Marchingmaniac88

Galesburg is first in finals.

Galesburg was pretyyyyyy good 👀

This is a good follow up to last week…I think Galesburg’s show concept just doesn’t work for them. As long as I can remember, Galesburg’s shows have been impactful, loud, and captivating when they’ve been successful. While this one is a good production, maybe it just doesn’t have the wow factor. They are absolutely and unequivocally playing better than say 2021 Galesburg for example and even that band was beating the bands Galesburg is now falling short of. I’d love this to be a conversation. I hate seeing great bands underperforming.

They certainly aren’t the Andy Empey Galesburg that once looked like it could compete with Morton but they’re still a force to be reckoned with. If you interrogate the recap from Dunlap, the judges in every caption disagreed between Galesburg vs. IVC which, to me, is a prime example of inconsistent judging. Today will be their test, I think. And it’s in the new house of the person who made them a ‘household’ name again. They’ve got serious competition at Morton. If they compete and hang in the top three of their class, I am not as worried about them.

I don’t think that IVC stays consistently above Galesburg despite the victory at Dunlap. Even there, every caption had a judge giving the opposite band the victory. Great win for IVC but, in my opinion, not a particularly defining one.

I guess I didn’t realize IVC was doing so well considering they started the season at Washington with a 62 compared to Galesburg’s 70. Looks like the judges had mixed feelings in every caption. I saw a video of Galesburg somewhere before results came out and I thought surely they had won. Bravo for that upset!