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    Official Rankings As Of 7/14/2009

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    However statistics are compiled and analyzed, no corps that has seen another corps more than once and not lost to them head to head should be ranked beneath the corps that has not beaten them, at least not if the head-to-head competition has been recent. Phantom is too low. If this is a prediction thread, that's fine, but a power rating and ranking where you end up under someone who has never beaten you is bad science.

    This isn't the College Football Computer rankings.

    like Texas and Oklahoma right?

    Reindeer Games Between BD and Cavies

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    the same corps that take retreat so seriously every year dont always treat musicality with that same respect. my two cents.

    like 'last year's champion' seriously?? or like the '9 time DCI Champs' seriously?? enlighten me... because both are two of a handful of corps that bring the 'serious' approach to retreat, and sound pretty good from where i'm sitting.

    Holy Name Cadets -- Rome, NY

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    lol, since when is saying clean up what you're doing and worry less about all the publicity a negative thing!? I could have bashed on "they're using voice again" or "....another electronic failure, blar blar" but really negative?! I don't think so.

    ..oh and never said don't celebrate, but wtf with all the silly antics to try and win over an extra .5 here and there. Just be the bada#@ Cadets you know how to be and leave the 75th gimmicks for the lot.

    You're posts are a tad ridiculous. It's literally maybe 25 seconds of the show they show a little tribute to the corps' 75 years of history in their 75th SHOW! its not more silly than corps forming symbols in their own show that really (according to you) have nothing to do with their shows. Examples...Phantom and the chevron (06 comes to mind), Crown in most years they form a Crown picture (i guess 'triple crown' would make sense though and I thought it was well included). I would understand your argument (kind of) if they were just using WSS music but making the theme of the whole show about the history of the corps. But they don't what so ever. its a WSS show thats a little different from you're ordinary WSS show, that happens to have a slight tribute to the history of THE OLDEST CORPS THAT IS STILL AROUND. To me its very classy and a nice touch before they fly to the end of the show.

    Report from Cadet's Rehearsal

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    Ok, since I've had so many requests, here goes.

    The Back Story:

    My friends and I attended the Cadets rehearsal yesterday and were videoing some footage. One of us in the group of people who don't happen to be as into drum corps as I am, posted some of the videos on YouTube. I had never intended for anything that wasn't drumline lot footage to ever be seen by anyone n the internet. The runs I was recording were strictly for personal use. They never did a full run so a couple of us returned today and were doing the same. Before the following events had happened I told my friend that he should take those videos down, and he replied that he would right when we got home. So the Cadets staff assumed that I was the one who posted the videos on YouTube and were out to get me. So........

    Tonight's events:

    I was sitting in the stands recording some personal video and one of the staff members came and said "If you're going to keep recording, we are going to have to ask you to leave." I was like "ok" and closed and shut my camera off because I didn't want them to kick me out. I stopped recording and like a half hour later they sent another person to tell me there is no recording. He was pretty rude about it. After that they kept sending people to constantly check up on me to make sure I wasn't recording. They had asked me once to stop, and I stopped right then. I wasn't going to record any more. So when it comes time to do the run through, they sent two staff members to sit by me on one side, then they also sent some volunteers on the other side a few rows back. There was also one guy who stopped directly in front of me, looked up at the rest of the staff up top then stared directly at me to check me AGAIN. Then before they started, the same lady that originally told me that I had to stop recording said in an extremely rude voice "NO VIDEOING". Oh yeah, I forgot to add that since the staff was so concentrated on watching me, they missed the older gentlemen 15 rows down from me recording the whole show. I hope he posts it on YouTube.....

    In all, I'm pretty upset with how they were treating me, especially since I complied with them the first time they had asked me. It was extremely rude.

    One of the Cadets staff members who wasn't in the stands also happens to be an educator of mine. I am really hoping he didn't recognize that I was the one the staff was making a big deal about because I don't want my image to be tarnished in his mind. I'm really upset about this right now and I'm not sure if I will ever go to another Cadets rehearsal again after tonight.

    I'm sure I forgot something. I may need to add something if I remember it.

    after reading all those posts I really cant help but think 'its really not that deep'...but thats just me

    Progressive rule changes you would LIKE to see?

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    No, it's clear to me that you don't understand how the judging is SUPPOSED to be applied. The performances are judged in their totality. When a Corps stops their drill 2 minutes before the end of the performance because they have not completed it, and instead the brass and percussion play at a stopped position while the guard stands still, the visual is STILL being judged and the Guard is STILL being judged unrtil such time as the Corps performance that night is finished. There is no provision in the judging criteria for a judge to make allowances for an incomplete and/ or unfiniished show. NONE.

    to me your argument sounds like you had a personal instance where you lost to a better corps on an early season show where their show was not complete and yours was....so maybe you're just being bitter?? I think the point is that usually the better corps scores well regardless of their show is truly complete or not. Because I would safely bet that the corps who didnt march the last 2 minutes (but won because of their 'reputation' probably (going out on a limb here)) sounded musically a lot better than the other Corps with a completed show. But I bet the music judges didn't inflate the scores to what they heard.

