UIL 5A Area C 2022

[batteryischarged]

With North Forney and Royse City now in 6A, the Area C contest looks considerably different.  
 

Updated w/schedule

Texas High 2:45 PM

North Mesquite 3:00 PM

Red Oak 3:15

West Mesquite 3:30

Mt. Pleasant 4:00

Poteet 4:15

Marshall 4:30

Pine tree 4:45

Forney 5:00

Edited October 19, 2022 by batteryischarged

[Tubalord11]

  On 10/17/2022 at 3:59 PM, batteryischarged said:

With North Forney and Royse City now in 6A, the Area C contest looks considerably different.  

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And highland park! Does anyone have a schedule yet? 

[batteryischarged]

Highland Park being gone is a big one too!  I overlooked that because they had been moved out of the region prior to the realignment. Schedule should be out soon.  

[batteryischarged]

I don’t know much about the East Texas schools. Have any of them appeared at BOA competitions besides the North Texas ones? 
 

 

[Vin]

Predictions? I don't think any of them have, Mount Pleasant and Pine Tree did go to USBands at AT&T Stadium. 

[Vin]

I would say that every band here is looking considerably better than they were last season. Mount Pleasant's show is visually shocking (they have the Bluecoats '17 prop as well as just a ton of visuals) as well as having a cool musical selection. Marshall in my biased opinion has a very good show and is sounding way better this year. Pine Tree's brass is also honestly very powerful, though I'm not the biggest fan of their show. I haven't really seen any of the others in person to judge, Red Oak from what I saw is looking good though. North Mesquite may see some success in 5A, even though they were in the middle of Area C in 6A. I think this is going to be very interesting. 

 

P.S. 9 bands are attending; they are taking 7 bands to finals. We will see who makes finals. Also finals awards has full band retreat :))

[batteryischarged]

  On 10/21/2022 at 10:40 PM, Vin said:

I would say that every band here is looking considerably better than they were last season. Mount Pleasant's show is visually shocking (they have the Bluecoats '17 prop as well as just a ton of visuals) as well as having a cool musical selection. Marshall in my biased opinion has a very good show and is sounding way better this year. Pine Tree's brass is also honestly very powerful, though I'm not the biggest fan of their show. I haven't really seen any of the others in person to judge, Red Oak from what I saw is looking good though. North Mesquite may see some success in 5A, even though they were in the middle of Area C in 6A. I think this is going to be very interesting. 

 

P.S. 9 bands are attending; they are taking 7 bands to finals. We will see who makes finals. Also finals awards has full band retreat :))

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Top 7 to Finals 

7:30 Forney 

7:45 Poteet

8:00 North Mesquite 

8:15 Texas High

8:30 Mount Pleasant 

8:45 Red Oak 

9:00 Pine Tree

[DallasFan]

That must've been a pretty quick turn around for Forney. Anyone know how results panned out?

[RaElk99]

5A Area C-

 

1st Place (AREA CHAMPION)- Forney HS

 

2nd Place- Mesquite Poteet HS

 

3rd Place- Red Oak HS

[batteryischarged]

7th—Mt Pleasant

6th—Pine Tree

5th—Texas High

4th—North Mesquite

3rd—Red Oak 

2nd—Poteet

1st—Forney 

[batteryischarged]

  On 10/21/2022 at 10:34 PM, Vin said:

Predictions? I don't think any of them have, Mount Pleasant and Pine Tree did go to USBands at AT&T Stadium. 

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After watching them in both Prelims and Finals today I was surprised that Mt. Pleasant finished at the bottom in Finals. 

[Vin]

  On 10/23/2022 at 4:58 AM, batteryischarged said:

After watching them in both Prelims and Finals today I was surprised that Mt. Pleasant finished at the bottom in Finals. 

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Me too, I am unsure of why they deserved the bottom spot. Their General Effect impresses me and their playing sounds great imo. Not sure what they did wrong.

[Vin]

Texas High and Pine Tree both beating Mount Pleasant really surprised me. I didn't think Texas High had a good run, there were several tears during the performance.

[Vin]

Forney completely wiped the competition in this comp though. I am surprised North Mesquite did not place higher. They were very clean marching wise and sounded very balanced with good sounds. Their general effect and visual may have been what held them back. Forney's general effect was insane, honestly felt like I was watching a DCI corps in some parts.

[DallasFan]

  On 10/23/2022 at 9:38 PM, Vin said:

Forney completely wiped the competition in this comp though. I am surprised North Mesquite did not place higher. They were very clean marching wise and sounded very balanced with good sounds. Their general effect and visual may have been what held them back. Forney's general effect was insane, honestly felt like I was watching a DCI corps in some parts.

