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Dont get me started on last nights visual scores. Rhythm X got screwed

It was 99

No it was a tour show the day after Canada Day in 1999 at the Buffalo Bisons field. I got mixed up

I saw someone from that corp fall in Buffalo because we were in a baseball stadium and they still had the mound up

Thats a bad analogy as age brackets in youth sports are for size and skill differences. A 16 year old wouldn't play tee ball because tee ball is for 3-6 year olds and uses equipment that is way too small for a 16 year old. Those size and skill differences do not exist as much in drum corps.

Well as long as a visual judge doesn't give a max score after someone falls down, I'm happy.

1993 is when I also first discovered DCI on PBS. Add 2011 and your list pretty much matches mine.

We will have to agree to disagree on certain years (15, 19, 22 and even though I get trolled for it 09) I have no issue with 10, 12, 14 and 17 because I agree with the consensus that they were the best in those years, even if I did not like those all of those shows (I actually really liked 10 and think its one of the most interesting and innovative concepts ever put on a football field)

I like those who recognize evil when the see it lol.

probably. I think there was a general Cadets fatigue in the 80s and early 90s, Cavies fatigue in the early ots and now BD fatigue. BD has won 10 out of the last 15 championships, how can it not be fatigue?

So BD fatigue is not a thing? Jeff is right that you can call 15 and 19 toss ups (I would put 22 in there too) but when one corps wins ALL the toss ups, people get tired of it.

Sure more people connected with recent shows, but I think their last 4 or 5 titles should have gone to someone else. 15 should have 100% gone to crown, 19, 22 and maybe 23 should have gone to the Bluecoats. There is major BD fatigue and that is because again and again shows that more people like are losing to BD.

I knew he was abused somehow.

Neil Reid. The player that Bobby Knight threw the chair at, transferred to the University of Southern Mississippi, where I went to college. We were actually pretty good, lost in the finals of the CUSA tournament. (I cant remember if it was to Cincinnati or Marquette with Dwayne Wade, all of my college year memories are mixing together) Just thought I would share my highly tertiary connection to Bobby Knight.

That would make me feel special

BD would do that to troll the activity 😛

Florida has these "arcades" that are places with bingo gambling machines. I wonder if they would work for drum corps. They seem to be everywhere

Then I will complain

BD is going to win, Im going to hate the show and I am going to drink.... a lot..... to mask the pain.

Why is there a need for Drum Corps to be local? Except for a goodbye performance and maybe a home show, the main bulk of what a DCI corps does is going to be away from the local town anyways. Parades are not what they used to be (maybe I am being Florida centric on that because nobody wants to sit in this heat) and unless you are really pushing for an off season program, there really is not that much visibility of the performing organization. I work with local community theatres and symphonic bands and orchestras. Its hard to get local visibility even when we perform 10 concerts a year, or 6 plays a year with 10 performances each. I just think society has changed so much to rely on local exposure. I remember when I was a senior in high school and drum major of the high school band, I could not leave the house without running into someone I know. Living in the same town 25 years later. I know next to nobody. The community connection is no longer there.

One word to fix all revenue problems: SWIFTIES!!!!!

I am very satisfied every time I cash my check from a church gig. Semi pro musicians cant live without the church regardless of their religious affiliation. If an organization like Chic fil A is going to give large amounts of money to a corps, its on them to make sure it fits their corporate social responsibility. DCI is very inclusive and LGBT friendly, but to my knowledge they do not have any outward programs or DEI initiatives that would scare away people who use the "woke" trope to polarize people.

Tell me in the rule book where another semi truck is required? Did Madison or Crossmen need an extra truck last season? I dont think so. If that extra truck is what is preventing a corps from going on tour, do you not think that the cost is assessed? Corps budgets are not made by designers.

can they really? Outside of safety concerns, I am not sure DCI can regulate rehearsal times. From what I see DCI rules are about fielding and performance limitations, not so much rehearsal limitations. I could always be wrong though.

What cohorts? Look at the southeast. It's about 1250 miles between Crossmens location and Crowns location. What distance are you really saving? Mountain West region, it's 1100 miles between Cascades and Troopers. Bottom line even before we ask the question of who is going to host the shows, the corps are simply not concentrated enough to create any meaningful savings with a regional model.