2023 BOA DFW (Oct. 7)

[Tubalord11]

  On 10/2/2023 at 4:29 PM, Trumpet11 said:

Put Lone Star 12th and Aledo 11th for me. Aledo beat Keller Central last week at HEB.

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Oh dang I guess i missed that yeah sounds about right unless KC cleans up 

[Tubalord11]

Okay Flomo is still going over the final schedule on boa website 

[crunchycookie3]

  On 10/2/2023 at 5:54 PM, Tubalord11 said:

Okay Flomo is still going over the final schedule on boa website 

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I have been checking and still haven't seen the final schedule. Do you know where they posted it?

[Tubalord11]

  On 10/2/2023 at 6:21 PM, crunchycookie3 said:

I have been checking and still haven't seen the final schedule. Do you know where they posted it?

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Bedford 2023 Final Packet - BOA Marching Championships (musicforall.org)

[JWork]

Taking a shot at predictions.

 

1 Flowermound (GE and Visual)

2 Hebron (Music)

3 Marcus 

4 Wakeland

5 Coppell

6 Waxahachie

7 Timber Creek

8 LD Bell

9 Jenks

10 Southlake Carroll

11 Forney

12 Keller Central

[packwick]

i hope FloMo goes to this!!! it'll prob be the only time i see their show (w/ the music) before UIL State. kinda a bummer they're not doing a late season BOA. hopefully they have a super knockout UIL season to make up for it!!

gonna have to find time to stream that FloMo/Hebron combo at the end of prelims on Sat.

[DrumLine]

  On 10/2/2023 at 7:29 PM, JWork said:

Taking a shot at predictions.

 

1 Flowermound (GE and Visual)

2 Hebron (Music)

3 Marcus 

4 Wakeland

5 Coppell

6 Waxahachie

7 Timber Creek

8 LD Bell

9 Jenks

10 Southlake Carroll

11 Forney

12 Keller Central

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Do not sleep on Lone Star cracking the finals here. They're off to a great start to competition season with a win at Melissa and were neck-and-neck with Boyd at Wylie for 2nd/3rd. That middle block of prelims should be insane.

[Tubalord11]

  On 10/3/2023 at 5:02 PM, DrumLine said:

Do not sleep on Lone Star cracking the finals here. They're off to a great start to competition season with a win at Melissa and were neck-and-neck with Boyd at Wylie for 2nd/3rd. That middle block of prelims should be insane.

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I agree! Bc of the depth, I wouldn’t say they are a lock, but definitely have a really strong shot at finals!

[LeanderMomma]

  On 12/19/2022 at 3:46 PM, LeanderMomma said:

The 2023 Dallas/Ft. Worth Regional will be held Oct. 7 at Pennington Field in Bedford, TX.

OFFICIAL PRELIMS SCHEDULE AS OF 10/02/2023:

8:00 - Liberty H.S., TX
8:15 - Trinity H.S., TX
8:30 - Forney H.S., TX
8:45 - Krum H.S., TX
9:00 - Coppell H.S., TX

BREAK

9:45 - Brock H.S., TX
10:00 - Sacshe H.S., TX
10:15 - James Earl Rudder H.S., TX
10:30 - Lone Star H.S., TX
10:45 - Wakeland H.S., TX
11:00 - Marcus H.S., TX
11:15 - Southlake Carroll H.S., TX

BREAK

12:15 - Timber Creek H.S., TX
12:30 - L.D. Bell H.S., TX
12:45 - Burleson Centennial H.S., TX
1:00 - Grapevine H.S., TX
1:15 - Lebanon Trail H.S., TX
1:30 - James Martin H.S., TX

BREAK

2:30 - Keller Central H.S., TX
2:45 - Aledo H.S., TX
3:00 - Jenks H.S., OK
3:15 - Rockwall H.S., TX
3:30 - Waxahachie H.S., TX
3:45 - Flower Mound H.S., TX
4:00 - Hebron H.S., TX
4:15 - EXH. UNT Green Brigade Marching Band


