trumpetdrumajorpower13 Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 Since the regionals have been completed I was wondering what everyone thought about the San Antonio Super Regional. Obviously Flower Mound is gonna be a big favorite coming in but is there anyone likely to upset them here? TheIndianTrumpeteer 1 Quote
LKendrick Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 I'm really keeping my eye on Johnson. They've started about right, but out of all the shows I've seen this year, Texas or not, it has the most potential for growth by far in my eyes. I'm not really making a prediction as far as their placement goes but I do think that show is going to place as high as they can clean it and add to it. They can do a ton in both of those regards, it's really designed to peak in November. I could say similar things about Leander, still a lot to add and they can do a ton musically, and they tend to really blossom late in the season as well. I also think The Woodlands has a ton of potential with some scrubbing and additions. Quote
Nny14 Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 Just gonna organize into bubbles for now: 1st: Flower Mound 2-4: Leander Ronald Reagan Vandegrift 5-7: Claudia Taylor Johnson Hebron Marcus 8-11: Cedar Park L.D. Bell Round Rock The Woodlands 12-16: Hendrickson Keller Keller Central Vista Ridge Winston Churchill Music: Lewisville ISD Visual: Flower Mound, Ronald Reagan GE: Flower Mound Wow, some very good bands will not be making finals. Wouldn't be surprised if 10th place broke 90, geez. vbassoon 1 Quote
natertater21000 Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 Okay so super early probably very inaccurate and slightly biased predictions but hey I thought it'd be fun to put scores and everything 1st Flower mound 95.20 music, GE 2nd Leander 94.15 3rd Ronald Reagan 93.85 visual 4th Claudia Taylor Johnson 93.65 5th Cedar park 92.9 6th Hebron 92.85 (the curse continues) 7th vandegrift 92.75 8th Marcus 92.35 9th woodlands 91.25 10th Round Rock 91.00 11th LD Bell 90.85 12th vista ridge 89.15 13th Hendrickson 88.35 14th Keller 88.000 So I think one of the big head scratchers in my predictions is vandegrift's placement. Personally I could see them as high as 3rd, but I think with places 2nd through 5th all trying to peak as late as possible with grand nationals around the corner their scores will increase drastically over these last 3 weeks. Quote
HighSchoolBandNerd212 Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 It is notable that Cedar Park narrowly beat Vandegrift in both prelims and finals at the Texas Marching Classic this past weekend (although Vandegrift still won the music and visual captions in finals). With regards to Vandegrift's possible placement at BOA San Antonio, one indicator will be whether Vandegrift can match Leander's presumably high performance level again when the Area H contest rolls around at the end of this month. As for BOA San Antonio, I'll holding off on any full predictions until after the area contests are done. Quote
A Testing Trumpet Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 Just my 2 cents. This super regional truly is "The other Grand Nationals" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flower Mound H.S., TX Potential Champions Ronald Reagan H.S., TX Leander H.S., TX Claudia Taylor Johnson H.S., TX - Hebron H.S., TX Top 5 Upsets Vandegrift H.S., TX - Marcus H.S., TX Finalist locks The Woodlands H.S., TX Cedar Park H.S., TX Round Rock H.S., TX --------------- L.D. Bell H.S., TX "Upper" bubble Keller H.S., TX Winston Churchill H.S., TX Wakeland H.S., TX --------------- Vista Ridge H.S., TX "Middle" bubble The Woodlands College Park H.S., TX Hendrickson H.S., TX Westlake H.S., TX ----------------- Aledo H.S., TX "Lower" bubble-Alphebetical Anderson H.S., TX Cedar Ridge H.S., TX Colleyville Heritage H.S., TX Dripping Springs H.S., TX Friendswood H.S., TX Judson H.S., TX Keller Central H.S., TX Lake Travis H.S., TX Maui H.S., HI Pearland H.S., TX Pflugerville H.S., TX Richland H.S., TX Robert E. Lee H.S., TX Rouse H.S., TX Sandra Day O'Connor H.S., TX Westwood H.S., TX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote
txkyle Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 I can't disagree with either of those last two predictions. I think Area competitions will definitely be the strong indicator for BOA SA since that will be the first time everyone's shows are completed. I can't say it enough that Texas will be well represented at GN this year with all of these programs. BOA SA and UIL 6A State may be the most high level competitions in the country overall this year. I can't remember when so many programs were all performing at such a high level....and also so early...making for some well honed performances late in the year. Has anyone figured out why Austin Bowie isn't at BOA SA this year? Is it just due to budgets and so many contests that week? Quote
