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This year has been a total bust for me. Full price for exactly zer0 drum corps. The one show I stayed home to watch was a terrible connection and feed. ...finally just gave up on it. I will have to take time off to watch Finals - the inability to watch later when I am away was the piece of info that would have killed the sale for me. ...too anxious for my drum corp fix - no 'fine print' was read. My guess is that next year when it's 'time to buy DCI' streaming for the season, I won't.

After reading the first post, I will admit that I had to go check to make sure of the year. The people you mention (Rodriiguez and Quigley) have been running Revo into the ground for so long... The corps has survived solely on the determination and the talented backs of the young musician athletes and assorted caption heads who these clowns have run off year after year... Then, somehow, these kids rally against the awful mismanagement and keep going. DCI does know about them. In my time as a parent there, I had Dan Acheson's phone number and email and kept myself in his ear. The problem was they saw each event as a single 'solvable' problem and wouldn't look at the problem as a whole that reoccurred annually. Whether it's about the survival of d-3/open class drum corps as being necessary on its own (it is), or it's about these open class corps being necessary because they continue to supply musician athletes to the larger world class corps after they're ready to 'move up' (they are), it is well past time that DCI looks into the fiscal and financial fitness and history of corps like this.before letting them continue to compete.

I have two seats for Finals and Semis that I can't use. Sec 337, Row 2, Seats 20 & 21 Face value gets 'em. PM me if you're interested.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects 'stupid man' explicitly from the Congress, not from DCP or from me. To think...we Texans have been in charge of scheduling DCI finals all these years and I haven't done anything to get them scheduled on my days off, what was I thinking?

Well...without any 'real' retreat, isn't everybody but the DM of the 15th corps already getting 2-3 extra hours already? ....of rest? ...this one I like. I just think it would take the judges longer to get their scores down...to get their 'slotting' right before the next corps steps off. or you could have #3 perform two times? ...jk I like this too...this year, I think this would be cool...I haven't got any horse in the top 6, but it would be fun to have an open draw on top 6 for 'the' night without any semi scores posted until after Finals..... ......seems like the judges are already treated like a bunch of dead presidents in green polos....sequestering.....released only for Finals w/out prev knowledge of the order....these are always going to be the same people that have seen the corps all summer long...I don't think sequestering them is going to do anything but inflate their artificial imprortance They are 'ranked' going in.....but I do like the idea of getting the chance to see/judge without being told, "this is number two...we think they are better than number three, but not as good as number one....now for the 'competition'..." number four is my fav idea.....

double post

....and if the world were flat we would fall off sailing to China.

I think Glassmen do it at their home show....

....and in a technology sharing arrangement with NASA, the role of 'high camera' will now be played by the Hubble Space Telescope.

yeah, okay...you win....me too now

I've been okay here all day...what's the issue?

haha...but if a a shofar is a bell-front brass instrument, wouldn't a half-filled perrier bottle be closer to a woodwind? (flute-ish?)

That's a significant drop for Blue Stars, eh?

...anybody have access to the four wet people in the stadium?