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Bostons guard gets so much love and deservedly so, but the marching and movement of the corps proper is just immaculate. They make it look easy.

Mandarins left a huge mark this year no matter where they place. Thank you to the design staff and marvelous performers, you were on fire all summer!

I try not to laugh at any behavior so blatantly pathological, but some people just beg for it don't they? The best is yet to come im sure lol. Bd isn't my favorite this year, but if they win it will be well.earmed. love how classy bd fans are on here.

One of the finest brass performances of the past decade imo. Stunning.

watched half a baseball game since the last competitive corps went on. even with the pitch clock that's a long time lol.

this thread will go splendidly

Didn't get to watch much since im so busy getting ready for a last minute trip early early sun. Had it on in the background and so many corps upped their.perfoemance levels. What a pleasure! Can't wait for finals tomorrow and then straight to bed. Just wish I could get mp3s of finals.wrek.performances for the flights and layovers. Nest of luck tomorrow to all the kids!

Love love love this show. No way on earth any member should be bummed Lots of us are loving it!

I don't pretend to understand how DCI chooses to reward itself as far as judging goes, but bloo's run tonight was incredible to me, and people I trust say a couple captions were pretty off tonight. If that' "off" I can't wait to see "on" the next 2 nights!

Lets go Crown. Bring it on tomorrow.

Go Mandarins! I feel like they can take it up another notch or 2 still!

good for the colts!

almost time for scores. hoping to see lots of the written equivalent of this because it's hilarious, but just remember, there's 2 more nights to show your outrage. try to save box 5 for sat night.

welp, bd has cleaned a ton. scores will be interesting for sure. also, i love denzel washington so much i don't even mind seeing the equalizer 3 commercial over and over again.

clearest bd's props have looked to me this year. i guess they know what they're doing when it comes to designing with los in mind lol.

boston with another visual treat of a show. i just have to say how much i appreciate every instance of corps proper mimicing waving water without a follow-the-leader body movement thing. how on earth do you even program that? flo trying to blow my speakers out with the bass drums in the shanty.

blooooooo! took me a bit to pick my jaw up off the floor. that is my favorite performance by any corps so far this year. lyrical, vibrant, and powerful all at the same time. and UNIQUE in every sense of the word. i don't know about best anything, but that is one of my favorite guard programs ever. this makes me wish they still devoted cameras to each section like on the old blurays where you could watch the guard and battery cams. there's just so much!

this is the first time i can actually see some of bloo's tarps without glare, especially the middle. but the ones on the left and right are still pretty shiny. are they all more of a matte finish live with human eyes?

crown with a legendary ballad to me. sounds like a fully-produced record every time. truly astounding. the rest of the run felt a little tentative to me. i think they'll throw it down tomorrow and sat.

part of me is not wanting to see comments on here after scores are announced for all of these corps in the 5-9 range, but yeah, i'm still reading them. and something tells me it could all end up different tomorrow night and then sat night. gonna be wild.

i feel like mandarins didn't have a great run overall. some intonation issues that i only heard early on in the season. but a lot of the exposed brass stuff in the opener is a lot cleaner than it was when I last saw them in atlanta. i still love how each movement flows into the next so seamlessly.

i feel like phantom having 4 big speakers on the front line impacts how they sound on streaming setups vs in person to at least some degree. same with mandarins, really. they have that veneer sound too on stream.

phantom '23 feels like if '93 and '95 had a baby with a couple nucleotides from '08 thrown in. THANK YOU PHANTOM

that's what they've been going for all season. all about getting the "bendiness" to match up between the bone and the rest of the ensemble. perfect!

trombone solo and ensemble just F'N NAILED THAT INTRO.