{"id":45,"date":"2011-04-10T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justinfoell.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/10\/what-i-did-this-weekend"},"modified":"2011-04-10T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T14:37:00","slug":"what-i-did-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/jessi\/2011\/04\/what-i-did-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Did This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

My opinions – offended by what I say? Meh, move along then.<\/span> <\/p>\n

Instead of going over every show that was amazing (or not), I’m just going to give a rundown of the weekend. Isn’t that what I do every year? I’m too lazy to look back. I’ve had little sleep and my brain is overwhelmed by all the groups that used versions of Radiohead’s Creep<\/span> and Metallica for strings, there were a lot. (I totally made that up. It’s essentially a classical version of Nothing Else Matters<\/span>. Classy.)<\/p>\n

I was also overwhelmed at the number of Texas guards and even more impressed at how many made it to finals. I’m going to say at least<\/span> 10 made finals. And we heard this all weekend:

The stars at night
Are big and bright
(clap, clap, clap, clap)
Deep in the heart of Texas!<\/span><\/p>\n

Minnesota did well too. Irondale made finals in A Class with their sports-themed show and MBI (Minnesota Brass, Inc.) made finals in Open Class. <\/p>\n

My top shows were (ha! So I am<\/span> giving a run down, but it’s a small list):
Black Watch – A sight to experience in person, really.
Trumbull HS – Tearjerker and beautiful. Wish I had seen it more than once.
Carmel HS – These girls are amazing. Connect the dots!
Delazure – One of the Creep<\/span> shows…with Mime faces.
Beatrix – All the way from the Netherlands bringing the story of Anne Frank to the floor.<\/p>\n

My most WOW and DID YOU SEE THAT!? List:<\/p>\n

Zydeco
Braddock Independent
Vanguard
Fantasia
James Logan<\/p>\n

And not for fun, but to show that I didn’t like everything I saw there and I’m not afraid to admit it to the interwebs:<\/p>\n

South Shore – I know it was a crowd favorite but I have no idea why it won.
Onyx – I get that you’re World Class level, but please, don’t make the show alienate the audience by your concept.<\/p>\n

That’s all I can remember or that stuck out to me as big-time hot dog guards*.<\/p>\n

Thursday, I watched 9 1\/2 hours of Winterguard at three different locations. <\/p>\n

Friday, I watched 9 hours of Winterguard with A Class finals that night. <\/p>\n

Saturday, I watched 10 hours of Winterguard with it being Finals for both Open and World Class groups. <\/p>\n

That’s a lot of guard in a short amount of time, but I loved it. Til next year…

*Hot dog guard is a group you don’t like or want to see again and you get something to eat, like a hot dog. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My opinions – offended by what I say? Meh, move along then. Instead of going over every show that was amazing (or not), I’m just going to give a rundown of the weekend. Isn’t that what I do every year? I’m too lazy to look back. I’ve had little sleep and my brain is overwhelmed read more »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-wgi","author-jessi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t