Vidal28 Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Wooooooo, yes Team Texas!! All 6 bands in the top 9!! InIt4Fun 1 Quote
Popular Post BlueCircle Posted November 17, 2019 Popular Post Posted November 17, 2019 Round Rock was 11th at Austin prelims and 9th at Nats finals...great job pushing through the season! A Testing Trumpet, Nny14, LeanderMomma and 1 other 4 Quote
ViewFromTheBox Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Congrats to Vandegrift! Such an incredible performance! Tonight was a great night for everyone. Already can't wait to see what everyone puts on the field for next year! Also, recaps are up. Prelims: https://marching.musicforall.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/11/2019-Grand-Nationals-Prelims-Print-Recap.pdf Semis: https://marching.musicforall.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/11/2019-Grand-Nationals-Semifinals-Recap.pdf Finals: https://marching.musicforall.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/11/2019-Grand-Nationals-Finals-Print-Recap.pdf Avisshadow 1 Quote
Popular Post news330 Posted November 17, 2019 Popular Post Posted November 17, 2019 I guess that will put the dance team vs guard criticism to rest for good. Nice job Vandy!! justabandkid94, LeanderMomma and lost 3 Quote
A Testing Trumpet Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 (Also in the finals sheets Vandy is named as "Vander" again ) Quote
LHSax Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 All Texas bands (besides Leander who was close) finished better than or equal to what they finished in San Antonio. takigan 1 Quote
BlueCircle Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 4/5 of the top 5 was TX in semis...wow Quote
Nny14 Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 I told y'all Avon wasn't unbeatable Vidal28 1 Quote
BlueCircle Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 I don’t think Avon Is leaving without a spot in the top 2 and at least one caption. And that’s a safe prediction Not to brag, but I was right about this after seeing Avon in semis takigan 1 Quote
bingogooberman Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 congrats Vandegrift! They really stepped up their game this year and it payed off. To win grand nationals on their first go, place first across all three levels of competition, and nearly become the first Texas band to win visual in finals is such an incredible accomplishment. Also, they can still lay claim to the title of only band in America that Avon hasn’t beaten, lol Vidal28 and A Testing Trumpet 2 Quote
Rubisco Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Yay! Congrats to Vandegrift! You waited forever to make your first National Finals appearance, and I’ve been begging for it for forever, but you made it well worth the wait. Scores seem a bit low for 3rd to 8th, but that might just be because the two best bottom half groups went first. I agree with all the placements, except I’d swap TWHS and Mason. I’m kind of scratching my head about the 17.4 for TWHS in ensemble music. Clearly Box 5 to my ears, and to the two judges that judged them in prelims and semis (19.0 and 18.6). And they sounded much better than Mason. But the difference between placing 7th versus 8th is whatever. LeanderMomma 1 Quote
Samuel Culper Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 All Texas bands (besides Leander who was close) finished better than or equal to what they finished in San Antonio. This is the norm. takigan 1 Quote
principalagent Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Not only is Vandegrift I believe the first first time champion since Tate at the first BOA (a Rocky Mount ‘83 double check forthcoming), but I think Vandegrift is also the quickest school to become champion post establishment. Not that Reagan and Kennesaw Mountain didn’t try their hardest. Quote
Nny14 Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Round Rocks Music GE scores in Semis lol Quote
slowbrass Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Congrats to Vandegrift! texas has sorely missed the eagle. And I'm glad Hebron won the music caption, not only because they deserve recognition for the challenging repertoires they perform every year, but also because when I saw their standstill preview way back in august, I predicted they'd win it so thanks for proving me right guys Quote
Nny14 Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 I think the individual captions is where judges reward the substance and difficulty points, as Hebron was first in both of them. Quote
zoomer Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Now all we need is that visual caption Quote
