Area F Marching Contest

[Xenon]

The Clear Brook situation was disappointing. I thought they would be a shoe-in for finals. Rumor has it that one judge had them placed 17th, and that threw them out.

 

That wouldn't really matter unless they also had 2 other judges placing them outside of Finals. If you have 2 Music and 1 Marching judge placing you in Finals, then you get to be in Finals no matter what place you end up in.

[Xenon]

Area F Prelims Results:

 

1. Brazoswood

2. Westfield

3. Spring

4. North Shore

5. Clear Lake

6. The Woodlands

7. Pearland

8. Dickinson

9. Tomball

10. Klein

11. The Woodlands College Park

12. Klein Oak

13. Clear Creek

14. Clear Brook

15. Klein Collins

16. Pasadena Memorial

17. Conroe

18. Deer Park

19. Alvin

20. Baytown Sterling

21. Channelview

22. Baytown Lee

23. MacArthur

[ClaireAnnette07]

Wow...I'm really shocked to see Clear Brook as 14th. I know it's been awhile since I've seen their band, but they've always been a great program and I thought they'd go to finals.

 

I guess I'm not the only one who's shocked at the judging, though

[ikilledabird39]

College Park and who ever got 10th Tied. College park ended up getting the boot because supposedly the judges voted for who would go on, which is not how it is supposed to be done. Also, one of the Judges gave College park a 1.

Edited October 26, 2008 by ikilledabird39

[Xenon]

College Park and who ever got 10th Tied. College park ended up getting the boot because supposedly the judges voted for who would go on, which is not how it is supposed to be done. Also, one of the Judges gave College park a 1.

 

The judges don't vote on who would advance to finals in the case of a 10th place tie; the terms Vote and Preference are just used to describe the tie-breaker process.

 

Consider the following example (I don't know the actual rankings for Area F prelims):

 

Band A: Music 9 9 10 Marching: 12 11 Total: 51

Band B: Music 15 16 14 Marching: 1 5 Total: 51

 

So, Band A and B tied. What you do is you re-rank based on just these two bands. So what you get is:

 

Band A: Music 1 1 1 Marching: 2 2 Total: 7

Band B: Music 2 2 2 Marching: 1 1 Total: 8

 

Therefore Band A advances to Finals while Band B does not.

[PrideOfPearland]

I'm really curious to see what the break down is.

[ikilledabird39]

I realize the process that is used to determine a tie. Which is why i said that the way that they broke the tie was wrong. And from what i can understand, they did an actual vote, not the process that was supposed to be used.

[BDAZdrummer]

As bad as i wanted state....

( and i wanted it beyond belief....

to go from being the smallest

4A at state to being the smallest 5A

would hav been nothing short of absolutely incredible..)

(this is the first time dickinson has not gone to state since

iono the begining of time mayb?... haha)

 

 

but losing to bands Such as

- Brazoswood

- The Woodlands

- West Field

- and Spring

 

(which are the bands that are going to state btw)

 

and being right behind north shore (whose the alternate)

making us (dickinson) 6th

is at the very least, a respectable loss

 

ironically enough the 4 state contenders are very well known BOA bands as well

(im not sure of north shore so i cant comment on them)

 

 

those top 4 bands were bands were easily

predicted to b our most difficult competition

and to b placed to so close to them in competition

is pretty B.A i gotta say, bcuz thos are bands weve (as a band)

hav looked up to since b4 i can remember

even my sister who was in the Dickinson band in the mid 90's

remembers admiring those programs as well

 

 

no, we did not hav the great honor of returning to state

but by all means im certain that everyone in our band program

was proud of our performance last evening.

 

which needless to say, in the end, if we honestly do our best, that's all well hav power over

 

my Band director made a very good point after we reviewed our preliminary results

"some ppl like pizza, some ppl like ham, but i personally like steak"

its just how the cookie crumbles

 

 

Congrats to all the bands that evening who did their best

whether the qualified for finals,

qualified for state,

or just enjoyed their time creating unforgettable memories

 

Edited October 26, 2008 by BDAZdrummer

[Kevin2009]

As bad as i wanted state....

( and i wanted it beyond belief....

to go from being the smallest

4A at state to being the smallest 5A

would hav been nothing short of absolutely incredible..)

(this is the first time dickinson has not gone to state since

iono the begining of time mayb?... haha)

 

 

but losing to bands Such as

- Brazoswood

- The Woodlands

- West Field

- and Spring

 

(which are the bands that are going to state btw)

 

and being right behind north shore (whose the alternate)

making us (dickinson) 6th

is at the very least, a respectable loss

 

ironically enough the 4 state contenders are very well known BOA bands as well

(im not sure of north shore so i cant comment on them)

 

 

those top 4 bands were bands were easily

predicted to b our most difficult competition

and to b placed to so close to them in competition

is pretty B.A i gotta say, bcuz thos are bands weve (as a band)

hav looked up to since b4 i can remember

even my sister who was in the Dickinson band in the mid 90's

remembers admiring those programs as well

 

 

no, we did not hav the great honor of returning to state

but by all means im certain that everyone in our band program

was proud of our performance last evening.

 

which needless to say, in the end, if we honestly do our best, that's all well hav power over

 

my Band director made a very good point after we reviewed our preliminary results

"some ppl like pizza, some ppl like ham, but i personally like steak"

its just how the cookie crumbles

 

 

Congrats to all the bands that evening who did their best

whether the qualified for finals,

qualified for state,

or just enjoyed their time creating unforgettable memories

 

 

Hey I'm from Bwood and we all really liked yalls show. Keep it up. Yall have been getting better and better every year, and i bet next time around yall will be goin to state as a 5A band.

[jdrummer27]

i know this is kind of deviating from the talk of which bands did and didn't make state/finals, but does anybody know if there is any way to buy dvds of last night's performances? it didn't look like it to me, but maybe i'm just out of the loop

[helloband11]

I would also like to know where we can purchase videos of the performance

[BDAZdrummer]

so Northshore beat dickinson by one point

and the woodlands got DQed...

so Northshore is now going to state...

[Trumpet of Doom]

Us here at The Woodlands are quite upset about this happening, but I still wish everyone in Area F including Northshore good luck at state. If anyone is interested in the reason for our disqualification, go to twhsband.com.

[Parkwoodmom]

I would also like to know where we can purchase videos of the performance

I also would love a video, at least of the finals, ....but the guy who taped it won't make any additional copies other than those that the directors received. All the copyright/lawsuit stuff. If someone finds a decent copy someplace, please let us know! It ended up being The Woodlands last performance and my own videos stink.