FaustianMachine

Double post

Session 44 Kinetic Noise Riffs & Revelations Change is Everything The Garden of Love The Bluecoats Jagged Line Down Side Up Tilt The Observer Effect Lucy

Okay, so this should've been last year, but because of Covid we only get 8 competitive years this decade and we're halfway through. How would you rank the shows for 2020s for all of/your favorite corps? I'm going to rank only corps that have appeared in Finals (since I'm really lacking on the other groups, I need to do better with that) and only the four competitive years (you can include 2021 if you want!) From highest to lowest favorite: Blue Devils: The Romantics, The Cut-Outs, Variations on a Gathering, Tempus Blue Blue Knights: DRiP, Busk, Vibe, Unharnessed Blue Stars: In ABSINTHEia, Universal, Of War and Peace, Spectator Sport Bluecoats: Riffs & Revelations, Change is Everything, The Garden of Love, The Observer Effect Boston Crusaders: Paradise Lost, BOOM, Glitch, White Whale Carolina Crown: Right Here Right Now, The Round Table: Echoes of Camelot, The Point of No Return, Promethean Colts: Where the Heart Is, The Silk Road, On Fields, In Restless Dreams Madison Scouts: Mosaic, Installation 85, The Nature of Being, The Sound Garden Mandarins: Sinnerman, If I Must Fall..., Vieux Carre, THE OTHERSIDE Phantom Regiment: No Walk Too Far, [2025 Untitled], mynd, Exogenesis Santa Clara Vanguard: The aVANt GUARD, Vagabond, Finding Nirvana The Cadets: Atlas Rising, Rearview Mirror The Cavaliers: ...Where You'll Find Me, Shape|Shift, Signs of the Times, Beneath the Armor Troopers: VorAcious, The Final Sunset, To Lasso the Sun, Dance with the Devil

Several corps just broke their DCI high score records tonight! 7th Regiment Colt Cadets Gold Music City Raiders The Battalion Troopers

GET WEIRD, SANTA CLARA!!!

I bet these are interesting interviews the booth is having... Too bad we can't hear them.

Give me ABBA in the ballad and we have a deal.

Or the devil shoots and a flag with "Bang" comes out. We usher in vaudeville with the Troupers.

GET WEIRD, SANTA CLARA!!!

Updated in the original post!

Since a lot of scores are looking to trend towards personal bests for individual corps and finishing positions, I figured I'd compile a list of every corps highst score in a Finals setting and every highest score for a placement. A few notes: *I am only considering scores from the Finals week of events per season. If a corps scored higher during an event prior to their Finals week appearance, it is not included. *I only counted events where the highest placing World Class (and similar when under different names) attended. No Open Class (and similar when under different names) Finals or shows where the corps seeded in lower placing competed to make it to Prelims/Semifinals/other events where higher ranking groups attended are included. *Only the corps attending Thursday's Prelims are in the list. 29 is already a lot. 7th Regiment 72.350 2014 Prelims Blue Devils 99.650 2014 Finals Blue Knights 93.400 1999 Prelims Blue Stars 92.775 2022 Finals Bluecoats 98.750 2024 Finals Boston Crusaders 97.413 2024 Finals Carolina Crown 98.300 2013 Finals Colt Cadets 70.500 2024 Prelims Colts 90.263 2023 Finals Columbians 76.088 2023 Prelims Crossmen 93.000 1997 Finals Genesis 79.263 2022 Prelims Gold 79.913 2023 Semifinals Les Stentors 67.525 2022 Prelims Madison Scouts 97.800 1988 Semifinals Mandarins 93.775 2023 Finals Music City 82.875 2023 Semifinals Pacific Crest 86.350 2024 Semifinals Phantom Regiment 98.400 1989 Finals Raiders 71.300 2024 Prelims River City Rhythm 74.075 2024 Prelims Santa Clara Vanguard 98.800 1989 Finals Seattle Cascades 86.900 2002 Prelims Spartans 81.913 2023 Prelims Spirit of Atlanta 94.200 1986 Semifinals The Academy 87.225 2016 Semifinals The Battalion 75.350 2024 Prelims The Cavaliers 99.150 2002 Finals Troopers 89.475 2023 Finals 1 99.650 2014 F Blue Devils 2 98.525 2004 F Blue Devils 3 97.700 1998 F Blue Devils 4 96.925 2023 F Boston Crusaders 5 95.900 2009 S Santa Clara Vanguard 6 95.300 1989 F Star of Indiana 7 94.050 2007 F Bluecoats 8 92.125 2023 F The Cavaliers 9 91.100 1992 S Blue Knights 10 90.500 1988 S Suncoast Sound 11 89.163 2023 P Troopers 12 88.075 2024 S Madison Scouts 13 86.925 2022 S Crossmen 14 85.788 2022 S Blue Knights 15 85.200 1988 S Freelancers 16 84.225 2019 S Colts 17 82.875 2023 S Music City 18 82.500 2023 S The Academy 19 81.913 2023 P Spartans 20 81.075 2024 S Blue Devils B 21 79.263 2022 P Genesis 22 78.813 2022 P Blue Devils B 23 77.550 2022 P Spartans 24 76.413 2019 P Jersey Surf 25 76.050 2023 P Seattle Cascades 26 75.200 2024 P Columbians 27 74.575 2023 P Guardians 28 73.125 2022 P Southwind 29 72.975 2022 P Legends 30 70.475 2019 P 7th Regiment 31 69.950 2022 P River City Rhythm 32 68.838 2017 P Southwind 33 67.838 2017 P Guardians

Fun fact! Since the year 2000, this has been true besides in 2006, when The Cavaliers dropped from a 97.875 in Semifinals to a 97.200 in Finals.

This should be the seeding for Prelims With Allentown in the books and as long as my math and understanding of seeding rules are right, these are how the averages shake out. 94.775 Bluecoats 94.438 Boston Crusaders 92.929 Santa Clara Vanguard 92.804 Blue Devils 91.371 Phantom Regiment 90.988 Carolina Crown 89.333 Mandarins 87.196 The Cavaliers 87.192 Blue Stars 86.658 Troopers 85.163 Blue Knights 84.779 Colts 82.483 Madison Scouts 82.042 Spirit of Atlanta 81.396 Pacific Crest 79.788 Crossmen 78.992 The Academy 78.825 Music City 75.367 Genesis 75.117 Seattle Cascades

I think I know what you're on to... In the immortal words of Frank Reynolds, "somebody's gotta get stabbed!"

Got called out here and on reddit at the same time for forgetting them, good catch! Updating now.