2008 will see a significant increase in the number of national organisations running DCE Certified shows. With DCN and DCUK now on board as Certified Partners, it means that all of their shows, including their national finals, will be Certified. Other national organisations are also considering making some or all of their shows DCE Certified.

With this major step forward in uniformity it will become possible for the first time to seed this years DCE prelims placings on the basis of the scores corps have achieved at Certified shows throughout the season (including national Finals events). The highest score achieved during the season will be used to determine the order play in the mornings Open Class event. This also applies to A-Class scores, and any A-Class corps will be scheduled to appear at the Prelims before the Open Class corps. New corps without a certified score will perform first.

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InCorps keeps on growing and growing! We are pleased to announce that Robin Bogert is joining our InCorps Team as show designer and visual-marching clinician and instructor.

Robin has been involved with drum and bugle corps for many years. He played in Jong Jubal and Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps on the soprano and joined the soprano line of the Madison Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps in 2003. In 2005 Robin was appointed Visual Caption Head of Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps. In 2006 he won his first DCE European drum corps title as a Caption Head and won the High Visual caption award in 2007.

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Drum Corps Europe has published a new version of its DCE Competition Manual. In the new version 6.3 mostly minor changes have been added. The only practical change is the new size of the staging area.

Drum Corps International increased the depth of the staging area from 3 to 4.5 meters a few years ago. These new sizes will be implemented in the Europan manual starting 2008. Other changes are minor text changes, including the term change 'tape recorders' into 'digital recorder'.

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Members of a Coventry band formed in July have returned from their first competition with an impressive haul of nine medals.

Musicians from The Spirit of Coventry Drum and Bugle Corps struck gold at the British Youth Band Association contest in Leicester.

Solo successes included Lizzie Killick, who clinched gold in the brass under-25 section, and Philip O'Beirne, who won gold in the colour guard over-26 category.

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