The One About WGI 2025 Colorguard Championships

🔥 This week on On A Water Break, we’re LIVE from the 2025 WGI World Championships floor with your recap dream team: Ricardo, Trish, Whitney, Dylan Watson, and Bryan Ayala!

💬 Segment 1:We break down the highlights from an unforgettable WGI weekend — rain, props, floor drama, tears, and triumphs! From scheduling madness to weather woes, we cover the real behind-the-scenes of Dayton. Plus, we celebrate the 2025 DCI Hall of Fame inductees: Jim Moore, Matt Harloff, and Jack Bevins.

🥇 Segment 2:We’re dishing out the medals and celebrating top-tier performances! Huge congrats to:

• The Woodlands HS (Scholastic World Gold, 98.000) — first Texas gold in SW!
• Pride of Cincinnati (Independent World Gold, 94.900)
• Little Elm HS (Scholastic Open Gold, 98.400)
• Third Legend (Independent Open Gold, 96.900)
• Pope HS (Scholastic A Gold, 96.555)
• Homage Independent (Independent A Gold, 95.985)

Texas DOMINATED in all classes — with six SA and six SO guards in finals and three Scholastic medals coming home to the Lone Star State!

🛠️ Segment 3: 60 Second Tech BlockDylan Watson breaks down how to nail multiple three-turns in one show. It’s technical gold — you’ll want to replay it again and again!

😤 What Are We Doing?!

• Trish calls out copy-paste scoring from Power Regionals to finals.
• Whitney blasts WGI proposal culture at retreat (it's giving Phoebe from Friends).
• Dylan questions post-show photos (makeup meltdown edition).
• Ricardo demands tents for rain logistics and questions A Class burnout with 2-shows-a-day finals format.
• Bryan asks WGI to up the wristband allotments for staff — can we get a little more help?

🎉 Gush & Go:

• The clipping trend is here and it's adorable.
• Texas celebrates a true glow-up year.
• Dylan gets personal about his choreography growth and starting year 3 at ASU.
• Bryan shows love to all the first-time finalists and the amazing young directors.
• Ricardo gushes over the power of WGI fellowship, The Cookout, and community.

🎧 Guests: Dylan M. Watson @that_dude_dylan18, Bryan Ayala @itsbadluckbryan / @ehsfriscocolorguards

🎧 Catch the full episode now and celebrate the season with us!

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