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Hey, wait! I see that Al Chez was a DCI judge in East Rutherford as this is THE Al Chez who is a trumpet player for David Letterman's band. He marched with Garfield 81/82. He's not a "real" judge as apparently this is one of those Tournament of Champions (TOC) experiments. See DCI is experimenting with judging at these TOC events and apparently it is not working very well. Al Chez not only put Cadets first in Music GE, but he put BD in 5th, 0.7 down. That pretty much sealed the deal for Cadets at East Rutherford. I don't understand judging in general anymore. In East Rutherford BD took 1st in Visual GE and Vis DESIGN. It's a really ####ed up recap. Cavaliers were 0.6 down from BD in Vis GE and 0.4 down in design, yet only 0.2 ahead of Phantom in both captions. WTF?? This is a real injustice and it needs to stop. Other judging seems inconsistent at best as that could be a good thing if judges are finally ignoring recaps, but I think something more tawdry is happening. Boston 0.2 down from SCV, then 2 points at the next show and same kind of thing with Troopers/Glassmen. Have the judges finally figured out that one person can control the placings if they make the spreads wide enough in their caption? The good news is that with the scores all over the place, nothing is certain in Indy because we go to the a 10-person slate of real judges for all three shows. Throw the TOC crap out the window.

iam surprised the Cavaliers score dropped though.

There is a lot of drum corp to go.To say it is a 2 horse race is beyond naive.The Cavaliers are in this trust me.Crown will not catch the Cavaliers.Someones score is going to stall out.The Cavaliers are .35 behind the Cadets and .4 behind BD.Good lord that is not a big spread.Crown does not have the show to battle the top 3.Now i could be wrong but i think the Cavaliers are in this.We will see a someone add 3 pts or so to their score.Finals week is full of surprises.Trust me the Cavaliers are are not one bit intimidated by the Cadets,BD,or your predictions.

so your going to write the Cavaliers off.really foolish of you

don't see the cavies in third.their show is a little dirty now and they have a new ending.what say you?

i don't think they have the show to win i have them in 4th this year

can't believe she can justify that difference.

GO CAVALIERS

1BD2CAVIES3BLUECOATS4CADETS5CROWN

That is my top 5.1BD,2CAVIES,3BLUECOATS,4CADETS,5CROWN

Wow.cavaliers barely ahead of the blue stars?Iam sure glad you are not a judge.

go Cavies

go cavies

Go Cavaliers