Dan Balash

From watching the video from Lincoln-Way, I agree, they're playing and moving well. I just don't feel like the design is as strong, and that's 60% of the score that could keep them from making finals. To be fair to them it's really difficult to judge them on a local level.

C Northwest, MO Anna-Jonesboro Lawrenceville B: Murphysboro Salem Taylorville A: Mehlville, MO Carterville Carbondale AA: Belleville West Highland Columbia AAA: Mahomet-Seymour McCracken County Grand Champion: Mahomet-Seymour

SIU Music and Motion: Class C 10:00 AM Northwest, MO 10:15 Lawrenceville Class B: 10:30 Taylorville 10:45 Salem Community 11:00 Murphysboro Class A: 11:15 Carterville 11:30 Pinckneyville Cimmunity 11:45 Carbondale 12:00 Mehlville, MO Class C 12:15 Anna-Jonesboro Class AA: 12:30 Highland 12:45 Columbia 1:00 Belleville West Class AAA: 1:15 McCracken County, KY 1:30 Mahomet-Seymour Exhibition: 1:45 SIU Marching Salukis

I was right. McCracken County is competing at SIU.

Hey now, I did call it my "100% certain to be wrong!" 😄

My prediction on the HornRank forums was Normal beating Lincoln-Way. *runs and hides*

Sandwich: A: D.D. Eisenhower Marengo Marmion-Rosary AA: Glenbrook South Waukegan Morris Community AAA: Buffalo Grove Bloom Township Grayslake Central AAAA: Rolling Meadows Round Lake AAAAA: Yorkville East Aurora Grand Champion: Yorkville Bands of America Indianapolis Super Regional: Bands are dividend into panels (by each break), and top 5 from each panel makes finals, plus the next 4 highest scoring bands regardless of panel. Finalists in no particular order: Panel 1 Top 5: William Mason, OH Avon, IN Carmel, IN Castle, IN Brownsburg, IN Panel 2 Top 5: Carroll, IN Homestead, IN Fishers, IN Wando, SC Blue Springs, MO Next 4 Centerville, OH Choctaw, OK Bixby, OK Owasso, OK Grand Champion: Avon, IN

My 100%, sure to be wrong predictions: 1A: IVC Paris Cooperative Eureka 2A: Morton Galesburg Metamora Finalists: Morton, Galesburg, IVC 3A: Marian Catholic Bloomington Lemont 4A: John Hersey Batavia Romeoville Finalists: Marian Catholic, John Hersey, Bloomington, Batavia, Romeoville 5A: Prospect Plainfield North VJA Plainfield Central 6A: Normal Lockport Township Oswego Finalists: Prospect, Normal, Plainfield North, VJA, Plainfield Central, Oswego, Lockport Township Finals: Morton Prospect Marian Catholic Normal Plainfield North Lockport Township VJA John Hersey Oswego Plainfield Central Batavia Romeoville Bloomington Galesburg IVC

In '21, Normal was replaced by Lockport Township.

There have been bands over the years who couldn't perform in a regional finals for whatever reason (homecoming, etc.). Normal didn't perform in finals at ISU in 2021 due to attending U of I which was the same day.

