two semi-random comments:
One: Yes, CV was "ranked" in 5th this time last year but the difference, I hope, this year is that we'll have two more DCA scores with DCA judges this month. Should prove to be beneficial to our scores, but more importantly to the exposure of us to the judges and the judges to us....so when we see judge x at finals, it won't be the 1st read.
Two: One very interesting thing to note for us (CV) is that our DCI judged DCA scores have held up from week to week....by that I mean that when we've gone from DCI shows to DCA shows, the scores have progressed each time. I hear a lot of "well it was DCI judges so it doesn't mean anything or mean as much, blah blah blah" but at least for us, it's proving to be very consistent and fairly matching up with DCA judges.
That is all.