fourouttheforty
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Very different...all I was saying is that yes...it MATTERED to the kids in the corps. It MATTERED in that parking lot (on that night)...but take three steps across the street to McDonalds and nobody knows or cares what they just did. Nobody in any championship corps is going to further themselves in life having won a championship, with the exception of possibly doing work in the marching arts arena.
And I've said it before, would I have liked to been scored or places higher? Sure? There's nothing wrong with wanting to win, but has my life been diminished by the fact that we didn't get 2nd? Uhhh....no.....heck no.
Oh my god, THIS THIS THIS.
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I'm going to take from your sig that you aged out of CC. The recent DCI Mag. had an article about Matt Harloff (brass caption supervisor for CC). To quote him in the article: "...success doesn't just mean winning all the time. The biggest focus is on individual improvement...", "Ultimately, we're preparing students to be whatever they want to be in life."
Winning may be your goal, and more power to you, but I think most top-tier instructors know how to get the best from their kids, medal or not, making the experience as, or more, important than the medals and rings. I hope you haven't forgotten that lesson so soon...
(Disclaimer: I'd have given my left *** to be on the field in '08 and hear that crowd roar!)
Just sayin'
Fyi, this entire time I've been quoting Talledega Nights ;)
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That's just silly, and obviously spoken by someone high that day. That doesn't make any sense at all, you can be second, third, fourth... hell you can even be fifth.
But I've lived my entire life by this!
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This discussion is moot. If you're not first, you're last.
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Didn't we see last season that your score can go up when you have holes?
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I guess I'm just not sold on the whole "dream" corps idea.
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Seems more like Top 10 Drum Corps Perfomances on YouTube...
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Well, the second camp got cancelled. There go two free days.
Fixed.
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My favorite thing to do is walk around the Cadets buses after shows and count the BAC and Crossmen tattoos that members have.
Win.
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It's not too expensive until corps can't fill their membership. I only know one example of a corps going inactive due to flat out lack of interest.
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The right thing to do is wait 2 years when they are $40.
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Was there even a point last season where Crown had the highest score in the country?
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Every year we hear show announcements that we are really excited about and, then, come summer, the show doesn't pan out and at the end of the season the corps places several spots below where they did the year before. And vice versa.
I think it'd be silly to make a decision about where you want to march based on the show that's announced, primarily because a corps is so much more than the music that they play, but also because there's no way to guarantee that a show you think you'll love will actually be one that turns out amazing, or that a show that you think you'll hate will actually end up being terrible.
This.
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Sounds a little silly to decide what team to march for based on one year's program. Deciding between corps because one generally plays a bunch of donuts and one plays actually music is one thing, but because you don't like the theme or music selection? Come on now...
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Just practice holding your horn with a weight on the bell. A good plan I've heard is that by these camps you should be able to hold your horn up for this long:
January: 5 min
Feb: 8 min
March: 10 min
April: 15 min
May: 20 min
By spring training, you should be holding your horn like a boss.
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Oh no, this is a corps vs. banana thread, you clearly haven't read well.
It's just fruit?
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Recently Found this online
That. Is. Awful.This is awesome.
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I only read the first 10 pages, but I love that this became a band vs. corps thread.
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Body wash is the way to go.
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I dont think it matters how many preregister....
I realize you're being sarcastic, but good sarcasm is funny because it makes sense...
If more people preregister, more people are in the drawing for this free audition, right? Just seems like an odd alternative to a regular early bird discount.
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The Cadets have just the incentives you need to register and attend the upcoming Audition and Experience Camp. But move quickly, they only last through the Halloween weekend!EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION*Send in the $100 Registration Fee by midnight on Oct. 31st and be entered into a drawing for a FREE AUDITION...
... Read the rest of the article here - http://www.drumcorpsplanet.com/index.php?o...1&Itemid=39
Woo hoo, so if 200 people preregister, you'd save in expectation fifty cents!
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Do the math. If you put reasonable numbers in here, it's not THAT bad of a mistake (if it is).
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I mean, have you seen how much Blue Devils bend their knees when they play loud? Coincidence? I think not.
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You do realize that at the top level, the brass score comes down to cracked notes, right? Not something you can really hear from the box if you're that good. Everyone contending has the demand to win the Brass trophy.
If your MB competed - why did you join?
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This by a mile. Drum corps are one of the few organizations where this is almost always going to be true. It's no one's day job, no one does it for the money, no one does it to impress anyone or slap it on a resume. Everyone from the members to the staff to the volunteers want to be there and are all-in toward the effort.