The Festival of Champions Marching Festival in Warrensburg, Missouri marked the last performances of the Rompin, Stompin, Raider Band Jekyll and Hyde show. The kids did a great job but were disappointed in their 6th place finish. They did move up one spot from the preliminaries (they were the only band to do so). I have postponed blogging about it as I found it rather hard to deal with the fact that I will not have any more marching band events to attend. I never understood (or agreed with) the scoring and judging for these things and found it rather annoying having to sit through really bad performances only to find those bands score higher than ours. Why don't they have a degree of difficulty score (we always had more marching and playing at the same time than any other band). Now that I don't have to go any more, I am slightly saddened. While there was a lot I didn't like about them (musicality is not looked on as a must for a marching band), watching Shelby perform (and talking to her for hours afterwards) was a delight. King Kong (which won this competition Shelby's sophomore year, Fantasmic (which was all Disney tunes), and Jekyll and Hyde were great shows - much more complicated than what other bands were doing and the Raiders did a fantastic job. It's the end of marching but now we get to gear up for bowling. Here as some shots of the last performance.
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| The Rompin, Stompin, Raider Band |
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| The Drum Majors |
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| How many shows have dueling cymbal players? |
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| Our Shelby |
