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  1. Mayflower (from London England) announced its plans to return to compete at the 2013 WGI World Championships in Dayton Ohio, in the Independent World class.

    Mayflower will once again be a truly international guard with auditions taking place in both the UK and USA, with US members expected to move to the UK by the end of January 2013.

    To help provide more detailed information, Mayflower has created a new website www.mayflowerworldguard.co.uk

    Michael Shapiro will once again be designing the show. It will be his 12th season of writing for Mayflower.

    Barry Davis, Director of Mayflower commented, “We are very excited to be returning for our 7th trip to WGI. It’s a huge organisational and financial commitment for us that is 3 years in the planning. We will be an active member of our UK circuit and straight after the UK championships we will travel to Dayton and have a week of rehearsals and performances prior to competing in the preliminary competition.” He concluded, “After such a fantastic experience in 2010, we cannot wait to return and compete on the world stage.”

    For more information:

    UK: Barry Davis: davis.barry@sky.com

    US: Michael Shapiro: coronaguardguy@aol.com

    http://www.mayflowerworldguard.co.uk

  2. With Phantom winning or thereabouts percussion yet positioned in 6-8th place overall, how high a score is the percussion judge willing to give them going on before 5-6 other corps? I doubt 9.9s &10.0s. And if BD is in 3-4th place in percussion then their score relative to Phantom's is going to hold them back from getting 9.9s across the board and gaining the a new DCI high score.

    So unless there is a big turn around in their percussion scores, BD won't be getting a new high score at this year's DCI.

  3. Is it possible for any other corps to score a perfect 10 in any one caption bar the last corps on? (for fear of the judge not 'leaving enough room').

    Assuming that generally the judges would never score anyone bar the last corps a 10, it means that the only the last corps on is genuinely marked out of 100 and everyone else is scored out of 98 (20 subcaptions).

    Also how does a corps further down the rankings with an exceptional section (e.g. Blue Stars colorguard or Phantom's hornline) genuinely get scored the score they would get if there were performing last?

    How can DCI change this to make it equal for all corps?

    - random draw would do it - but play havoc!

    - what else?

  4. This premise ensures that only the last corps on will get a chance of scoring a 10 - which means for the rest of the corps, the score is not really out of a possible 100.

    It also means that corps lower down, with an exceptional section (e.g. Blue Star's Colorguard) cannot really earn the credit they deserve for fear of not leaving enough space for groups above them........

  5. Everyone is talking about the negatives of showing finals but what about the hoardes of people (like me, based in the UK), that can't/wont go to finals but would be willing to pay $50+ to watch finals?

    WGI has been showing finals for some years, I wonder if they feel they lost out (no they don't because they always sell out at Dayton) v how much ADDTIONAL revenue they make on showing finals?

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