Trumpetman4eva

Blue Springs was great. O'fallon has work to do if they want to get back to semis at Grand Nats.

You were pretty close! I went to prelims today and I don't envy the judges. Everyone was good.

Washington, MO Marching Festival PRELIMS Class D 70.03 Wright City (All Captions) 52.28 Sparta 48.35 Hermann 44.70 Bayless 41.78 Cabool 40.70 Clopton 39.58 Laquey Class C 74.60 Potosi (Music, Visual, Percussion) 70.55 Waterloo (Guard) 66.88 School of the Osage 66.13 Warrenton 60.70 Borgia 45.53 Owensville Class B 80.78 Battle (Music) 80.68 Rolla (Visual, Guard) 78.43 Republic 76.95 Waynesville (Percussion) 75.53 Poplar Bluff 61.80 Hannibal Class A 87.33 Edwardsville, IL (All Captions) 75.03 Mehlville 66.83 Alton, IL 61.53 Troy 57.98 Marquette 51.45 Hazelwood West FINALS 88.35 Edwardsville (All Captions) 81.30 Rolla 80.28 Battle 78.30 Waynesville 78.03 Republic 76.33 Mehlville 74.93 Potosi 74.75 Poplar Bluff 69.33 Wright City I'm not sure if Edwardsville is that good this year or their competition was lacking, but congrats to my alma mater! I wish they were going back to ISU

It's always fascinating when a band wins that didn't win any captions.

Tarpon will win Atlanta and Blue Springs will be top 3 or 4. The only school I've ever heard of at the Utah regional is American Fork, so I assume they'll win there. Who knows about San Antonio? Texas has been a mystery this year.

What happened to LD Bell? They were always a factor in my marching years (2005-2008) and now I don't hear anything about them.

I think Broken Arrow has to be in the conversation for top 5, and there are probably a couple of Texas bands that are right up there as well. I think this is going to be one of the most competitive GN finals we've had in a long time.

I'd love to see O'fallon in finals, but after seeing their performances this weekend there aren't really any glaring weaknesses that they can improve on to boost their score. I'm thinking they'll be a few spots out of finals, definitely top 15-20 though. Grand nats is basically the Indy regional plus the OK/TX bands.

Nice showing by the IL bands! O'fallon is cementing themselves a perennial contender in the BOA circuit. The question now becomes can Marian improve enough to catch up to Carmel and Avon?

I missed Centerville's performance. Are they having a down year or was the regional just that stacked?

Congrats to Prospect, Marian Catholic, and O'fallon on making finals! A couple quick thoughts: I'm not surprised Carmel overtook Avon, as Avon had a rough performance by their standards (I thought Homestead was better than them as well). This regional was stacked. I watched most of prelims and I thought there were 20+ bands that were good enough to make finals. I do not envy the judges.

Just watched Marian. They are very good, but it still looked kinda dirty for this point in the season.

Hmm...the last time I subscribed was 2010...I guess I just didn't remember correctly.

Unless they changed from previous years, Grand Nationals are not included in the $59. You have to pay separate for them, and it's $19 EACH for prelims, semis, and finals ($57 for all GN broadcasts).

Why do you have Castle so low? They beat Lake Central, Center Grove, Franklin, and Ben Davis at Louisville. I think they'll be top 5.