UIL 5A Area B

[the terminator]

State advancement

 

Southwest

Aledo

Birdville

Wakeland

Centennial

[Xenon]

Southwest jumped from 7th in prelims to top-5. Frisco dropped from 4th to out.

[LKendrick]

Frisco Centennial's on youtube, they sound great and are very clean visually, could definitely see them in state finals.  

[LKendrick]

Full results here:

 

https://www.uiltexas.org/music/marching-band/area

 

Man, judge 2 in finals with Wakeland.  Cost them 1st for sure, thankfully the others were consistent and it didn't cost them a state spot.  

[TX_Band]

1-2-10 Should never happen.  Ever.  You can't have two judges tell you you are 1st or 2nd and one 10th out of 10.  That is an impossibility, yet it happens all the time with UIL.  They need to drastically overhaul the system and some of these retired band directors need to go away.  Good thing it didn't keep a deserving band from advancing but it could have and the fact the UIL continues to allow it to happen over and over again and not address it is a travesty.

 

Congrats to all the bands who advanced.

[band_junkie]

At least their other scores were good enough so they could advance. We'll have to wait and see what happens at state

[band_junkie]

I am so bummed I couldn't see the performances for myself! Does anyone know if all of the bands that advanced to state (5A-AreaB) will perform at the SA Bands of America this weekend before the State competition?

[principalagent]

I think Wakeland is the only band at BOA from 5A Area B

[band_junkie]

I will have to check out youtube and watch the performances.

[principalagent]

  On 10/27/2015 at 5:55 AM, principalagent said:

I think Wakeland is the only band at BOA from 5A Area B

 

And I forgot Aledo, who should take the 2A title this weekend!

[band_junkie]

I watched Aledo's performance-I really enjoyed it!

[oagcplayer]

 Let me start by saying I have "no dog in the hunt".The judge who rated Wakeland at #10 should be suspended or entirely removed from UIL judging in the future. As someone else stated, you cannot have 1,2,10. If there was talk about any "bad feelings" and something like this happens, it only fuels the fire for the future. If a judge cannot put aside some personal grudge against someone, and most importantly, not negatively affect 250+ students because of that grudge, they have no business being allowed to judge. And if you look at the actual score, that judge had Wakeland rated WAY lower than anyone else in music. 

 

 Makes you wonder if this judge has done in the past to any other schools or directors. Maybe UIL should look into this a little bit?