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Difficulty to make depends on how the place is run. I know with Mempho, the attitude is important (and the ability to learn over time). But, if you just don't show any improvement from camp to camp, you're gone. Numbers are important, but quality is too. I'm pretty sure Andre would rather have a small corps that's good than a large one that's sub-par (unless he's changed in a month :-p). Sound would love to have you audition though (should have 8 - 9 mello spots this season with the return to Div II), so that's 3 open spots if all the vets return (and there was one who was pretty sure she wasn't going to). I'd be glad to get you any info you'd like. Wherever you end up though, you'll definitely have the time of your life.

. . . and off-topic to boot.

Have you checked any corps websites in the month or two after finals in the past 3 years? The majority of Div I corps sell their brass every couple years (if not more often).

I'm going back to the same place I was this year for my age-out (assuming I can get the funds).

Mike, which Effect caption is the narration judged under?

Sylmar is the housing site . . . rehearsal is wherever they can scrounge up enough space to move. Memphis has done visual blocks in the tiny drive-thru lane behind the hotel the past two nights.

I've seen the sheet of housing sites for that particular show, and your claims don't hold up. There were over 60 possible sites listed, and there weren't even enough to house all the corps at the show. The Memphis area in general is ridiculously hard to find housing sites. It's not that those 60 weren't available; they were just plain unwilling to house anyone (for various reasons). That's why Memphis and Pioneer ended up staying in Tupelo (or relatively close) the night before. You say you're sure, but the sheets say otherwise.

Mempho and Dutch Boy are both housed at a Good Nite Inn . . . I'm not sure exactly where or the address.

New staff, new design team, new approach . . . you expect the same results as there have been in the past? Expect what you want, but you'll be sorely disappointed.

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Okay, so which corps and shows? I just find it hard to believe that each judge would judge using the wrong sheet without noticing or questioning it, not to mention that DCI would then publish the scores without any disclaimer on said scores.

They still use D2/3 sheets even at D1 shows. No exceptions unless there's a huge screwup. I doubt that would happen two shows in a row.

Off night, bad field.

Well, I've heard from a few places that they're having a rough time with the everydays process, but I heard straight from Andre Feagin's mouth that they are "doing their best." Hope that helps :)

I disagree with Mike's view on it, but madscout, you've gotten way too one-track on the word "the." Here's just some of the epic that Webster has written on it: It doesn't have to denote one singular definition (though it can), but it can also indicate an abstract or the presence of multiple sections of a singular concept . . . like definitions of words.

It just seems to me that the push for electronics in DCI is much like the push of twelve tone music as "the only music" for the future back in the '60s and '70s. Two of my professors have recounted in our music history class tales of their own undergraduate experiences. Every professor and many composers attempted to push twelve tone music as the music of the future. This push from the classical community caused such a rift with the population as a whole that classical music began to suffer a loss of interest in general even when the push for twelve tone music ended. Minimalism and many of the later movements in classical music revived some interest, but the genre still isn't as popular as it was before the powers that be decided to tell people what they would listen to. You can say that there's no reason not to have electronics, but it seems to me that it's pushing the drum corps community where the listeners don't want it to go. Drum corps may survive the push, but it might never recover fully from the effects of it.

Way to make the same joke we had three pages back :P

I think that the belief in the technique is what makes it so effective in part. It's common sense in many aspects, but if you feel like you're part of something that's truly going to make you better, your chances of actually getting better are fairly high. Oh, and way to be classy, guys.

You might change your mind when you hear it. The concept had me wondering when I first heard it, but the music truly will be great.

I thought it was "bunnies" :P I like the shirts though!

But only on Wednesday

You mean Phantom/Crown. And there's a little Madison love for the high brass. :D

I left those definitions out because they were the ones you were already using. You already knew those definitions so you didn't need to be told them. Like I said, you are using one definition as if it is the only. But. it. isn't.

Considering the two big points here: 1) It fits the definition of the word student as provided in the dictionary 2) The dictionary is a collection of the meanings and usages of words in the language I speak I'd say the answer there is pretty darn obvious. Yes, they are a student. They aren't a student of a university; they aren't what our country would term a "full-time student," but they are students. Why is it so hard to believe the definition of the words?

Well . . . there are standard criteria on the scoring sheets, however I realize that's not what you mean. Regardless, you are still trying to say that "They cannot be called students because no other competitive sport does" despite the fact that the use of "student" here (or in skating) would be legitimate. As I said before, just because it's not what you would use does not mean it is less correct and it does not mean that it is wrong. And using a word that is legitimate is not being pretentious.