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This year has been a total bust for me. Full price for exactly zer0 drum corps. The one show I stayed home to watch was a terrible connection and feed. ...finally just gave up on it. I will have to take time off to watch Finals - the inability to watch later when I am away was the piece of info that would have killed the sale for me. ...too anxious for my drum corp fix - no 'fine print' was read. My guess is that next year when it's 'time to buy DCI' streaming for the season, I won't.

After reading the first post, I will admit that I had to go check to make sure of the year. The people you mention (Rodriiguez and Quigley) have been running Revo into the ground for so long... The corps has survived solely on the determination and the talented backs of the young musician athletes and assorted caption heads who these clowns have run off year after year... Then, somehow, these kids rally against the awful mismanagement and keep going. DCI does know about them. In my time as a parent there, I had Dan Acheson's phone number and email and kept myself in his ear. The problem was they saw each event as a single 'solvable' problem and wouldn't look at the problem as a whole that reoccurred annually. Whether it's about the survival of d-3/open class drum corps as being necessary on its own (it is), or it's about these open class corps being necessary because they continue to supply musician athletes to the larger world class corps after they're ready to 'move up' (they are), it is well past time that DCI looks into the fiscal and financial fitness and history of corps like this.before letting them continue to compete.

I have two seats for Finals and Semis that I can't use. Sec 337, Row 2, Seats 20 & 21 Face value gets 'em. PM me if you're interested.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects 'stupid man' explicitly from the Congress, not from DCP or from me. To think...we Texans have been in charge of scheduling DCI finals all these years and I haven't done anything to get them scheduled on my days off, what was I thinking?

Well...without any 'real' retreat, isn't everybody but the DM of the 15th corps already getting 2-3 extra hours already? ....of rest? ...this one I like. I just think it would take the judges longer to get their scores down...to get their 'slotting' right before the next corps steps off. or you could have #3 perform two times? ...jk I like this too...this year, I think this would be cool...I haven't got any horse in the top 6, but it would be fun to have an open draw on top 6 for 'the' night without any semi scores posted until after Finals..... ......seems like the judges are already treated like a bunch of dead presidents in green polos....sequestering.....released only for Finals w/out prev knowledge of the order....these are always going to be the same people that have seen the corps all summer long...I don't think sequestering them is going to do anything but inflate their artificial imprortance They are 'ranked' going in.....but I do like the idea of getting the chance to see/judge without being told, "this is number two...we think they are better than number three, but not as good as number one....now for the 'competition'..." number four is my fav idea.....

double post

....and if the world were flat we would fall off sailing to China.

I think Glassmen do it at their home show....

....and in a technology sharing arrangement with NASA, the role of 'high camera' will now be played by the Hubble Space Telescope.

yeah, okay...you win....me too now

I've been okay here all day...what's the issue?

haha...but if a a shofar is a bell-front brass instrument, wouldn't a half-filled perrier bottle be closer to a woodwind? (flute-ish?)

That's a significant drop for Blue Stars, eh?

...anybody have access to the four wet people in the stadium?

...Well that's a funny question. If they had the best show, and they performed it the best, they should absolutely win. They don't have the best show, and they aren't performing their show as well as a handfull of other corps are performing their shows right now. I did really enjoy them at San Antonio though. I was glad they weren't as bad off as I was reading... If Pioneer had the best show this year, would you be okay with them winning? ....same question, without the bias?

...or, more recently... in '07 Blue Devils, Blue Stars, and Phantom all dusted off Firebird Suite...by the end of the night I was wondering what was going on.

...but if they can't wait 12 minutes to go to the restroom, they might actually BE in the 3rd grade. There's nothing wrong with asking somebody to respect the $50 ticket that the other people in the row paid to see the show by not walking in front of them for 12 minutes! ...that's not unreasonable. It's courtesy.

...assuming all others remain static?

....heard they had a brand new member tonight too that just learned (almost) the drill.....oh well, maybe next time.

...this just seems like a silly argument, because it is what it is. I don't mean to be argumentative, but I am sure that BK wouldn't mind skipping those extra shows too and just averaging a score from 3-ish days earlier (was it the 21st?) ...that would throw in an 84.45 for them to average into the Murf score.... but come on! not fair? seriously? There has to be some way to come up with placement. Would you suggest that every other corps has to average two of three shows and the Glassmen use a single score to determine their placement? okay....sorry......stepping away.

...similar sort of issue before the San Antonio show, wasn't it? Two different shows (Houston and Dallas) on two different nights with two different judging panels? Placement was determined based on the avg of all corps, scored at those two different shows? ...isn't new or unique.

I'm couldn't begin to tell you what DCI did, but since Gmen didn't play both shows, if you went back for their last two shows for an avg, it actually is fractionally lower than BK's avg last two shows..... other than that, I haven't any idea.

Congratulations Chris... ...both for you, and for the kids. It's good to see you in a position where you can grow something awesome! See you next year!

Commentary videos are awesome! I hope this is an ongoing thing for FN and DCI. I would really like to have a 'commentary' option on this years Finals DVD. Mark Sylvester was great....I think I could drink a Guinness and smoke a cigar with this guy.