CLASS A:
Brock H.S., TX
Krum H.S., TX

CLASS AA:
Grapevine H.S., TX

CLASS AAA:
Aledo H.S., TX
Burleson Centennial H.S., TX
Forney H.S., TX
James Earl Rudder H.S., TX
Lebanon Trail H.S., TX
Liberty H.S., TX
Lone Star H.S., TX
Wakeland H.S., TX

CLASS AAAA:
Coppell H.S., TX
Flower Mound H.S., TX
Hebron H.S., TX
James Martin H.S., TX
Jenks H.S., OK
Keller Central H.S., TX
L.D. Bell H.S., TX
Marcus H.S., TX
Rockwall H.S., TX
Sachse H.S., TX
Southlake Carroll H.S., TX
Timber Creek H.S., TX
Trinity H.S., TX
Waxahachie H.S., TX

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Refer back to the very first post for the updated schedule. I have also included the classes of each participating band (thank you Yayband!)

[crunchycookie3]

This contest is so exciting! Weather is looking a bit dicey this week, setting Saturday up to be the coolest contest of the TX season thus far. I’m particularly interested to see how Coppell and Forney’s tuning fares that early in the morning with temps in the low 50s for the first time this season. I expect the top half of finalist bands to look identical to last year’s. Marcus looks fantastic, Hebron’s music is at an all-time high, Flomo is Flomo, Wakeland looks solid, and Bell has their strongest show in recent memory. I haven’t seen Coppell yet, but I would have a very hard time seeing them outside the top half. Waxahachie is likely knocking on the door of top half, joined by Timber Creek and Forney. Outside of those nine, it’s looking like a mad scramble for 3 finals spots between Lone Star, Aledo, Jenks, SLC, KC, Sachse, and-refreshingly-Trinity! Given the strength of the finalist-caliber bands here, I’m expecting to see recaps as messy as last week’s Conroe prelims.

[ChristopherRoden]

  On 10/4/2023 at 3:07 PM, crunchycookie3 said:

This contest is so exciting! Weather is looking a bit dicey this week, setting Saturday up to be the coolest contest of the TX season thus far. I’m particularly interested to see how Coppell and Forney’s tuning fares that early in the morning with temps in the low 50s for the first time this season. I expect the top half of finalist bands to look identical to last year’s. Marcus looks fantastic, Hebron’s music is at an all-time high, Flomo is Flomo, Wakeland looks solid, and Bell has their strongest show in recent memory. I haven’t seen Coppell yet, but I would have a very hard time seeing them outside the top half. Waxahachie is likely knocking on the door of top half, joined by Timber Creek and Forney. Outside of those nine, it’s looking like a mad scramble for 3 finals spots between Lone Star, Aledo, Jenks, SLC, KC, Sachse, and-refreshingly-Trinity! Given the strength of the finalist-caliber bands here, I’m expecting to see recaps as messy as last week’s Conroe prelims.

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I agree with your top half! I think… given what we’ve seen this season so far… the bottom half will be not what we expect it to be…. So exciting!

[Vidal28]

  On 10/4/2023 at 3:07 PM, crunchycookie3 said:

This contest is so exciting! Weather is looking a bit dicey this week, setting Saturday up to be the coolest contest of the TX season thus far. I’m particularly interested to see how Coppell and Forney’s tuning fares that early in the morning with temps in the low 50s for the first time this season. I expect the top half of finalist bands to look identical to last year’s. Marcus looks fantastic, Hebron’s music is at an all-time high, Flomo is Flomo, Wakeland looks solid, and Bell has their strongest show in recent memory. I haven’t seen Coppell yet, but I would have a very hard time seeing them outside the top half. Waxahachie is likely knocking on the door of top half, joined by Timber Creek and Forney. Outside of those nine, it’s looking like a mad scramble for 3 finals spots between Lone Star, Aledo, Jenks, SLC, KC, Sachse, and-refreshingly-Trinity! Given the strength of the finalist-caliber bands here, I’m expecting to see recaps as messy as last week’s Conroe prelims.

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As long as the cool front comes in sooner than expected, which it’s looking like it is, now with it coming in, the cooler morning temps shouldn’t be much to contend with at all, gradually warming up to a very comfortable temperature throughout the day and stable conditions on Saturday. It’ll be a fantastic performance setting for the students and spectators I believe!

