2018 6A State

[Omega]

I'd say that we see ten of tonight's bands plus Bowie and Waxahachie in state finals. Which ten? My gut says in no particular order:

Hebron

Flower Mound

Vista Ridge

Reagan

Vandy

CTJ

Leander

Keller

Woodlands

Hendriskon

[FloMoParent]

  On 11/4/2018 at 4:47 AM, Omega said:

I'd say that we see ten of tonight's bands plus Bowie and Waxahachie in state finals. Which ten? My gut says in no particular order:

Hebron

Flower Mound

Vista Ridge

Reagan

Vandy

CTJ

Leander

Keller

Woodlands

Hendriskon

Until they are not in it, you can't leave Marcus out of finals.

[Nny14]

  On 11/4/2018 at 6:01 AM, FloMoParent said:

Until they are not in it, you can't leave Marcus out of finals.

If Marcus plays like they did in prelims they'll be more than just in finals

[LostChoirGuy]

My guess is top 9 from today + Marcus make it. Then 2 of the following:

 

Waxahachie

Coppell

Bowie

Cedar Ridge

Westlake

[Avisshadow]

  On 11/4/2018 at 6:15 AM, LostChoirGuy said:

My guess is top 9 from today + Marcus make it. Then 2 of the following:

 

Waxahachie

Coppell

Bowie

Cedar Ridge

Westlake

I wouldn’t bet against that.

[ChristopherRoden]

  On 11/4/2018 at 4:47 AM, Omega said:

I'd say that we see ten of tonight's bands plus Bowie and Waxahachie in state finals. Which ten? My gut says in no particular order:

Hebron

Flower Mound

Vista Ridge

Reagan

Vandy

CTJ

Leander

Keller

Woodlands

Hendriskon

After seeing a recent video of Marcus I was taken aback how different this year’s show is from last year. Its very technically precise but it’s not as hard as the top contenders

[GeekyBandMom]

Hebron, Flower Mound, Reagan, and Vista are my top medal contenders. But I don’t count out anyone- Leander is so so so fantastic and Vandegrift holy smokes. TWHS was probably one of my personal favorites last night, it sounded beautiful and was aesthetically beautiful. So many great bands and so much improvement from several groups. I think Westlake has a very good chance to be in finals- that show was exceptionally clean and well executed.

[CTJBandPops]

  On 11/4/2018 at 2:35 PM, GeekyBandMom said:

Hebron, Flower Mound, Reagan, and Vista are my top medal contenders. But I don’t count out anyone- Leander is so so so fantastic and Vandegrift holy smokes. TWHS was probably one of my personal favorites last night, it sounded beautiful and was aesthetically beautiful. So many great bands and so much improvement from several groups. I think Westlake has a very good chance to be in finals- that show was exceptionally clean and well executed.

i would say that the top 5 for state remain the same as this weekend - I think 1st is a battle between FloMo and Hebron - Reagan 3rd - Vista and CTJ after that

[TubaMomof1]

I stand by my statements.  I went back and looked at results from 2010 onward:

 

2010 finals:

 

1 Marcus HS, Flower Mound 2 Bell HS, Hurst 3 Duncanville HS, Duncanville 4 Bowie HS, Austin 5 Coppell HS, Coppell 6 Hebron HS, Carrollton 7 The Woodlands HS, The Woodlands 8 Berkner HS, Richardson 9 Spring HS, Spring 10 Westlake HS, Austin

 

 

2012 Finals:

 

1 Marcus HS, Flower Mound 2 Hebron HS, Carrollton 3 Bell HS, Hurst 4 Bowie HS, Austin 5 Coppell HS, Coppell 6 The Woodlands HS, The Woodlands 7 Westlake HS, Austin 8 Reagan HS, San Antonio 9 Berkner HS, Richardson 10 Johnson HS, San Antonio

 

2014 Finals:

 

1 Marcus HS, Flower Mound 2 Hebron HS, Carrollton 3 Johnson HS, San Antonio 4 Bowie HS, Austin 5 Reagan HS, San Antonio 6 The Woodlands HS, The Woodlands 7 Duncanville HS, Duncanville 8 Coppell HS, Coppell 9 Flower Mound HS, Flower Mound 10 Keller H S, Keller

 

2016 Finals:

 

1 Flower Mound HS, Flower Mound 2 Hebron HS, Carrollton 3 Marcus HS, Flower Mound 4 Vandegrift H S, Austin 5 Keller H S, Keller 6 Reagan HS, San Antonio 7 Leander H S, Leander 8 The Woodlands HS, The Woodlands 9 Bell HS, Hurst 10 North Shore H S, Houston 11 Coppell HS, Coppell 12 Round Rock H S, Round Rock

 

With the exception of 1-2 spots it is the same bands year after year.

[principalagent]

Vandegrift should shoot up to medal contention. Their music scores in finals were indicative of that - second overall.

[JTApex]

Check your 2014 list, I think it should be:

1. Marcus

2. Hebron

3. FloMo

[TubaMomof1]

  On 11/4/2018 at 4:09 PM, JTApex said:

Check your 2014 list, I think it should be:

1. Marcus

2. Hebron

3. FloMo

It came directly from the UIL website. 

