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I am excited to announce the release of a new mobile app. Starting today, you can download DrumScorps for your iOS, Android, or Windows phone. Developed in partnership with Drum Corps Planet, DrumScorps is an app designed for the drum corps community and is a must-have for members, family, alumni, and fans. Within the app, you can: - Check the latest scores (with integrated recaps!) or view historical scores from past seasons - Read up-to-date news with categories ranging from Open Class to International corps and more - Explore the tour schedule for your favorite corps - See details about each and every event during the season including time and place, performing corps, and weather conditions - Find nearby events and get directions to the stadium For more screenshots and info, check out the full announcement here: http://www.drumcorpsplanet.com/drumscorps-for-iphone-android-windows-phone/ You can also follow us on Twitter for updates about the app: @DrumScorps I'd also like to take a minute to thank all of those who have been involved in the development of DrumScorps. To JohnD, a huge thank you for working with me on this project. It could not have been done without you. To Ken Hammond, for providing all of the excellent graphics and icons you see throughout the app. Also a huge shout-out to those that were involved in testing the app. Your feedback and suggestions truly helped shape DrumScorps into what it is today. DrumScorps started out a year ago as a simple Windows Phone app that did one thing: display scores. One year later, with the help of Drum Corps Planet and this community, the app is available on all mobile platforms with significantly expanded functionality. I sincerely hope everyone enjoys the app and finds it useful throughout the drum corps season.

The amount of stupid hurts and it all starts with super-secret drum corps shows days before the season starts. Seriously, step back and wallow in the idiocy and what you folks are saying to each other All this stupid just cost Blue Devils a placement, they will not be this years’ DCI Champions now who is sorry? Nope, too late the cow has mooed

You must be high as hell right now.

The hearts are integral to the enjoyment of the broadcast IMHO

This thread is hilarious

If they care as much as you guys care whether they care, they are bound to medal this year.

You can do the same thing on the normal website by clicking on the 'dot' or 'star' in front of the topic title.

Data that would be actually useful in mobile app: housing sites. I know the availability of that data is very hit and miss but it's a killer feature for mobile. Imagine begin in the area of a big regional; click on a corps and boom! google maps opens with direction to their housing site.

I spoke to said poster Privately so as not to drag it out in public as I was asked to investigate by the person who took the video. The youtube vid was someone else but someone who knew that person and dishonored him. Had I found the video online I would not have posted it as I knew the source of it. I happened to be there that day and knew the location of the videographer. Not everyone would know that though. Alluding to having more sources available by PM is not exactly cool either. However, I do feel that shaming him on this thread is also not very nice. Let's just move on and try to be civil.

That is both stupid and awesome.

For me it hinges on whether they offer on demand viewing after the live shows. It was rare that my schedule aligned to where I could watch an event live and I doubt that will change for me this summer.

Not gonna lie, I did get some enjoyment out of the hearts in the first broadcast tonight when Hop was just sitting there with his mouth open, and it looked like they were all flying into his mouth.

Current marchers are out of touch with anything relating to anything that is not Miley Cyrus or updating their Tumblrs Former marchers are out of touch with anything that is not unison rifle tosses while wearing absurd boots and/or playing valve/rotor horns FFF with bad tone Meanwhile, BD just wins DCI championships

If following the original owner of the video's wishes, and respecting the DCP terms of service and general copyright law in general makes me superior, then yes, I suppose I am.

Doesn't Crown look so much better without so much junk taking up field space for little reason?

I predict this goes on for 3 more pages. Who's gonna take me up?

I was not the poster suggesting that BAC's 75th would garner them any extra credit. I don't believe that is the case. I WAS responding to someone who suggested that current members do not care about nor feel bound by any sense of history and thus would not relate to the 75th. That is simply not true. Naturally, every member brings their own backgrounds and personalities with them when they arrive at move in and begin the touring process. My experience with Boston, which reaches back nearly 40 years, has shown me time and again that BAC has a certain historical thread weaving through its organization at the membership level. Do current members obsess about the corps' history or perform primarily for Crusaders of the past? Certainly not. Having said that, it is true that there is a thick, ever present institutional memory which the current members absorb. I would suspect that there are probably similar feelings at Madison and Cavies, and perhaps Cadets as well. In an era where many members of the "millennial generation" seem to not want anything to do with prior generations, I frankly feel that a reverence for the past and "how we persevered to survive" is a good thing.

I'm not a smart man, Jen-nay... but in regards to the secret performance on June 15th that Hop alluded to: Edit: Looks to be Troopers and Madison for that webcast. Maybe Cadets will pop in?

I feel the opposite. Can't stand them and loved the old ones. :/

YES YES YES MELLOPHONES!!!!

He's better than a serial baiter. I'd say he's a master. Yeah, I'm about 15.

