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    What's a Hole Worth?

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

    Posted · Edited by patblamo

    To answer the OP, yes holes hurt your visual score. Although we can come up with a few corps who won with 1 or 2 holes. There are many other corps that have more than 2 holes late in the season, and it definitely hurts the upstairs vis captions.

    This brings up a related question I have always had. Which would count more against you the guard member with a broken arm marching but not using equipment or the hole? I am MUCH more distracted visually by the injured guard member. I know the staff wants to let them march for all of their hard work but do the judges give the corps a break?

    Updated Quarterfinals Standings 7-31

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    Posted · Edited by patblamo

    Afternoon scores, because they lined up with the real placements. In every case except Boston in SA, the Top 8 corps scored higher than the top corps from the afternoon show.

    I can do it again with an average score for those corps if you like. I might just do that anyway.

    I don't know if there is an equitable answer. The spreads are off for the >9th seeds with the afternoon scores being much higher and not the head-to-head. But the evening scores would benefit the <12th place corps. Maybe the average of both would be the most fair.

    [Game] Credit and Tick: Version II

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    texken you need to vote again, I used the last valid post previous to him:

    14 - Blue Devils

    21 - Blue Stars

    20 - Bluecoats

    11 - Boston Crusaders

    23 - Carolina Crown

    10 - The Cavaliers

    07 - Colts

    20 - Crossmen

    30 - Madison Scouts

    07 - Mandarins

    27 - Phantom Regiment

    08 - Pioneer

    20 - Santa Clara Vanguard

    20 - Troopers

    tick - Colts

    credit - Madison Scouts

    The Official 2008 Madison Scouts Discussion Thread

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    Posted

    I think I can speak for a good bit of the corps in saying that we're all really excited to see how this weekend goes in Allentown. We've been working hard, and will be for the next eleven days :tongue: The energy amongst the corps's been especially great the past few days, and I'm sure it'll continue all the way through the end!

    Thanks to all on here that have offered support in any way! We appreciate all of it!

    MYNWA

    Someone's got an iPhone. :smile: Tell the guys we like what they are doing and keep doing whatever it is!

    The hottest Corps right now is.....

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    Posted

    Hey, can we be called hot too since we have reduced the gap on all of the hot corps? :tongue:

    The Glassmen.

    6/28/2008 Madison, WI - Glassmen by 4.300

    different shows tonight - Glassmen by 2.1

    BLUE STARS!

    6/28/2008 Madison, WI - Blue Stars by 4.300

    7/30/2008 Columbus, OH - Blue Stars by 2.750

    B.D.

    7/12/2008 Denver, CO - Blue Devils by 13.675

    latest scores - Blue Devils by 10.250

    The Official 2008 Madison Scouts Discussion Thread

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    When my brother and I graduated from high school, we were each given a $100 bill. We used that money to buy a pair of one way bus tickets across the country where we were taken in by some generous family, strangers to us. They allowed us to sleep in their home for 2 weeks, make a mess of their bathroom and eat all of their Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

    Then, when all day rehearsals started, someone (don't know who) put us up in an apartment near the practice field, we didn't pay a dime.

    The $75 bus tickets left us with only a combined $50 to buy food, it ran out pretty fast. For about 2 1/2 days we lived off a jar of peanut butter that we ate from a spoon, we only had to survive until tour but that was still weeks away. When the corps director found out we had nothing to eat, someone (don't know who) bought us a huge box of grocery's and another family took us out to eat.

    After finals, our buses were loaded and bound for the corps home but they would not be passing through our state. I remember standing in the parking lot wondering how we were going to get home, then, someone (can't remember who) arranged a ride home for us on another corps buses.

    I cherish the memory of my drum corps experience more and more every season. I could say that we (my brother and I) were lucky but in reality, getting to march was not luck at all, those experiences were made possible by others.

    We were shown a lot of generosity and I've never given anything back until today.

    pbj.jpg

    For the next 2 weeks, instead of eating out for lunch, I'll have pb&j at my desk to help offset the cost of my small contribution. While everyone in the office else is having Chinese or whatever, I'll be thinking about...anyway, make yourself a jelly sandwich for lunch tomorrow, you'll know what I'm talking about.

    THANK YOU! I hope my son learns the lessons you learned from Drum Corps, I think he is in the right place to do it.

    I wish we could send this post to everyone who loves the Scouts but has not contributed yet.

    The Official 2008 Madison Scouts Discussion Thread

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    Posted

    I’ll stick by my warning about the panic last week for falling behind in scores with a warning to temper our enthusiasm about tonight’s score. We still haven’t passed anyone ahead of us in the same show. BUT….

    MILESTONE ALERT:

    2007 Madison Scouts highest score of the season was at quarterfinals with 82.50.

    Tonight’s score of 83.60 passes that!!! :tongue::worthy:

    :worthy::w00t::w00t:

    :w00t:

    :w00t: OK, back to my cool state of anticipation without counting any chickens. :w00t:

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