Pit_Girl_77

9th 84.95 raiders. 8th 85.7 legends. 7th 86.6 7th regiment. 6th 86.75 gold. 5th 90.35 music city. 4th 90.5 Spartans. 3rd 91.55 genesis. 2nd 95.7 blue devils b. 1st 96.15 vanguard cadets!

12th Racine 70.24 11th 76.65 le stendors. 10th 80.9 colt cadets!!!!!!!! (From CC parents on Facebook---way to break 80!!!)

They are on the field...

Facebook post from the Colt Cadet director indicated they were lining up for retreat, so we should get more info pretty quick! :)

Text from my favorite Colt: Colt Cadets 10th with 78.85

Colt Cadets sovies will be with the Colts, as one big family. They house together during finals week, eat about 1/2 the meals together, have some shared staff and lots of shared parents, and will ride back home to Dubuque together at the end of the weekend. You will be able to find "RED" show shirts, Colt Cadet shirts/sweatshirts/hoodies, 50th Anniversary gear, and lots more at the RED TEAM booth. Some of the best support anyone can give is to show up early on Thursday and make lots of noise for the kids! Putting your best show of the year on the field for "10s of people"...yeah...

Over 2 point jump RED TEAM! Way to go :) (And the Colt Cadets keep climbing too!)

Go RED TEAM! Here is the Colts info for the day: Colts July 22 Housing: Westgate High School, 2305 Jefferson Island Road, New Iberia, LA. Schedule for Monday, July 22: 7 am Wake & Eat 8 am Rehearse Noon Snack 12:45 pm Ensemble 2:30 pm Run 2:50 pm Eat, Pack, Load 4:35 pm Depart 5:20 pm Warm Up 7:08 pm Gate 7:25 pm Show 8:00 pm Snack 9:24 pm Last Corps 9:45 pm Critique (staff) 10:05 pm Depart Show: Cajun Field - University of Louisiana, 201 Rinehardt Drive, Lafayette, LA 70506

Sure, why not? Here is me and one of the Colts I call my own at Olathe last night...as I got to watch him grow up in Colt Cadets the past few years :) (My shirt reads "Future Cook Truck Mommy", coming Christmas 2013!)

First Colts hosted show of a busy week! Show info here: http://www.colts.org/celebration13.asp There is lots if good info on the "celebration in brass". Facebook page as well, including housing sites. Box office opens at 3:00, and last year we were about 20 people away from selling backfield seats, so come early for your tickets! I will be tweeting some stuff @pit_girl77 if anyone is interested in following and posting here for others to see. Go red team!

The Cavaliers ‏@TheCavaliers 25m The Cavaliers are ready to take the field in Whitewater, WI #cavs2013 #SecretSociety @ Perkins Stadium #

From Twitter: Marissa Moeller ‏@marissamoeller 11m Liking pioneers music choices. The cymbal line has some good moves as well. #DCI #DCIWhitewater

According to Twitter the Colts are taking the field.... Go Red Team!!! This is not show music, but a cool video of the Colts at the Field of Dreams a couple weeks ago:

