I've been through the TMAA concert band training several times and I was surprised at how little time was spent on addressing small school bands. It was basically like a, "oh yeah, small schools exists," type of mention, but the small school recordings used in the training were not of anything like a 1A/2A group. If the first time that a judge hears a 1A/2A band is on at the stage a UIL, then yeah that might explain some of the rainbow ratings we see from time to time. I'm due for my refresher training soon so it'll be nice to see if they're mixing up the recordings now.
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