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  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    2007 blue devils encore

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  1. What about the one point jump in visual performance for Phantom between semis and finals? That's what put them at number 1. quote name='perc2100' timestamp='1369179368' post='3262049'] "i'm not trying to slam Phantom...but Phantom winning in 2008 can pretty much come down to Phantom getting lucky" :blink:/>/>/> Yes, I'm sure no one from Phantom 2008 or Phantom 2008's fans (which, FWIW, I'm not really one of) can 100% see that you are totally not trying to slam them by implicating that their Championship accomplishment had little/nothing to do with their talent and more to do with luck from BD's misfortune Of course, anyone with 30 seconds to kill on Google (or a great memory) can do a quick search to see what the Semi Final recaps said: * Phantom won GE music by almost .5 to Blue Devils (who were 4th in GE music), winning GE overall by a few tenths. * Phantom won Music Ensemble by .5 (BD in 4th), and percussion by .7 (to BD's 5th), thus winning overall Music by .4 (to BD's 3rd thanks to their awesome brass line). (also, FWIW BD was 5th in percussion at Quarters, 4th in Music Ensemble, & 3rd in overall Music - basically Phantom wasn't "Lucky" that BD had an off night percussion wise, BD apparently had at least three poor percussion runs all of Finals week) In fact, looking at the Semifinals recap, one could possibly make the argument that Blue Devils were lucky to win. They received they scored perfect 20's on 2/3 Vis sheets, and 1/2 GE Vis sheets. Had they even scored 18's instead of perfect 20's (i.e. .1 less on both sides of each 'perfect 20' sheet) Phantom would've squeaked out the win at Semis as well. Of course, numbers analysis takes away from the performance factor, and BD was pretty incredible in 2008 visually (just as Phantom was incredible musically). I think discounting talent & great performing is a disservice to both groups
  2. I talked to a buddy thats marching there and they had under 30 brass players this week.
  3. Watching the Star of Indiana Alumni Corps. The only time I'll ever be able to see Star live. Notably, getting to see my high school band director perform with a corps. Before the first impact we made eye contact and both immediately teared up. It's a moment I'll never forget.
  4. http://www.pacific-crest.org/2013/03/2013-production-announced/ Pacific Crest just announced their show.
  5. Not sure that is accurate... If I remember right Crown had around 30 brass age outs where as BD had around 12 brass age outs. I could be mistaken this is just what I remember off the top of my head. I think BD's average age of the hornline was around 18. (Those pesky 16 year olds bringing down the curve :-p)
  6. BD 05 - Towards the end of the show there is some narration. It's a countdown of the coupled performers. "Couple #12 from California" Crown 07 - Towards the end of the show the narration during the horse race. Different horses taking the lead "a devil in blue", "green machine" etc BD 11 - The girl that starts the show in the house alone, looking for her love, is in the house at the end of the show with her love bringing her flowers. 90 Star - When the banner on side 2 is being pulled out during the middle of the show, there is a color guard member that falls, but covers it up very well! She makes it look like she was almost supposed to fall! 90-91 Star - Just a design thing from Zingali that I noticed while watching: The guard members that set up and pick up flags that are set on the field for guard silk transitions. Very cool. 91 Star - (Got to thinking because of the above and remembered this one lol) The opening drum motif is played by one of the tenors in the pit. Zingali had to write the opening drill (up to the company front) to get this tenor player back with the battery and behind the brass front. Total nuance that may not be realized by many but total genius on Zingali's part!
  7. I'll be turning 27 years old in December and have been doing pagentry full time as a career for 5 years already. Teaching drum corps is MAYBE 3% of my annual income. Writing drill for marching bands is about 94% while the last 3% being random marching clinics, etc. Drum corps is not "my career" but is my career all at the same time. (Not sure if that came across the way I meant it to) Teaching drum corps is how I got the "street credit" to be able to write marching band drill for a living at a very young age. It's a tough market to break into with no benefits, long hours, a scary tax season, etc. But there are also many perks to it. Make sure you're 100% committed to it before you decide to do it and be prepared to be really hungry for the first couple of years. :-p
  8. Agreed. Mr. Morris is a business man that brought 3 steel companies back from the dead. He knows how to manage money VERY well. Troopers will be fine.
  9. I'm going to guess last year's Associate Drill Designer/ Visual Caption head Andy Ebert. This would be a great thing for the Scouts!!
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