First up, local news coverage of the event: My link (Note that the video shows the Govies in green/white and black/white colorguard, plus some high school band footage from the pre-show, no freaking out about the saxaphones!) This is my first live show of the season, have not seen much on video, so this was a first look at pretty much everyone except for the Colts. I am not in the habit of writing negative things about a corps, as I know they are all working their tails off. Here are some things that stuck out to me as well done/cool/improved/etc. Govies: As always, a fantastic way to start off a show. The guard is great, with almost the whole show on the field (Sometimes in Mankato they don't quite have 1/2 done as DCA finals are still a long ways off, so "props" to them for all the hard pre-season work!) There is some great solo work in the hornline featuring several different people, "Send in the Clowns" is a fantastic momement in the show. Fun music, lots of energy, great job by all. John M-you always make my mom laugh, thanks for that! MN Brass: ummm....WOW. Huge sound, loved loved loved the hornline. Costume changes worked well and I thought fit the show, and the percussion was just cool to watch. If you only get to see MN Brass for one show this season, watch the cymbal line, they are amazing. (And not just because I spent the last few weeks teaching cymbals to a bunch of 8th graders...) Parents agree that the show was great and you guys look and sound better then last year, mom is sure you will be champions again. Colts: :) Great job kiddos. Keep cleaning and growing, you are getting so much better each time I see you! Field of Dreams is such a cool moment live, the whole audience is just holding their breath...parents both loved the show, "No weird music or voice things" INT: For some reason they moved INT from after Troopers to before Troopers. Not sure why... Troopers: From the 20-yard line ramp that I had to watch from, things looked pretty darn good. My dad loves your music choices and hopes you keep it up in the future. My nephew wants to be a Troopers drum major now. Blue Stars: For what it is worth, I had you solidly in 2nd behind Madison tonight. I liked the show alot, and could see the Voodoo theme most of the time. Maybe it is all the Mardi Gras parades I have marched in New Orleans that have helped me "get" the show more than some folks on the internet, but I think it is cool. I think my favorite part are the 5(?) voodoo dolls with their red hearts-these guys are doing a great job. Crossmen: Loudest corps of the night (Until Madison came in), brass line sounds great! I don't think these are new uniforms, but the black corps with the red colorguard really "popped" well under the lights. Lots of energy from the colorguard, some great individual performances during the pre-show trying to get the crowd into the protest. Mom really liked the hornline, dad does not like electronics in drum corps...(same stuff, differnet year...lol) Madison: You guys brought down the house. Huge sound, singing was great, I loved the show. Mom liked the helicopters and pretty much everything to do with the guard. When you were done, dad turned to me and said "So, who do you think is in 2nd?" Parents cannot believe there are corps on the west coast right now that are ahead of you by 5 points. Guard Uniforms for all: Somehow a group of us were talking guard uniforms on the way home, and we came to the conclusion that all the uniforms tonight looked good. They looked classy, people of all sizes looked good in them, the guys looked as good as the girls, and colors and themes really fit the show. Ususally there are a couple that stick out as a "What were they thinking", but this year it is all good! The venue: Good stuff includes stands so close to the action that half the corps DMs conducted from the 10th row, as there was not enough space for the podium between the pit and the stands. Traffic control and parking looked to be great, with port-a-johns in each parking lot (I think that is a year-round thing for the college, but still welcome). Concessions at the stadium are good with kettle corn, cold stone ice cream, and a stand from the local Hy-Vee grocery store that had hotdogs and such. Within walking distance includs a couple of restaruants, a large gas station/convience store, a CVS, and a hotel. The city of Mankato is a major shopping hub with lots of hotel rooms and good 4-lane highways in every direction. Bad stuff: some percussion warm-ups bleeding into the stadium, which is very open at either end zone. Part of this might be from the building demo they did a few days ago that cut out a warm-up area, but I think this has happened in years past as well. The concession lines and restroom lines at intermission were very long, and a bunch of folks did not get back into the stands to see the Troopers (Including me). There were lots of volunteers/ushers to help people, but there were several seat issues around us. The stadium seating are bleachers, with numbers painted on each spot. The reserved seats are a tight fit, and I think the combination of crap that people brought in (I saw a large cooler around the 50 yard line, about 1/2 up) and people with G/A tickets trying to sneak to the middle to get a better view, left many folks with no place to sit. The ushers could not physically walk down each row and check tickets (Not enough room, not enough time between corps, and no one would dare do it during a show), so they would try to find an empty spot for folks with a reserved seat, which would create a dominoe effect when more people came and their seats were gone. It sounded like many of those affected were parents of Troopers/Blue Stars/Madison members, who were watching in the lot and came into the show late. We all squished the best we could to fit people, as the ushers would not allow anyone to sit in the steps, but it was not a great situation. I am not sure how to fix the problem, as the stadium lay-out does not allow for very good roping-off of sections, and I know nearly 100% of the folks working the show are parent volunteers from the local high school band program. If every fan would just be considerate and not sit where they don't belong or bring a bunch of crap into the stadium it would make the world a better place :) (OK, end rant on that...) Overall it was another great night of drum corps in Mankato!

