Recap going up tomorrow...

Band Scores
1A Black-
57.60 Littlerock
55.30 Santa Barbara
54.50 Rosamond
54.35 Fairfax
39.20 Canoga Park

1A Red
64.35 Simi Valley
59.20 Lancaster
57.80 Highland
57.70 El Camino Real
54.50 Nordhoff

2A Black
56.20 Van Nuys
53.90 Bakersfield
53.70 Centennial (music breaks tie)
53.70 Arvin
44.60 Birmingham Charter

2A Red
69.60 Saugus
63.55 Monrovia
62.25 Buena
6.80 San Pedro
56.00 Dos Pueblos

3A
68.95 Valencia
68.65 Golden Valley
68.35 Canyon
67.00 Liberty
62.35 South

4A
60.10 Quartz Hill

5A
85.85 Westlake
83.40 West Ranch

Exhibition
87.65 William S. Hart

SWEEPSTAKES
Music - 385.5 Thousand Oaks (6A)
General Effect - 320 Thousand Oaks (6A)
Visual - 163 West Ranch
Band - 86.35 Thousand Oaks (6A)

It should be noted that West Ranch also won Percussion and Auxiliary Sweepstakes.

i still don't get how lots of bands got a lower score in this competition. There were a few that went up but not by much, but lots of school went down as much as 7 points from their last competition.

This comment is only accurate if you assume that all the bands improved over a week or two. Plus the cold air was playing havoc on the pitch of many groups.

What is Hart's show this year? I couldn't find any info regarding their show online..

It's called "At the Stroke of Midnight". It's pretty awesome.

I think it isn't so much that you assume everyone gets better, but to see some of the groups who do regularly improve drop down by margins of 5 or 6 or more points is quite curious. Sometimes you get a really tough panel, sometimes the stadium messes with your sound, sometimes the super high stadium at College of the Canyons is unforgiving visually...who knows.

But that is the nature of the beast in the game we play. Judging is subjective in music and what one may see as being a mid box 3 performance another might see as a high box 2 (since 2 is now lower than 3...still getting use to that change).

I just noticed that in a field of ~30 bands, no bands scored between 70 and 80. I just thought that was interesting.

Thanks!