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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:51 am

Among The Clouds

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Among The Clouds

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EVERGREEN HIGHSCHOOL DID NOT DESERVE TO WIN SWEEPSTAKES AT ALMOST EVERY NORTHWEST COMPETITION WE FREAKING WENT TO!!!!

THEY FREAKING MARCHED IN STRAIGHT LINES THE ENTIRE TIME!!
And oh no, if you were thinking they were doing slides, you are very wrong.
They FACED their drill spots.
Oh, and when their music got tough, they would halt and play.
Because it was too dang difficult for them to comprehend marching AND playing.

I don't know if they were at Sprague this year, but we got first in prelims anyways, so i'm content.
(This was BEFORE finals were cancelled due to someone in my band breaking their ankle in the like footdeep mud.0

I'm not so much upset that we were screwed at all these competitions, (because we had a stupid show that was freaking too hard...) but that Evergreen basically screwed everyone else in the entire competitions.
We're not a BAD band, and we usually place in the top 3 every single year, placing first occasionally.
But THIS year was completely different.
I don't know if it was the stupid freshman, but we got screwed because of Evergreen AND our drill writer.

Our drill writer wrote impossible drill spots on the field, and our visual instructors were either forced to change the person's dot, or make them "jazz run" to it. (Basically sprint in time).
For example: One of my drill spots required me to go from 10 feet off the front sideline, to go to 10 feet from the back sideline in 8 counts while marching backwards.

I didn't like our drill this year...it was a little TOO strange...

But I heard that Evergreen finally marched exhibition in their OWN competition this year.
Thank GOODNESS!
We didn't go because of homecoming.
We should've gone...

Jazz Running's a b***h.
The drill writer tried to make the Tubas jazz run backwards for 16 counts this year.
They told him he was on crack, and he re-wrote the page.

You're really lucky that you were able to have it rewritten.
Our drill writer worked for another organization, and refused to spend anymore time correcting our drill...

People are so nice sometimes... xp

He almost didn't rewrite it, but then 2 of the tubas tripped and dropped their horns.
It wasn't a pretty sight.
Especially when the third one kept going and almost tripped over the fallen peoples.

Heh..That same thing happened to our drumline...It was like a major domino effect! Our drum major didn't know what to do, and kinda just stopped conducting...and some people kinda just kept marching...it was a mess.

Later, one of those same drumline guys broke his ankle, and we still couldn't have our drill partially redone, because after that, we had a hole AND that drill was still too difficult for the drumline.

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:52 pm

My band has had 5 band directors in 4 years. The parents keep complaining, because our best director didnt have the best people skills. How's that for getting screwed? :/

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wafflezinmahpantz

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Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:06 am

Our winter percussion group missed first place in our division at our last competition by 0.05, does that count? gonk

Apparently our pit was overplaying? >_>; That almost never happens. Usually the drumline's too loud.

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:53 am

wafflezinmahpantz

Our winter percussion group missed first place in our division at our last competition by 0.05, does that count? gonk

Apparently our pit was overplaying? >_>; That almost never happens. Usually the drumline's too loud.

Heh..you're right that barely ever happens!

In my winter percussion ensemble, we got screwed because our director, the evil dictator that he is, gave us our first drill two days before our first competition... Pit basicaly just sat there for two days doing nothing.

What a smart one HE was...

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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:20 pm

My freshman year we were sooo excited because us and one other band at a competition got a 1 and qualified for state competiton, and then an hour after we got back to the band room, we got a call saying that they had made a mistake and we didn't really make it... xp but they let us go anyway out of pity. eek

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:52 pm

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Well, once my band got screwed out of getting 1st place, all because they played a rock song instead of a classic marching song. U see all of the other bands and they'r out of line, step, and r too close together. My band was in perfect step, lining, and spacing... and sounded much cooler! But the judges didn't like the song we played, which was a rock song... that was messed!

So how 'bout it. Did ur band ever get screwed over? (i hope that there hasn't been a forum like this... sweatdrop )

ive been in that situation too, i got screwed out of going to acc's and its not fair. my school is known for doing all the really hard stuff, and we do it perfectly, but the judges never like like any if the songs we ever play, so they just pick the bands that are out of step and slacking of

god i hate biased judges.

and a lot of times the judges get in the way of us playing and we cant do our rutine cuz they are messung us up

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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:15 pm

yeah at oba (oklahoma band association) yeah.. we where like the 2nd best there and we watch all the other bands we got 9th out of the top 12 in oklahoma. and we should have got higher but we didnt cause wesley from roland made our colorgaurd routine. mrgreen but anyways i hate it when judges are such wierd people...!!! wahmbulance

Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 2:54 pm

At the Music in the Castle competition, we're awesome second to some other band. I can't remember which band it is, but this year we sounded better and marched better than they do. But as usual, we got second.

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Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:25 pm

jazz band.... they thought we sounded like the most mediocore school. but the only problem is, is that 7 other band directors who got to listen to us thought the opposite. then it ends up that the band with the trumpet that can reach the e above the staff gets first.. stare

our judges sheets were burned almost immediately.... twisted well copies of them neutral

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:00 pm

wafflezinmahpantz

Our winter percussion group missed first place in our division at our last competition by 0.05, does that count? gonk

Apparently our pit was overplaying? >_>; That almost never happens. Usually the drumline's too loud.

That happened to the Varsety Guard my freshman year! Except the missed finals at Nationals by .005. We didn't even know why. I say it's because the instructor was giving them new work while in warm-up. >.<

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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:50 pm

We got lower scores last year because we didn't have a lot of colour guard, and no drumline...

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:38 pm

Blckpanthr13

wafflezinmahpantz

Our winter percussion group missed first place in our division at our last competition by 0.05, does that count? gonk

Apparently our pit was overplaying? >_>; That almost never happens. Usually the drumline's too loud.

Heh..you're right that barely ever happens!

In my winter percussion ensemble, we got screwed because our director, the evil dictator that he is, gave us our first drill two days before our first competition... Pit basicaly just sat there for two days doing nothing.

What a smart one HE was...

2 DAYS?!?!?!? you mean the field drill 2 days before comp? uh, how did that work out?

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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:43 pm

o god ya. like one time, at MICCA (adjudication) the judges said that some of our dynamics weren't in his music, and he got confused and took points off. he also said we should have chosen easier music.

and in marching season, we get stuff like the judges saying "u had too many good ideas, point deduction" no exaggeration there, seriously. they said that at nationals of 05 season i think. and the band that beats us most often always has a very simple, easy show. and of course we get no credit for our show being way harder.

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:37 am

ninja Our BD accepted a new job a week before new member camp and we still haven't found a new one or a theme yet and band camp is a week after next week ninja

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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:46 pm

Yep, last year at State Marching Competition. We felt that we did fantastic, it was the best we ever played. But when you see the recordings we sucked. But anyway the announcer guy said CCHS got a superior which is us! But then right before we left the parking lot the announcer guy came out with our band director and told us that he got us mixed up with the other CCHS band and we actually got an excellent. This was after the "No pants dance." And us cheering on our director. Yeah, tears were flowing but this year Kicks Brass!

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