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  1. If you're a corps outside of NJ or PA, your opportunities are very limited for DCA shows. Often the shows of DCA in your area have perhaps 2-3 corps in some cases, or your other option is virtual shows. Where you record your show and send it in for evaluation. Even in NJ we have shows with only 5 groups. (see rant about operations and placement of intermission in another thread) So if you want to provide opportunities for your members where they have larger crowds, and more performance opportunities in general, you'll take what your options are. This doesnt always work if DCI comes through your city on a tuesday or wednesday, but if you can do it, there's no reason not to. Its a performance op for your members and exposure for your ensembles in a very niche activity.
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  2. Well, hello there... (From their FB page) The Cavaliers 33m · The iconic White Aussie returns to the field for our 75th anniversary season
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  3. As the saying goes, "we must all hang together, or ... we shall all hang separately," Both of these leagues seem to be marching to the scaffold, albeit at different rates. Some kind of affiliation may be a path to their collective salvation.
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  4. totally understood, and I'm sure this is all still in development, however I just find this not on par with even the DCA groups in the same region. While RHR's season costs more than this total, it feels like you get more for your money overall. And Columbus Saints cost half this. Which i think that those are the most comparable programs to this, and in the same region for understanding costs.
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  5. While I think this is a cool idea, I am a bit taken back at the cost. Granted, we havent seen a schedule, but Soundsport was intended to be affordable. Which also prompts the "what is affordable" in this day and age, but woof.
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  7. Didn’t we talk about that last time we were in Indy?
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  8. i think it's great. we used to have many shows in the east that had both DCA and DCi corps in it.
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  9. I ❤️ linear drill!! Those girls are awesome and they look familiar. I think they might have marched in the Rose Parade a year or so ago. That right there is probably the future of Drum Corps (indoor only), but I hope I've exited the planet by the time it happens.
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  10. This group of 8th-12th grade kids kicks butt in execution.
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  11. Varsity acquired Stanbury Uniforms in 2019.
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  12. I’m older but I didn’t write that. It was @Slingerland
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  13. As much as I do not want to see SCV go away, and I don't, I think they need to be commended for NOT doing like many others have. How many corps have we seen not finish a season. not have money or resources to feed their corps on tour, beg other corps for help and one can go on and on. Hoping they make a comeback.at some point.
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  14. Hearing some REALLY great stuff about Phantom, right now. Phantom is going all in on being competitive at the top of this activity and they're going to do it while staying in constant contact with their roots and traditions. Be very excited for this upcoming season.
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  15. From the post, I'm assuming the full corps except color guard? 🤔
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  16. There’s something not to mention in the recruiting documentation. 😳
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  17. Drum Corps has become a 'resume box check' for future music/movement educators (some of whom will morph into pageantry leeches ($0.02 to Poppycock)). Rant on: I still am in touch with many who I marched with. Out of ~50 members, we have only 2 who became music educators/band directors. We also have 2 college professors, 2 military officers, several who work in tech, some in financial world, an Alaska crab fisherman, business owners, government employees, and Catholic Priest (no one saw that coming in 1983). Drum Corps positively shaped our lives, and if you expand this to all the small 1980s Corps, I think it made society better as well. For better or worse, Drum Corps has turned into the marching arts version of a summer football camp, people who want to perform at the next level will pay to do it. Rant off: So, now to address your dilemma: Several ideas: (1) Ask Battalion if they have programs available to help with tuition. (2a) Get a job & save every dime between now & April/May. (2b) When Corps start advertising that they need members in this section or that, and are willing to reduce tuition, pounce. IDK if DCI is running the 'Fill Every Corps' thing this year, but this may be useful as well. Keep in mind that to have the Drum Corps experience you don't need to be in a DCI finalist. Edit: If you go route 2, be flexible. IDK what you play (or spin), but of Corps needs mellos & you play trumpet, offer your services. If you play snare, consider a position in the pit or on tenor/bass.
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  18. Does anyone else see the irony of Dan Acheson's retirement article featuring a photo including dozens of corps buttons from folded DCI groups. I am not saying that Dan was responsible for these groups' demise, but it seemed ironic and maybe a little tone-deaf.
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  19. I am so excited for the Troopers. This year they had a highly entertaining, and a well designed show that got them back into the top 12. I know they will have the best recruiting year they have had in a while, because students will have been inspired by the 2022 show. More talent, with a good staff in place can only bring even brighter days ahead for the corps from Casper. I am sure their guard will double in size in 2023. They had a talented guard this year, but they just needed more bodies on the field. The bottom line is I have not been this pumped about the Troopers in a very long time. Go Troop!
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  20. I wonder if they will use solar to power their pit/amps? Or to charge batteries for indoor stadiums
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  21. I'm very saddened to announce that the YouTube channel Gelp99 has been completely terminated off of YouTube following several copyright strikes by a third party. The channel had many many performances archived of both DCI and DCA performances going back to the 1960s. I will be mourning its loss for a long while
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