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Post by 4score on Oct 31, 2022 21:01:47 GMT -6
I’d find it hard to believe that most states weee operating anything close to normal in fall of 2020 certainly not CA or IL.
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Post by srv1084 on Oct 31, 2022 21:10:22 GMT -6
I’d find it hard to believe that most states weee operating anything close to normal in fall of 2020 certainly not CA or IL. Some certainly were. If I remember correctly, Texas held their state championship that year.
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Post by marimba11 on Oct 31, 2022 21:53:44 GMT -6
Correct, Texas held their championships. Mason played in Lucas oil, Avon, Carmel, Brownsburg ect all had field shows performed in exhibition. Castle had a competitive show, BA and DB sort of had light field shows. Western SC had competitions! While many districts in SC had almost nothing including Wando.
It really came down not only to districts but even individual directors.
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Post by principalagent on Nov 1, 2022 10:07:46 GMT -6
Correct, Texas held their championships. Mason played in Lucas oil, Avon, Carmel, Brownsburg ect all had field shows performed in exhibition. Castle had a competitive show, BA and DB sort of had light field shows. Western SC had competitions! While many districts in SC had almost nothing including Wando. It really came down not only to districts but even individual directors. I think this really glosses over what happened to paint a more optimistic picture than a realistic one. Basically none of these bands had props. Many of these shows averaged six or six and a half minutes. Drill was spread apart. Many shows were reprisals—sometimes containing sections that a chunk of the kids had marched before. Carmel’s last performance was in mid-October. BA basically did a college band show. Some bands carried on in 2020, but hardly any of these situations were normal. And hardly any of it meaningfully carried over to 2021 except for the bare minimum of keeping kids on their feet. Which isn’t nothing! But it isn’t a lot either.
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Post by dbdbdb on Nov 1, 2022 12:22:33 GMT -6
Correct, Texas held their championships. Mason played in Lucas oil, Avon, Carmel, Brownsburg ect all had field shows performed in exhibition. Castle had a competitive show, BA and DB sort of had light field shows. Western SC had competitions! While many districts in SC had almost nothing including Wando. It really came down not only to districts but even individual directors. I think this really glosses over what happened to paint a more optimistic picture than a realistic one. Basically none of these bands had props. Many of these shows averaged six or six and a half minutes. Drill was spread apart. Many shows were reprisals—sometimes containing sections that a chunk of the kids had marched before. Carmel’s last performance was in mid-October. BA basically did a college band show. Some bands carried on in 2020, but hardly any of these situations were normal. And hardly any of it meaningfully carried over to 2021 except for the bare minimum of keeping kids on their feet. Which isn’t nothing! But it isn’t a lot either. I don’t think any program escaped Covid unscathed or unaffected, but like most things, positive attitude, creativity, and will to thrive kicked in better with some than with others.
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Post by hewhowaits on Nov 1, 2022 14:48:19 GMT -6
Correct, Texas held their championships. Mason played in Lucas oil, Avon, Carmel, Brownsburg ect all had field shows performed in exhibition. Castle had a competitive show, BA and DB sort of had light field shows. Western SC had competitions! While many districts in SC had almost nothing including Wando. It really came down not only to districts but even individual directors. I think this really glosses over what happened to paint a more optimistic picture than a realistic one. Basically none of these bands had props. Many of these shows averaged six or six and a half minutes. Drill was spread apart. Many shows were reprisals—sometimes containing sections that a chunk of the kids had marched before. Carmel’s last performance was in mid-October. BA basically did a college band show. Some bands carried on in 2020, but hardly any of these situations were normal. And hardly any of it meaningfully carried over to 2021 except for the bare minimum of keeping kids on their feet. Which isn’t nothing! But it isn’t a lot either. Very true overall, but if you want to see Mason's 2020 show with fancier props, watch this year's Brownsburg production. Little if anything has been added. Mason definitely didn't take it easy in 2020.
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Post by Subito Fortissimo on Nov 1, 2022 20:03:33 GMT -6
Correct, Texas held their championships. Mason played in Lucas oil, Avon, Carmel, Brownsburg ect all had field shows performed in exhibition. Castle had a competitive show, BA and DB sort of had light field shows. Western SC had competitions! While many districts in SC had almost nothing including Wando. It really came down not only to districts but even individual directors. I can say with some certainty that no NC bands did anything meaningful in the Fall of 2020, especially because the football season was postponed until the Winter/Spring of 2021 and by that time I don't think anyone really did much beyond having a basic pep band for the games.
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Post by saturdaynightlights on Nov 1, 2022 23:17:24 GMT -6
Correct, Texas held their championships. Mason played in Lucas oil, Avon, Carmel, Brownsburg ect all had field shows performed in exhibition. Castle had a competitive show, BA and DB sort of had light field shows. Western SC had competitions! While many districts in SC had almost nothing including Wando. It really came down not only to districts but even individual directors. I think this really glosses over what happened to paint a more optimistic picture than a realistic one. Basically none of these bands had props. Many of these shows averaged six or six and a half minutes. Drill was spread apart. Many shows were reprisals—sometimes containing sections that a chunk of the kids had marched before. Carmel’s last performance was in mid-October. BA basically did a college band show. Some bands carried on in 2020, but hardly any of these situations were normal. And hardly any of it meaningfully carried over to 2021 except for the bare minimum of keeping kids on their feet. Which isn’t nothing! But it isn’t a lot either. It is very funny comparing this to what Tarpon did that year, with a Hamilton production so long that I believe there may have been an intermission.
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Post by scbandfan on Nov 4, 2022 6:40:15 GMT -6
It’s hard to keep up with the rest of the country when covid and district protocols absolutely WRECKED so many of the Cobb county bands and most of the rest of the country got to have essentially normal marching band in 2020, plus new classes of kids coming in that had middle school on zoom so they lack the fundamentals and are behind what they would’ve been in 2019 I really do feel this tbh. Fort Mill schools had a similar issue. The Cary bands even worse. A shame because these are pretty wealthy suburbs with great potential. Seemed like the more rural schools came out better - at least in the southeast. Catawba Ridge won a Regional and State this year after Covid. I would say they managed pretty well through Covid times. Fort Mill High's decline is due more to staff changes and decline in the competitive and winning culture they once had. Fort Mill High has no excuse not to accomplish what Catawba Ridge did this year. Fort Mill High program = complacency because of years of staff and parents preaching the one town-one band idea which made Fort Mill band shy away from competing directly against Nation Ford and now Catawba Ridge.
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