It was close with perennial Grand National Finals contender Homestead (IN), but Jenison and Rockford popped out the event’s top two scores, making a statement on behalf of the Great Lakes State.īoth bands were among the few from their home state that competed at Grand Nationals in 20, each appearing in Semifinals on both occasions. But it’s simply to qualify the statement that, maybe, Michigan’s top bands don’t garner the national BOA community spotlight garnered by other states - the national spotlight they certainly deserve.Ī pair of Michigan bands went into Toledo last weekend, at an event littered with Ohio and Indiana bands, some of which have been in or around the Grand National Finalist pool in recent years, and went 1-2 in the rankings. That’s not to knock on Michigan not at all. 20 each saw the same number of Michigan-based Grand Nationals participants. In 2022, five Michigan bands will compete - in comparison to 31 from Ohio and 15 from Indiana - at the season-ending BOA event. Many Michigan bands don’t end up making the trip, for one reason or another, to the BOA Grand Nationals. And that’s fair, those regions always produce a ton of competitive success in various scholastic marching circuits.īut the mitten-shaped state’s got some big-hitters. It’s always “Indiana” this and “Texas” that and “California” this. Michigan as a hotbed for high school marching band isn’t always talked about loudly, on a National scope. But this data is, if nothing else, interesting. If I had my educated guess, top scores will gradually normalize over the next few weeks, as they often do, with more permutations of more competitors at more venues. There’s no argument to be had or point to be made off of this information you could reasonably pin it to a wide variety of different factors, or simply argue there’s no correlation, which is likely true. The same experiment in 2022, featuring eight events, yields an output of about 77.200. It’s not a gigantic difference, but it’s a difference.ĭigging a little further, the average score of a top-three ensemble in seven September 2021 events - so, 21 total data points - was about 78.800. The same weekend in 2022 featured an average winning mark of about 81.500. But, yeah, in a very basic sense, scores are a little lower out of the gates than they were in September 2021.Īt events in 2021’s final weekend events, four winning scores averaged out to just shy of 83.000. With that in mind, this will be one to keep an eye on as more data points develop into the month of October - especially as Super Regionals roll around and data grows exponentially. Let’s make on thing clear it’s way too early to make sweeping statistical declarations about the BOA season. So, before we dive head-first into the gauntlet of BOA contests that is October, here are three interesting storylines you may have missed during two September weekends of competition: 1. My head’s still spinning a little bit and if you follow along with the BOA season, your head, too, will start spinning even faster, as the calendar’s 10th month will feature the vast majority of 2022 BOA events, including a pair of Super Regional events. Yeah, I know, October got here in about 12 seconds.
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