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They should really balance out Area B and Area C for 5A. 
 

area B is still super difficult while area C had 12 bands at area last year and only 9 this year. 

[batteryischarged]

  On 10/23/2022 at 9:33 PM, Vin said:

Me too, I am unsure of why they deserved the bottom spot. Their General Effect impresses me and their playing sounds great imo. Not sure what they did wrong.

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The only thing I can think of is that they didn’t march enough.  With the band coming out onto the field slowly in phases, maybe the judges thought it was too conservative of an approach. I was thinking while they were performing that they might get dinged for not having the whole band out on the field sooner. 

[batteryischarged]

  On 10/23/2022 at 10:34 PM, DallasFan said:

They should really balance out Area B and Area C for 5A. 
 

area B is still super difficult while area C had 12 bands at area last year and only 9 this year. 

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I’ve been wondering how things are going to look in a couple of years with the next realignment. Forney will definitely be 6A by then. It makes me wonder how the 5A and 6A Area C landscapes might change. When Forney is no longer 5A it will leave this current area contest even smaller as it stands. I am also curious if enrollment is increasing at Poteet and North Mesquite that would send them into 6A. 

[DallasFan]

  On 10/24/2022 at 3:27 AM, batteryischarged said:

I’ve been wondering how things are going to look in a couple of years with the next realignment. Forney will definitely be 6A by then. It makes me wonder how the 5A and 6A Area C landscapes might change. When Forney is no longer 5A it will leave this current area contest even smaller as it stands. I am also curious if enrollment is increasing at Poteet and North Mesquite that would send them into 6A. 

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Oh geez, Forney becoming 6A area C would just make that area even harder. 

[TexasTromboner]

  On 10/24/2022 at 3:27 AM, batteryischarged said:

I’ve been wondering how things are going to look in a couple of years with the next realignment. Forney will definitely be 6A by then. It makes me wonder how the 5A and 6A Area C landscapes might change. When Forney is no longer 5A it will leave this current area contest even smaller as it stands. I am also curious if enrollment is increasing at Poteet and North Mesquite that would send them into 6A. 

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Both Poteet and North Mesquite have actually had their enrollments decrease. Poteet from 1850 to 1650 and NM from 2850 to 2150. Both due to a new technical high school opening in MISD, and NM also had their attendance zone shrunk. Lastly, both have little land left in their zones to build housing so it's unlikely they'll move up to 6A ever again with the cutoff increasing every year.

[batteryischarged]

  On 10/24/2022 at 3:52 PM, DallasFan said:

Oh geez, Forney becoming 6A area C would just make that area even harder. 

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Definitely. Isn’t Highland Park in Area B now?  I just can’t figure out how these alignments are assigned. Is there a line of demarcation in the Metroplex that is used?

[batteryischarged]

  On 10/25/2022 at 1:44 AM, TexasTromboner said:

Both Poteet and North Mesquite have actually had their enrollments decrease. Poteet from 1850 to 1650 and NM from 2850 to 2150. Both due to a new technical high school opening in MISD, and NM also had their attendance zone shrunk. Lastly, both have little land left in their zones to build housing so it's unlikely they'll move up to 6A ever again with the cutoff increasing every year.

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It’ll be interesting to see, once Forney is gone to 6A, if Poteet will return to their glory days of dominating this area contest.

[FormerWildcat]

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It’ll be interesting to see, once Forney is gone to 6A, if Poteet will return to their glory days of dominating this area contest.

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I'd like to think that areas B, C, & F will be merged into two more balanced areas, where one has the current area F bands plus the Denton County schools from area B, while the other has the remaining area B bands plus the area C bands.

[clarinetistkai05]

  On 10/27/2022 at 1:31 PM, batteryischarged said:

It’ll be interesting to see, once Forney is gone to 6A, if Poteet will return to their glory days of dominating this area contest.

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I highly would doubt that, after Newman left for Forney, Poteet seemingly has started to decrease in how good they are. However, I will admit this is their best show since then. It’s always a possibility, but it truly depends on their quality of shows after Forney getting moved up.

[DallasFan]

  On 10/27/2022 at 1:26 PM, batteryischarged said:

Definitely. Isn’t Highland Park in Area B now?  I just can’t figure out how these alignments are assigned. Is there a line of demarcation in the Metroplex that is used?

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Highland Park is Area B now. But Forney would definitely be area c because North Forney is in C. But who knows maybe they change the area when the time comes.

[Vin]

https://www.smbc.uiltexas.org/area/results/files/area-22_5A%20Area%20C%20Results.pdf