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6 hours ago, Ghost said:

Dam!  Never saw this coming.

Yeah.. neither did we...

 

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2 hours ago, BRASSO said:

 This must have been a very weighty decision on the part of DCE .... 'probably caused by not enough Pounds.

Euros actually... Apparently (so I am told..) this has NOTHING at ALL to do with money....

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33 minutes ago, Cainan said:

Euros actually... Apparently (so I am told..) this has NOTHING at ALL to do with money....

  If it wasn't money related, why the sudden dissolution then ?

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46 minutes ago, BRASSO said:

  If it wasn't money related, why the sudden dissolution then ?

Nobody knows.. further to that, none of the board members were listed on the website and that website is now offline

 

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3 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said:

This is very mysterious. 

Down right shady

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Awful and bizarre.

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It is with great regret that we announce today that Drum Corps Europe will terminate all its current activities effective immediately, including DCE Championships, the DMG/DCN competition and Indoor Music Games. This is not a decision that has been made lightly. In the last couple of weeks before and after our very successful DCE Championships the board has had a lot of discussions about the future of DCE.

 

 

 

This year was the last year of a multiannual contract with the Parkstad Limburg Stadium. The contract needs to be renewed, and it is also a year in which we needed to make decisions on several new investments. The question for the DCE board to ask is how we can keep the foundation healthy (in regard to the organisation and the finances) in the short and long term. Also, in the light of the decreasing number of corps.

We have great volunteers and judges who are prepared to spend a lot of their free time to support the events and continue to develop and educate themselves. The staff, judging team and board of DCE consists of volunteers only. In the last couple of years we have seen people leave, and we couldn’t find suitable candidates for a management functions, despite various attempts. For the three remaining board members, the time has come to take a step back. Changes in our personal lives mean we can’t spend as much time as we would like to on the activity, and as much time as is needed. We noticed that sometimes we were delivering half a job, and even worse, we weren’t developing the future of the activity.

Of course we have considered continuing the current path for another year or two, but finally agreed that stopping at a height is better than having to stop because there is nothing left. We see that there is still enough potential to build a future with new initiatives.

 

Based on this I think the Volunteers who ran it got burned out, and they could not find anyone to volunteer to take over important staff jobs.

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14 minutes ago, totaleefree said:

It is with great regret that we announce today that Drum Corps Europe will terminate all its current activities effective immediately, including DCE Championships, the DMG/DCN competition and Indoor Music Games. This is not a decision that has been made lightly. In the last couple of weeks before and after our very successful DCE Championships the board has had a lot of discussions about the future of DCE.

 

 

 

 

Based on this I think the Volunteers who ran it got burned out, and they could not find anyone to volunteer to take over important staff jobs.

This makes sense.  And it’s understandable. 

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