Wayne

Directors, Be on the look out for some information concerning the festival. No, I'm not canceling it, but I'll be doing some tweaking to it.

I am 99% certain that we can mix and match seasons. If I am wrong, somebody please correct me. :)

DCP-I Username: wew3987 Corps Name: Florida Dragon Battalion Corps Division: World Class Corps Name: Florida Dragon Regiment Corps Division: Open Class Corps Name: Florida Dragon Cadets Corps Division: Class A All three corps are based in Sebastian, Florida

If you have sent in an application, you don't need to re-do it unless you are submitting more ensembles for the event.

As of now, I am looking at a early to mid December week to have this event. There are no definite dates as of yet, but at this time applications are REOPENED for submissions!!!

That's a good possibility, which I might act on. I'll see how things go for now. I still have all of the applications that were turned in, so no one would have to redo them.

It gives me much regret to announce that due to lack of participation in this season's event (and that off-season pre-season events aren't as appealing), I will have to cancel this season's festival. We will be back next season and will honor all applications that we turned in for this season by giving them priority for a time slot in next season's Dragon Festival of Music preliminary round. My apologies for any inconvenience and good luck to everyone in DCPI-XIII!

Oh and I forgot to confess something.... There IS a 50% chance that each ensemble can receive a penalty. Penalties range from 0.25 to 1.00 that will be subtracted from your overall score.

All members of DCPI are invited to participate in the Dragon Festival of Music, sponsored by the Florida Dragon Organization. The event will be held at Sebastian River High School in Sebastian, Florida on Friday October 9th and Saturday October 10th, 2009. This will be a three-round event (schedule outline will be posted below). This competition will not be in DCI/DCPI format, but more of a general marching band format with an extended judging panel. Five competitive classes will be offered along with one exhibition class. Logistics Below: Schedule Format Preliminaries will begin (depending on the amount of ensembles in attendance) between 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM on Friday 9 October and will last all day. Preliminaries should end no later than 10:00 PM (again, depending on the amount of ensembles in attendance). Semi-Finals (with the top 20 ensembles regardless of class) will begin on Saturday 10 October at approximately at 9:00 AM. Finals will be the evening of Saturday 10 October beginning at 6:00 PM. Ensembles Allowed Each organization will be allowed a MAXIMUM of ONE ensemble per competitive class plus one ensemble in the Open Class to perform in exhibition. Classes are broken down as follows: Open: Non-Competitive, Ratings only, scores sent to the director privately Class 1A: less than 45 members Class 2A: 46-65 members Class 3A: 66-100 members Class 4A: 101-130 members Class 5A: more than 131 members **Should organizations have more than one competing ensemble with memberships that would be in the same class (eg: Florida Dragon Battalion and Florida Dragon Regiment both have 140 members to put both in Class 5A), then the "lower" ensemble will be allowed to compete one class lower. Lower and upper ensembles are determined by their DCPI Class.** Judging Main Captions General Effect (40 total points) GE Music (2 judges, 20 points each averaged together) GE Visual (2 judges, 20 points each averaged together) Music Performance Ensemble Music (2 judges, 20 points each averaged together) Individual Music (One judge, 10 points) Visual Performance Ensemble Visual (2 judges, 20 points each averaged together) Individual Visual (One judge, 10 points) Unit Captions Percussion One judge (50 points for Front Ensemble + 50 points for Battery = 100 points total) Auxiliary One judge (50 points for Flags / Rifles + 50 points for Dancers / Sabers = 100 points total) Drum Major One judge (50 points for Image / Projection + 50 points for Field Conducting = 100 points total) How will you submit? I am using the random number system. You will choose one number per area (GE Music, GE Visual, etc). From there, I have a program that will generate scores depending on the numbers you select. In short, this is a game of luck and chance, so bigger ensembles are not guaranteed to win and smaller ensembles are not guaranteed to lose. Registration Form: Please send ALL registration forms via PM to Wayne Wildt, Executive Director of the Florida Dragon Organization. All registration forms are due by midnight (Eastern Time) on Thursday 1 October. Late registrations will be subject to minor penalty. Earlier applications will be performing later in their class in the preliminary round. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Director's Name: Organization's Name (if you are submitting more than one ensemble for competition): Names of Ensembles Submitting for Competition / Exhibition Performance (please also give membership counts and home locations for each ensemble): Judging Submission (please copy and paste for each ensemble you enter and fill out accordingly, Choose a number between 1 and 30. You may repeat numbers as much as you wish): Music Performance Ensemble Music Individual Music Visual Performance Ensemble Visual Individual Visual General Effect GE Music GE Visual Percussion Front Ensemble Battery Auxiliary Flags / Rifles Dancers / Sabres Drum Major Image / Projection Field Conducting ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to everyone that wants to participate! Good luck!

I LOVE Redline Tango!!!! Did it my freshman year in college. It's one of the BEST songs out there.

For this "game" we only use World Class corps. It doesn't give the programmers, JohnD, or Jeff the hassle of going through both classes. Everyone uses just the World Class corps, but each division is given a different amount of points to work with. -Wayne

Miami.

I can't say that agree with the proposal, but if it's approved it won't bother me in the least. I also like the idea of getting full recaps sporadically throughout the season (regionals, focus shows). It's like a progress report to really see how you're doing and see how you can improve. I know that in the off-season the scores are provided so you can add it up yourself, but it's not exactly like that in the live seasons. FDO votes NAY.

I'm with him on this one. Let's just have some fun! FDO ABSTAINS.

Personally, though I'm not entirely convinced either, I'm also confused as well. It's probably just me not processing everything fully. With that said, I won't vote for or against it. FDO ABSTAINS.