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Do you folks spend most of your nights during the Summer on a computer discussing a drum corps contest?

Corps have done this for many decades to hide a weak drum line or other section. Wasn't it Wild Bill Hooton of the Reilly Raiders, who back in the 50's or 60's would chase a judge or two during their routine?

Let's hope you're right. They've been stuck at 81 for four contests with one day off. From tonight until the 21st (11 days) they have five contests and six days off, three of them in a row. Hope the lead instructors will be around.

Guess my opening comments for BAC and other corps is not good enough for you. How's your "hope and change" guy doing?

And the other corps are not doing the same?

What a foolish, useless, time to get a life, bull feces thread, and I'm stupid enough to add to it!!

CC might have another percussionist from the quad/front lines practicing already. What would bother me, is that their visuals/GE type scores should go down because of the holes. But, in this PC, "don't worry that you got the wrong math/english composition answer wrong, I'll give you some credit" world we live in, the judges will ignore those blanks like they did with Phantom in 89. Most corps have an extra body or two. Put them in a sling and learn the drill. BIG OOOPPPSS: My bad folks. It was SCV in 89, playing Phantom of The Opera, with the overage UK members, not PR.

Wish good luck to BAC and any other corps entered, but it's going to be tough when BAC has 436 votes and the 200th placed organization already has 905 votes. Yikes!

For the Cavies maybe, they went up nicely since the night before. Phantom and BAC had a day off. Phantom stayed the same and BAC dropped .7.

The 67 Al was held at Fenway Park and BAC went on early and marched one less tenor drummer for an over age issue. Because of an altercation between BAC and Chicago during the AL parade, when Stokie joined the other DM's for the CYO scores, the two SAC DM's stood on either side of Stokie, looked over at the Chicago DM and basically said if you mess with Boston, you mess with SAC! Because of what happened at the parade and AL Finals, Joe Dowling was very concerned as to what could happen if the Crusaders lost the CYO. http://www.corpsreps.com/scores.cfm?view=s...;showid=1967103 http://www.corpsreps.com/scores.cfm?view=s...;showid=1967102

No we didn't!

DCI is loving this. Wait a minute! Maybe DCI has something to do with these.............

Talk about a Super Corps. 27th, I believe, was the first alumni corps to really put on a routine. Here is the video of what they accomplished in Foxboro, MA during the 94 DCI Finals. Nothing short-changed about this. They worked hard for quite some time and the guard's pride was evident. Many single valve horns being used and yes, they used 27 snares. Enjoy. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=53...723053704824367

You asked a question Brasso and I responded. Couldn't do that from another topic.

Hope the corps bringing up the rear are happy with their results. I'm not interested in the least. May they have a great time each year and improve their skills so they can jump to a higher seeded corps each year and by the time they leave D&B Corps, they get the thrill of marching with a solid top 12 corps. May their parent(s) assist with the majority of the money needed to march. Many of us from the stone age of D&B Corps (and those like me who still cannot read music) will always be about the wins, not "Oh, don't worry kids, you did your best and the crowd liked you." Why the fornicate do they keep score? Don't show the recaps so judges can check what the corps they are about to judge did. You've all read the threads on this site and other "discussion groups" by very respectfull posters how they've lost interest in this "activity". The bando folks should be very happy as D&B Corps slowly sinks with the setting sun.

Only .5 improvement in two days and still points behind at least six corps, so don't get a bulge yet.

Yup! A sampling of two contests is enough.

Every pitch in baseball does not end up at the plate in the same location as the previous pitch. Game situations can change with each pitch. You can say the same for other sports and what takes place. During a corps performance, a extremely high percentage of what each member does at any moment is exactly what they did the last time they were at that moment. Oh, the hand movement, knee bend, kick, bow, equiment angle, tone, percussion strike etc. might be a fraction off, but the repetitiveness of a routine is the same. Then you have the judge factor that sport officials don't have. Again, one judge one night may be a couple of tenths different than the previous nights judge for the same caption and yes, a strike with one umpire might be a ball with the next guy. But overall, what the results show in the FIRST week of a corps season is a very close evaluation where they will end up at Indy. The odds from decades of DCI seasons do not bode well for corps opening with a mid to high 60's making the top 12, never mind a chance at the coveted top 5/6!

D### close and I'd add that at least 8 of those top 12 don't have a chance of getting a ring, but keep busting your butts kids because "we don't care about scores/placements"!

Still involved with this topic I see. What did you say a few pages ago about "re-hashing"?

If Bridgeport can keep giving DCI a date each year, DCI will start giving them a few more top 12 corps. Like the ones marching in the Bristol parade. That parade must pay well. Hell, one of the gripes over the years for fans of BAC's contest was they didn't have enough top corps. This year was one of their best fields in years.

Yes they do since the item I donated for the Spring Fling Silent Auction did well.

The number of quality corps, for a change, may have had a big reason.

So, how was Boston going to do against Phantom the other night? Didn't quite work out for some of you, at least not yet. Maybe it's time for the guard to take practices a little more serious. The drops taking place at Veterans Stadium in Quincy, MA have found there way to the competition arena.