UIL Area Marching Contest Info
Congratulations Charger Band on earning a one at UIL Region and advancing to UIL Area!! At this contest there will be 5 judges (3 music and 2 visual) that will rank all of the bands. The top 10 bands in prelims will advance to finals in the evening and the top 5 bands at finals will advance to the UIL State Marching Contest on November 5-6 in San Antonio. Finalist bands will be announced at 6:00. Please see the itinerary below for our plan for either scenario.
Saturday, October 27th
UIL Area E Marching Contest
The Area E Marching Band Contest is the final qualifying round for the UIL State Marching Band Championships.
Admission Info
General Admission = $5.00 (wristband is good for Prelims & Finals)
Children under 12 and Seniors 65 and over are free
Parking is free!
Parking
There will be 24 bands performing in Prelims. We will be the 16th to perform. If you will not be helping the band as a chaperone or roadie and you will not be helping the booster club with contest operations, you need to plan on arriving before 2:00! Spectator parking is on the scoreboard end of the stadium and will flow over to the visitors side parking lot by the time we perform. Please bring your patience as we anticipate nearly 200 buses, 24-48 equipment trucks, and upwards of 1,000 cars in the lot at one time. Traffic entering and exiting the stadium may get crazy.
Patches
You may order patches for your letter jacket online at www.southwestemblem.com
Souvenirs
PepWear will be selling souvenir merchandise throughout the day.
Location/Schedule:
FINALIZED SCHEDULE!
Bring $$ for concessions to support our intermediate programs
There is no contest meal this week!
8:30 Band Hall opens
9:00 Rehearsal
10:30 Load Truck/BYOL (bring your own lunch)
11:30 Inspection in Band Hall
11:30 Chaperone Meeting
12:00 Depart CSHS
12:45 Arrive CCS
1:40 Warm Up Lot B
2:10 Leave Warm Up
2:25 Enter Field
2:30 Perform
3:00 Load Truck
4:00 Return to stands to watch bands/get results
5:30 Drum Major Retreat
6:00 Finals Announcement
If we make Finals…..
6:40 Warm Up
7:10 Leave Warm Up
7:30 Perform
8:00 Load Truck
8:30 Return to stands for rest of Finals
10:45 Drum Major Retreat
11:00 Announcement of bands advancing to State
If we do not make finals, we will return home. A Remind message will be sent when we begin to load buses. Parents, don’t risk missing the last time Beneath the Stars will be marched in a competition setting! Come out and cheer the band on to finals!
Students should bring money for concessions or they may bring a sack lunch/dinner on the bus.
- Contest Day Checklist – Please make sure that you have everything that you need.
- See the Area E Marching Contest Full Schedule HERE
Volunteer Sign-Ups
We will once again be assisting with the operations of this event. Clear Springs is providing monitors/escorts. This is in addition to the usual crew of volunteers needed on any other contest day; chaperones, roadies, etc. We had terrific support last time with ALMOST all of the volunteer positions filled. Let’s see if we can’t cover all the spots this time! If you can help, please sign up in Charms:
