Area E Predictions?

[cc123]

On the bus right now and it's raining, is there a rain delay at the stadium?

I live in Cypress and it's a bit cloudy, but hopefully it won't rain. So far no delays. 

[dylan123]

is anybody there that can give an update on how bands are doing?

[trumpet.mom.dci]

Does anyone have a list of bands that are performing in Finals tonight? My wife is a Taylor alum and we can't find any Prelim results info!

[principalagent]

They're still working through prelims for another couple bands. The announcement is slated for 8.

[imenriquez1]

Does anyone know the ten bands that made finals?

[bandmom72*]

Seven Lakes, Clements, Langham Creek, Brazoswood, Friendswood, ClearBrook, Stepehen F. Austin, Cy-Fair, Cy-Falls, James E. Taylor

[king_leonides]

So, if 8 bands advance to state, and there are 10 bands in finals, then each band has an 80% chance of advancing, correct? Or did I miss something?

[jmatthews]

Here's the website for Area E: http://www.uilforms.com/regions/13/AREA%20MARCHING/AREA%20MARCHING%20INFORMATION.htm

 

More detailed scoring from prelims should be posted soon, hopefully tonight. I wasn't able to make it out to CFISD, so hopefully some of y'all have been watching all day today and can give us an idea of what's happening! 

[principalagent]

Advancers in alphabetical order:

 

Austin

Brazoswood

Clear Brook

Clements

Cy-Fair

Cy-Falls

Friendswood

Langham Creek

[ChristopherRoden]

It was a very stressful night, but very fun. Some very good bands performed tonight

[thebashful15]

Thoughts on tonight:

 

Cy Fair's show was extremely well executed. Couple more weeks of cleaning and it is definitely UIL State (finals?) ready. They are fun to watch. That drumline really gets into it.

 

Clements! Music is unbelievably played. Marching has really been cleaned.

 

Friendswood, the resurgence. From 19th at Conroe to State, I knew their show would come in full swing. 

 

Seven Lakes. Still one of my favorites. I do think going on first was really bad for them, but they sounded great at finals. Loved the energy. Definitely a state level show. 

 

James E. Taylor. It was tough going on after Cy Fair, but I thought they really held their own. Their marching looked really pristine. Another show I would have loved to see at state.

 

Overall, this Area E finals is a tough one. I did in fact feel that Seven Lakes and James E. Taylor could have replaced 2 other bands that made state, but will not mention those two. Nevertheless, Congratulations to all bands!!

[takigan]

Thoughts on tonight:

 

Cy Fair's show was extremely well executed. Couple more weeks of cleaning and it is definitely UIL State (finals?) ready. They are fun to watch. That drumline really gets into it.

 

Clements! Music is unbelievably played. Marching has really been cleaned.

 

Friendswood, the resurgence. From 19th at Conroe to State, I knew their show would come in full swing. 

 

Seven Lakes. Still one of my favorites. I do think going on first was really bad for them, but they sounded great at finals. Loved the energy. Definitely a state level show. 

 

James E. Taylor. It was tough going on after Cy Fair, but I thought they really held their own. Their marching looked really pristine. Another show I would have loved to see at state.

 

Overall, this Area E finals is a tough one. I did in fact feel that Seven Lakes and James E. Taylor could have replaced 2 other bands that made state, but will not mention those two. Nevertheless, Congratulations to all bands!!

 

1. Definitely agree on Cy-Fair.  It came off as the one show that was already attempting to look beyond where they currently were.

2. Agree on Friendswood.  I had them in Top 5 and would not have assumed that going in.....I'm not even sure if I had them in Finals earlier this week....I might have.

3. I wanted Seven Lakes and JET to place higher....I thought they'd both be in the running.

 

[takigan]

Storing these here, because UIL will likely take them down eventually.

6A_Area_E_Prelims.pdf

6A_Area_E_Finals.pdf

[HighToes]

Thoughts on tonight:

 

Cy Fair's show was extremely well executed. Couple more weeks of cleaning and it is definitely UIL State (finals?) ready. They are fun to watch. That drumline really gets into it.

 

Clements! Music is unbelievably played. Marching has really been cleaned.

 

Friendswood, the resurgence. From 19th at Conroe to State, I knew their show would come in full swing. 

 

Seven Lakes. Still one of my favorites. I do think going on first was really bad for them, but they sounded great at finals. Loved the energy. Definitely a state level show. 

 

James E. Taylor. It was tough going on after Cy Fair, but I thought they really held their own. Their marching looked really pristine. Another show I would have loved to see at state.

 

Overall, this Area E finals is a tough one. I did in fact feel that Seven Lakes and James E. Taylor could have replaced 2 other bands that made state, but will not mention those two. Nevertheless, Congratulations to all bands!!

 

I would love to see Cy-Fair in State Finals. The band honestly has the potential. I was really upset to see Seven Lakes not go to state; I agree that they could have replaced other bands too.

[jmatthews]

 

1. Definitely agree on Cy-Fair.  It came off as the one show that was already attempting to look beyond where they currently were.

2. Agree on Friendswood.  I had them in Top 5 and would not have assumed that going in.....I'm not even sure if I had them in Finals earlier this week....I might have.

3. I wanted Seven Lakes and JET to place higher....I thought they'd both be in the running.

 

 

I agree with the placements for the most part as well. The top 5 for sure seemed to be the best bands at the contest. There was some variation between judges in the scoring, though not enough to make me think anything should be drastically different. I don't agree with your assumption that Friendswood would not even make finals. Is something different this year than in previous years? My assumptions going in was that Friendswood would be 4th-6th if not very clean and top 3 if clean. It seems like 4th would make sense based on those assumptions. 

[Astros]

I predicted all of the top 10. One judge for music saw things completely different than the other 2 music judges. C'est la vie 7 Lakes and Taylor. I thought you made it for sure! Different strokes for different folks.

[Fireball275]

Brazoswood was 2nd in Prelims and 3rd in Finals, yet nobody has said anything about them really? Did nobody really like their show or how did you guys feel about them?

[principalagent]

Brazoswood was one of the reasons I was glad I left F finals early. They were amazing. State finals will be hard but they looked really solid and sounded very strong.

[Fireball275]

Yeah, I saw a couple moments where they could phrase more, but the band this here has gotten extremely better since I first saw them at BOA Conroe

[camelmarch]

Anyone else feel that this showing relied a lot on name value? It seemed to me there were a few schools that didn't advance that sounded clearly better than a few of the advancing schools

[Saxophonefan6598]

If anyone wasn't able to go here is Langham Creek's Finals Performance

 

[Firetail]

Does anyone know which judge was which on the sheets?

[bandgeek900]

Found two area finals performance videos.

 

Really enjoyed Seven Lakes' show. It's honestly such a shame they did not make it. I'm sure they would have fared well at state.

 

Cy Fair's show was great. Really fast paced. Well deserving of a state spot.

 

 

Seven Lakes:

 

Cy Fair: 

[Jonesguerra]

SFA:

 

 

[jmans23]

 

I agree with the placements for the most part as well. The top 5 for sure seemed to be the best bands at the contest. There was some variation between judges in the scoring, though not enough to make me think anything should be drastically different. I don't agree with your assumption that Friendswood would not even make finals. Is something different this year than in previous years? My assumptions going in was that Friendswood would be 4th-6th if not very clean and top 3 if clean. It seems like 4th would make sense based on those assumptions.