Dan Balash

Bah, that’s what I get for looking at a small screen to do this.

Class 2A 4:00 PM: Warren Township Class 1A 4:15 PM: Dwight D. Eisenhower 4:30 PM: Bloom Township Class 2A 4:45 PM: Downers Grove South 5:00 PM: Victor J. Andrew 5:15 PM: Plainfield Central 5:30 PM: A.A. Stagg 5:45 PM: Wheaton North Exb 6:00 PM: Cornerstone Drumline 6:15 PM: Break Class 3A 6:45 PM: East Aurora 7:00 PM: Yorkville 7:15 PM: Marian Catholic Exb 7:30 PM: Providence Catholic 7:45 PM: Awards

NIU 1A: 50.450 - H.D. Jacobs (Visual, GE (tie)) 48.300 - Coal City (GE tie) 47.900 - Lakes Community (Music) 39.950 - Crete-Monee 39.350 - Richards 37.850 - Genoa-Kingston 36.000 - Marengo

NIU 2A: 59.000 - Batavia (Visual, GE) 56.250 - Carl Sandburg (Music) 55.850 - Eureka 49.400 - Glenbrook South 47.750 - Waukegan 38.600 - William Howard Taft

Bah, I wish.

I think I have attachment posting turned off for everyone but admins. One of these days I’ll sit down and figure out how to reinstate the groups that we had on the old forums so you have to have a number of posts before you can create a topic.

Truly wild recap.

Edwardsville 3A-4A: 3A: 64.250 - Parkway West, MO (Music, Visual, GE) 61.850 - Triad 61.650 - Parkway North, MO (Percussion, Color Guard) 53.750 - Highland 4A: 74.100 - O'Fallon Township (Music, Visual, GE, Percussion, Color Guard) 62.250 - Marquette, MO 58.000 - Belleville West

I completely missed this show. Marching Maroons Band Festival: Robinson, IL A: 802.833 Salem (Music, Visual, Percussion, Color Guard, DM) 711.000 Oblong 663.833 Vandalia AA: 846.666 Richland County (Music, Visual, Percussion, Color Guard, DM) 780.833 Casey-Westfield AAA: 889.166 Newton (Visual, Percussion, Color Guard, DM) 804.666 Mt. Zion (Music (tie)) 780.000 Carterville (Music (tie)) Final 2025 Recap Sheet (9 judges) MMF.xlsx - OUTSIDE.pdf

Little bit more on this show. Oblong through Rochester are in "Scholastic" Classification. This class will use modified BOA sheets by taking some of the focus off of General Effect. They will have one Music General Effect judge instead of the standard two, and they will have two music performance ensemble judges instead. The rest of the bands will be on normal BOA sheets (2 Music Performance, 2 Visual Performance, 2 Music GE, 1 Visual GE judge).

