wylie marching invitationals

[jade1]

Any thoughts on the bands performing?

[bandnerd30456]

Who's all attending?

[Rebels_Band_Dad]

Commerce

Sunnyvale

Melissa Clark HS

Rockwall Heath

Lovejoy HS

Mansfield Timberview

Sachse HS

Prosper HS

McKinney North HS

Richland HS

Richardson HS

Trinity

Lake Highlands

Poteet HS

Lakeview Centennial

Mansfield Summit

Sherman HS

Akins HS

Birdville HS

Wylie East

Garland HS

McKinney HS

[Percplayer19]

Of all this group I like Richland just because it has a very consistent history of high performance in big time contest in BOA Regionals and Super-Regional events. Birdville is also a good choce to advance. Of the others I have not seen them in the bigger contest so I could not possible rate them.

[BassClariPlayers]

I cannot wait to see Sherman. Last year their show was astounding and impressive. Almost put me to tears. P.S Sachse Band loves Sherman.

[Xenon]

Every time I see this thread, I have the urge to rename it to add "THAT" on the front.

[jade1]

I like Poteet's show. It is really good and so I think the Sachse band has a great show. I haven't seen the others but I am sure they are just as good.

[Jellyfishes]

Any information yet?

[Jellyfishes]

Richland won!

[hellohihunter]

Birdville tied for tenth and got beat with a two to three judge ratio... Ouch

[Xenon]

Finals Results:

1) Richland

2) Mansfield Timberview

3) McKinney

4) Poteet

5) Wylie East

6) Lake Highlands

7) Trinity

8) McKinney North

9) Mansfield Summit

10) Sherman

 

Prelims Results:

1) McKinney

2) Mansfield Timberview

3) Wylie East

4) Richland

5) Poteet

6) McKinney North

7) Trinity

8) Lake highlands

9) Mansfield Summit

10) Sherman

11) Birdville

12) Sachse

13) Clark

14) Garland

15) Akins

16) Lakeview Centennial

17) Richardson

18) Prosper

19) Melissa

20) Rockwell Heath

21) Lovejoy

22) Sunnyvale

23) Commerce

[nalyd8991]

Man, huge results shakeup between prelims and finals. I didn't realize it was that different.

[BlackJesus]

Both prelims and finals results would've looked much different, there was one judge who clearly wasn't agreeing with the rest of them in the scores. He was disagreeing with geniuses like Dr. Shine from Duncanville and Scott Coulson from Poteet (both retired) by 4+ margins.

[aaron067]

All five of the music/marching judges from this contest have won a state championship, whether it be marching or Honor Band.  They have also been in finals of both multiple times.  It's not like any of them is under-qualified, and it certainly isn't uncommon for judges to look for or listen for different things, after all.  In the end, all the differences mean is that the bands you're looking at didn't execute their playing and marching styles well enough to overcome native disapproval (such as Dr. Shine hating straight-leg marching technique because he thinks it can't be made to look the same from person to person).    

[Xenon]

Just for the record, I'd like to note that Duncanville has been increasingly more straight-leg every year for a little over a decade, even while Dr. Shine was still directing the marching band.

[nalyd8991]

I think I know which judge you're talking about, because one of Richland's visual scores was 16th in Prelims.

[BlackJesus]

Yea, he was a sub judge supposedly, don't know where he's from though. He had a few bands that made Top 6 not even in the Top 10 in Prelims, like Richland for example. Of course it's only Visual and not something like Music but that big of a margin is just really fishy

[LKendrick]

Discrepancies happen, each judge could be watching, hearing, experiencing a whole other thing than another judge.  I've stopped criticizing judges until I have the qualifications to do so.