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Our's is amazing right now. We've gotten 1st place at both cavalcade's we've attended so far and our show is creating a lot of buzz. See, we use these big barrels as drums for the opener and closer and people in the stands thought it was the coolest thing (and people always stop us to say how cool our hats are XD )

Yesterday we had our 2nd cavalcade and it was the first time we'd be playing the whole show for competition. So we only really worried about the closer, but then there was huge ensemble tear in the middle of the opener. That had never happened before but then the last to songs were awesome. We ended up getting 1st place with a score of 85.15! The 1st place Yankee band that was there got an 85.90. Both them and us (we were sitting next to each other) were really surprised. AND we got best music! My BD said that if the opened was better, we could have easily gotten 3 more points!

That's a huge improvement from our 1st score of 78.40. All we gotta worry about now is to keep improving our scores.


But tell me how your season's going! What have been some of the best/worst moments so far?

Oh wow...that really stinks.

It was like that a couple years ago here when our old BD quit (to go to our rival school). Half the band left because then believed no one could make the make as great as he did. So we went from like 100+ people to hardly 50. Then like all of the staff left with the directer and so we almost lost the band program all together.

It'll be hard, but i'm sure you guys will bounce back! 3nodding

i think we've been having a pretty good season...at our new england championships, we lost to our rival band, (they got 96.35, we got 96.1) but we got best colorguard and i think best music. and we got 5 stars in all captions at both MICCA competitions. (that's like a massacuesetts thing)
anyway, i can't wait for finals! pennsylvania!

We became grand champions with a score of 80. something at the Durant HS competition in FL. We got 3rd place at St. Augustine with a score of 81.5 (1st place got 87 O_O). We got one superior at FBA marching festival last night after getting 3 years of straight superiors. That was a letdown -_-

Best show EVER! I loved it. I can't believe how fast the season went! It was the best season in the history of our band program!

Bands of America Regional finalist
Straight 1's at state (Perfect score)

and in december were off to disney world to marching in the citrus bowl parade and new year's eve celebration!

ours just ended about two weeks ago. we got 4th place out of 9 bands at the big competition.
at state championships we got 2nd place out of FIFTEEN bands. every one was really happy.

i couldn't make the biggest competition because of vacation in florida. i really wish i was there though. every one was upset about getting 4th place. but i was the only one immune to it since i wasn't there.

the best score we got this year was an 88.55. we're one of those bands who are careless. a band that we really like to beat (which we beat twice) got a 98 at their championships, and their theme was BARRY MANILOW.

otherwise, it was a really great season. i can't wait to be in it next year!