Spandy

Dartmouth High School (their 2018 drumline show)

Sonus Brass Theater too, they are officially a program of Shenandoah Sound

Gaines came on in 2017 but didn't write the drill until the next year

It looks like it is manually controlled, at least for now. In the high cam from San Antonio you can see members going over to the prop each time it turns on or off

Prelims has been in the evening since my first championships weekend in 2005 (except 2014). 07 and 08 both started at 2pm according to some old dcp posts I dug up

Reminds me of a more polished version of what they wore in 2015:

Announced today:

There is not a rule against it. There used to be a rule regarding the number of members a DCA corps could add after DCI season ended, but that has since been nixed.

I'm simply relaying what was told to us at the time. Perhaps other new corps applying for membership have had different experiences.

I'm on staff for a DCA corps. As such, I received a copy of the rule book, along with specific instructions not to distribute it outside my corps. DCA is very picky about who has access to it. When we were reapplying to DCA for the 2014 season, we asked for a copy of the book so we could design our show to fit the rules, and were denied access to it. Only member corps are allowed.

DCA considers corps international if they come from outside North America, so Grennies and other Canadian corps were eligible for full membership.

The information is notoriously difficult to get a hold of, even for new corps who are applying for membership. I don't blame anyone for remembering the older version of the rules and not being able to find an update.

To clear up some confustion, from the 2017-2018 rule book: Order of Performance (Prelims) Corps will appear in the order of their highest score during the regular season at DCA sanctioned contests, with the highest scoring corps appearing last. If a corps has no DCA sanctioned contest score, but has a score from a DCI competition scored on DCA sheets, that will be their seeding score. All ties will be decided by drawing. In the absence of the availability of a seeding score for a competing corps, order of appearance shall be any unseeded Associate Member corps, followed by seeded Associate Member corps, followed by unseeded Full Member corps, and finally by seeded Full Member Corps as per the following: Associate Member corps – Unseeded Associate Member corps will draw for the earliest positions. Full Member corps – Unseeded Full Member corps will appear after seeded Associate Member corps and will draw for position. Exception - An approved, audited corps in good standing with DCA may hold a sanctioned, judged DCA contest with only one DCA approved corps in attendance. This show will be judged by an approved DCA judging panel in a venue that would normally host a DCA contest with multiple participants. The host corps must invite all DCA corps to participate, but if the host corps is the only participant, and they are willing to take the entire burden of the financial cost to host a show with them as the only competitive corps, DCA shall sanction the show and use the judged score appropriately.

I think it's pretty clear that Jeff is referring to the years Class A has had more corps, like in 2010 when it was bigger than Open Class

I'm sorry, I phrased that poorly and didn't mean to offend. Thank you for supporting small corps, both financially and in person. Very often it feels like there are not many who do appreciate us, which is why, to me at least, having an arena with meaningful results, where we can push each other to perform and to grow, is so very important. Of course there are many small corps that don't last; losing a key group of members or source of funding can quickly sink small operations like that, especially when so many are traveling so far to participate. I can't see how eliminating Class A would help that though, I don't see it doing anything but discouraging groups from showing up in the first place. And open class corps aren't immune, several perennial finalists have folded in that time as well.