About
A home for the whole activity
The marching arts happen once. A running order goes up, the scores are posted somewhere, a season ends — and most of it leaves no trace anybody can find later. The Atlas is where it all lives, in one place, for everyone in the activity.
Why it exists
Marching band is documented worse than almost anything that takes this much work. A circuit posts a running order and takes it down when the season ends. The scores are published, but one event at a time, at the foot of a page most parents and students never scroll to. A production that hundreds of people rehearsed for months leaves behind a schedule PDF and whatever anybody happened to film.
So the Atlas puts it in one place — a free, open archive of the activity’s results and history. The latest scores are the first thing you see, a school’s whole season fits on one screen, and nothing is ranked across events, because placement was awarded within a class on one night and anything else would be a claim the sources never made.
Where it comes from
Every fact has a source
The Atlas starts with Utah’s UMEA circuit. Schedules, running orders and scores come from what the circuit publishes — its own pages and the CompetitionSuite recaps it posts results through — and every one links back to where it came from. Where the circuits publish nothing, such as show titles and repertoire, the page says so plainly instead of leaving a blank that reads like a bug.
The published source is always the official record. If the Atlas ever disagrees with it, the source is right, and the Atlas wants to know.
How it grows
Anyone can add what they know
Students, parents, directors and alumni know things no spreadsheet ever held. With a free account (13 and older) anyone can suggest a correction or an addition, with a source. Every suggestion is reviewed by a moderator before it reaches the record, and the record shows whether each fact is official, verified or from the community.
The Atlas publishes schools and programs, never individual students. Start contributing.
Independent
Unofficial, and says so
The Atlas is an independent community project. It is not run by, affiliated with or endorsed by UMEA, any other circuit, CompetitionSuite, or any school or program it lists. Their names are used only to say what a page is about, and the Atlas uses none of their logos. The Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy say the rest in plain words.
Support the project
Free to read, and it stays that way
Nothing here is behind a paywall — an archive with a toll gate is not an archive. Hosting and the hours it takes to keep every season current are paid for by the people who use it. If the Atlas has been useful to you, a coffee helps.