jbenburton

That is great news, Jeff came out and worked our snare line a few times at Pioneer while I was there. He is a class act and will be a great asset to the Scout organization. He was always super nice and treated everyone fairly.

I thought it was a great year for Drum Corps entertainment wise, corps I usually don't like were the corps I found myself telling others how entertaining their show was. I guess it is opinions, but all of the people that I went to shows with and talked to that went to shows this year (from around where I live) were talking about how entertaining the corps they saw were, even down to the lower placement corps they saw (and yes, some of those people were at Madison for Finals).

Totally agree, you could tell from the stands that those kids wanted to keep going. I do not know what it was like in other sections, but the crowd around me was getting into the show and even gave them a standing ovation when the drum major cut them off. I can only imagine what it would have been like if they had actually finished out the show, cause they had turned it on for Cookeville.

I agree, Vanderbilt has a good stadium and Murray State is one sided, but seats around 16,000 with elevators and two levels of bathrooms and concession stands. Plus it has the Regional Special Events Center right behind the stadium (uses the same parking lots) that if there was rain, could have possibly been moved into for Stand Stills (atleast we could have heard the music). However I am sure this was all a last minute thing and DCI did the best they could. I am not knocking TTU's stadium at all, it just doesn't have some of the extra features that these other stadiums have.

Yeah, actually we drove through Murfreesboro to get home and it wasn't raining there, however it had been raining there (the roads were mostly dry though). So if it was at Murf, it would have been delayed I am sure and still gone on.

Just got home from watching Cavies rehearse and watching their final run-through for the night. I had not seen them before today and am not too sure what all is new, but I just want to say without giving anything away, DRILL DESIGN IS AMAZING. I have seen BD, but have not seen their new ending, so I cannot really say who is on top now in my opinion. Regardless the new ending from Cavies will be a big crowd pleaser at Cookeville or Atlanta (where-ever they unveil it). Sorry that is kind of general, but again I am not sure what all is new, however I do know they did the run-through with the new ending.

Thank you Marsha for this post. I love the Cadets show this year, just like I loved last years show. I wish more people would do this for other corps shows, I may have a better appreciation for them cause I did miss alot of the things you mentioned in your post. Again Thank you.

Same for Pioneer in Division II in 1996, undefeated until finals week and fell to Les Etoiles, who jumped around 10 points the last two weeks of tour. If memory serves Nite Express had beaten every corps in Div II except Pio that year until finals week and came in third (I could be wrong on that though). So Les Etioles jumped a couple of spots.

Thus why I mentioned that they could have two sizes of amps, it was later on in my post.

I would think it would just be a standard mixing (Sound) board and standard amp and a snake. The corps would simply plug into the snake with whatever they have. Most snakes also have outputs for speakers, so the speakers would also plug into the snake. I do not know all of the logistics of this, but it seems to be a simple way to fix some problems. Cause then you could have the board in the stands, so that the sound man would be able to judge the best sound he or she can for that stadium's audience. And the corps would also have to use identical boards in rehearsal so they would know the specs of these boards and the sound guy, while the corps is setting up, would simply tweak the board to their own settings. I also do not know how this would stifle creativity, cause they could purchase boards with as many channels as needed, I would not think any corps would use over 25 channels, but if they do, then purchase 50, 75, whatever channel boards. And with the amp, maybe two sizes of amps, one for bigger stadiums and one for smaller stadiums, although you can turn down powerful amps, so that wouldn't be much of an issue either. Either all of that, or have a way for a staff member who is up in the stands to communicate with the staff member running the sound and tell them what needs to be turned up, down, or whatever. Cause to me the problem is that the sound people are setting it up to what sounds good to them, yet they are on the sideline and it is a far cry from what it should sound like in the stands.

Well from where I was setting, when Bluecoats were announced as second place, I did not hear any boos or blooos, I did hear a few of the "I told you Cadets would win" and "oh man, Bluecoats should have won" but not any booing, then when Cadets were announced, I heard some people talking about how close the score was. I honestly do not remember hearing any booing or blooing. It may have happened on the other end of the stadium and I also did start leaving to go to the lot as soon as Cadets score was announced, but it took a minute to get out of the stadium after their score, so you would think that any booing would have already happened. And Bluecoats were scheduled to play the encore that night, that could be where the blooing came from and someone thought they were booing. I had already left the stadium by that point, so I am not sure if they were blooed (I would assume so).

Interesting, I was also at the show last night and do not remember anyone booing. If there was it was one or two people, but not the whole crowd. Sorry to bust the bubble, but it wasn't like that at all. Oh and the announcer did call them teams.

I have never viewed an incomplete show as being a problem. I mean no show is technically complete until Finals week, I cannot think of any corps from the past 15 years (the time I have been going to shows) that hasn't changed their show throughout the season (some drastic changes, some not). I would bet there are a lot of staff out there that would tell you that their show was never trully finished. I just cannot believe someone wants to boo or basically boycot a corps for this.

That is funny. You know, I watched the clip and didn't see any front ensemble, guard or hornline, I thought they had been cut and you guys were just marching a drumline (sarcasm included). Have a great season.

Revolution has almost the exact same uniform, but I do not believe their baldrict hangs off the back.