drsedlak

Get 'em BiB!!!!

Depending on individual judges and numbers management, 6 through 2 could be very close...

The winding path is still on the field!

I picked 15 points as the largest, though you can see the effect this one judge had. My questions, however, were: What was the last judge to have those kinds of spreads between the top ten corps at finals? Or even completely different boxes on the scoresheet? I never claimed he had a specific intent for any corps, or claimed collusion. But when one judge has the spread between, say, 1st and 5th at 10 points and another in the same caption at 19 points, to me there is an issue.

I have no problem with his order if that was how he saw it. The spreads and boxes are the issue. 15 point difference between judges is simply huge, and explains why the bottom six scores dropped. What was the last judge to have those kinds of spreads between the top ten corps at finals? Or even completely different boxes on the scoresheet?

BTW, for me, having a 4.15 jump is not troubling at all. Bad previous run, followed by kick@$$ run; absent people; great cleaning and new changes...the score jump should be celebrated!

Sure. Joe Allison. Look at the splits in the Music GE scores.

I can and would never say "this corps should have won" because the viewer, like me, cannot focus on all captions simultaneously...nor can the judges, which is why we have all of them! We can say which appeals more, which sounds cleaner or looks cleaner from certain spots, but we can't judge the whole. That being said, what we CAN do is look at the recaps and see if something funny went on...which happened this year at finals. That something funny also accounted for the entire drop in the 5-10 corps scores that is being discussed. Funny, in this case, is a result that a) hasn't happened all season, b) doesn't come close to the judge adjudicating the identical caption, and c) can be perceived to be trying to call the whole show using spreads. This has NOTHING to do with any corps and all deserve great praise! The quality this year was great and the placements quite reasonable. This is calling out what I perceive to be a bad apple based on what was put down. JMHO.

No. Just my analysis of an anomaly in the recaps. If I am wrong, then so be it. :).

So he failed but should still be called out for it. The performers deserve much better.

The bottom 6 scores seemed lower tonight...the recaps reveal why and the judge that tried to call the show.

Recaps are up...some interesting comparisons between prelims and finals

Not sure about disgruntled...just disappointed cant watch from home. I know travel to Rochester this year was impossible for me, but that does not make me less interested or disgruntled...just disappointed i cant watch these incredible performers.

If I remember right, last year the week before finals there were 3 corps above 90...this year 5.

Reading, PA 08/27/2016 1. Buccaneers 95.15 2. Cadets2 93.80 3. Caballeros 92.50 4. White Sabers 88.20 5. Bushwackers 83.25 6. Carolina Gold 81.90 Cabs took guard, C2 communication, Bucs all others

...they did not take a caption award at "finals"? Apologies if already asked...I did not see it.

Congrats Bloo! Crown done in by a fifth and sixth in percussion. Devils solid, but too much GE from Canton. GREAT standing O for Academy!

Watching the retreat and highlights, reminder of how strong all of the corps are.

Special congrats to Academy for their (wedding) march into finals!

Wow wow wow! Pure emotion! Slight Individual musical errors, but that book is the complete package this year. Well done Bloo, regardless and congrats too all competing corps!!

Man, I am exhausted just watching! Solid start

Holy God that final opening!

Crowd feeling like 2009...

Nice close! Musically solid! However, I fear they are going to want to juxtapose that audio performance with their qf or sf vis performance...their MM was not good tonight.

Gorgeous ballad work!!