We have 4 other shows going on this weekend with Illinois groups. Feel free to make your predictions! SIU Music & Motion: Carbondale, IL No schedule available at this time. Rich Township Raptor Rumble: Richton Park, IL No schedule available at this time. Quincy Octoberfest Marching Invitational: Quincy, IL 4:00 PM: Tri-Valley 4:15 PM: Warsaw 4:30 PM: Williamsville 4:45 PM: Rushville-Industry 5:00 PM: Heritage 5:15 PM: Clark County, MO 5:30 PM: Rockridge 5:45 PM: Illini West 6:00 PM: Break 6:15 PM: Bellevue, IA 6:30 PM: Auburn 6:45 PM: Central Lee, IA 7:00 PM: North Point, MO 7:15 PM: Hannibal, MO 7:30 PM: Civic Memorial 7:45 PM: St. Charles, MO 8:00 PM: Break 8:15 PM: Washington Community 8:30 PM: Pekin Community 8:45 PM: Fort Zumwalt East, MO 9:00 PM: Pattonville, MO 9:15 PM: Troy Buchanan, MO Exb 9:30 PM: Quincy 9:45 PM: University of Iowa 10:10 PM: Awards Bands of America Indianapolis Super Regional: Indianapolis, IN Friday: 7:15 AM: Terre Haute North Vigo, IN 7:30 AM: Lafayette Jefferson, IN 7:45 AM: Fairfield, IN 8:00 AM: Snider, IN 8:15 AM: Mt. Vernon, IN 8:30 AM: Plainfield, IN 8:45 AM: Southport, IN 9:00 AM: Fairborn, OH 9:15 AM: Jasper, IN 9:30 AM: Vincennes Lincoln, IN 9:45 AM: Concordia Lutheran, IN 10:00 AM: Plymouth, IN 10:15 AM: Break 10:30 AM: Northmont, OH 10:45 AM: Lewis Cass, IN 11:00 AM: Leo, IN 11:15 AM: Beavercreek, OH 11:30 AM: Terre Haute South Vigo, IN 11:45 AM: Perry Meridian, IN 12:00 PM: Whitko, IN 12:15 PM: Westfield, IN 12:30 PM: New Palestine, IN 12:45 PM: Kettering Fairmont, OH 1:00 PM: Carroll, IN 1:15 PM: Lawrence Township, IN 1:30 PM: Homestead, IN 1:45 PM: Centerville, OH 2:00 PM: Break 2:15 PM: Greenwood Community, IN 2:30 PM: Hamilton Southeastern, IN 2:45 PM: Edgewood, IN 3:00 PM: Western, IN 3:15 PM: Greenfield Central, IN 3:30 PM: Centralia 3:45 PM: Pendleton Heights, IN 4:00 PM: Beech Grove, IN 4:15 PM: NorthWood, IN 4:30 PM: William Mason, OH 4:45 PM: Break 5:00 PM: Fishers, IN 5:15 PM: Normal 5:30 PM: Center Grove, IN 5:45 PM: Orleans, IN 6:00 PM: Decatur Central, IN 6:15 PM: Wando, SC 6:30 PM: Warren Central, IN 6:45 PM: Franklin Community, IN 7:00 PM: Forest Park, IN 7:15 PM: Wawasee, IN 7:45 PM: Northwestern, IN 8:00 PM: Adams Central, IN 8:15 PM: Avon, IN 8:30 PM: Plainfield North 8:45 PM: Noblesville, IN 9:00 PM: Scottsburg, IN 9:15 PM: Brownsburg, IN 9:30 PM: Carmel, IN 9:45 PM: Taylor, IN 10:00 PM: Ben Davis, IN 10:15 PM: Castle, IN 10:30 PM: Franklin Central, IN Saturday: 7:15 AM: Paoli, IN 7:30 AM: Mater Dei, IN 7:45 AM: Owen Valley, IN 8:00 AM: William Henry Harrison, IN 8:15 AM: Downers Grove South 8:30 AM: Lafayette, MO 8:45 AM: Rock Island 9:00 AM: John Glenn, IN 9:15 AM: Marquette, MO 9:30 AM: Break 9:45 AM: Independence, VA 10:00 AM: F.J. Reitz, IN 10:15 AM: Irondale, MN 10:30 AM: Edwardsville 10:45 AM: DeKalb, IN 11:00 AM: Hilliard Bradley, OH 11:15 AM: Goshen, IN 11:30 AM: Benjamin Bosse, IN 11:45 AM: Owasso, OK 12:00 PM: Munster, IN 12:15 PM: Break 12:30 PM: DeKalb 12:45 PM: Choctaw, OK 1:00 PM: Rock Ridge, VA 1:15 PM: Effingham 1:30 PM: Evansville North, IN 1:45 PM: Princeton Community, IN 2:00 PM: Fort Zumwalt North, MO 2:15 PM: Elkhart, IN 2:30 PM: Bixby, OK 2:45 PM: Blue Springs, MO 3:00 PM: Lincoln-Way Exb 3:15 PM: North Carolina State University 3:30 PM: Awards Sandwich MusicFest: Sandwich, IL Class 1A 2:00 PM: Marengo 2:15 PM: Marmion-Rosary 2:30 PM: Dwight D. Eisenhower 2:45 PM: Break Class 2A 3:00 PM: William Howard Taft 3:15 PM: Morris Community 3:30 PM: Waukegan 3:45 PM: Glenbrook South 4:00 PM: Awards Class 3A 4:30 PM: Evergreen Park 4:45 PM: Grayslake Central 5:00 PM: Bloom Township 5:15 PM: Buffalo Grove 5:30 PM: Break Class 4A 5:45 PM: Rolling Meadows 6:00 PM: Round Lake 6:15 PM: Break Class 5A 6:30 PM: Yorkville 6:45 PM: East Aurora Exb 7:00 PM: Sandwich 7:30 PM: Awards

