2018 Marching Bandness Tournament Challenge

[Montoya]

Excited about March Madness but also miss marching band and wish there was a way you could combine the two of them? Well fear not, because the nerdz at TxBands, IndianaMarching (RIP), HornRank, & other well-respected bandos got together and created the 2018 Marching Bandness Tournament Bracket!

 

We have created a 64-band bracket of Grand National and Super-Regional champion bands spanning the entire history of Bands of America/Music for All!

 

So print it out, fill it out, and share it for all to see. Who is YOUR Grand-Grand National Champion?!?! 

 

1. All 33 Grand National (GN) champions received automatic bids.
2. We then took all 45 Super Regional (SR) champion bands that did NOT WIN Grand Nationals and added them to their own bracket.
   2. For example, CTJ 2017 was in because of winning BOA-SA. Though they attended GN, Reagan 2005 was in because of winning SA but not winning GN. The BOA-ATL 2014 representative just happened to also be the 2014 GN champion, so no need to also rank them in the 45 SR group. Make sense?
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3. This gave us 78 total.
4. The top 33 (GN) bands were then ranked based on merit (who had the “better” show).
   2. The only stipulation was the Carmel 2017 - “Serenity,” be overall #1 due to being first band in GN history to win the Eagle and sweep all captions.
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5. The 45 SR bands were then ranked based on merit.
6. Using the Ordinal system (count up the rankings, 1+1+2+etc., and then the lowest score is the highest ranking band) we seeded the 33 GN bands. 
7. The Ordinal system was then used for the 45 SR champions. 
8. We took the 31 highest ranking SR bands and seeded them 34-64.
   2. We decided that attending and winning GN carried more weight than winning a SR and not attending GN or winning a SR and not winning GN. Think of this as “strength of schedule.” 
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   4. We dropped the 14 lowest ranked bands in order to come to our group of 64. 
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9. And now we have our Championship Bracket!
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2018 Marching Bandness 11x17.pdf

2018 Marching Bandness Legal.pdf

2018 Marching Bandness Letter.pdf

[LeanderMomma]

I’d love to see a Texas version of this same sort of thing for those of us not really up on all the history of all the other states.

[Jellyfishes]

I’d love to see a Texas version of this same sort of thing for those of us not really up on all the history of all the other states.

[Danpod]

Filling this out hurt my head, my heart, and whatever was left of my soul.

[LeanderMomma]

Filling this out hurt my head, my heart, and whatever was left of my soul.

I’m impressed you could fill it out. Just reading it overwhelmed me!