#DCPGODWIN #SPORTS

Madison Scouts in their 75th anniversary year in 2013 finished in exactly the same placement spot ( 9th ) as they did the season before. I don't think the judges care if its your anniversary year or not when it comes to their giving of scores. Boston failed to make Finals in Boston ( Foxboro ) in 1994 by a mere 4 tenths, finishing in 13th, and missing performing on Finals Night. Madison Scouts just missed out on Finals ( 14th ) in 2002 as when Finals was in Madison too. That said, most athletes, ( pro and college ) will tell you that they do feel a "special motivation" when playing at home. So this notion that those in Corps or are college or pro athletes that speak about a " special motivation " when playing at home are " immature " is silly nonsense, no matter if that remark came from a " DCI Hall of Famer " or not. Teams in sports play like heck to earn home field advantage in the playoffs, and all Corps and sport teams like and prefer to compete before home crowds. Thus, most of them do tell us that they have a natural , "special motivation" to see that it happens, and they are not " immature " for having said so. Whether it actually happens or not, is of course beside the point.

Having spent time with the actual members of BAC (two weeks ago), I will tell you that they ARE highly motivated, and the 75th Anniversary IS in fact a big deal to them. With respect to last year, I don't think anyone can objectively watch that performance on video and not see how highly motivated those members were then as well. As I have stated on here several times before, I have no problems with the numbers from last August. Boston put on a great show at finals, but context is everything, and the 2014 Championships also included three drum corps (BK, BS, Cavies) who also happened to have their best seasons in years. The fact that these three corps hit it out of the park does not for a second diminish BAC's product. As for my own prediction...for the third year in a row, I'm going to predict 4th-9th.

You'd think they'd do that every year.

Chairs, coat racks, poles, and mirrors can be moved around, don't take up a lot of field space, and are not a safety hazard to members. Not only that, the trampolines were barely used at all. A lot of people don't like BD's style, but thing they know how to do is use props effectively.

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These uniforms always reminded me of the guards that protected the Witch's castle in the Wizard of Oz.

Heh, I like those...

I imagine that like me, Fannetwork had many overseas viewers which makes it impossible to watch live events' live'. If they have the on demand (i.e. watch the next day) function on this new platform, I will subscribe, if they don't, there is no point and I suspect they will lose many other viewers that cannot watch events live (unless they are nocturnal!)

most impressive thing was seeing Travis Peterman not die chasing the snares LOL

what was i thinking the jackets before werent blue. o wait... The new one is one color head to toe with just white trim. It doesnt pop and doesnt flash, Blue top black pants does 1000x more than blue top blue pants.

The ballad and Waltz is more staging as opposed to the first part of the show which is intense drill. It's a nice balance, IMO

Wait, how can the lame observations of the young marchers today be at total odds with DCI's marchers today? I believe they are the same people.

This is very true IMO. Most if not all anniversary shows usually just touch those involved or have been involved. Some older audiences may connect a bit just because it brings them back to their own time for a minute. I think most really dont care. Ive done a few shows where a corps went back in time and even with current members it was ok BUT hard to connect being they had no past experience to relate to, even if a huge history lesson was given. For me it's nice sometimes to connect pieces from the past but it;'s because Ive been around since dirt but judging IMO will not be influenced by it.

. It's the corps membership themselves that complained.

Agreed. It's a delightful movie, and also one that's beloved both by the general public and the film specialists. Every ten years since 1952, Sight & Sound, the magazine of the British Film Institute, conducts an international poll of critics--and also of directors since 1992. Singin' in the Rain has regularly received a good number of votes, and it made the top ten twice (both time with critics not directors--although, e.g., Francis Ford Coppola picked the film when he was polled in 2012), first in 1982: 1. Citizen Kane (U.S.: Orson Welles 1941) 2. The Rules of the Game (France: Jean Renoir 1939) 3. Seven Samurai (Japan: Akira Kurosawa 1954) 3. Singin' in the Rain (U.S.: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen 1952) 5. 8 1/2 (Italy: Federico Fellini 1963) 6. Battleship Potemkin (U.S.S.R.: Sergei Eisenstein 1925) 7. L'avventura (Italy: Michelangelo Antonioni 1961) 7. The Magnificent Ambersons (U.S.: Orson Welles 1942) 7. Vertigo (U.S.: Alfred Hitchcock 1958) 10. The General (U.S.: Buster Keaton 1927) 10. The Searchers (U.S.: John Ford 1956) And again in 2002: 1. Citizen Kane (U.S.: Orson Welles 1941) 2. Vertigo (U.S.: Alfred Hitchcock 1958) 3. The Rules of the Game (France: Jean Renoir 1939) 4. The Godfather & The Godfather Part II (U.S.: Francis Ford Coppola 1972 & 1974) 5. Tokyo Story (Japan: Yasujiro Ozu 1953) 6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (U.S./U.K.: Stanley Kubrick 1968) 7. Battleship Potemkin (U.S.S.R.: Sergei Eisenstein 1925) 7. Sunrise (U.S.: F.W. Murnau 1927) 9. 8 1/2 (Italy: Federico Fellini 1963) 10. Singin' in the Rain (U.S.: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen 1952) Despite this rarefied company, I saw the film again last year in the theater with a large crowd who enjoyed themselves thoroughly, laughing all the way through.

As JohnD mentioned, no DCA scores at the moment. However, you will find DCA news within the app.

