ARLINGTON PRELIMS RESULTS

[HechYeah08]

Just got these results from the txbands text message:

 

FINALISTS:

Berkner

Haltom

Marcus

Owasso

Westfield

Clearbrook

Colleyville

LD Bell

Richland

Coppell

 

(no performance order yet...)

 

CAPTIONS:

3A Music: Marcus

3A Visual: Bell

3A GE: Marcus

 

3A Rankings:

1st: Marcus

2nd: Bell

3rd: Richland

 

1A Music: Princeton

1A Visual: Princeton

1A GE: Pleasant Grove

 

1A Rankings:

1st: Princeton

2nd: Pleasant Grove

3rd: Winnsboro

 

 

Should be a GREAT show tonight!

[JustAddWat3r]

biggest surpise?

 

hebron

 

i thought it was a pretty cool show =)

 

im still upset we didnt make finals though.

 

*sigh*

[Donezo]

Yay! Now I feel justified in predicting Berkner's BOA comeback. Also a big congrats is in store for Colleyville Heritage!!!

 

Very interesting to see Clear Brook in the 6-10 group here after wowing everyone at Houston. Makes me wonder how Reagan would have fared at Arlington.......

 

Color me shocked at Hebron's omission. What happened?

[JustAddWat3r]

i saw thier prelimes performance. it was pretty good. tehy were in the last block..so yea.

the final segemnt of the show was the entire band doing the soulja boy dance...so maybe that bothered the judges?

[radchad]

Whether or not the entire last part was the Soldier Boy dance..

Hebron was very clean and they sounded pretty good.

 

Hebron should have made finals and Westfield shouldn't have.

 

Westfield = Dirty prelims performance both musically and visually.

[itsstephenyo]

Hmm, I was a bit indifferent about Hebron's dance break. I felt it didn't fit very well. There's still a lot of their show they need to add as well.

 

Honestly, I thought the same thing about Westfield, Radchad. I noticed huge interval problems, sometimes up to five, six steps when it should've been two step. But, hey, it's marching band. Sometimes you make it. Sometimes you don't. Gotta have a short memory and go to the next competition.

[SerialSleeper90]

Wait Hebron was there and DIDN'T make finals?

[itsstephenyo]

  SerialSleeper90 said:

Wait Hebron was there and DIDN'T make finals?

 

You are correct, sir.

[SerialSleeper90]

lol I had my question answered on the other BOA arlington forum, but man... this year is gonna be fun for boa

[bossman]

Let's keep in mind that westfield marched about 6 holes @ Arlington...

[SerialSleeper90]

holes... I hate holes.

[JustAddWat3r]

mansfield had alot of holes, but we put alot of shadows in. that may have been a bad idea =\

[Band Of Champions]

Does anyone have the full pre-lims results with all the bands, even non-finalists?

[Xenon]

Full results will be released on Monday.

[itsstephenyo]

I have received word that Hebron placed 11th and got hit with a pretty hefty time penalty during the warm up section. I don't know if this is true, as we won't know for sure until tomorrow, but a student told me earlier this morning.

 

We'll find out if this is true tomorrow.

[borchnork]

how would you get stuck with a penalty for warm ups? Would you just go over the alloted time, or was there a set of rules that had to be followed in the warm up area that they broke?

 

and... does anybody know how Frisco High placed?

[Band Of Champions]

Thanks Xenon.

 

And that would suck if Hebron was knocked out of finals because of a penalty.

[itsstephenyo]

I think it was because they went over the amount of time you have for entering the field and warm up. While I was watching in the stands, I noticed that they did take a very long time to get set up. Also, the band director played their on-field warmup much, much faster than he usually does, telling me that they were already pressed for time.

[borchnork]

doesn't Hebron play the alma-mater as a warm up before the performance?

 

That would be sad if that was their down fall. =[

[itsstephenyo]

Yes, it is Hebron's alma mater. That's why the band parents and alumni always hold up a claw thing in the air and wave it back and forth.

[Danpod]

  borchnork said:

how would you get stuck with a penalty for warm ups? Would you just go over the alloted time, or was there a set of rules that had to be followed in the warm up area that they broke?

 

It depends on which warm up you are talking about: Warm up on field or warm up in the parking lot.

 

You are given four minutes to warm-up/set up props on the field (That usually includes the "Joining us from.." announcement). After the announcement is given, you have 30 seconds to start your show or else timing will automatically start. If you go over warm-up times on the field, you won't be penalized. However, if you go over on your warm-up time and it makes you exceed the 11 minute show limit, you can be penalized as follows:

 

Time requirements: .1 point per 3 seconds over the limit.

Delay of Contest: .5 points per minute of delay.

 

What's the difference? Time requirements usually pertains to exceeding the 11 minute show limit. Delay of Contest usually pertains to arriving on the field late, arriving to parking lot warm-up late, or taking more than the allotted two minutes to get all members and props off of the field.

 

If I remember correctly, the announcement started while Hebron was still playing their on field warm-up. It felt like another two minutes after the conclusion of their warm-up before they actually started the show. We won't know what exactly happened until tomorrow, or until someone tells us, but needless to say, I was shocked when Hebron wasn't announced for Finals.