Week 4 already. Hard to believe that there are only 2.5 weeks until ISU. 5 in state shows this weekend, and Lincoln-Way takes their talents on the road to the Bands of America Regional in Louisville, KY. Bands of America Regional Championships: Louisville, KY 9:30 AM: North Hardin, KY 9:45 AM: Madison Southern, KY 10:00 AM: Madison Central, KY 10:15 AM: Center Grove, IN 10:30 AM: Jeffersonville, IN 10:45 AM: South Oldham, KY 11:00 AM: Castle, IN. 11:00 AM: Break 12:00 PM: Hamilton Southeastern, IN 12:15 PM: Brownsburg, IN 12:30 PM: Nicholas County, KY 12:45 PM: Decatur Central, IN 1:00 PM: Henry Clay, KY 1:15 PM: Paul Laurence Dunbar, KY 1:30 PM: Bourbon County, KY 1:45 PM: Garrard County, KY 2:00 PM: Break 2:30 PM: Lincoln-Way 2:45 PM: Anderson County, KY 3:00 PM: Floyd Central, IN 3:15 PM: Scottsburg, IN 3:30 PM: Beechwood, KY 3:45 PM: Grayson County, KY 4:00 PM: Carmel, IN 4:15 PM: Awards Morton Marching Invitational: Morton, IL Class 1A 4:15 PM: Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond 4:30 PM: Pleasant Plains 4:45 PM: Lewistown 5:00 PM: Break Class 2A 5:15 PM: ROWVA 5:30 PM: LaSalle-Peru 5:45 PM: Prairie Central 6:00 PM: Macomb 6:15 PM: Jacksonville 6:30 PM: Break Class 3A 7:15 PM: Kewanee 7:30 PM: Pekin Community 7:45 PM: East Peoria Class 4A 8:00 PM: Rock Island 8:15 PM: Minooka Community 8:30 PM: Galesburg Exb 8:45 PM: Morton 9:00 PM: Awards Normal Marching Band Invitational: Bloomington, IL Exb 3:45 PM: North Boone Class 1A 4:00 PM: St. Joseph-Ogden 4:15 PM: Dwight Township 4:30 PM: MacArthur 4:45 PM: Arcola 5:00 PM: Break Class 2A 5:45 PM: Sparta 6:00 PM: El Paso-Gridley 6:15 PM: Taylorville 6:30 PM: Olympia 6:45 PM: Williamsville Class 3A 7:00 PM: Sandwich 7:15 PM: Danville 7:30 PM: University 7:45 PM: Break Class 4A 8:00 PM: Dunlap 8:15 PM: Monticello 8:30 PM: Geneseo 8:45 PM: Pontiac Township Exb 9:00 PM: Normal 9:15 PM: Awards Panther Marching Band Festival: Charleston, IL Class 1A 10:30 AM: Oblong 10:44 AM: Ridgeview 10:58 AM: Blue Ridge 11:12 AM: Okaw Valley 11:26 AM: Heritage Class 2A 11:40 AM: Charleston 11:54 AM: Pinckneyville Community 12:08 PM: Cumberland 12:22 PM: Wesclin 12:36 PM: Break Class 3A 12:50 PM: Carbondale 1:04 PM: Urbana 1:18 PM: Rochester 1:32 PM: Break Class 4A 1:46 PM: Herscher 2:00 PM: Watseka Community 2:14 PM: Maroa-Forsyth 2:28 PM: Flora 2:42 PM: Mater Dei 2:56 PM: Break Class 5A 3:10 PM: Richland County 3:24 PM: Paxton-Buckley-Loda 3:38 PM: Robinson 3:52 PM: Lincoln Community 4:06 PM: Centralia Exb 4:20 PM: EIU Panther Marching Band 4:34 PM: Awards Class 6A 5:30 PM: Mt. Zion 5:44 PM: Newton 5:58 PM: Mattoon Class 7A 6:12 PM: Marion 6:26 PM: Paris Cooperative 6:40 PM: Alton 6:54 PM: Break Class 8A 7:08 PM: Champaign Centennial 7:22 PM: Granite City 7:36 PM: Mascoutah 7:50 PM: Belleville West Exb 8:10 PM: EIU Panther Marching Band 8:30 PM: Awards Prospect Knight of Champions: Mt. Prospect, IL Class 1A 4:15 PM: Fenton 4:30 PM: H.D. Jacobs 4:45 PM: Glenbrook North 5:00 PM: Huntley 5:15 PM: Wheeling 5:30 PM: Break Class 2A 5:45 PM: Lake Park 6:00 PM: Batavia 6:15 PM: Elk Grove 6:30 PM: Round Lake 6:45 PM: Break Class 3A 7:00 PM: Warren Township 7:15 PM: Grayslake North 7:30 PM: Plainfield North 7:45 PM: Alan B. Shepard 8:00 PM: Mundelein 8:15 PM: Rolling Meadows Exb 8:30 PM: Prospect 8:45 PM: Awards Providence Catholic High School Marching Band Invitational: New Lenox, IL No schedule available at this time. SIU Music & Motion: Carbondale, IL Cancelled.

Red & Black Fall Classic 4A: 62.550 - John Hersey (Music, Visual, GE) 57.700 - Davenport Central, IA 57.150 - Yorkville 51.100 - East Aurora 50.000 - South Elgin

This is how Texas does their state series of competitions. Always wild to see a band score in the top 10 in multiple captions, have an outlier number and get knocked out. https://smbc.uiltexas.org/

That is the Pontiac Indian showdown recap. 🙂

Honestly...hire outside judges, if it can be worked into the budget. It's nice to get other people's perspectives on shows. This is D.D. Eisenhower's 4th competition of the season, and the third time they've been judged by Mike Madonia and Justin Clintsman, Clintsman every time on Visual Individual, and Madonia twice on Music GE and once on Visual Ensemble. Sidenote: Madonia and Jeff Fiedler will be judging this weekend at EIU.

