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I just picked the latest one.

Like watching the Troopers drum major walk out for retreat.

Will the Cadets be selling thuribles at their souvie stand? Might want to buy one (the economy size of course -- not the XXL one in the video) before watching the Boston show.

Not so easy to find the actual address of the pic. Found it! Here you go...

Find a good seat partner. Most important item. Everything else flows from that.

That piece from Lost is beautiful. Wasn't that played by Crown in 2014?

I guess it depends if their young caption head and his team are up to the task. Wasn't CWP his baby? They were lights out good. It was sad to see them disbanded out of nowhere.

Hard to get a better guard staff than the one now at Boston. Not sure how you could upgrade it. They do seem to have put together a good team to replace it. I just think their drill will be significantly better. Add to that a great brass line, improving percussion and I like their chances. In any case I see everyone predicting things so followed the herd! Moo!

Caption heads are all Carolina Crown alums as is a large percentage of the rest of the staff. Seems like there might be a good reason you are reminded of Crown. They were very strong last season from a training and performance standard.

Prediction with groups. Carolina Crown Blue Devils Vanguard Bluecoats Cavaliers Cadets Blue Knights Phantom Regiment Boston Crusaders Crossmen Blue Stars Academy

True but I'm not sure I'd say Crossmen were far from favorites. Their show seemed well-received.

Based on this video , Cadets will be playing Bernstein for the next three seasons.

If 18 of Boston's guard had suddenly switched to Carolina I think it would have been just as unusual and worthy of discussion. I don't think the longevity of the corps factored into these members' decision to switch. If that were the case they would have never marched at Carolina in the first place. Honestly I don't think it matters much to most members when deciding where to march. It may become more significant once a member marches a season at a corps, but I doubt it influences members decisions beforehand.

It seems everyone wants "independent thinking " judges until that judge places their favorite corps lower than "normal" at which time that judge goes from being "independent" to "incompetent".

I understand and agree that there are many decisions that factor in to a choice of corps, especially the choice of corps at which you will "age out". And loyalty to staff is certainly an important factor. Some members audition and chose to stay at their first corps. But surely you agree that some choose to march their first corps just to gain enough experience to "move up" to another corps. In fact it's probably the case that most of the guard members we're discussing marched somewhere else before finally auditioning and making the corps in Carolina. So I would suggest that finals placement did factor into these members' decision-making process. The Carolina guard has a reputation for being one of the elite guards in drum corps. It's almost unheard of for a member to move from a medalist corps to a corps who finished nine places lower and nearly missed finals. Can you cite another instance where a large group of members moved from a 3rd place corps (who won their caption) to a 12th place corps? I'm sure the members will have a good experience marching at Boston for the same staff this summer. But they will often be going on much earlier in shows, perhaps performing in daylight instead of under the lights. Rehearsal days and show days will be very different just due to reporting and performance times. Their former corps is very popular and has a huge following everywhere they performed. The experience will be somewhat different. Of course all this is a moot point if Boston medals and wins the colorguard caption! It's just a very unusual situation.