[Nny14]

  On 11/4/2018 at 4:09 PM, JTApex said:

Check your 2014 list, I think it should be:

1. Marcus

2. Hebron

3. FloMo

That was prelims. Claudia Taylor Johnson was third in Finals and Bowie was fourth. Flower Mound ended up 9th.

[principalagent]

While I do think that competitive inertia is a thing in judging - a truth that isn’t always convenient - the bands that keep making state finals over and over again deserve it. This isn’t to say that other programs aren’t deserving too, but there are legitimate reasons why about two-thirds of the programs repeat each SMBC or BOA San Antonio: staff consistency, design team consistency, and students who just know the game at this point and grow up in it. I get why that sucks and why it might even be “boring” to some. But I don’t know what the answer would be besides asking these bands to be less good or asking judges to underscore them?

 

Besides, to make this argument kind of dismisses the experience of bands that actually *do* break into this group, like Flower Mound breaking in to hunt for a medal in their first trip in 2014, Leander making their first top class state finals appearance in 16 years last cycle, North Shore beating the socioeconomic odds last cycle, and Vista Ridge and Waxahachie both likely to make the top class state finals this week - and on Hachie’s first year too!

[snares]

I am going to completely ignore the BOA SA results when going into this coming Monday and Tuesday. If you look at the history of results, BOA almost never mirrors UIL. Yes, I’m recent history, 2012 and 2016 picked the same winners for both competitions. But the results outside of that were VASTLY different. There are bands that just have UIL figured out (pretty much all of the LISD bands) and bands that have BOA figured out, and to me I don’t think we will see much deviance from most state years. I think the top two will be FloMo and Hebron, I think Reagan, Candegrift, CTJ and Marcus will be fighting it out for third, and who knows that the rest of finals will look like. There are so many bands that honestly could sneak into that top half like Keller but I honestly have no idea what I believe after that.

[JTApex]

  On 11/4/2018 at 4:14 PM, Nny14 said:

 

That was prelims. Claudia Taylor Johnson was third in Finals and Bowie was fourth. Flower Mound ended up 9th.

Long term storage not as accurate as it once was.

[UTM]

Here are my top 12 in no order

 

Hebron

Flomo

Raegan

Ctj

Vista

Vandegrift

Woodlands

Westlake

Leander

Cedar ridge

Keller

Hendrickson

 

I think top 4 could be vista, Hebron, raegan, and flomo. All of these bands have such good musicianship and their marching is really spectacular

Middle 4 could be vandy, Keller, ctj, and woodlands. These bands are so good visually and I’m excited to see what they bring to the table. Keller especially I thought was really surprisingly better than expected at SA.

I think the bottom 4 could be Westlake, Leander, cedar ridge, and Hendrickson. Westlake was honestly one of the most surprising shows this year for me. They provide such clean music and marvelous visuals that provide a sense of communicaton between the audience. Definitely the dark horse of 2018 and I’m excited to see all of these great bands at state come Monday and Tuesday.

[Guest]

  On 11/4/2018 at 6:15 AM, LostChoirGuy said:

My guess is top 9 from today + Marcus make it. Then 2 of the following:

 

Waxahachie

Coppell

Bowie

Cedar Ridge

Westlake

Id have Westlake and Coppell

[Bandisdope]

Top 12 in no order after seeing most at BOA SA:

 

Hebron

Flowermound

Marcus

Coppell

CTJ

Reagan

Vista Ridge

Vandegrift

Keller

Leander

Waxahachie

Woodlands

 

Next 5: Westlake, Hendrickson, Cedar Ridge, James Bowie, Prosper

 

Personal Rankings (Based upon history and current sucess):

 

1. Flowermound

2. Vista Ridge

3. Reagan

4. Hebron

5. CTJ

6. Vandegrift

7. Waxahachie

8. Keller

9. Marcus

10. Coppell

11. Woodlands

12. Leander

[Brassy]

Waxahachie is the reigning 5A TMEA Honor Band. Those kids play crazy well. It should help them in UIL.

[Nny14]

  On 11/4/2018 at 9:22 PM, Brassy said:

Waxahachie is the reigning 5A TMEA Honor Band. Those kids play crazy well. It should help them in UIL.

It's a shame they didn't come to San Antonio, with how crazy things were they could have made finals.

[Sparks]

I’m interested to see how the Keller/Waxahachie drama continues to play out. Which will place higher tomorrow? Regardless, go Marcus!

[Brassy]

  On 11/4/2018 at 9:36 PM, Nny14 said:

It's a shame they didn't come to San Antonio, with how crazy things were they could have made finals.

It’s a money thing.

[LeanderMomma]

I'm in San Marcos dropping off my Texas State daughter and trying to decide whether to go back for prelims tomorrow or not. I'm off on Mondays but have to get back for work on Tuesday. I'm also exhausted. WHAT TO DO!

[Samuel Culper]

  On 11/4/2018 at 11:03 PM, LeanderMomma said:

I'm in San Marcos dropping off my Texas State daughter and trying to decide whether to go back for prelims tomorrow or not. I'm off on Mondays but have to get back for work on Tuesday. I'm also exhausted. WHAT TO DO!

I'm on my way back to San Antonio right now.