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Dind, ding, ding! We have a winner! I owe you a

I agree with most of this - Actually, though, weren't there two other corps who were in the top six all of those years you listed? I'm certain of at least one, but I THINK I remember that our friends from Atlanta also were. . .

Macy's - Hawthorne Caballeros multiple times. NY Skyliners, too, I think.

More like the reporter continued to put her ducks in order, then got detoured by the disgusting Rome-based criminal enterprise story that broke in PA, and is now back on this.

Yup. Goosebumps every time I go back and watch that.

7 if he continues with the two DCA corps he had this summer. 8 if you count his DCA minicorps champs!

Looking at that forecast, how about we take all 11 open corps and the 6 highest seeded As into finals, cancel prelims, and then the corps can rehearse all day Saturday (indoors, if they're lucky), and the spectators and volunteers can party all day Saturday . No, huh? Seriously, though, I've heard from lifelong Billtown locals that the weather in town and that out in the woods are often entirely different. Bringing sunglasses AND a rain poncho, as well as shower curtains for Cabs' merch tent! Stop by and say hello- Buy stuff, too!

I don't remember if I did this yet, so. . . BD Cavaliers Blue Knights Mandarins Troopers Music City!!!!! (Next three Boston, Cadets, Crossmen)

4, I believe. But DO come early and buy some stuff from me at Cabs' souvie table

Nope -LATE afternoon into the evening, into the night

What are you talking about?! Saturday and Sunday evenings on the above link look fine! Saturday: "Partly cloudy in the evening with more clouds for later at night. Low near 65. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph." Sunday: "A few clouds. Low 66. Winds light and variable."

Totally OT here, but NY's CMCC Warriors are bringing a mini-corps to Billtown this year, and I'm totally planning to fit them into my Friday night schedule

It will be. No worries there.

OK, then, how about because they're goofy looking and we cool kids would make fun of you

I really wish people would stop presenting one choice as: A: Fix the problems OR B: Go to DCA While I'm sure DCA would love another Midwestern corps, I believe the process would be more like: A: Fix the problems THEN B: Go to DCA so you could provide sufficient member care within your financial means.

You should be fine heading INTO Connecticut on Saturday. The better half and I always have difficulty getting OUT OF CT on our way to Jersey, PA, or even upstate NY on Saturday mornings to head wherever Cabs are that day. We live about 44 miles from the NY line, for example, if we're heading south on 15 to get to NJ or the Allentown area, and it never takes us less than an hour and a quarter. OTOH, we never see ANY traffic problems heading north on 15 or 95. See you Saturday! Taking a "vacation day" from hawking Cabs swag, and supporting the local corps with an ad in their program and our butts in ticketed seats (We live in Seymour).

Mandarins Troopers BD Blue Knights Music City BAC Honorable mention Spirit, Cavaliers, Spartans

Except, if their member care is as poor as you outline above, they lag behind most DCA corps in this area, also! Not saying that DCA corps have medical staff on hand, or that they feed the MMs four times a day, but the ones I've been around the last, say, decade or so, do provide quite a bit in this respect.

Don't tease me like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing at all against Phantom, but OMG I would be a bawling heap of blubbering mess if Mandies moved up to 10th or better..

This would be the very first time ever I would not be upset with a tie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo purple band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make history

Not IMHO.Bones & SOA are just too much better, and only one of those is going to make it (likely Crossmen, of course).

Holy cow, Blue Knights! Loved every second of that!

About 40 in Milford CT at this point