strad

to quote your review: "" I think this show if it does win DCI finals this year will do more to damage this activity than any other show. DCI did not let Star pull off their undefeated season in 1993, but right now Cavies you are the darlings of DCI and anything goes. What you did you did VERY VERY well. However, I wish you hadn’t. Even the audience I think was a little, huh??? I have read that you are pushing forward the activity with this show. Don’t – please. Jeff Felder knows what the DCI judges are looking for and this show hits all the buttons for the DCI judging staff. If this show is the future of drum corps we might as well change the name now. VDC – Visual Drum Corps. Sorry I can’t be more positive. Very changeling show to perform, but not one of your design staffs better efforts in my book, maybe I’m too old school. I had you 1st with a 92.6 I was .15 off you scored 92.45. Visually the scores are worth 60% of score, Cavies staff know this and playing it perfectly. "" i couldn't have said it better. i posted a discussion a couple weeks ago about the different, mainly visual, philosophies of cadets v. cavies, and said many of the things you said here. in fact, i just watched the cavies' 2001 show a dozen times. very cool visual, fast marching (almost ALWAYS when they're not playing), and god awful, high school level music. but you have to give the cavies credit: they know how to score high. i too fear for the future of dci if other corps decide that visual is all that matters, that the music should be the slave of the visual, that challenging drill should be written to be marched and not marched and played (like cadets, BD, SCV have been doing for years). great review. though i'm sure some cavies fans will disagree with the same conviction and fervor that professional wrestling fans defend their 'sport'. strad