Tenzineo Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 On 10/12/2016 at 7:11 PM, txkyle said: I can't disagree with either of those last two predictions. I think Area competitions will definitely be the strong indicator for BOA SA since that will be the first time everyone's shows are completed. I can't say it enough that Texas will be well represented at GN this year with all of these programs. BOA SA and UIL 6A State may be the most high level competitions in the country overall this year. I can't remember when so many programs were all performing at such a high level....and also so early...making for some well honed performances late in the year. Has anyone figured out why Austin Bowie isn't at BOA SA this year? Is it just due to budgets and so many contests that week? Bowie didn't go to BOASA last time they had State and Nationals on the same year, so they probably don't want the kids missing so much classtime (All the competitions are in the time span of like, two weeks?). Also, having to replace all of their directors this summer probably made it extremely difficult to plan everything, so they just cut some stuff out. Quote
bandperson1997 Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 Just curious, why did they have to replace all of their directors this summer? Quote
SamuelCulper Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 Their head director, Kim Shuttlesworth, took the job as director at Glenn High School in Leander ISD. Not sure about the others. Quote
eminiminds Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 Does anyone know when the actual schedule/list of competing bands is supposed to be released? Right now the Music for All website shows every single band including the waiting list since so many applied. Quote
Jackson1 Posted October 13, 2016 Posted October 13, 2016 5th Cedar park 92.9 6th Hebron 92.85 (the curse continues) LOL. I didn't get it at first. Hebron does own that number since 2013 I think?.......it's almost like the judges are in on it now...again in Plano. Quote
NTXBandFan Posted October 13, 2016 Posted October 13, 2016 My main thing about FLower Mound, is that even though they did so well in Plano, can they keep the momentum? Do they have a lot more to add? How much do they have to clean? I'm sure they have elements to still add. But I don't know much much more above the competition they will be in San Antonio. They'll still score a lot of points, but That 4 point gap between 1st & 2nd will be closed. Keep in mind Hebron scored an 87+ in DFW a few years ago, only to finish in 2nd in San Antonio. I think the high score served as a wakeup call to all the contenders to step up their game, and come with their A game. I'll still put them as 1st, but not in pen. 1-5Flower MoundLeander Ronald Reagan CTJMarcus 6-11:Hebron VandergriftThe WoodlandsL.D. BellRound Rock Cedar Park12-15:Winston Churchill Vista Ridge HendricksonKellerMusic: MarcusVisual: Flower MoundGE: Flower Mound Quote
NTXBandFan Posted October 13, 2016 Posted October 13, 2016 On 10/12/2016 at 11:51 PM, eminiminds said: Does anyone know when the actual schedule/list of competing bands is supposed to be released? Right now the Music for All website shows every single band including the waiting list since so many applied. Not released yet, but when it is, it'll be here first. http://www.musicforall.org/resources/directors-lounge/fall-final-packets Quote
cc123 Posted October 13, 2016 Posted October 13, 2016 I believe Cypress Falls HS is attending this year. I'm expecting them to do great! They did very well at BOA Atlanta last year. Quote
alexthegrape Posted October 13, 2016 Posted October 13, 2016 Just following the Bowie director fiasco, I know that their assistant BD Mr. Atkinson returned to Hendrickson after leaving 7-8 years ago. Not sure about the rest though. Quote
Vidal28 Posted October 14, 2016 Posted October 14, 2016 If we're putting in Winston Churchill and Keller, Keller Central and Richland, I think James Nartin should be considered one of the "Upper Bubble" bands as they are also in the mix for a finals spot with these bands as they scored really well in BOA Plano Quote
Vidal28 Posted October 14, 2016 Posted October 14, 2016 On 10/14/2016 at 1:20 AM, Vidal28 said: If we're putting in Winston Churchill and Keller, Keller Central and Richland, I think James Martin should be considered one of the "Upper Bubble" bands as they are also in the mix for a finals spot with these bands as they scored really well in BOA Plano Quote
