Precious Roy

Especially contrasted with the gold/brass horns.

Blair's crew know what they are doing. I agree, the angle of that shot was fabulous.

Got my rye whisky, absinthe, and peychaud's ready. Will have some sazeracs for our watch party tomorrow. Good luck, Blue Stars!

I don't think I missed a show there in the 80s. The Erie Commodores singing group would always be the warmup act.

The math works out by averaging the scores for Atlanta and Winston/Salem for the 4 corps that competed in both shows (which includes Bloo).

So, over the course of the last two nights last year (semis and finals), there were a total of 22 judges (11 each night). In ZERO cases out of those 22 were Boston and Bluecoats scored identically by the same judge. Zero. "Afraid to make a call" is not a fair assessment, imo. Each judge did in fact make a call for one or the other. And the ordinals were all over the place, as well. It just so happened that the TOTALS of those 11 judges each night ended up being equal. Edited to add: here's a link to last year's scores... https://dci.org/scores?season=2022

Just re-ran the spreadsheet using the other interpretation (use the average of last weekend's events, and then average those with S.A. and Allentown). The only placement difference would be that Crown and Bloo would swap (Bloo in 3rd, Crown 4th). Everybody else is unchanged.

And this year, each World Class corps attended at least one of those 2 events.

I agree with the first paragraph completely. My interpretation of the second part is that W/S is not a "major regional event." Here is how I interpreted it in my spreadsheet: There were only 4 corps that performed at both shows last weekend. Those 4 corps got 4 scores averaged for prelim placements. Everyone else got the score they got that weekend (either ATL or W/S), plus SA and Allentown. Jersey Surf didn't participate at S.A., so I gave them the score they got in a different event on that same day (using the previous day's event score would not have changed their placement, so feel free to use either one). Agree, the DCI statement is still quite ambiguous.

Just logistics. They did the same thing last year. The top 4 or so (from the previous year) performed at both shows. The rest were split between the 2 shows (ATL and NightBEAT).

Here's my data: Corps S.A. ATL NightBEAT Allentown Average 1 Devils 92.6 94.325 94.275 95.775 94.24375 2 Boston 91.6 92.05 95.475 93.04167 3 Crown 90.563 92.4 92.85 95.438 92.81275 4 Bluecoats 90.95 91.975 92.95 95.25 92.78125 5 Mandarins 87.675 89.263 91.988 89.642 6 Phantom 87.675 89.275 91.975 89.64167 7 Cadets 87.375 88.925 89.65 92.125 89.51875 8 Cavaliers 85.513 88.1 91.05 88.221 9 Blue Stars 84.175 86.375 87.55 86.03333 10 Troopers 82.938 85.725 88.525 85.72933 11 Colts 82.95 85.725 88.163 85.61267 12 BK 80.138 82.4 84.688 82.40867 13 PC 80.475 81.475 83.825 81.925 14 Crossmen 78.125 81.675 85.388 81.72933 15 Spirit 76.3 79.85 83.938 80.02933 16 Academy 77.438 79.5 82.025 79.65433 17 Madison 77.175 79.8 81.913 79.62933 18 Music City 75.4 79.25 80.25 78.3 19 Genesis 72.05 75.7 78.275 75.34167 20 Surf 69.25 72.675 74.975 72.3 21 Cascades 67.475 70.975 74.625 71.025

Where is this documented? Not doubting, just wondering.

And Boston didn't perform in one of the shows (NightBEAT).

Some people can't get past all the narration in Bluecoats' show. I can understand that. I can't get past the Bjork vocals in this Crown show. Sorry.

Place your bets now. Full leg kick at the end, or no?