25 years ago for both. West and Community both made St. Louis Finals, placing 7th and 9th, respectively. West was also the AA Champions at the Indianapolis regional that year as well.

Marengo Settlers Days Scores: Parade: 1A: 26.400 Genoa-Kingston 25.100 Marmion-Rosary 21.400 Johnsburg 2A: 27.400 Evergreen Park 27.400 Alan B. Shepard 3A: 27.000 Evanston 25.500 Glenbrook South Field: 1A: 67.400 Sandwich (Brass, Woodwind, Marching, Percussion, Auxiliary) 54.150 Marmion-Rosary 48.750 Oregon (DM (tie)) 39.100 Genoa-Kingston (DM (tie)) 37.600 Johnsburg 2A: 75.350 Grayslake North (Woodwinds, Marching, Auxiliary, Percussion, DM) 72.600 Alan B. Shepard (Brass) 63.750 Crystal Lake South 62.850 Evergreen Park 53.300 Sycamore 3A: 72.150 Evanston (Brass, Woodwinds (tie), Auxiliary) 69.000 Bloom Township (Marching) 67.350 Glenbrook South (Woodwinds (tie), Percussion) Grand Champion: Alan B. Shepard Copy of Recap Sheet 24.pdf

I posed this thought last year when Lockport attended both the Indy Super Regional and ISU: What's Normal's plan should they make Indy finals? I think they have an outside shot of potentially making finals there, and the finals announcement for Indy is right around the time they enter the flow to perform at ISU.

Attached. 2024 Metamora Marching Band Invitational - Recap Sheet.xlsx

Working my way through videos. I've seen Marian, Bloomington, Normal, Lincoln-Way (I know they're not here), Lockport, Normal, VJA, Hersey, Prospect thus far. I'll have my thoughts up hopefully Wednesday.

EIU Panther Marching Band Festival Scores: 1A 54.030 Blue Ridge (Visual) 53.780 Ridgeview (Percussion) 53.750 Okaw Valley 53.400 Oblong (Music, GE) 52.380 Arcola (Color Guard) 51.300 Heritage 2A 70.150 Mt. Carmel (Music, Visual, GE, Color Guard) 63.280 Watseka Community 62.200 Maroa-Forsyth 58.650 Casey-Westfield (Percussion) 55.950 LeRoy 55.550 Robinson 3A 71.900 Centralia (Visual, GE, Percussion, Color Guard) 64.000 Paxton-Buckley-Loda (Music) 60.100 Richland County 59.100 Pinckneyville Community 4A 72.380 Effingham (Music) 71.900 Monticello (Color Guard) 71.530 Newton (GE) 69.530 Pontiac Township (Visual, Percussion) 66.380 Mattoon 65.680 Carterville 5A 76.750 Paris Cooperative (Music, Visual, GE, Color Guard) 72.450 Alton (Percussion) 65.350 Marion 6A 1. 82.900 Belleville East (GE, Percussion, Color Guard 1. 82.900 Mahomet-Seymour (Music, Visual) 3. 79.100 Mascoutah 4. 79.050 Granite City 5. 78.530 Belleville West

Rock Island is not in attendance here.

