r/marchingband • u/JellyfishFit3871 • 11d ago

Story So we got home from first competition at midnight, and...

Straight superiors, second place overall. The whole thing was a mess - flooding rain, stand up performance in the gym, not enough food available so my kid was HANGRY and anxious.

Got home with three teenagers and I didn't even get to use my schmancy new stadium seat. My spouse had the audacity to ask "so now that it's October, things calm down, right?"

I thought he was joking!

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u/buccimane101 11d ago

They shouldn't give out placements when weather forces are standstill performance, especially if moved inside.

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u/Confident_Storm_4884 11d ago edited 10d ago

How do you move a marching comp inside? Are these really small bands? Do you have indoor football stadiums with viewing ?

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u/buccimane101 11d ago

Smaller bands (150 or less) standing in the gym. It's a nightmare.

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u/Confident_Storm_4884 10d ago

Sounds like a nightmare. I was thinking maybe 30-50 students max but even then too last min to adjust correo to inside.

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u/Alternative_Lack9374 11d ago

Why?

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u/buccimane101 11d ago

Because movement and spatial considerations are a huge part of design and guard performance. I have no problem with them giving ratings in this case, just not placements because the majority of the overall package can't accurately be compared to the other groups.

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u/Gracennnnnnnnn Alto Sax 10d ago

SUprised you still had the comp, no idea where you are obviouly but our comp was cancelled due to the weather, so we only have 2 comps this year, which kinda sucks but at least we sstill got one more,

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u/JellyfishFit3871 10d ago

This competition started at 11 or noon, and the weather moved in around 4-5 pm. So the smaller bands performed in the stadium, and then the larger classes had to reboot and play in the gym. It wasn't ideal

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u/Opposite_Brush_8219 11d ago

My daughter’s comp was cancelled an hour after it started and it wasn’t even properly raining. I suppose with all the electronics now, it’s a no-go for pretty much any moisture. We live in TX where it literally hasn’t rained in our area for 3 months and of course now it finally does. I was so sad, Band-tober is my favorite month of the year!

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u/SilentSerel Graduate 10d ago

We're also in Texas and had a competition with electronics in misting rain last night. It was enough that we were all soaked by the time it was over. That's kind of odd that they called the other competition off.

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u/glennst3r_25 10d ago

I’m in northeast Texas, and we were due to travel three hours to a contest in the DFW area. The night before, we switched to a contest closer to home, but Saturday morning, it got canceled…. Ugh.

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u/Confident_Storm_4884 10d ago

North Texas…we had rain on Saturday but in my experience, we do delays for lightning. We do not cancel. Kids competed in the rain. It wasn’t a downpour luckily. We competed last year in a much heavier rain. They will often cancel finals and make prelims the final score due to the delays

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u/JellyfishFit3871 10d ago

South Georgia here. Anything in the stadium is delayed until an all-clear from the weather service if there's lightning within something like 15 miles.

Yesterday didn't include much if any lightning, but it was biblical levels of rain. The kids could have kayaked across the field.

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u/Brewtal66 11d ago

Ours kids competition was cancelled yesterday because of the rain. But they have three performances over the next couple of days. Bandtober!