    Blue Devils Reaction to Finals

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    As an age-out member of the 2008 Blue Devils I would like to say a few things.

    I rarely read this forum, in fact this is the first time I have been on since finals night. I am deeply saddened and very offended by some of the views expressed in this thread about my corps. First off, I would like to apologize on behalf of myself and my corpsmates for any rude or classless behavior that any drum corps member or fan might have seen from us after finals night. I Play Baritone Good- Judging by your opinions, it seems that the Blue Devils have personally insulted you in some way. I apologize for this, and hope you give us another chance.

    I'd like to tell the people who read this forum a few things about the Blue Devils, not the drum corps, but the members themselves. For the past few years the Blue Devils staff have started trying to create a new type of Blue Devil. The types of kids accepted in to the corps recently are a different breed than the Blue Devils of old. The staff are searching for younger kids with a better attitude and higher moral values. Did you know that the Blue Devils have a corps bible study group? There were around 50 members of the group this year. In case you didn't know we had 25 vets in the hornline this year. Mostly 2 years. How many did the cavaliers have? Can you imagine the pressure on all of those rookies, having to live up to the perfection expected of a Blue Devil every day? Hardly the bunch of scary ###### that for some reason most drum corps fans think we are. When I made the Blue Devils, I was shocked at how nicely I was treated as a rookie. Much nicer than my former corps. It's true, we have some members who can be jerks, but doesn't every corps? Please don't judge the entire membership of the corps on a few bad apples. We're doing our best to change.

    We all know what happened finals night. Maybe some of you were expecting it. We sure weren't. We were a corps of mostly rookies, we worked so hard to be worthy of just being called Blue Devils. We thought that we had worked hard enough to attain our dream of being a World Champion. We had a chant on the Hound after we learned the score of every show we won. It went like this: "We're not that good! We're not that good!" We believed we could never stop working hard. A corps of rookies. Not a lot of experience, but tons of heart. I'm sorry we don't play emotional music, but don't think we don't have just as much heart as any other corps.

    Finals night was truthfully the most heartbreaking night of my life. Not only did we not attain our dream we had been working so hard for, it seemed like the whole world was ecstatic about our failure, as it seems like some members of this forum are. Happy that the Regiment won their first solo championship, but even happier that it was the big bad Blue Devils that had been defeated at the end. It was the first time I had cried since I was 7. Our rookies were absolutely devastated. We felt like we had let Joe down. It was a very hard way to leave drum corps forever. Unfortunately, I will probably remember that night more than the night when I actually won the championship for the rest of my life.

    I'm completely offended by the things that some people on this forum can say about a group of KIDS that had their hearts broken. Some of you need to realize that this is not a professional sport, kids make mistakes. Kids say stupid things when they are upset. I could tell you about all of the snide and outright mean things said to me AND MY PARENTS after finals night, but I'm not. I lost my belief in this activity when my father was insulted only for having a son in the Blue Devils. Some of the other corps aren't as "funny" or "clever" as you think by the way.

    The blind opinions about the Blue Devils are garbage.

    The people who can be happy about kids having their hearts broken are garbage.

    Makes me wanna puke.

    Honestly I dont agree with the behavior still after reading this. As a Cadets 2007 ageout, we beat the Devs the last weekend of the season, got booed off the field quarters by the west coast fans, came in striking distance at semis losing by half a tenth, and when we were announced 2nd finals night the place errupted for 2 reasons....1) because the home team won and 2) because the narrated hated Cadets lost. The last several days of my ageout season was an emotional roller coaster. That corps had the biggest ageout class of the Cadets long history.....and you don't think there was a massive desire for the 50+ ageouts to go out with a win? it was rough as well, BUT we didn't act immaturely and pout about it in front of 30 thousand people. We stood there and took our loss. Even with the Blue team cheering obnoxiously five feet away.

    The Blue Devils of 08 had an upset happen. But Phantom won with Pride the same way the Blue Devils SHOULD HAVE took their loss. Now personally I thought the Blue Devils should have won in 2008. I was shocked by it as well. And after watching the DVD's I agree with their 2007 victory as bitter as I felt, they were the better drum corps. But regardless of the outcome, we're at the most professional level in our activity and we should act accordingly. Not like an immature high school marching band.

    Cadets 2009 Audition Camp This Weekend

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    my roomate is a third year vet and contra age out this year, said they're marching 11 vets in the contra line and about 10ish auditioned for one spot. the years I marched there, we barely had enough contras to fill 10 spots before move-ins...let alone have more than a few vets. I though that was pretty interesting indeed. but I also hear there are a lot of vets returning to the corps this year to be apart of the 75th. Kinda wish I could re-write my birth certificate to go back and march this season.....

    Breathing Block

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    people who say breathing block has no effect obviously have never done it. or they just had a really easy show

    i guess my shows were really easy.....actually the first corps I was at we did breathing block, the second corps we didnt. I did and will always see it as a waste of time. But different strokes for different folks.

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