Holy ####. Well we have a frontrunner for worst person on DCP award. Is it that hard to just respect a corps' wishes? Gabe acknowledged he wasn't aware that the video he shared was highly restricted and he has offered to take down the vids. It's not that hard to wait a bit more.

the difference is unbelievably astounding!

You sir are incorrect, the design team is completely new this year. As for the rest of the captions: Percussion, the caption head and the co-caption head and two of the techs are the same. The brass caption staff is completely new, NONE returning from 2014. The visual caption head was a consultant last year and only one of the tech is returning. You are correct the Guard caption has been elevated from last year. Design Myron Rosander: Visual Consultant Will Pitts: Brass Arranger Andrew Solomonson: Drill Designer Brian Giddens: Visual Coordinator Brass Jason Rinehart: Caption Head brass@spiritdrumcorps.org Brian Kackley: Trumpet technician Beth Fabrizio: Mellophone technician Jeremy Hackworth: Baritone/Euphonium technician Andrew Lee: Baritone/Euphonium technician Patrick Wade: Tuba technician Mason Coats: Tuba technician Jay Sconyers III: High Brass technician John Bratton: Low Brass technician Luke Cramer: Baritone Intern Percussion Ben Pyles: Caption Head/Battery Arranger percussion@spiritdrumcorps.org Greg Tsalikis: Co-Caption Head/Front Ensemble Coordinator/Arranger Andrew Barlow: Battery Coordinator Kent Lineberry: Battery Consultant Lance Kindl: Snare Taha Ahmed: Snare Aaron Tucker: Tenors Joshua Mandel Montgomery: Tenors Henry Williams III: Bass Zach Turner: Bass Nick T. Brakeman: Cymbals Dani Cunning: Cymbals Steven Michael Hand: Front Ensemble Jake Lyons: Front Ensemble Color Guard Jen Barton: Caption Head colorguard@spiritdrumcorps.org David Crook Ricardo Robinson Jordan Gentry Sammie Dobson Jose Morales Narrissa Sneed Trent Williams Brandon Almand Jed Garvey Visual Michael Zerbini: Caption Head Sean McDermott: Visual Ensemble Coordinator Pablo Coppola Matt Matthews Arwen Hernandez Samantha Dobson Adam Steltenpohl Greg Mea Joe Perez

DCI + half-solutions and "coming soon" answers = sadly par for the course. They're as passive a bunch of people when dealing with business as I've seen. I at least hope they deal with the member corps better than this. Mike

Yeah....thanks a lot for ruining it for so many of the alums. The source of that vid said EVERY #**(*#*#%))*ING TIME he posted one to the original location that they were NOT TO BE SHARED, POSTED, OR DOWNLOADED. But thanks to YOU, it appears he will no longer be able to provide those vids. What part of not posting them was so difficult to understand? YOU have now ruined it for everyone else. Failure to follow simple instructions...good going, jackass. :thumbdown: Oh....and isn't saying you have alternative links for bootleg vids a violation of DCP's TOS????

I just signed up on the website but here's my corps: Corps Name: Aurora Sound Director: Cappybara Division: World Class Hometown: Reston, VA Show Theme: TBA

So, hello, I'm an alto sax player in marching band. My band is rather small and has very little funding from the school (enough to pay for buses to transport us and our instruments to games and such). We only have 2 low brass players, the first being a trombone and the second being (not a brass though) a baritone saxophone. I've been fond of low brass since I discovered DCI on youtube and since our band is lacking in that area I decided to take on switching from alto sax to either euphonium, baritone, or tuba. Problem is we don't have any marching euphoniums, baritones or tubas. We do, however, have 2 concert model tubas, 2 concert model euphoniums, and from what I know, 0 baritones. We do have 2 flugelbones and a couple of mellophones, but those aren't brass. My goal is to play tuba if I am able to learn over the summer, in time for band camp. My first question is, should I learn to play euphonium then go to tuba, or go straight to tuba ? I was thinking to transition to tuba rather than jump right to it since I'd have to adjust to the brass embouchure first. Then again I'd still have to adjust to play tuba if I jump anyways, then my obstacle would be the air input adjustment. I have little time to decide since I can only get into our band room tomorrow then Tuesday (graduation day). Should I take home both the euphonium and the tuba or just one ? My second question is, is it possible to have a technician convert a tuba from strictly concert to marching tuba/euphonium ? Would that process be expensive ? I'm not yet old enough to work (I'm 15) I can cut grass but I'm not that great on reaching out to people who would want me to cut their grass. I'd ask my parents to help pay but they already have enough money bs problems to deal with and I don't want to feel bad for asking. Sorry if this post was tl;dr I always talk too much, probably because I hold it all in at school

<from FB> The Academy 2015 presents: A Step in Time We look forward to sharing this musical journey on stage with our guests at the Tempe Center for the Arts Friday and Saturday.

Uniform: a special kind of clothing that is worn by all the members of a group or organization (such as an army or team) Costume: clothes that are worn by someone (such as an actor) who is trying to look like a different person or thing They wear uniforms. Which can also be called costumes. Just like decades ago when corps would wear costumes that emulated the uniforms of military organizations.