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  1. The judge gave exclusive rights to the name "27th Lancers Drum and Bugle Corps" to the Bonfiglios. However, the judge refused the Bonfiglios' further request to forbid the Light Brigade from playing "Danny Boy". The judge explained that the court should not involve itself in artistic decisions like repertoire.

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  2. Jim,

      The reason that the Boston Crusaders had to resort to calling themselves the Boston Drum and Bugle Corps for several years in the mid-80s is because the former corps director who legally owned the name "Boston Crusaders" withdrew permission for the corps to use that name because the corps in the early 80s flew the corps to Europe and the check given to the airline bounced. It took several years to sort this all out.There was a court trial. Eventually the former corps director gave the corps permission to use the name "Boston Crusaders".

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  3. One of the reasons the junior corps left the VFW and the American Legion was their refusal to go to full-show prelims. DCI had full-show prelims since their beginning in 1972.

    DCA continued with the American Legion policy of shortened-show prelims through the 1976 season, In 1977, DCA changed to full-show prelims.

  4. I believe the explanation for the VIP pass is as follows:

        Every inductee into the DCI Hall of Fame is given a life-long VIP pass which gives the inductee free admission to all DCI contests. Since the pass allows admission without a seat assignment, perhaps there is a designated area for such VIPs to watch the contest. It appears that GH did not surrender his VIP pass when he was removed from the Hall of Fame.

     

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  5. I believe the raised minimums (one minimum for open class, a higher minimum for world class) pertain to corps that have to go through DCI evaluation. Current corps have been "grandfathered" unless, for some reason, a corps has been ordered to go through evaluation.As far as I know, the corps minimum of 30 is still the competitive minimum.

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