I depped on Eb tuba for a championship section brass band once, at a beer night.
I arrived as directed about an hour before the start and was handed a pad full of music, each piece had a number, altogether about 130 pieces in numerical order. I would estimate that I'd played about 10% of them so the rest was a sight-reading job.
The twist was that for beer nights, the MD didn't like any gap between the songs. No set list, and no time to put the pieces in order. So while you were playing one song, the MD signalled the number of the next song and you had to find it in the pad, while covering your part. This is fine for Soprano Cornet who usually has at least 50 bars rest, not so much for the Eb bass although there are two of you so you can take it in turns.
About half way through the first set - No. 53 . Sir Duke. OMG. Interesting challenge to sightread that bass run on a tuba. At least they didn't do it Nathan-East style with each phrase in a different key.
I thought I did OK and so did the other Eb, maybe he was just being polite because I wasn't asked back.