BoyWonder1911 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 (edited) They should fix the scoring because BD should be 3 points ahead of the field they are that good. Remember, there were a LOT of corps performing today. Judges had to start somewhere, and when you start getting to the last 5-6 groups, it starts getting kinda hard to fit in spreads. I have a feeling they will start opening it up a little bit tomorrow, to fit in appropriate spreads. Expect the bottom corps to score lower than tonight. And for Saturday, expect Crossmen to drop to about 84-85. Doesn't mean they were worse than before, just means judges had to open up the scale to fit spreads. I believe 2.5 points is the DCI record for biggest gap between 1st and 2nd. Set by 1973 Vanguard, if I remember correctly. Cavs 2002 won by less than 2 points. Edited August 8, 2014 by BoyWonder1911 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EJD440 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 BTW, since it's been repeated incorrectly so many times, it's "TONGUING", not "TOUNGING". . . . :) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perc2100 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Are the Blue Devils good? Yes Should they win this year? Perhaps Are they 2 points better than the 2nd place corps? Not on your bleeping life You're right. But BD is 1.625 better than 2nd place. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwdad Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 I stayed off the forums this year exactly due to threads like this one. But, it continues to amaze me that haters gotta hate, and no matter what, someone will complain that BD's drill is too easy, not has hard as the others etc... But, it is pretty encouraging to see that there is so much support for BD this year. IMO, the show is very very good, and performed at levels not seen in a long time. Do it up, Deviils! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayareafan Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 I think that part of why people may think the BD score was too high is because of the way they did cameras angles during the BD show. I've seen the show live a couple of times and I've watched it online a couple of times along with a lot of the other shows. Tonight almost all of the coverage of BD was close-up camera shots. Even when they weren't in close most of the shots were still low and at an odd angle. With the other corps they tended to use high cameras more and you got a good overall sense of the show design. The way they covered BD tonight you basically couldn't get any sense of the show design at all. It was really, really terrible. If the only time I had ever seen BD was at the theater tonight I too would have though the judges were nuts. But go watch it on the Fan Network and compare it with the other corps and I think you get a much more favorable opinion of it. When it comes to brass though I think Crown is in an entirely different league than any of the others. The brass scoring should have reflected that. I was also blown away by Bluecoats and SCV. For me, the Cadets show is the one I don't get. I think the rest of the top 6 all have much more engaging show designs than the Cadets this year. But then I'm not an expert, just a fan of the activity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueisola Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 I really thought Crown had a good run tonight and expected to see them in the 4th slot over SCV. Other than the obvious spread in percussion I am surprised Crown continues falling behind them. The discrepancy in guard makes no sense to me. I guess one must really be at field level to be able to figure that out clearly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
general_tsos_chicken2 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Are the Blue Devils good? Yes Should they win this year? Perhaps Are they 2 points better than the 2nd place corps? Not on your bleeping life you're right. They are 3 points better. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShouldveMarchedAgeOut Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 (edited) they should be more than 1.5 points ahead...they're on another level Edited August 8, 2014 by ShouldveMarchedAgeOut 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Are the Blue Devils good? Yes Should they win this year? Perhaps Are they 2 points better than the 2nd place corps? Not on your bleeping life denial, not just a river in Egypt 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShouldveMarchedAgeOut Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 BD is gonna take the all-time score. calling it. not the only one i'm sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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