Colts schedule for the day (And everyday on tour): Colts Virtual Cooktruck Show website: Thunder of Drums

Thunder of Drums The line-up for tonight's Thunder of Drums show: Pre-show (high school marching bands): Stabekk, Norway School Band St. Peter Saints Marching Band Mankato 77 Lancers Marching Band Drum Corps: Govenaires Minnesota Brass Colts Blue Stars Troopers Crossmen Madison Scouts The weather is expected to be perfect! I am going to attempt to tweet during the show using my not-so-smart-phone, anyone feel free to repost stuff here from that @pit_girl77 (Look at my signature for bias-lol) The Mankato stadium (Minnesota State University) is great for drum corps, really steep stands, the front row is about 10 feet up from the field, and no track so the sound is really in-your-face. I have seen lots of drum majors conduct from the stands instead of a podium because the pit is so close. The lot with most the corps buses is just east of the stadium, with most fans parking just east of that and getting to walk through warm-ups. For those of you that have been to the stadium, the 2 large dorm towers to the west of the stadium got impoded on Saturday to make way for new ones. You can see a video of that here: Gage Towers Falling

Go MN Brass! Go Govies!! GO COLTS!!!! Here is the link to the show website, and it looks like they have a pretty active twitter feed as well. I get to spend tonight at work, but I will be in Mankato tomorrow! River City Rhapsody Showtime weather: Partly cloudy and 74, winds N at 9mph....pretty sweet night for some drum corps :)

Scores up on DCI: World Class 1 Blue Stars 66.300 2 Colts 63.500 3 Pioneer 52.500 Open Class 1 Legends 61.100 2 Coastal Surge 0.000 View Recap Read more: http://www.dci.org/scores/index.cfm?event=a052d7e9-d456-4205-bea3-edb7c73f4b96#ixzz2XHc6F87t

Phantom Regiment ‏@PhantomRegiment 3m Show #4 in Paw Paw, MI - unfortunately is a rain out for us. We're sorry fans in Paw Paw. :(

Anyone know if the first corps will get scores if the 2nd 1/2 can't go on? I get DCA/DCI/ETC. rules mixed up sometimes...

Some random twitter stuff as I can't seem to leave the computer tonight until I get scores...(Ignore the times, I was lazy and copy-pasted from another source...) C. Doerr ‏@CDoerrable 2h Judging from the applause, lots of Phantom Phans here :P C. Doerr ‏@CDoerrable 1h Coastal Surge: Exhibition, but impressive still. Good luck to growth!! C. Doerr ‏@CDoerrable 1h Legends was FANTASTIC :D very disappointed I didn't march. Still. Lovely. C. Doerr ‏@CDoerrable 51m Pioneer was nice despite the rain, but lovely still! Matt Benjamin @MattBenj 14m: Colts just shook the stands. 😂#DCI C. Doerr @CDoerrable 16m: Colts was BRILLIANT, fun, jazzy, and an absolute blast to watch, the singing at the beginning gave me goosebumps! Kathleen Ann Thomas @kthoma66 12m: Holy ####. The Colts were AMAZING!!! MattDawg @SeattleGayBoy 2m: So the Colts sounded pretty good it's intermission now! C. Doerr ‏@CDoerrable 34m Blue Stars are up!! Not much posted for Paw Paw, but Twitter has a bunch of stuff from Cincinatii. I better figure out twitter or posting on DCP from my not-very-smart-phone before the Mankato show on Monday :) (Also, typing "Legends" into twitter and hoping for drum corps info is less then successful)

First DCI Competition of the season for the Colts tonight! You can see their daily schedule anytime at: Colts Virtual Cooktruck (FYI-showtimes are eastern)

The Colt Cadets are off to a great start! They got a 56.0 at the Belvidere show on Thursday night, and Friday they performed with the Colts at the Summer Premier in Dubuque. The next show for CC will be June 30th in Salem WI. Here is a link to some great photos from the Summer Premier: Colt Cadets Summer Premier

From Madison's Facebook Page:

Show of Shows Place Corps Score Open Class 1 Colt Cadets 56.000 World Class 1 The Cadets 74.100 2 Phantom Regiment 71.300 3 Madison Scouts 68.700 4 Blue Stars 63.100 5 Pioneer 51.500 Read more: http://www.dci.org/scores/index.cfm?event=cce9ab64-5d54-44e4-a13e-f3b9528a5909#ixzz2WuZV957R Nice Start Colt Cadets! :)