[marchingartist]

jeff_demello, on 05 August 2011 - 05:39 PM, said:

Except for Pasadena ... a record crowd. Nice weather. No humidity. No bugs.

Here here. Only negative was that incessant buzzing from the lights. Other than that, I can't complain!

[danielray]

garfield, on 08 August 2011 - 04:59 PM, said:

And doesn't the whole continent take the month of August off for "vacation"?

Seems a perfect time to attract them here.

Absolutely. Impossible to get anything done in the summer here. The woman has a month long residency somewhere with her orchestra each summer (Japan last summer, Switzerland this)... so, thinking it is definitely the states for me next summer.

[musclebud]

Jesse, on 27 June 2011 - 10:22 PM, said:

I'm not going to lie... I was looking forward to finals in 2013 being anywhere but LOS. I thought finals in 2008 was great compared to 2009 & 2010. I like hearing the sound the performers are making, not a mix of the sound they are making plus the sound they were making 2 seconds ago.

I still remember all the hype on the fact this stadium was being designed with acoustics in mind. Oops.

They may have tried to market the stadium as being designed with acoustics in mind, but these newer batch of professional football stadiums are more likely constructed to offer more of the high end luxury sky-boxes that the big shots and corporations love. All of those right angles involved with the sky-boxes are terrible for sound.
DCI should never commit to a venue that hasn't even built. It may have looked good on paper, but the result was being stuck with a long term contract in a stadium that was awful for drum corps.

[BOSMarcher]

Some people have mentioned it as being part of their vacation plans, but some of the worst attendance was when Finals was in Orlando, "the vacation capital of the world." I wonder if there would be this much complaining about the same location every year if they had decided (could decide) to host Finals at Camp Randall for 10 years.

...for the record, I have no opinion about this (just being the devil's advocate), and I have not been to Finals in Indy. Then again, I have not ever watched a Finals... I have just performed in them. Since then, I just watch the Atlanta Regional each year. It takes place one to two weeks before Finals so all of the new endings are in and the shows are just about Finals ready.

Honestly, when it comes to stability, I think DCI is looking at much more than just a couple of shows at the end of the season. The regionals are where they needed to get the attendance up, and I think they have.

[drumcorpsdrummerman2012]

Rocketman, on 11 November 2010 - 04:59 PM, said:

Point made. Point confirmed. Thanks for playing.

It is my intent to not go to DCI while it is in Indy, and thus far, I have kept to that. Since we've got some corps coming west this year, there's almost no need for me to leave the state.

Why don't you want to go to DCI in Indy?

[hornandsoccer]

drumcorpsdrummerman2012, on 31 December 2011 - 03:46 PM, said:

Why don't you want to go to DCI in Indy?

woops, wrong place. d'oh.

This post has been edited by hornandsoccer: 10 January 2012 - 01:14 AM

[rickl]

dci championships should be moved across the country to allow all regions to benifit from the finals not only dci , is there some kind of remumeration given for it to be always held at indy?

[see me]

well, their Janual meetings will be in California in 2013, maybe that's a sign