[texastrumpetdad]

Finals Predictions

1. Hebron
2. Flower Mound
3. Marcus
4. Coppell
5. Wakeland
6. Jenks
7. Lone Star
8. LD Bell 
9. Waxahachie 
10. Southlake Carroll
11. Burleson Centennial
12. Timber Creek

[Tubalord11]

  On 10/6/2023 at 7:24 PM, texastrumpetdad said:

Finals Predictions

1. Hebron
2. Flower Mound
3. Marcus
4. Coppell
5. Wakeland
6. Jenks
7. Lone Star
8. LD Bell 
9. Waxahachie 
10. Southlake Carroll
11. Burleson Centennial
12. Timber Creek

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These are some bold predictions! I don’t personally see Lonestar beating out any of these bands other than Burleson Centennial, but I do think they have a great shot at making finals

[SaxA36]

1. flo mo

2. hebron

3. marcus

4. coppell

5. wakeland

6. ld bell

7. timber creek

8. waxahachie

9. jenks

10. sl carroll

11. forney

12. aledo

[Tubalord11]

Good morning everyone! We are here live on Box5 at HEB stadium! I’ll be doing coverage of the first 3 blocks, as unfortunately Big 12 football calls this evening. Good luck to all the bands competing today! 

[symphbee]

Liberty HS good morning!

This show is the complete package - the uniforms, props, interwoven violin solo, completely cohesive no matter where you look!

And it is COLD out here people (for Texas anyway), and they sounded FANTASTIC, very very pretty sounds.

What a great start to the day!

[Tubalord11]

Frisco Liberty: A common thread- What a wonderful performance to open up prelims! The illustration of "the common thread" is seen in the drill throughout the show many times, some very challenging and well executed Carolina Crown styled brass features, loved the soloist throughout, especially the Violin ( I think I'm not the best with my string instruments in marching band 😭), which added some great music GE. Really beautiful performance, very interested to see how they do this season at Area B, could definitely shock some people. Great job Frisco Liberty! 

[Tubalord11]

Trinity: Mad Hearts- holy cow Trinity! What an amazing performance! Really enjoyed the pre show body work, the end of the opening moment where the brass sound slowly disappeared as the woodwind and then the brass scattered to their form was very cool, huge and balanced ensemble sound and great soloist! Wouldn’t be surprised at all if they make finals. Great job Trinity!

[Origin]

Great job from Forney! Hope they can snag a finals spot despite the early performance time. 

[Tubalord11]

Forney: In the Arena- OH. MY. GOD. I'm absolutely blown away by Forney! Great and super impactful opening hit! Soloist throughout were on fire, and that Percussion... on another level! The drill was also very clean, I loved how they kept alluding back to the music played backfield in the beginning throughout the whole show, very impactful! I'm so freaking excited to see then next weekend live and would be kind of shocked if they don't make finals, probably my new favorite Forney show, just wow wow wow. Amazing job Forney!! 

[symphbee]

  On 10/7/2023 at 1:41 PM, Origin said:

Great job from Forney! Hope they can snag a finals spot despite the early performance time. 

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I hate to call it early, but I would be fairly surprised if we didn’t see them again later. They were fantastic!

[Dallas Hobbs]

  On 10/5/2023 at 2:31 AM, Vidal28 said:

As long as the cool front comes in sooner than expected, which it’s looking like it is, now with it coming in, the cooler morning temps shouldn’t be much to contend with at all, gradually warming up to a very comfortable temperature throughout the day and stable conditions on Saturday. It’ll be a fantastic performance setting for the students and spectators I believe!

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I’d personally rather it be cool than it be hot and needing an umbrella to shade myself from the unrelenting Texas heat😩

[Tubalord11]

  On 10/7/2023 at 1:45 PM, Dallas Hobbs said:

I’d personally rather it be cool than it be hot and needing an umbrella to shade myself from the unrelenting Texas heat😩

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nah fr though, this is PEAK weather were getting! 

[JFNDOWBFAN]

Who’s the school that nobody is talking about now but might be tonight?

I’m going with Rockwall (clearly bias, I get). This competition is STACKED just like our Area but one great show from sneaking into finals. 
 

May not happen this week but don’t be shocked. Heard it here first!