Interestingly enough- it's always midnight somwhere in the world, regardless of if it's light or dark where you are ;)
AND if it's midnight where you are, there's daylight somewhere else.
So, you can actually say seemingly contradictory statements:
Yes, it's dark at midnight
No, it's not dark at midnight
and both statements will be true, without creating a logical fallacy!
It's all a matter of your point-of-view.
For what it's worth, I used to think that 87 SCV got robbed, but I have to agree that their brass line just didn't bring it hom efinals night- they got over-hyped and lost sound quality towards the end of the program, and that is what cost them on the sheets.
89 Phantom, at one point I though should've won, but after listening/watching all shows and serveral years later I changed my mind because 89 PR's percussion feature doesn't seem to fit into the show as well as it should, and the drill for that section seems to be a GE letdown...
These are just my opinions, not meaning to bash either corps- especially considering that I actually prefer these shows to the winners, even though I now agree that they probably placed as they should.
It's all opinion and perceprtion, and these things can change over time. Everyone has their own criteria.
Star 93 were the real winners though ;) What they won wasn't DCI finals though, they won the great game of "let's so who'll be remembered longer" ;) In my opinion, of course ;)