The community needs to really understand how long it has taken the organization to become competitive again to understand where some, like Granny, are coming from.
It has been since 1999 that we have had a shot at Friday night. It has been since 1986 that our corps got the finalist patches. We have been waiting for, and wanting, competitive success in a passionate way for much longer than most Corps have waited and now we finally have great show design and a talented Corps AND a shot at that success.
The anger from Trooper Fan comes from how they have had their show, performance and design be recognized and supported by the judging community - to a certain extent, and then today, after an exciting performance that appeared cleaner than corps in our block, we are rebuffed.
The show today was the cleanest I've seen from the Troopers this year. Now, granted other corps have made improvement as well. The thing that causes us indigestion, heart burn and high blood pressure is that we were beating some corps by nearly five points only a few days ago.
Today Trooper Fan is upset and in our estimation, rightfully so.