rmurrey74

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Please! It's been confusing trying to find/decipher show threads this year. At least that would help.

I'm NOT disagreeing, but what should these organizations do to prevent potential activity where sexual assault could happen? If policies are in place, whistle-blowing hotlines, and all are trained on mandatory reporting, how can they further limit the interactions between people? I'm not saying they can't be better, I just don't know how any organization (drum corps, traveling sports group, college campus, school district, etc.) can completely handle this. For example, If two staff members or two corps members venture out at 3am at a random school and sexual assault occurs, what can be done to prevent? Over my many years of drum corps, I've seen or known about sexual activity (not assault luckily) happen on member buses, on a staff bus, in the trees at a show site, free days, on a gym floor, people in an empty classroom, and non-drum corps related in high school sports groups and college. (where my roommate stayed overnight in his girlfriend's dorm for over a month until they broke up.) I wouldn't want to be involved in any admin role of any traveling organization right now.

Same. I shared a dorm in college probably like most here.

Between have chaperones patrolling all night in all the gyms during the entire summer too.

It’s pretty common that over 18 same sex members share a room when in dorms/hotels.

Agreed, I feel like they could make that moment more special with something more than just drum set underneath.

That's great that Jim handled your criticism in that way, but if you reached out to him with those comments questioning his team's level of design and inhibiting competitive success, how many other alumni were doing the same thing? That's kind of the point.

Correct, they have made past designers glad to be somewhere where they’re allowed complete freedom without all the negative comments from alumni living in the past.

Agreed on the recaps. Sorting by final results like through DCI would be preferred.

Loving this app. It's well thought out and I'm looking forward to seeing it develop. If anyone hasn't checked this out yet, download it and give it a try. It's a great way to pull up scores, recaps and the schedule.

Yes, listen to the original

Not all, but alumni have had a direct effect of top designers not wanting to work there. They'll have to take a chance on younger talent, which isn't a bad thing, or shell out $$$ to make it hard decision.

I won’t name names, but from a staff perspective in the activity, designing at Madison is not looked at as a popular destination because of past experiences with the alumni base. That’s definitely discussed throughout. Some people like the freedom to create and openness to ideas of other organizations.

First show and first time coming on the field. I bet they will figure it out by San Antonio which I believe is when it counts for the first time. They do have the longest show this year in performance time! It still flies by.

Absolute love every minute of it. Thanks Bluecoats!

Love the look and the costumes! So flowing and just a breath of fresh air. I can’t wait to see this live!

They typically have had one closed rehearsal per year since 2016. Every single other day of spring training wide open to the public, including this year.

But, they’re not?

Yes, numbers have always been managed. Are you new to this activity? Before judges were given the ability to change numbers prior to the end of the show, as a judge you had to leave room. Even if you thought the third group from the end had incredible design and performance, you couldn't write down the max rating of 20.0 because what if the following two groups were even better? Not always, but the highest you would typically score would be a 19.8 to allow the possible 19.9 and 20.0. Now with the flexibility to adjust before submitting, you can put the numbers in the correct order while adhering to the value of a tenth. There's always been numbers management. It's a rating of the competition in front of you at that time based on the criteria of the sheet. It's not a comparison to other classes, shows during that season or past years. I'm done posting on this.

It's never been a perfect score and you said yourself you're concentrating on a perfect score. You're simply wrong and perfect is not a wording that has ever existed on any judging sheet. It's the highest or max score in a ranking. As someone that has been a visual judge myself and was in-person at WGI Finals, I would have ranked RCC the highest of the night as well.

I don’t miss this look at all. Love seeing the performers perform. What corps is this and are they struggling to hold m their horns or just holding them different ways person to person?

I’m on a caption staff of 17 people. 2 weeks before finals, I was on the road with the caption head and 1 other tech. Less people than when I marched and I definitely earned my $25 a day for each day that I taught. Big staff’s but there’s only so much room on the bus and each caption typically limits to a max of 4. The more days you teach, the more you earn. It is much better mentally to teach for a week or two and leave then to teach all summer like most did back in the day, myself included.

When will Hopkins be removed from this HOF?

Cool, and there were still open cymbals spots last year in DCI.