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ShamrockTuba

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    Columbus Saints 2015, Pioneer 2017
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    Pioneer
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    2017
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  1. If they're going 12 hours in 2 days by going 6 hours each day, a rain delayed show would force them to go 12 hours the second day which is illegal. Corps may have done it illegally in the past but now busses have electronic logs that can't be forged.
  2. I don't see Troopers on the FloMarching schedule. Are they not performing a standstill show or did they just get left off the schedule?
  3. I've volunteered with corps for as little as a day and they've appreciated it and had no issues. I know some positions they want more of a commitment for but doing that for all positions and wanting you to volunteer the whole tour sounds strange. I'd take that to mean they have more than enough volunteers which is a good thing.
  4. Roughly half of the world class corps have employed music educators who were disciplined for misconduct with students. 2 were punished. One of them was primarily punished for other reasons.
  5. If that's the case, why are they allowing someone who knowingly hired man who lost his teaching license for sending a student inappropriate messages to lead a world class corps? It's an ongoing issue that they still haven't dealt with,
  6. I will still attend at least one drum corps event this summer. I'm considering printing a shirt that says something along the line of "Dan Acheson protects and supports predators" and handing out papers to unaware spectators giving them information about everything that's happened in the past year. I will not be paying for Flo Marching or any digital downloads of shows. I will not be buying any merchandise directly from DCI. If I purchase any merchandise from corps, I will make sure to do research ahead of time and ensure the corps are completely clean in regards to recent issues. Same with donations. I also plan on sending emails and/or making phone calls to DCI's sponsors and the sponsors of corps who still employ sex offenders/predators or who still have leaders in place who have hired sex offenders/predators in the past requesting that they pull their sponsorship until the situation is resolved. I'm aware that boycotting or asking sponsors to pull their money and support may hurt members or drum corps as a whole. I'd rather have drum corps get hurt than allow more children to be abused while marching.
  7. If it were truly about not impacting the summer for the members they would have kicked them out of world class the day after they were eliminated. Instead it took a week to announce the suspension and months to kick them out. Why did Arsenal get punished within 24 hours and Pioneer took months? "Monitored closely" also doesn't match my understanding of it. From what I've been told, they continued to tour for weeks without any medical staff.
  8. A corps director in 2018 told his corps not to snitch, referring to DCI's whistleblower page. They were allowed to continue the season. Why was his corps allowed to continue competing and continue being "world class"?
  9. Even if the policy was violated, this is not an appropriate punishment. This punishes anyone affiliated with the corps for the actions of one person. This is the equivalent of a cop on the highway pulling over someone for going 5mph over the speed limit while roughly half of the drivers on the road are drunk and swerving around. Is speeding against the law? Yes. Is it reasonable for the driver to get pulled over for speeding? Maybe a bit extreme for violating a law that people violate frequently but not too unreasonable. But what is unreasonable is that by pulling over the speeder, the cop ignored a bunch of people who were committing much worse crimes that could kill someone. If DCI realized that their loose enforcement of rules lead to trouble and decided that from now on they'd be super strict in enforcing rules, that would be fine. That's not the case though. They decided that they want to enforce certain minor rules strictly, while barely enforcing major rules that ensure the safety of performers and the long-term success of DCI. And on the topic of the media policy, our (Pioneer) corp director's son insulted the hornline of a top 12 corps on a facebook livestream in 2017. No one said a thing and the corps was not punished. This is far from the first time the policy was violated.
  10. Up until now I've given DCI the benefit of the doubt that they were not being proactive, rather than assuming they were being malicious. Now they've shown they can and will take action against corps that don't meet their standards. The only problem is that violations of the "media policy" are major issues but hiring sexual predators or discouraging members from using the whistleblower form are minor and not cause for concern. I'm kind of tempted to go outside a show next summer and hand out papers detailing everything DCI has done wrong with links to the news articles about these things. Or go to the show wearing a shirt that says "Dan Acheson protects and enables predators". Maybe that would get the message across? Because all of the whistleblowers, news articles, and people complaining to DCI clearly hasn't.
  11. I don't like the scores display as much as on CorpsReps but I'm guessing that will improve over time. Lots of cool stuff on the website though. Nice to see the history of drum corps.
  12. DCI is trying to market the corps so they will use "best" whenever they can. But personally, placement is more important than score. Scores change a lot from judge to judge; placements don't. The fact that they beat all but 5 corps is more important than the score.
  13. Thanks for typing this up. We knew where we stood compared to other corps and we didn't let it get to us. Our show was still a ton of fun to perform and was much cleaner than we expected it to be. To me, that matters more than a number. Wednesday night was also cool because it was both the first time we got to see our own show, and when we performed, it was our chance to show some of our best friends the show for the first time. Those were my favorite runs of the year by far.
  14. Pioneer had 12. 7 brass, 1 guard, 3 percussion, and 1 drum major.
  15. I can't speak for everyone at Pioneer but I really enjoyed marching this season. Did I think we deserved to be a few points higher? Yes. Would I have preferred to have a full corps and a cleaner show? Absolutely. But scoring how we did didn't ruin my summer and I know that many people loved watching our show even if it didn't score high. Everyone came in knowing what to expect. Staff made sure we knew at camps that we wouldn't finish in the top 12 and that we would only make it to semifinals with a ton of hard work and some good luck. We went to church and had more Walmart runs and free days than other corps. Sure, that prevented our show from being the best it could be. But in 20 years, I'm sure that the lessons we learned off the field will be more valuable than a few more hours of rehearsal time. Most world class corps have different philosophies, but what we do worked for us. If the members and staff wanted something else, they could have and still can go somewhere else. Pioneer approaches things in a unique way so some comparisons to other world class corps might not be that accurate.
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