBand15 said:

I wasn't at Westlake marching contest, but i saw that RRHS almost got a perfect score in percussion. Last week they could barley hold their own against Westwood and got beat out by McNeil and Hendrickson. I honestly think that the judges at Westlake must like synthesizers much more that at Cap. City. RR's show in the PIT wise is about 80% Synth, which i don't personally enjoy. I think the judges at Cap. City were more on about where there percussion stands. I think electronics have taken over RR's shows, which will only make their program decline. Cedar Park on the other hand, from what i saw at the game has an awesome show. I love the smiley face set at the end!

 

Ya, the percussion judge's scores at Westlake were ridiculously high. Everyone got funny scores like that.

 

Paul Rennick judged Capital City's percussion caption. His judging seemed pretty random excepting his placements of a few outstanding schools, such as Georgetown.