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Initially there was a two point score for color guard as part of GE and some people may recall one year where a corps that received perfect 2.0 nearly all season has a rifle drop at finals which cost .1 from the color guard score and .1 in a penalty which was the difference between first and second place. While two points may seem insignificant and there were proposals to increase the points early on, when you watch corps such as 27th, Phantom, Blue Devils, Santa Clara, the guards were very much integrated into the shows and if the guard was spot on, the show was too. Bad night for the guard, bad night for the corps. It was about this time Cavies began make strides and their guard played a huge role. About this same time WGI was formed and with the improvement in competitive guards we saw this in the field in the summer. Scoring the guard properly took time, but the guard’s critical role in the show happened much earlier, even if not directly scored.

I've seen a "cafetorium" in a school that had carpet on the floor to help absorb sound. Not sure what they were thinking. It didn't last long before the principal had it changed to commercial tile.

Brother in law works school construction and renovation. Had a school that hung huge acoustic textile panels on the cafeteria walls. Idea was to keep things down to a roar at lunchtime. Had a Smokey fire in the school and they found out the panels also held in the stench very well too. 🤮

That could be the reason. I always assumed it was to block the unused seats. People sitting on the other side would be a distraction so I thought the curtain was up to keep the focus on the shows, but LOS does have a problem with echoes and the curtain would help in that regard.

Ok. Was thinking you meant 70k in entire stadium

Possibly, but they're at 22% (15,400 max) this weekend for the tournament.

Current stats say cases are down 80% since January, so there should be no reason not to increase seats available.

Looking at recaps, guard ranking and how it's presented is all over the place. Some scores out of 2 (see above), some 10, some out of 100 - and when it's supposed to be out of 100, some guards are over 100 by a lot. Sometimes the recaps could use the help of a Universal Translator... It's not easy to define how exactly the rankings contributed to the score or if they were assigned a score just to determine rank. From what I can see, guard became part of the visual average in 2000 (you see their contribution to the average broken down as separate contribution in the visual caption).

Even back then they could have taken at least 10 points, probably more, from Drums and put it towards a Color Guard caption. Drummers wouldn't have noticed 🤣