2021 5A UIL SMBC (Nov. 1 & 2)

[Samuel Culper]

Another sweep for Leander ISD!

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1 (Gold Medalist) . Cedar Park - "Eye See"

2. (Silver Medalist) Rouse - "Papyrus : A Crumpled Paper Fantasy"

3.(Bronze Medalist) Leander - "A Long Strange Trip"

4. Wakeland -  "Dark Waters"

5. Highland Park -  "Sugar Rush"

6. McCallum - "Mirage"

7. Aledo - "Hieroglyphics"

8. Forney - "Flight of Song"

9. Dripping Springs -  "So Many Possibilities"

10. Hendrickson -  "The Arch"

11. Colleyville Heritage -  "SPARK!"

12. Friendswood - "Winter's Promise"

[lost]

  On 11/2/2021 at 11:03 PM, Samuel Culper said:

Another sweep for Leander ISD!

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And a FOURTH Victory for Cedar Park!

[BandFan59]

This is now Cedar Park's fourth straight state championship! One more will tie Marcus' streak of 5 straight from 2006-2014!

[principalagent]

Leander ISD’s third sweep, and now five of its six schools have participated in at least one of them.

if Vista Ridge and Vandegrift go 1-2 next week, is that a Royal Flush?

[lost]

Does anyone have the titles for Friendswood and Forneys shows?

[Texasenthusiast]

  On 11/2/2021 at 11:09 PM, lost said:

Does anyone have the titles for Friendswood and Forneys shows?

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Friendswood is Winter's Promise and it has undertones of the story of Hades and Persephone 

[zoomer]

  On 11/2/2021 at 11:09 PM, lost said:

Does anyone have the titles for Friendswood and Forneys shows?

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Friendswood is Winter's Promise 

Forney is Flight of Song? I think

[lost]

  On 11/2/2021 at 11:10 PM, zoomer said:

Friendswood is Winter's Promise 

Forney is Flight of Song? I think

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Thank you, the results and program post should now be completed.

[PLC137]

  On 11/2/2021 at 11:07 PM, principalagent said:

Leander ISD’s third sweep, and now five of its six schools have participated in at least one of them.

if Vista Ridge and Vandegrift go 1-2 next week, is that a Royal Flush?

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The city of Cedar Park would keep its current monopoly on SMBC titles.  

Aside - with Leander dropping back to 5A, I thought it might finally be their year.  I thought Rouse was underrated back in 2019, though I am pretty far from an expert.

[PIsForPercussion]

  On 11/2/2021 at 11:14 PM, Asaiah said:

Recaps are up on https://smbc.uiltexas.org/

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Cedar Park at 7 for Visual Ensemble in finals is a surprise, for sure. Love being able to see how percussion stacks up against eachother in the state!

[lost]

  On 11/2/2021 at 11:14 PM, Asaiah said:

Recaps are up on https://smbc.uiltexas.org/

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Would you happen to have access to the detailed recaps?

I know the judges scored in both content and achievement and both those scores were added for overall so I was wondering if those were public.

[lost]

  On 11/2/2021 at 11:54 PM, Asaiah said:

No, sorry

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darn. 

[lost]

Random things of note from the recaps:

•  Colleyville Heritage & Forney greatly benefited from their ranks in Content & Design, with Forney actually placing #1 in the caption in prelims while placing 8th overall. 
• Only two judges had Cedar Park lower than top 2 and each of those judges had them lower than 5th, both in completely different captions.
• Leander's 13th in content & design could have very well cost them a 2nd place finish in prelims, if the C&D judge had them in 3rd which was the average of all of Leander's captions then they would have been 2nd.
• While CH & Forney benefited from the C&D caption it seems Wakeland & Leander were most hurt by it, their C&D scores having the greatest difference from their overall scores in other captions. 

[lost]

Leander has historically always been hurt by GE type captions, at least MGE. This is a really confusing trend. They don't really deserve these low MGE scores but it's consistent enough to be a pattern in almost every single one of their seasons. 

