Bob J

Mike, that doesn't make sense. Your most favorite and least favorite things about DCA are both beer?

As long as you get them out by Friday...

Gotta be sarcasm

Totally with Sam here. As a fellow DCI Class of '84 member, The push in Tender Land, to the end was one of my best drum corps memories.

I had waffles for dinner last night...

How about "droughts" for Cavies and SCV? The Madison and PR "droughts" could hardly be thought of as any sort of trending statistic, since they only won 2 titles each. Just think of Kingsmen's drought if you want to go down that road.

How hard would it be for the moderators to create a separate forum for all the bashing, trashing and defending threads? They made one for G7...

I think BD has a plan to be in 2 places at one time. They get enough turnout at tryouts to field 2 complete corps, so do it. Field a BD West and a BD East. Each BD plays the same show. Do ALL the competitions, and combine your best talent for finals. Everyone is in the corps, everyone gets a ring.

Dear Blue Devils, Congratulations on another successful season. You are reading the same rulebook as the rest of DCI, right? Bob

Let me clarify my post. I am only talking about the consistancy in placings from quarters to semis to finals. Places 1-17 in semis were the same as quarters. Placings 1-12 in finals were the same as semis and quarters. When looking ONLY at the overall placings of the corps in these 3 shows on 3 consecutive nights things look very consistent/boring. While I'll admit I do like to log in to the web to see the results of the shows each night, and I do get excited when I see corps B beat corps A when corps A won last night, I don't think the judges should fool with the numbers to make it exciting for me. I am just pointing out the statistical oddity that occurred at the end of this season.

Well, I am not arguing with Mr. Boo, it is entirely possible that each judge called it as they saw it, and the overall performance of each corps put them in the exact same order 3 nights in a row. It was bound to happen sometime (after all, if you put enough monkeys at enough typewriters long enough, you eventually end up with the complete works of William Shakespere). It just seems a little odd that in only 30-someodd years of DCI this would happen so soon. And I am not knocking the corps or their performances. I will leave the critiques to those who actually saw them this year, all I had exposure to are the discussion threads and the scores. Just trying to spark interesting discussions

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but was this the first year in DCI history that no corps placings changed between Quarters, Semis and Finals? What is with that? Were the performances SO consistant between the 3 shows that no corps deserved to move up or down? Is it slotting? Is it a conspiracy? Is this a byproduct of competitive inertia? What the heck is going on?

One word. Spats.

I'll be driving a rental truck up Interstate 5, moving my son to school in Berkeley

Thanks Randy! When I read the thread title "Coolest opening STATEMENT" I naturally thought the same thing.