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If y'all were not already aware there were significant UIL Music Updates both, on the UIL Music department level and including updates to the Music Sections of the UIL Constitution. 

 

I will start with some news that I could not find any reference from the official Music Update PDFs or even the C&CR Update to the UIL Constitution.

If you were not already aware, UIL State Marching Band contest now takes place 3 days, at least for the 4A/6A Conference that is anyways. Inside the spoiler are the dates with the direct source. 

 

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Next are UIL Music Updates to the Prescribed Music List and State Marching Band Championships. The 2nd and 3rd one I had actually suggested through submitting a proposal to amend the UIL Constitution, which I figured warranted this since updating the UIL C&CR would had been unnecessary. xD Even though, I had graduated already, I knew that if it did went through, I would left behind another unknown legacy which was worth the risk. :3 Inside the spoilers are the 3 Music Updates and the sources.

 

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Finally, we have C&CR Updates for the 2016-17 School Year that affect UIL Music since it has already gone into effect for the year starting in August or September. 

 

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That is all for now.

Here is the *PDF Link* for people that want to see the 2016-2017 UIL Constitution

Here is the *PDF Link* to the TEA-UIL Side by Side for 2016-2017 which does not change at all or if anything does change it is usually minimal or unnoticeable.

Also, if you want to see the UIL Rule Proposals you can look over here too... *Insert Link Here*

And for anyone wondering how I managed to have successfully proposed a rule change for the UIL Music State Marching Band Contest, I actually submitted a large idea proposal of various ideas via the only form for suggesting UIL Rules changes because anyone in Texas can submit a rule change. You don't even have to be in austin at their UIL meeting for the rule proposal to be brought up anyways. xD *Insert that Link here*

 

Okay, for real though, that is all for now.

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Thank you for putting this all together and for submitting suggestions in the first place! I know that most of these have been talked about before here, but I think this is the first time they've all been in one place.

 

I am super excited about having 12 bands in 6A Finals (assuming 36 bands which is likely) and Full Retreat too!

 

And having 6A Finals on Wednesday is going to help a lot with being able to have good performances with kids that are awake. Last year's 1A/5A competition on Tuesday was an absolute beast running from 7am to 1am; kids that performed around 8am in Prelims were asleep on the field when they had to perform after midnight in Finals.

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  On 10/15/2016 at 9:19 PM, Xenon said:

Thank you for putting this all together and for submitting suggestions in the first place! I know that most of these have been talked about before here, but I think this is the first time they've all been in one place.

 

I am super excited about having 12 bands in 6A Finals (assuming 36 bands which is likely) and Full Retreat too!

 

And having 6A Finals on Wednesday is going to help a lot with being able to have good performances with kids that are awake. Last year's 1A/5A competition on Tuesday was an absolute beast running from 7am to 1am; kids that performed around 8am in Prelims were asleep on the field when they had to perform after midnight in Finals.

yeah, I filed a complaint directly with UIL in the same rule proposal as some of the others about how, Finals for a lot of the Marching band contests would end extremely late around 10 pm or even midnight and most bands don't get back until around 4am to 6am depending on the distance but to make matters worse, Most if not all of the band's school district require those students to be in school the next day with as little as 5 to even little as 2 hours of sleep, which should be huge violation if not, Human rights, than something else. It was because UIL and TEA only allows so many excused absences for extracurricular activities which, doesn't affect the 90% attendance. So UIL had to ask TEA or Texas Congress to allow an additional day of excused absence.

 

Also, if there is more than 36 bands than Top 12 automatically advance to finals. In addition any band below twelfth place that receives a ranking of three or higher from at least two of the music judges and one of the marching judges will also advance to the

finals. Which means we could see up to 14 or even 18 depending how the scoring rubric works. But it is unlikely it would see more than 14 because they score based giving each band an actual ranking lol

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  On 10/15/2016 at 9:43 PM, bingogooberman said:

Wish retreat had been implemented the year I went to state. Always thought it was super anti-climactic to just have the medalists announced and be done with it.

I think it would be interesting especially with the breaking rank at the end of the full retreat. 

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