boxingfred Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 (edited) Devils, Have a slightly better than good chance to win. If this was a Threepeat year I'd put them in 2nd or 3rd. SCV, Has a good chance to win. Awesome show last year but, that was last year. Added drill writing god to their staff. Should be good! Crown, Has a good chance to win. now the percussion situation fixed. Always great brass, Excellent colorguard, and show design god. puts them up there. Bluecoats, Have a good chance to win. Can't wait to see what their brilliant design teem come up with this year. Saw It! BLUECOATS ARE FIYAH! Cavaliers, Has been steadily improving I see them as the 5th C in the Carolina,Concord,Canton,Clara crowd Boston, Should be better but, How much better? Top 3 better? Cadets, After the recent scandal and change of schedule and show restructuring, I have no clue. I'm sure the staff and Alumni will motivate the kids to be their best. Their staff is good enough to pull off something in the top 6. How will the judges react? Bk, Very entertaining shows lately. Can they top 5 in captions? Phantom, has always been a wait and see corps for me. they can land anywhere 5-10. Blue Stars,are where BK used to be a couple years ago , floating between 8 -11 Madison, IMO had the ugliest show in drum corps last year but, it got them back into the finals. Crossmen, I thought Xmen were better than their scores showed all last year Mandarin, I thought Mandarin should have made finals over Madison ( no hate for Madison ) Academy, I always root for Academy to make finals Colts, I always root for Academy to make finals If someone put a gun to my head: 1-4 I'm ducking bulletes 5.-7 Cadets, Cavies, Crusaders- in no particular order 8. Blue Knights 9. Phantom 10.Blue Stars 11.Crossmen 12.Mandarin 13.Madison 14. Academy 15. Colts *I wrote my predictions on the first Prediction Thread back in March Edited June 1, 2018 by boxingfred color 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopcornEater1963 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 1. Blue Devils 2. SCV 3. Cavaliers 4. Crown/Bluecoats/Boston 5. Bluecoats/Crown/Boston 6. Boston/Bluecoats/Crown 7. Cadets 8. Blue Knights 9. Phantom 10. Blue Stars 11. Scouts 12.Crossmen:-) But hey...what do I know? I'm just a Popcorn Eater! :-) 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terri Schehr Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 On 5/30/2018 at 9:07 PM, Jim Schehr said: Ok I’ll play 1. BD 2. BAC 3. Bloo 4. SCV 5. Crown 6. Cavies 7. BK 8. Cadets 9. PR 10. Blue Star 11. Academy 12. Madison Brass: BD Percussion: BAC Guard: BAC Visual: BD GE: BD Ya know what? I like The Academy, too. They get picked clean and keep on plugging. Go The Academy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
777hornman Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 OK I Will Bite. 1. Blue Devils - Year in year out the best. I like the show concept. 2.Crown - Excellent show last year .My favorite. Great brass .Great design. 3. Bluecoats - Bounce back. not sure of show yet. 4. SCV - The west coast machine continues. 5.Cavaliers - Not sure of Design but they have been on the move. Could move up 6. Boston - Getting older members . good design .Will be very hard to move up . 7. Blue Knights - Solid corps last few seasons 8. Cadets - Could be under Crossmen . could be over Boston Wildcard. 9. Crossmen - Great show last year better than placement . Could move up 10. Phantom - Hopefully fix the brass. New designers. 11. Blue Stars - Not sold on The Carpenters music. Solid Corps. 12. Madison - Will be hard to knock them out of top 12. ------ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brass Lover Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 This will almost certainly be wrong. 1. Blue Devils 2. Carolina Crown 3. Cavaliers 4. Santa Clara Vanguard 5. Boston 6. Bluecoats 7. Cadets 8. Phantom 9. Blue Knights 10. Blue Stars 11. Crossmen 12. Madison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodmello Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 So many bold choices! I think corps are keeping to themselves a bit more than usual this season, which makes this thread so unpredictable. I'm digging the hype! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStainGlass Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 1 Blue Devils 2 Crown 3 SCV 4 Cadets 5 Bluecoats 6 Cavies 7 Boston 8 Phantom 9 Blue Stars 10 Blue Knights 11 Crossmen 12 Mandarins 13 Troopers 14 Madison 15 Academy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodmello Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 On 5/30/2018 at 10:11 AM, OldSchoolCorps said: As we get closer to Tour Premier, this is my “not so official” official picks: 1) Blue Devils 1) Crown 3) Bluecoats 4) SCV 5) Cavies 6) Phantom 7) Cadets 8) Boston 9) Blue Knights 10) Blue Stars 11) Colts 12) Crossmen OK, don’t rake me over the coals just yet!!! LOL!!! I do believe there will be a tie at the top, simply because it’s been a while since we’ve seen one! I do think this year is LOADED! Should be fun! I was able to hear the Colts show in Dubuque at the end of their Memorial Day Parade, and let’s just say THIS AIN’T YOUR MAMA’S COLTS!!! WOW!!!! Drum Corps fans will LOVE this years production!!!! I've heard that line for years. "This ain't your mama's colts"... but I'm ok with my mamas colts... personally, I think they've been somewhat cheated since 2014. Sadly, I think it's harder for Colts and Troop than it has been for Academy or Mandarins... the community is just so use to a "so close yet again" mentality. I really hope your opinion on their book and talent are accurate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarchandPlay Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 On 5/31/2018 at 7:23 PM, Ediker said: Awesome! Yeah, this is a similar one I made for the original prediction thread... reposting here. It shows, for any given placement, what the previous year's placement was. For example, for 1st place, the lowest previous year placement was 5th... and the most frequent, 2nd (due mostly to BD). There is a clear drop off below 5th place. For example, 6th place is more likely to come from below than from the top 5. Enjoy! I didn't realize I was just doing something similar to this... But I only used 2010-2017's previous year placement data to make predictions based on that. It lends interesting results towards the top, and sort of tame predictions in the 7-12 placings. Here's the placements those 8 years came up with on average: Santa Clara Vanguard Blue Devils Bluecoats The Cavaliers Carolina Crown Boston Crusaders The Cadets Phantom Regiment Blue Knights Blue Stars Likely Crossmen (5x 11th place was in finals the previous year) Likely Madison (5x 12th place was in finals the previous year) Other corps that made appearances in finals with this trend analysis: Colts 2x, Troopers 2x, SCVC 1x, Academy 1x, Mandarins 1x 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 getting reports of various media from around the horn...the top 7...holy #### 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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