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Just got home from the show. Got there during intermission, so unfortunately missed the open class corps. Academy: haven’t looked at captions yet, but my guess is they outscored PC in Brass, but fell short in visual captions. Nice concept, and expect them to get stronger and stronger as they clean. PC: wow! Step up, particularly visuals. They really move well. Percussion was strong. Feels like they leveled up this year. BK: loved the brass line. Strength of the corps. Weakness: guard, both in performance and concept (S&M theme, it seems …) Mandarins: Whoa! Just outstanding! I can see them sneak into top 6! For me, kind of a SCV Babylon vibe. The Sinnerman concept is really cool the props are wild (spinning cages!) Strong across all captions it feels to me like they picked up both SCV members and staff. Bravo! Can’t wait to see how they land in Indy BD: Holy (Blue) smoke(s)! Best I’ve seen and heard BD since 2014. Fly marching videos do NOT do this show justice. Brass sounds is rich, virtuosic and LOUD! Their screamer is spot on What a machine. Percussion is wildly good. Looks like guard tired of winning finals night but not the caption. Best I’ve seen from this unit since 2010. Opener is rich and powerful. JoJo and Both Sides now are masterpieces Drum interludes with corps visuals are amazing Incidents in Jazz is really cool, but they stop short with no resolution and play a closing minute that just doesn’t work. Performance wise it’s outstanding, but to me it’s a record scratch from the rest of the show. Needs rewrite/new music. Or blow out Incidents in Jazz! BD never seems to nail their ending until, well, the end. Fix the final minute and they have a masterpiece and all-time great that will rival 2014 (and 82, and 86…) Bravo! Keep pushing! I also predict undefeated title. They are that good live. P.s. there were a few folks tearing up around me during ballad. Perhaps me too .. 😬 It truly is beautiful and connects with the audience. Also constant oohs and ahhs throughout the show

Do it up Devils!!!! 🙂

Boston: Brilliant. Guard is unstoppable.

Crown: amazing energy. Amazing brass. Snares muddy at times. Guard kicked ###. Right here right now horribly overdone. Finally … how on earth do you NOT finish that show with your amazing hot line blowing us away?? Yelling right here right now for the 1000th time super anti-climatic.

Keytar (sp?) is hard on the ears.

Bloo’s unis on high cam …. Pants make it look like everyone is bending their knees sideways. Blech. Oh … now Dennis Hopper is throwing up yellow and white guard members. This show is … too much random acts of props, color and ….

Thank you Cadets for doing a brilliant job of fusing what has always been great about DCI and it’s future direction. I. Loved. This. Show. Bravo!

Exactly. You nailed it. So great to see!

Cadets!! First time viewing. Drill!!! Very “Cadet”-like ending tag before jazz club. Guard! What a fresh, fun show! I’m so impressed at how this corps has come back after all of the challenges few year’s back. Outstanding!!

“HATE the first 1/3 of the show”. #### … that’s intense dude! I’m sure any BD member who read this would … laugh? I’m not sure if anything put in the field by these amazing kids and every corps would even qualify for anything close to HATE. For me, the inevitable “others don’t get credit that BD does” is drivel. BD typically fields a corps and show with no weaknesses And in particular, BD unassailable strength (typically) is they move better than any corps this year, and consistently for the past decade+ since the Cavies we’re kicking tail in 2000s. Visually, they are the standard, and consistently get rewarded for it. One interesting angle that I haven’t seen discussed: BD has a new brass caption head, and I believe are playing new horns? I think they sound different. Lusher. Mellos are … wow. For BD standards, brass has been a tad off in the 2H of the 2010s (if you can call 3rds or 4ths (2019 finals!) off. I wonder BD’s brass is the real X factor in 2022. Final thought: I think BAC is the dark horse. Some 2008 PR vibe to me …

Oh wow BD. Boom! Welcome back! Raw, exciting, dynamic show! So much potential!

Last decade plus another 3 🙂 I LOVE each of these shows except for two. 2005 and 2018. Only two in 40 years that didn't quite connect for me. 2010s: 1. 2014 2. 2019 3. 2010 (!!) 4. 2017 5. 2015 6. 2012 7. 2016 8. 2011 9. 2013 10. 2018 2000s: 1. 2003 2. 2009 3. 2007 4. 2004 5. 2001 6. 2006 7. 2000 8. 2008 (robbed) . 🙂 9. 2002 10. 2005 1990s: 1. 1990 (!!!) 2. 1994 3. 1997 4. 1996 5. 1999 6. 1991 (!!) 7. 1992 8. 1993 9. 1998 10. 1995 1980s: 1. 1982 (!!) 2. 1986 3. 1984 (.1 away....) 4. 1980 5. 1985 6. 1988 (robbed) 🙂 7. 1983 8. 1987 9. 1981 10. 1989

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Perfectly stated

"Drum line needs a total overhaul and needs to contribute"???!?!?! You mean that 3rd place drumline?? What a silly statement. Insults the wonderful talent and performance of this group. Bluecoats need to keep doing what they are doing. Not emulate the Blue Devils. I was at Finals in 2016. As a BD homer, I knew Bloo had it, all three nights. Stay on the path you're on!

BD scores a 98.325 vs a 67.2 at finals! #nailedit 🙂

Of course! Some apparently more than others. That's why spreads change ... and even "flip" in captions over the course of the season.

Well when you put it THAT way ..... 😂 What's more impressive to me: Of those 29 "losses", 19 were medalists (2 or 3), 10 were silver medalists.

For me, a highlight of the season is reading your review day after Finals. You’re the best reviewer in the business 😉 Thank you

And ... BD improved significantly since Atlanta. Cleaned their movement. Refined their ensemble sets and structure. Added visual “accents”/feature to the show. Guard cleans/adds. Chumley noticed, and judged that growth vs BC and others accordingly. Why else would he “flip” from July 20-something until now? Historical data is certainly relevant. But the farther back you go in history (in this case a season) the less reliable you get. Corps’ performance level and show growth/moves/adds/changes factor in. Here’s the thing ... you mentioned being off by 1 point is impressive given your model was 99% accurate. But your same data will tell you that BD and BC were within .5 or less .... and .2x or less in the final few weeks... all season. So calling a 1 point gap for Finals, statistically, is waaaay off.

And let’s bring Finals back to California to kick off the popularity score caption! 🤔

I get it ... but isn’t part of the story tonight that BD closed the GE gap with BC over the past two weeks?

The other 3 GE judges agreed that BD had closed the gap on GE ...

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So where does the kids’ achievement and performance level come into play? BD showed major improvement all season. I saw them early on in CA. SCV was clearly better. Interesting note — for that 7/22 — both GE judges “flipped”: Stone in Finals and Dillon in Semis. 🤔