whitewing09 Posted October 15, 2016 Posted October 15, 2016 On 10/13/2016 at 6:03 PM, NTXBandFan said: My main thing about FLower Mound, is that even though they did so well in Plano, can they keep the momentum? Do they have a lot more to add? How much do they have to clean? I'm sure they have elements to still add. But I don't know much much more above the competition they will be in San Antonio. They'll still score a lot of points, but That 4 point gap between 1st & 2nd will be closed. Keep in mind Hebron scored an 87+ in DFW a few years ago, only to finish in 2nd in San Antonio. I think the high score served as a wakeup call to all the contenders to step up their game, and come with their A game. I'll still put them as 1st, but not in pen. I think the nominal score is a lot less relevant than the actual disparities in score. The year Hebron got an 87.30, Marcus got an 86.75, and Bell got 85.45. It seems that the scores were pretty inflated overall. In Flomo's case, they were just ahead of the competition completely. I'd almost bet if they had performances like that at SA, they would have scored in the 90s. Quote
Xenon Posted October 15, 2016 Posted October 15, 2016 Yeah, the FloMo Gap was real. That was crazy end of year level cleanliness for most groups that will be in Finals at BOA SA and fully deserved to score 90ish if it were to stand completely on its own or was against BOA SA level competition. FloMo did have a completed show this year while most others didn't, but they had that last year too and were still able to stay comfortably on top. And they do have quite a bit to add, especially in the musicality department where they can add a whole lot more dynamic range and interpretive nuance beyond just musical/visual cleaning. I do agree that the gap will likely get closed quite a bit, but I'm not sure that anybody will be able to fully catch up and pass them before BOA SA. Quote
Nny14 Posted October 15, 2016 Posted October 15, 2016 The only group I could possibly see passing Flower Mound is Reagan. takigan 1 Quote
snares Posted October 16, 2016 Posted October 16, 2016 On 10/15/2016 at 5:52 PM, Xenon said: FloMo did have a completed show this year while most others didn't, but they had that last year too and were still able to stay comfortably on top.. I wouldn't say they were comfortable on top for finals at BOA Arlington, while they beat hebron by over a point in prelims, they won finals by .1, mainly because of their GE advantage. Quote
Xenon Posted October 16, 2016 Posted October 16, 2016 On 10/16/2016 at 3:05 PM, SnareSnare13 said: I wouldn't say they were comfortable on top for finals at BOA Arlington, while they beat hebron by over a point in prelims, they won finals by .1, mainly because of their GE advantage.I meant that they were able to keep a comfortable enough lead to stay in the medals at BOA SA last year even though they already had a complete show at BOA Arlington. Although, comfortable is very relative. snares 1 Quote
natertater21000 Posted October 16, 2016 Posted October 16, 2016 After seeing Leander's full show sans props I think it has a chance to catch flomo if it's cleaned incredibly well. That being said it's a tall order for Reagan,Leander and Ctj to get clean enough by San Antonio to catch flomo due to how clean they already are. But beyond the top of finals, I'm incredibly excited to see what happens in the bottom 5 spots or so. Based off Austin finals we may see vista break the top 10 or a number of bands who either haven't made it in a long time or have never made slip into finals. It's gonna be crazy. Quote
vbassoon Posted October 16, 2016 Posted October 16, 2016 On 10/12/2016 at 6:25 PM, A Testing Trumpet said: Just my 2 cents. This super regional truly is "The other Grand Nationals" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flower Mound H.S., TX Potential Champions Ronald Reagan H.S., TX Leander H.S., TX Claudia Taylor Johnson H.S., TX - Hebron H.S., TX Top 5 Upsets Vandegrift H.S., TX - Marcus H.S., TX Finalist locks The Woodlands H.S., TX Cedar Park H.S., TX Round Rock H.S., TX --------------- L.D. Bell H.S., TX "Upper" bubble Keller H.S., TX Winston Churchill H.S., TX Wakeland H.S., TX --------------- Vista Ridge H.S., TX "Middle" bubble The Woodlands College Park H.S., TX Hendrickson H.S., TX Westlake H.S., TX ----------------- Aledo H.S., TX "Lower" bubble-Alphebetical Anderson H.S., TX Cedar Ridge H.S., TX Colleyville Heritage H.S., TX Dripping Springs H.S., TX Friendswood H.S., TX Judson H.S., TX Keller Central H.S., TX Lake Travis H.S., TX Maui H.S., HI Pearland H.S., TX Pflugerville H.S., TX Richland H.S., TX Robert E. Lee H.S., TX Rouse H.S., TX Sandra Day O'Connor H.S., TX Westwood H.S., TX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote
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