Movin' On Up!

The XX, Basic Space. One of my favorite songs. : )

Today in our color guard sectional I finally learned all of the parts of the show I missed, and we changed our routine for Babe so it's a bazillion times easier (and a bazillion times cleaner)! All of our work is so much better than the last competition, now.

We listened to the judge's tapes for the Davis Cup, and the color guard judge really was a stickler on feet for this one, as well as "loss of clarity" (aka, all of the parts where we chewed up our flags, broke our poles in half, and hobbled across the field like confused penguins). BUT, color guard was our second highest score as a band (211/300), regardless of ultra crapiness! (Eva told us honestly that it was as bad as we thought it was: our worst performance ever.) The visual judge (who focused, um, on the whole show. The only "visual" stuff was color guard and a trumpet circle that he mentioned) gave us our highest band score, and I've decided I like him: he snorted when the band stepped over the guard. Band members: make someone let you listen to it. X D

If color guard was our second highest (oh, and also the highest score for our color guard so far this season) even though the show really did feel like we destroyed it, now that I feel like it's the best we've ever had, I wonder how our scores will improve? If we can take all of the stuff we learned today out onto the field, we'll do amazingly. And if the band improves too... my oh my!!! I'm so excited!!!!

In the name of Mountain Dew*, we will pwn the Saturday competition.

*Which I'm still not supposed to drink, even though there is a giant case of it at the top of my stairs.