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No, it used to be DCI Austin.

The partnership is for "24/7 TELEHEATH" services, not in-person. Most likely DCI used their bargaining power of ALL the corps to get a substantially discounted rate on this service. This works great for corps because often urgent cares are closed/not close by/take the ONE vehicle some corps have that's needed to do airport/food runs etc. Now corps can get diagnosis/prescriptions written on the bus, or at the housing site. That's a huge game changer.

That was 20 years ago, a lot lot LOT has changed. I've been constantly involved in the activity since around that time and the improvements in educational pedagogy are MASSIVE. Not discounting your experience, just saying that things have changed in a great way.

I'd just like to point out that a corps can still be educational if it has a base of required knowledge/skill to enter. Are we saying that Julliard and other college music schools aren't educational because they don't teach people how to read music?

And my guess it's that high because a lot of students have no idea what their parents make!

The first big Cali show and DCI Austin and DCI Houston (which are always streamed) are still listed as "TBD" on the DCI website. Hoping that they'll be streamed once the sites are "determined".

I wish someone loved me as much as MM2006 hates Jason Robb

That means that the corps that go on earlier get WAY less sleep and rehearsal. Not gonna happen.

Once retreat stopped being every night, people got a LOT less reps on America O Canada (and then DCI switched to Fanfare of Champions and other things). By 2008, many of the horn lines barely knew it, and then at finals MANY of the performers were uh...not thirsty. And the performance was an absolute embarrassment. Once DCI moved indoors to LOS the canned it.

He's the staff coordinator, not program coordinator. Just a design consultant.

The full season to watch Just BOA is $160, which is more than an entire year on Flo. The Box 5 stuff is all Ala carte, so if you buy the BOA season pass, you don't get access to all of Box 5 offerings (ISSMA, MCBA, other marching circuits etc), you just get BOA. That can add up really quickly. Flo yearly gets you all of DCI and WGI plus all the thumb wrestling you can watch!

"8 and out" is the more common phrase in the activity. 8 beats from the met (count in) and then turn it off.

It's bound to happen, but it hasn't gone up since (at least) they started streaming DCI in 2017, unlike pretty much everything else in this country. Hell, even Box 5 in only their 3rd year of doing BOA raised prices this year.

Check out Avon and Carmel, a LOT of marching and playing with little to no props. Hebron also marched and played a TON.

Donate directly to the corps and avoid the (massive) chunk that Gofundme takes. https://cadets.org/donate

This is already what the vast majority of corps do for camps, 3 or 4 satellite audition camps (students only need to attend 1), 1 callback camp, April camp, then move ins

Absolutely, but them going as spectators and marching is different, which is the purpose of this thread...

One issue with getting students in HBCU programs to do DCI is that their band camps often overlap with the last week or so of DCI and it is NON. NEGOTIABLE to miss band camp. I'm all for recruiting, but let's be real, I bet many of the HBCU folks have no interesting in doing something the style of DCI, just like lots of the DCI folks hate doing "drum line battles". I feel like we often assume that everyone WANTS to do DCI, and if we just reached out (or lowered the costs etc) they would, when the reality is that plenty of people KNOW what DCI is, and just don't want to do it.

Corps have been using these companies for decades.

There it is, this explains SO. MUCH. Just because you know facts and figures does not mean you will be a good leader of an organization. Your conduct and attitude on here is so unbecoming of someone who would be in that role and you continually prove on here that SCV's board did at least one thing right in not even giving you an interview.

For what it’s worth, Cadets were EXTREMELY close to not coming out in 2020. COVID bought them some much needed time.

What's your source? I have a pretty unimpeachable source (two actually) that says the opposite.

Ummmm…they were first in all the visual performance captions, first in MA (from both judges)….not sure what you’re talking about 2/3 unless you’re talking about the three music captions. plus, you know first in GE from all judges….

They tarped up the speakers halfway through because of the rain

Flo is streaming every performance this week including soundsport sat morning with the exception of the Cincinnati show today.