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Chief, bass drummer with the initials AST aged out from BD 2022, having marched BAC the prior year. She went to BD because her significant other had aged out in 2021 and wanted to be on staff in 2022, but BAC management wouldn't allow that. She is a wonderful drummer and a super all around person.

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I would be very surprised to see SCV outscore the Mandarins in anything other than percussion this summer. I have heard from multiple sources that SCV has a younger hornline this year, which is frankly to be expected. Glad they're back...just hope they're able to improve the dismal toxic culture that their alums talk about.

Fair enough. I’m not sleeping on Mandarins, though, and will be watching to see if they can keep strengthening their performance captions.

Like everyone who says that THIS hornline is unbeatable because of lot videos. Everyone sounds unbeatable in lot videos.

I may be wrong, but I think what @IllianaLancerContra is saying is that if you go to just about any corps thread, WE are the ones saying that they sound better, look better, etc than the previous season. Some of it may be true, some of it may just be fluff and false hype to get the fanbase of that corps excited. Majority of us are guilty of it, including myself. You said it yourself, we haven't seen anything from any of these corps. So we go off what we think we know. We haven't seen SCV in well over 600 days. But it doesn't stop you from thinking that they will be no lower than 6th. And there is nothing wrong with thinking that, even though some may disagree.

I was completely befuddled by that show when I first saw it in the theater but I really liked it by the time I saw it in person.

Got it. I’ll ask my friend who told me this where they saw it Thank you for checking

My understanding is they had a young corps in 2022. So if then retain membership from 2022, those members would be in their third year of experience. I have no idea though what their membership is and the experience of that membership. I think they need a much stronger design than 2022 to compete for top 4. I think their 2022 design was better than any of the 5th place and lower designs last year. Regiment, IMO, has one of the best designed shows of the year, but it lacked complexity to compete with the top 6 down the road, which held them back IMO. To me, assuming they build on next year and are better, they are the ones who have the best shot at keeping SCV out of the top 5. We'll see though.

Are we? Every corps is so much better than the previous season? We haven't seen anyone yet. There are always corps that are better than the previous season and always corps that aren't.

We’re at the point in the offseason where every Corps is so much better than they were in the previous season. What is tbd is how much better the Corps is vs how much better all the other Corps are.

Yes, it has been a frustrating pattern! However, they have come back strong usually after their drops, and I hope they do it again.

I think I did a prediction just after it was confirmed SCV would compete that put them in 9-12 range. I have since changed my mind and see them in 5-8 with a better chance of 5 or 6 but it really is a wild card in my mind. As much as I liked them in 2022, they need a much stronger show design if the MMs are younger in order to place well.

That's dumb. Haha. Thank you so much for the laugh. Funniest thing I've seen yet today!!!

It will be interesting to see where they fair. I'm also excited about Regiment. Their show last year was so fantastic and well designed - if they add more complexity they could go far.

I would have a hard time seeing that as well. I really hope their design team comes up with something different - more colorful and fast-paced. They are still a big name with a huge talent on their staff. I just don't see them placing outside the top 6.

I've been told many many many horrible things by alumni. I have none about JF by a survivor, and no known connections to one. Anyone I know who's marched those years doesn't bring it up and I don't ask. That info has to be divulged completely voluntarily for it to be ethical. If how McKenzee, I, Terri and others I know have been regarded is the standard in this activity, then I don't blame them for staying in the shadows.

No one will come forward about him. All we hear are the stories and there are a lot of them. I had Cavies alumni that I had marched with elsewhere tell me when I asked why he was going to SCV. But, I’m sure the survivors are fearful of being ostracized and shunned. This was all covered in the Nadolny article on what happened to the young woman who was groomed and assaulted by Mike Stevens. She was a pariah. So that’s why, in a nutshell. People want their drum corps, collateral damage be ######.

Whew. I pooped a little.

Oops my bad

That is for the 2026 70th Anniversary Alumni Corps

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I'm thinking SVC is one highly motivated corps.

I've seen it since they've annouced their comeback on various threads. Not everyone is saying that, of course, but I've seen a few and A LOT of people having them place in the bottom 4 of the top 12, which is just not going to happen.