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    When did you first march and/or get into DCI

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    My experience was actually backwards than it should have been. I marched DCI first and THEN got into it. I mean don't get me wrong, I sort of knew what it was (and by sort of knew, I mean "summer marching band", so OK in reality, No, I did not know what it was) from seeing 2001 Finals on PBS. It was something I sort of discounted throughout high school because:

    a) I wasn't very good, and

    b) I got put on a new instrument, see a), and

    c) I thought "I have other stuff I want to do in the summer.

    Welp, fast forward 3 years later and I had my first summer with the Crossmen (2004) and never looked back. Best decision I ever made was to suck it up and audition!

    Carolina Crown's 2011 show?

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    Wow. There are still people who believe that "A second chance" was about a chance to win the championship. Reading is good for you.

    Meh, I think alot of people still think that. There are always going to be years that have that one show with the alleged alternative meaning. All of which are completely ridiculous:

    09 BD: 1+9+3+0 = Lucky number 13. How controversial, they were destined to win WITH THAT TILE ALONE. AND THEY DID?!??!? Shock!!!11

    08 SCV: 3hree (pronounced "three-hree," of course) - 3rd place (yes, I did actually hear that one from a fan. My question is, why choose the number 3 to aim for? Why not aim lower? My personal favorite is Ei8ht, named after one of the clubs I frequent in Houston on the weekends.)

    07 BD: Winged Victory - ohemgee the title has Victory, so they're going to win! (Side note...they did. Joke's on us.)

    05 Cadets: The Zone - what is the only number that is in the title? One! Clearly they're going to win. (Again, joke's on us. Darn, maybe the show designers have a strategy after all!)

    04 Phantom: Apasionada 874...Finals were on 8/7/04. Oooooh! Scandal!

    Let 'em think what they want to think. The people that actually understand show titles (those having to do with a common theme or music selection) can just continue with our lives and disregard everyone else whose opinions we don't agree with.

    jeez sarcasm is not easy to convey over post, is it???

    ExSIGHTment of Sound Houston Shows

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    Oh and who said that Houston (or Texas for that matter) is having a drought? We are having a WAY wetter summer than last year.

    I had mentioned that someone had told me Htown was in a drought. I find that hard to believe after all the rain we've gotten! And you're absolutely right; last summer was brutal compared to this summer.

    weather.com has a more positive outlook for Friday. Thursday is still chance of Tstorms. Meh as long as I get to give my respective contra lines the stuff I bought them from Sam's club, I'll be a happy camper :-D

    See "Y'all" tomorrow! (I hate that word)

    ExSIGHTment of Sound Houston Shows

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    Wow, bloo is staying in Brenham? That makes it anti-easy to see them rehearse :laughing::thumbup: :thumbup: :w00t:

    Whaddupppp home show???

    (waiting for my college roommate to chime in; he knows it's barely a home show)

    EDIT: Oh wow the only reason why I posted on this thread and I forgot the first time.

    I'll be sitting in Upper Deck, section D, Row E on Thurs. and Upper Deck, section D, Row M on Friday. I'd have gotten the good seats (aren't they all good seats?) but the guy I'm going with didn't want to justify paying $50/ticket. Whatever, it's drum corps.

    You'll find me in my Bloo jacket!

    Standing up too much?

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    I could see how this would be a problem on any other night than finals night...but finals night is meant for the performers. They deserve every bit of standing ovations they can get.

    On the same note, if you stand during a part that is not really meant for a standing ovation, then I could see how people could get PO'd.

    Retreat

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    Glad to hear there was no tomfoolery this year.

    See DCI, this is what happens when Troopers make finals. You're GUARANTEED to have a classy retreat because if somebody screws around, Troop's dm will start shooting people and lopping heads. :tongue:

    hahaha very nice. was the last chord of america the beautiful (or whatever they're playing this year) an actual chord? or was it every other note other than a Bb?

    EDIT: It just clicked that there was no mass America the Beautiful. Sorry, I'm still new to this age-out thing and not being in the loop

    DCI World Class 2009 Finals Thread

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    During the Vanguard show, people started crying during the company front because it was so emotional. Gotta love it.

    That is pretty awesome! I wasn't a huge fan of SCV's show this year (no flaming, please)...but they performed it so well when I saw them a few weeks ago. I'm sure I'd love it as much as I've loved every other Vanguard show if I saw it tonight.

    DCI Health Club

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    That's AWESOME!!! Congrats, man! I love hearing stories about that, especially people who are making a conscious effort to stay in shape. Great work to you!!

    My first summer I lost 25lbs and came back looking emaciated, but in great shape.

    then college happened.

    Then I marched the next summer and lost it all again.

    then college happened. twice...without marching those summers.

    Then I marched my age-out and lost 30lbs. I came back skinner than I had ever been and people thought I had an eating disorder.

    Losing a lot of weight is great if you need to. I didn't really need to...but my body has since then equaled out and I'm "average."

    Medalist statistics

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    If Crown holds on to 2nd place, they will be just the 10th corps to do so in the DCI era, the latest corps to do so since Star in 1993, and the first non-champion corps to do so since Cavaliers placed 2nd in 1990. (Last one before that was 27th in 1980!)

    Only 12 different corps have finished in the top three in the 37 years (not counting this one) of the modern DCI era.

    Only 8 have won championships

    Only 9 groups have finished 2nd

    Only10 have finished 3rd. Of those, Blue Devils, Cadets, SCV and Cavaliers own the lion's share of medals, followed by Phantom and then a sharp drop off.

    Medalist corps and their number of 1st,2nd.3rd and total medalist finishes)

    Corps (1st,2nd, 3rd, total)

    Blue Devils (12,6,7,27)

    Cadets (9,6,5,20)

    Santa Clara (6,7,8,21)

    Cavaliers (7,5,6,18)

    Phantom (2,5,4,11)

    Madison (2,2,1,5)

    Star of Indiana (1,0,2,3)

    Kingsmen (1,0,1,2)

    Blue Stars (0,1,1,2)

    Troopers (0,1,0,1)

    27th Lancers (0,1,0,1)

    Bridgemen (0,0,1,1)

    Stats from corpsreps.com

    So...whatever the finish tonight, congratulations to Crown on their ascendency to DCI's elite, congrats to Devs, Cadets, Vanguard, Cavs and Phantom on continuing traditions of excellence, congratulations to Troopers and Blue Stars for hanging in there over all these years and returning to finals, and congratulations to the remainder of the top 12 and everyone else for a great year of drum corps!

    Star got 2nd in 1993 so it should be 1,1,2,4...but who's counting :tongue:

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