Has anyone seen a scoring recap from NIU or 3A-4A Edwardsville?

Geneseo Maple Leaf Classic: Geneseo, IL A: 368.700 Galva (GE, Percussion) 363.900 Rockridge (Music, Color Guard, DM) 360.900 Sherrard (Visual) 346.900 Orion AA: 461.500 Western Dubuque, IA (Visual, DM) 460.100 Macomb (GE, Color Guard) 440.600 Rochelle Township (Music) 409.800 Rock Falls 386.600 Streator Township (Percussion ) AAA: 496.600 Minooka Community (Music, Visual, GE, Percussion, Color Guard) 431.600 United Township (DM) 423.800 Bettendorf, IA

IVC Grey Ghost Classic: A: 68.900 Dwight D. Eisenhower (Music, Visual, GE, Percussion, Color Guard) 55.800 Farmington 53.950 St. Joseph-Ogden AA: 64.650 Kewanee (Visual, GE) 62.950 Danville (Color Guard) 62.400 Richwoods (Music, Percussion) AAAA: 74.650 Normal (Music, Visual, GE, Percussion, Color Guard) 69.550 Galesburg 66.200 Pekin Community AAAAA: 77.000 Morton (Music, Visual, GE, Percussion, Color Guard) 67.450 Champaign Central

Yeah, and Grand Champion later on was named based on an asinine prelims/finals combo score, so when Greendale, WI won prelims in 2016 by 3 points, and then Lake Park won finals by 1.1 over Greendale, Greendale was named as Grand Champions.

Also, I know it's SUPER early, but open dates for ISU next year are currently September 26th, October 3rd and October 17th.

Forgot to add this show: Rich Township Raptor Rumble is October 18.

I would MAYBE be down for a 4-4-7 split, but a 5-3-7 split when 9 out of the 12 bands in 3A-4A last year would have outscored a potential 5th finalist from 1A-2A (IVC)?

Wild when you see what used to be on the schedule. Lake Park as a prelims/finals show Stagg as a midseason, Sunday show St. Rita with a Sunday show Atwood-Hammond, Olympia, Sparta, Wheaton North, Metropolis all had shows. Alton had a long running show. Greater St. Louis used to be at the Dome at America's Center, with 40+ bands. Everyone and their mother had a parade.

7:00, 7:15, 7:30,. 7:45, 8:00, 8:15, 8:30, 8:45, 9:00, 9:15 - Bands 1-10 9:30 Break, judges switch out 9:45, 10:00, 10:15, 10:30, 10:45, 11:00, 11:15, 11:30, 11:45, 12:00 - Bands 11-20 12:15 Break, Panel 1 back in 12:30, 12:45, 1:00, 1:15, 1:30, 1:45, 2:00, 2:15, 2:30, 2:45 - Bands 21-30 3:00 Break, Panel 2 back in 3:15, 3:30, 3:45, 4:00, 4:15, 4:30, 4:45, 5:00, 5:15, 5:30 - Bands 31-40 5:45 Big Red Marching Machine 6:00-6:30ish Awards, Class Champions named, announce finalists 7:30, 7:45, 8:00, 8:15, 8:30, 8:45, 9:00, 9:15, 9:30, 9:45, 10:00, 10:15, 10:30, 10:45 - Finals (bottom 7/top 7, with judges from Panel 1 and Panel 2 in different captions) 11:00 Awards Drawbacks: Long day, 1A champion possibly doesn't make finals under this format, Chicago area/south bands would push back with early start time.

Not possible though as the judges shift between classes. Unless they do ISU like they do BOA Super Regionals and Nationals, where they rotate out the judges on each break? Have 5 bands from each panel make finals, with the next 5 highest scoring bands regardless of panel in finals? Example: 40 band prelims, judging panel 1 judges bands 1-10, break, judging panel 2 judges 11-20, break, back to panel 1, break, panel 2, done with prelims.