Cadevilina Crown

Don’t forget the fat lady.

That would be Pacific Crest in 2018, and I’m pretty sure they had at least one La La Land song in that show. Of course, if we’re looking for the closest thing to a “Broadway” show to hit the competitive field in the past decade, there’s Academy’s 2015 Mary Poppins show, where they even based many of their arrangements of each tune on those used in the Cameron Mackintosh stage adaptation.

We actually have a whole thread for this topic already. Granted, it’s from before the start of the 2017 season, and for some reason no one has posted anything in it since June of that year. I wonder how many of these takes people still stand by…

Scores: World 1. Blue Knights - 71.45 2. Academy - 68.1 3. Troopers 65.65 Open 1. Columbians - 56.15 Recap: https://www.dci.org/scores/recap/2022-seattle-summer-music-games

I'm thinking 12th place may come down to BK and Colts this year. Nice bump for the latter corps tonight.

I remember seeing Academy live in 2018 and one of their members (I think it was a baritone) tripped and got injured halfway through the show and had to get assisted off the field. I felt really bad for him 😞 It was in Buffalo less than a week before Championships, too, so I hope he was able to make a quick recovery.

No, I'm told it was their COVID mitigation protocol. For everyone else's safety, not theirs.

INT has opted out of tonight's show at the last minute.

The weather for tomorrow’s show in Statesboro is also not looking good, so it’s very possible that these corps might not be scored again until Tuesday in Atlanta.

Well, Boston achieving the highest score at a DCI show thus far this season was not on my bingo card for 2022, but I’ll take it.

Big boost in score for Music City, even beating the Colts in GE.

Yeah, I’m noticing that the increases in score for individual corps from show to show are much larger than in previous years.

I recall Phantom getting hit with an outbreak right near the end of the 2016 season, I believe. They had to do their final regular-season show as a standstill, but they did recover in time for Prelims a few days later and it didn't seem to impact their final placement too much. Granted, that was with a rather weak show design to begin with and no strict quarantine protocol at the time, so I'm curious as to how this recent COVID outbreak will impact them competitively. All that said, their health and safety is their top priority, and they're already outperforming my own expectations, so I look forward to their (hopefully) eventual return.

Per Twitter, Phantom has opted to fully withdraw from tonight’s show.

I remember the BOA Grand National Class A winner in 2015 used a lot of the same source music that the Bluecoats used the following season for their championship-winning program.

The NAU Skydome seems like it would be a pretty good venue for a DCI show, even though it’s an indoor dome (a blessing and a curse in this activity). I want to say the state’s marching band championships are held there annually.

Always the best part of every season on DCP.

The Crossmen were known to wear aussies prior to 2019 (and IIRC they ditched their aussies toward the end of the 2018 season as well in favor of no headgear at all). My guess is the choice to switch to shakos is part of a rebranding effort of some kind, seeing as they also no longer use the Maltese cross logo in any form.

Gotta wonder if BK is gonna keep those shakos on for the whole show, or even the whole season. Seems to be trendy for corps that wear hats nowadays to ditch them in one of those two forms.

I get the feeling SCV’s current corps uniforms are a placeholder for something more interesting that will be used starting later in the season.

Happy to see The Academy apparently returning to their 2014-17 style of shows that I enjoyed from them so much. I wasn't feeling their last two competitive programs, so hopefully this return to a more familiar type of show will serve them well.

I was thinking that this would be a Prince show from the image teasers, but then they announced it and I thought, “Oh, Nevermind.”

I’m amazed that people are thinking Buffalo would be a viable place to move Championships when there’s not a single show being held in New York State this summer, a first in DCI’s history as they shift focus to hosting more shows in Texas, where the marching arts have exploded in popularity. Also, if I remember correctly from the models I’ve seen, the new Bills stadium will not be domed. There will be shields above the stands, similar to the Seahawks stadium in Seattle, but not a full roof.

Seems like the distribution of shows has shifted from the Northeast (where there is less interest in the marching arts than there was in DCI's early years) to the South (where the population is exploding and the marching arts are thriving). I've known this fact for a while, but in terms of the tour schedule, this is easily the most pronounced it's been since I started following the activity.

This is the first time that I can remember (and possibly the first time in DCI history) where there are no shows in New York State. Even in the cancelled 2020 tour there were stops in Buffalo and a Syracuse-area show to replace the now-defunct Rome show.