And the beat goes on...

So our first two contests are done. We were 2nd at the Irmo contest and it got rained out right before the last three bands performed. It was also very interesting having the train come through during the middle of our show. It was not a bad showing but we were plagued by injuries and sickness just like a lot of other groups. We worked hard during our week off and it paid off. We had a much better run of the show and I was quite pleased with our progress. My seniors were not though...because we didn't place. It was the first time in probably their entire high school marching band career that they had not placed at a contest. I told them all week that it was going to be a tough contest, especially with 6 other bands in our class. I originally registered us for a smaller class based on our hornline but to balance things out we were moved up. I had the option to stay in our original class and we probably could have won it but I passed on that option...honestly I wanted to see what we were made of. Musically we did pretty well, we were 2nd in our class and 6th overall for the day. Not too shabby, but visually we were last. We have quite a few individual marching problems that we need to get fixed if we want to improve even more. I think we can do it...we just have to put in the hard work!!