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You call the compliments I gave them bashing? Your bar must be awfully low on what is and isnt a compliment. Your apparent need to bring the Bluecoats down is every bit as silly. My comments on the judges stand tough. If you ever press them on their placements in a critique, they have nothing of substance to offer you. If your corps dominated all season for your ring, then you wouldn’t understand that. i also mentioned Ned that I don’t care where they place, I don’t have a dog in either hunt. Objectively speaking, Bluecoats design makes you think about what an artist is, BD brought a painting to life. One show is designed to make you think, one show is designed to make you say “neato that painting is alive”. Both cool, both challenging, both clean. They should be tied for all the farts I give.

This is an insanely misguided view. I feel sorry for the members that choose to read this.

The judges are puppets, madam, and their strings are not pulled by the people who pay to enjoy the shows. Have you ever been on staff and been in a critique before? DCI should serve as proof that art can’t accurately be judged, and that siding with the opinions of the judges doesn’t make you an expert. All that said, I could care less about where Bloo or BD place. The organization where I served my years of marching is in the lead and as a fan that’s neat. As a recently former MM, the scores are not what we do this activity for. We do it for the love of the performing and we don’t give a S##T what the the judges or their sympathizers think. If it were the opposite, everybody would go home after the slotting happens early to mid season.

Of course that said, bringing a painting to life on the field is an insanely neat idea and they’re pulling it off quite well.

Right? This is just kind of a strange year for design all around. The great thing this year is that everybody is so chalked full of talent that it hardly matters. There are incredibly complex and enjoyable parts to every single show. I think its great that the corps are providing us with so much material to speculate and share spirited dialogue over!

I’m sorry friend, but it’s my personal opinion that your statement is off-base. BD bangs you over the head with what their show is. “We’re making up a story out of a classic American painting” doesn’t really leave you with anything to take away for yourself. It’s a good story, and a cool idea. Doesn’t require much introspection and thought about what it means to you personally. Bloo gives you a little bit more room to think and take away what you like while still following their idea to an extent.

Bloo has clean feet, clean brass, a very generally effective show, the pace is better than BD, the transitions are smoother than BD, and it gets the people feeling something that BD’s show doesn’t seem to. Bloo taught us all that warming-over the previous year’s design doesn’t do it for the fans, BD decided to try it anyway. BD is clean, not cleaner. They sound good, not better, their show has good moments, but it doesn’t grab the majority by the shirt and say “listen to me right now” the way that Bloo’s does. It’s a shame it doesn’t click with you (personally I feel like you’re really missing out) , but that’s no reason to discredit what they are achieving here.

Analytics exist for a reason, old man. It’s a hip hop world, pal. Keep up or get out of the way. Being rude to each other aside, and a vanguard alum, I’d have to say vanguard had a few performance issues this evening. In addition to the microphones not working for the second production and the ballad, the timing in the feet wasn’t up to their standard, a few cues were missed here and there. In general, the run seemed a tad off to me. But flo had us looking the wrong direction all night.

“I’m curious about something only the recaps can tell me, but I’m going to be obstinant for the sake of being obstinant and not read them then poo poo people who tell me to read them” you folks constantly blow my mind.

I’m sorry my man, but I’m not sure you’re looking at the whole picture. The shows are far and away more difficult in terms of body movement than they were in the thick uniforms. The thick uniforms trapped more heat, sure, but I would argue that the visual responsibilities take more out of the members and they heat up every bit as much.

Yeah what the hell are they thinking not risking heat strokes for the MMs?

That's simply not the case, friend. There are about three battery breaks, and they are pretty long (but hey if you've got a strength, play to it). The closer has a lot of intricacy in the hornline proper. Double and triple tongue passages in the call and response section with the small ensemble. Not everything is handed off to the small ensemble.

Ah yeah bias and all that

Yo which Vanguard were you listening to?

Uber is t crazy expensive. It wasn't allowed in San Antonio when I moved away, but I know they've brought it back. Shouldn't be more than a 5 dollar ride from the dome. Y'all have a beer for me!