This is an interesting set of predictions, for sure. I agree with the top 3 in 5A. 4-8 are probably somewhat all interchangeable (and likely, there's no finals spots available for any of these). I think Plainfield Central places 4th here, after a 2nd place at Stagg, 13th at BOA Toledo and a 5th place showing at Lincoln-Way, .05 behind Marian. Jacobs might be dealing with "small band bias" at the local shows, and I'm intrigued to see where they'll place at show based on school size. Huntley in 3rd in 6A is a stretch. They had a rough time at Lincoln-Way, placing 9th in 2A, and all of their captions save for visual ensemble were at or near the bottom of the class. I think Warren and Oswego beat them, with both possibly making finals. Interested to see where Oswego East places; if their NIU class championship was the result of meeting an early season Marian, a not fully complete judging panel, or what.

Full Lincoln-Way scores: 1A: 65.250 Providence Catholic (Visual, GE, Percussion) 64.550 Bremen 64.150 Coal City (Music) 63.600 Wauwatosa West, WI 58.050 William Howard Taft 57.850 Herscher (Auxiliary) 2A: 78.450 Batavia (GE) 77.550 Victor J. Andrew 76.600 Rock Island (Visual, Percussion) 75.850 Illinois Valley Central 75.600 Pike, IN 75.200 Lemont (Music, Auxiliary) 73.100 Lake Park 72.750 Carl Sandburg 71.300 Huntley 71.050 Alan B. Shepard 3A: 83.150 Prospect (Music, Auxiliary) 83.000 Morton (Visual, GE, Percussion) 81.300 Lockport Township 79.800 Marian Catholic 79.750 Plainfield Central 78.200 John Hersey 77.700 Bloomington LW CompetitionSuite.pdf

All I've seen thus far is 3A.

The 3A recap is wild. Morton 7 and 2 in the music captions, Lockport 1 and 6, Prospect 5 and 1.

There have been some truly bananas results this year, so who knows anymore? 😄

The judging panels are pretty good this year with only 2 names returning from last year. Kudos to whoever was in charge of putting this together Music judges: Rhett Cox - Director of Bands, Timber Creek High School (FL) Jarret Lipman - Director of Bands, Vandegrift (TX). Formerly at Claudia Taylor Johnson Tim Yontz - Director of Bands, Florida Gulf Coast University David Armbruster - Former director of bands, Plymouth-Canton Educational Park, Northmont (OH), Jenison (MI) Matt Stratton - Professor of Music, Olivet Nazarene University, Brass Caption Supervisor, The Cavaliers WL Whaley - Retired, Pomona High School (Colorado) David Starnes - Director of Orchestra, Kennesaw Mountain High School (GA), former director of Athletic Bands, Western Carolina University, former Director of Bands, Kennesaw Mountain. Glenn Fugett - retired. Former DOB, Nashville School of the Arts, Mansfield Legacy High School (Texas) Visual judges: Mike Anderson Matt James - Director of Performing Arts, Lawrence Central High School (IN) Jack Pursifull Tim Ochran Mike Stone Randy Solomon

And the way the season is set up now, it's almost a guarantee that there will be a super regional ISU weekend. Looking at next year, ISU has open dates on 10/11 and 10/25; Big Ten has not announced the conference schedule as of yet. ISSMA's schedule is showing state regional qualifiers October 18th, Semi-State November 1 and state finals November 8, so that leaves Lucas OIl likely hosting the Indianapolis super regional 10/25.