Popular Post ~ME~ Posted November 17, 2019 Popular Post Posted November 17, 2019 Team Texas did not disappoint!! All 6 bands made finals, we had 2 of the 3 Medalists, 2 of the 3 Captions, 3 bands in the top 5, and the Eagle is coming home! I can't say how happy I am for every one! VANDEGRIFT!!! Well deserved championship, way to bring the Eagle back home to Texas! They were just incredible all across the board, definitely the most dominant band there. It's honestly really incredible how much they've grown so fast. Feels like they were just bursting on to the scene yesterday, now they're Grand Nationals Champions! What an awesome moment for Vandy, I couldn't be happier for them!! They have been and are going to be a force to be reckoned with a long time. I'm so, SO happy for Hebron as well! They keep pushing themselves and raising the bar for what high school bands can do musically in the US every year. That music book was just so incredibly difficult. I was hoping they would get recognized for what they were doing musically and they finally did! So happy to see everything come together for them and to finally nail it at Nats. They have a heck of a medal streak going at these major contests, awesome to see them keep it going! Leander was absolutely amazing!! This was really an amazing year for them, that was such a great show. And you could tell just how into the show the crowd was, that finals performance had so much energy! I know everyone has been going on and on about how good the show design is and how that show was a GE monster, but I really can't stress enough how good they are at performing it as well! They're one of the Texas elite and a model program for a reason. Similar to Vandy, they just do everything so well! I think CTJ blew the doors off the stadium with their performance. Seriously, it's not often in high school band you get the entire crowd on their feet IN THE MIDDLE of a performance! I know they've had shows that did better competitively in the past, but this is by far my favorite show CTJ has ever done personally. It's just so good. The opening brass hit at the beginning, and the freaking soloists!!! Those dueling solos might be my favorite solos in years, and there has been some really good ones. They had one of the most memorable shows of the night and they performed it extremely well as always. The Woodlands cleaned like crazy between SA and Nats like they always do, and I'm not surprised at all! The amount of work they put in really shows. A really awesome showing from them this year, it was great watching this show grow throughout the season. It was so great to see it all come together and become a really fantastic product at the end of the season. They should be so proud! Round Rock showed exactly why you never count them out. They deserved that finalist spot 100%! And honestly I wouldn't have been surprised to see them place even higher than they did. They were fantastic this year, and really showed why they are a top notch program. Round Rock should be so proud of themselves for what they pulled off, just an amazing job! Also, it was really neat to see Vandy and Hebron celebrating together after they broke ranks as well, such a cool moment! I wish we could have seen more of that on the stream! Congrats to all! A Testing Trumpet, FloMoParent, sttng and 1 other 4 Quote
principalagent Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Now all we need is that visual caption Well when Reagan goes next year... DrumCorpsGeek and gregorydf01 2 Quote
SpartanBandAlum Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Hebron has placed 3rd and won the music caption on both of their trips to Nats Quote
Nny14 Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Hebron has placed 3rd and won the music caption on both of their trips to Nats Hope they take a page from Vandegrift and fix that VGE weakness. They'll be really unstoppable then. Quote
Bladezz Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Anyone know how Leander’s tower props worked? Were the streamers shot out by students holding cannons? Super cool effect. Quote
principalagent Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Anyone know how Leander’s tower props worked? Were the streamers shot out by students holding cannons? Super cool effect. Bingo! Quote
abbytheflute Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Anyone know how Leander’s tower props worked? Were the streamers shot out by students holding cannons? Super cool effect. Co2 cannons, and LOTS of them! LeanderMomma and sttng 2 Quote
Popular Post CTJBandPops Posted November 17, 2019 Popular Post Posted November 17, 2019 so, my wife and I have been in the MFA suite watching the shows the last few days - of course, tonight it was packed with LOTS of people from MFA and around the country. we were of course decked out in CTJ garb, and the entire evening was questions, comments and amazement about the insane amount of talent that the Texas bands have - every single Texas show was OMG, did they really do that? there was a School Official from Ohio (or Indiana) sitting behind us that was getting up to get food as Round Rock was coming off the field and CTJ was entering, he was making comments of the beauty and sound of the Round Rock show - His wife said - sit down, you don't want to miss the next one - I saw them today and they are awesome. I don't think he got any more food we planned a Texas Invasion of Indy and got just that - congrats to Vandy on their Gold and Hebron on the Bronze - congrats to all our "Texas 6 pack" on a great season and representing the marching arts in Texas sttng, Avisshadow and A Testing Trumpet 3 Quote
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