Mello Dude

More schadenfreude.

Funny fact, more vinyl sold last year than CD's.

https://www.haplecrone.com/home/some-people-like-to-be-bearers-of-bad-news

https://www.haplecrone.com/home/some-people-like-to-be-bearers-of-bad-news

Well. not no one, but far less than leaving.

No, not entirely, but the quest for ever more crap to compete is not driving costs down. Scaling back is nothing new other than common sense is a superpower anymore. There is NO reason that corps should be required to have another semi truck of stuff to be viable to win or compete. People keep quoting that SOA paper but it doesn't say what you think is says. Props=fuel+truck+driver+time. People that can use a few brain cells can see this.

FFS. Ok, how many dues were paid before a first camp? Really? If you want to donate...donate. Give them more than a week to answer or fix the issues.

I don't think they allow this per the last rules.

Eww...

Ya, I am not buying lower quality shows. Corps back in the day actually competed a full month earlier than today with full shows. Stuff was added in over an entire year. I would hazard a guess that if all the huge props were removed and they worked on music and marching rather than staging stuff all over they would do fine. In FACT I bet a sizeable amount of time saved not hauling stuff on and off the practice fields.

You still have to haul them around. Losing that extra truck is huge amount of waste. Drum corps finds a way to write shows..always has.

Ok, but it does very little to help the activity as a whole. It does a LOT to limit any sort of inclusivity as well. This situation we are in today is a direct result of DCI policy and rules. I mean, sports even have spending caps and a draft because they recognize the issues to some point.

No, a semi and a food truck (which could be a semi). Food trucks tend to be semi trailers but they don't need to be. I mean, cutting down to less vehicles will save a lot of money. Seriously, if you are going to drum corps shows because of massive props you are missing the point.

I would limit it to one semi. Every rig you add is huge money.

That's not diesel. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMD_EPD2D_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=M

What the breakdown per. Saying all that stuff equates to 2.6%..I don't see it considering the other verbiage.

Every penny spent in a non-profit is an issue. 2.6%...for all that I doubt it including transportation? No way.

Sad. I wish this was a wakeup call to the activity to start scaling it back.

craiga isn't wrong. As long as people are involved it's never going to be 100%. That utopian pipe dream is just never going to happen. Now, that doesn't mean there can't be better procedures in place. Perhaps, this is a time that DCI steps up to the plate and requires every corps that competes that DCI comes to a mandatory camp of the corps to have a planned discussion (not all day) about what members can do to report issues. Whether that be to DCI, staff or even an 800 number or text. Also, at EVERY show the corps must have free time for members to go into the stadium where DCI has a presence where these people can go to see someone in person. I don't have all the answers but people are messy.

Bet the stadium isn't half full because of this. I'm actually seeing a benefit for all the corps that have half full stadiums.

FWIW Bill Cook got rid of his extra prop truck in 1986. 😛

Yes, but people talk about being inclusive but in the end don't want to do anything about it.

Has more to do with affording drum corps than anything. Want inclusive, lower the cost.

Well, look at it this way. People will have butts in the seats earlier so these other corps will have a bigger audience.