[WILKINSON]

Dang Roma comes out in 13th overall, just barely missing finals. They also got 13th at BOA Waco, just missing finals. I'm sure they gave it their all this season after receiving a Division II in 2019 due to a penalty for exceeding the eight minute allotted performance time, thus unable to participate in the Area/State contest for the 10th consecutive year. In 2017 they got 11th, just barely missing finals.

 

But on a more positive note! Congrats to every single band! This 5A contest was truly amazing. So many great programs!

[Michael0599]

  On 11/2/2021 at 10:12 PM, Senior22Dad said:

Wow….Leander! I just wish some of these shows that are actually fun to watch would win sometime. 

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Ouch man, my brother is in cedar park and i thought their show, along with everyone else’s, was super entertaining. This kinda sucked to read……

[Caden Stehlik]

  On 11/3/2021 at 1:33 AM, Michael0599 said:

Ouch man, my brother is in cedar park and i thought their show, along with everyone else’s, was super entertaining. This kinda sucked to read……

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Exactly what I was gonna say. All of these kids put in so much work and all of these shows were super high tier imo.

 

[Tubalord11]

So my biggest confusion is Henny. I definitely thought they would place higher and don’t understand their placement. But again it’s personal opinion but everyone wass amazing today!

[VinoGirl]

Can someone explain what the individual visual score is, exactly? Thanks! 

[slowbrass]

  On 11/3/2021 at 5:07 AM, VinoGirl said:

Can someone explain what the individual visual score is, exactly? Thanks! 

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Here’s the official rubric, hopefully the attachment works 

[VinoGirl]

  On 11/3/2021 at 5:38 AM, slowbrass said:

Here’s the official rubric, hopefully the attachment works 

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Yes, thank you!!

[Senior22Dad]

  On 11/3/2021 at 1:33 AM, Michael0599 said:

Ouch man, my brother is in cedar park and i thought their show, along with everyone else’s, was super entertaining. This kinda sucked to read……

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Seriously?! Your brother laid his head down tonight with either one or two gold medals he’s earned. And that’s because CP and those kids are just about technically perfect musically and visually. There was no criticism of the kids out there.
IMO that show wasn’t designed for people outside of the CP bubble, other than being extremely difficult and demanding. It just didn’t connect with me. That obviously doesn’t matter to anyone else, especially the judges lol. Congrats on their win!

[VinoGirl]

In addition to waking up with HP's Sugar Rush music in my head (b/c that was my kid's show, so it's been in my head since August), I also have Rouse's music in my head. 🙂 Again, every performance was truly outstanding yesterday, but Rouse's show was especially lovely IMO...really loved that music book! 

Congratulations to all the finalists and to the medalists! It was such a wonderful experience seeing all of those shows in one sitting, and seeing the full band retreat at the end. I can't wait to follow along for 6A...

[bchorn]

  On 11/3/2021 at 6:03 AM, Senior22Dad said:

Seriously?! Your brother laid his head down tonight with either one or two gold medals he’s earned. And that’s because CP and those kids are just about technically perfect musically and visually. There was no criticism of the kids out there.
IMO that show wasn’t designed for people outside of the CP bubble, other than being extremely difficult and demanding. It just didn’t connect with me. That obviously doesn’t matter to anyone else, especially the judges lol. Congrats on their win!

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I think I like the Leander ISD shows a little more than you do but I get with where you are coming from.  The same thing happens in DCI with the Blue Devils.  Out of the last 8 world championships the Blue Devils have one, there's only one or two of them where I actually prefer the Blue Devils over whatever corp finished 2nd.

And I'm not a BD hater, I love the Blue Devils from the 80's and 90's during my formative years of watching marching band/DCI.  But the reason the Blue Devils have 13 year streak of top 2 finishes is that they consistently execute technically at an amazing level.  But unfortunately amazing execution at a technical level doesn't always translate into exciting shows.