FlamMan

Oh yea. Houston in August is just lovely!

Have you ever been to Las Vegas in August? Its brutally hot.

I agree completely which is why I said not in the City of Chicago.

Madison Nashville Columbus or Charlotte Kansas City

Madison? 100% Yes. St. Louis? Dangerous city with nothing to do there. No one wants to go to St. Louis. No. Chicago? Not downtown. Could work in northern or western suburbs. Cleveland? Dangerous city. No one want to go to Cleveland. No.

Buffalo? Heck no. Whitewater? How in the world would Whitewater, WI be able to support 20K people? No. Philly? Friendly folks there. No. Boston? Way too congested. No.

Yes.

Exactly. Waaay too many angry people who should be enjoying life rather that raising h e l l and causing disruption. Get a job and take care of your family and loved ones and stop worrying about everyone else.

Unfortunatly, free speech is only acceptable when others agree with ones opinions and positions. Any difference of opinion is shamed and shouted down. These poor brainwashed youth.

Yes Suta! You're speaking my language. Regionalising this activity and a more local effort from a recruiting and competition aspect is the answer. The current model of worldwide & national recruiting and national touring is NOT sustainable. Regionalize the activity to 4 regions with corps competing against other corps within their region, with one mid season show with all corps in the USA, then the top 3 corps in the North, South, East, West in each region make finals.

DCI absolutely is elitist.

But unfortunately that isnt enough today. Organizations compromise qualifications and expectations in order to become more diverse, and it's a darn shame. Can you imagine what some of these whackjob crazy people would say if they looked at the demographics of the drum corp activity?

That's not the way it works. Charges of oppression and discrimination need to be proved, not someone's innocence.

Do we really need to raid other countries for US drum corps recruits? No way this makes financial sense.

That was an economics discussion, not politics.

Terrible uniform. Just awful.

I didn't say that, you did. A Japan tryout session just seems like poor ROI. I mean how many kids are you really going to recruit from Japan to justify the cost of the trip? The new recruit hit rate would be much higher locally in the USA. I just think that drum corps have strayed too far from their local communities and would like to see more local effort and involvement.

Japan? Thats ridiculous and one of the aspects of this activity today that I dislike.

Before finals? Really? Wow.

So is Jimmy Alvord gone already?

It is amazing that this incompetent goof still has a job. The Scouts BOD has no balls.

I had to go 4 or 5 pages in to find the scouts thread. It's awfully quiet in here which is unfortunate if it means most of the staff is returning. Not good.

Yup. Blue states like Cali, Illinois and New York are driving businesses and residents out at record rates. They are bad at governing.

Ridiculous. Stop looking for gender issues.

Yea. Thank you.