JCSeymour
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I belive the Kilties will be at Cob Hill Park.
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these score comparisons simply don't work... sorry Spandy... it's not a good thing... gives some false hope... gives others unnecessary anguish...
4 man panels
DCI judges with different tolerances
Drum Corps Europe sheets which are a whole new ball of wax
etc etc
bottom line... take these rankings with a grain of salt
Amen to that.
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If you have a corps (where you want to march) in mind,contact them. I'm sure they would help set you up with something.
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Happy New Year!
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would I? I dunno. Scores do play a part tho, because people want to see "their" corps do well. I know many "fans" weren't around as much during some of the Bucs leaner years in the early 90's like they are today. Members want to win.
and never forget, while Empire strived to make fans jump up and down, they sure as hell wanted to win too
I get where you're coming from.
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hey the elephants happened with Star 87. flames are still illegal.
take the scores away honestly...you lose bodies on the field and in the stands
I do find it hysterical seeing people say corps will go broke when many corps borrow stuff from bands already like they could with this.aid if you don't strive to excell
Didn't say that corps would go broke.
As for scores,if a corps is faced with putting on entertaining show,one that will get them booked,they will strive to make that show the best they can. Think of Broadway there is no scoring by just six people and yet there are great shows.
Really you would not go to see MBI,CABS and others just because they aren't getting a score?
People will pay to see MBI,and the likes if the shows are entertaining. if the corps' get lazy and push less for excellence, people will not pay regardless of scoring or not.
Think of it as a rock concert with a bunch of great groups,there's no scoring but you are there to see a great show.
You don't need a score to tell you ,you re good the people in the seats jumping up and are telling you, you are good
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Evolve or die.
Do I like the way things are going,not really. But that is what everything is about.
Let them put elephants, and flaming clowns jumping thru hoops,on the field.
If ya'll care about the entertainment aspect and keeping corps alive ,then take the competition out of the activity.
Then for a corps to get booked for a show they will have to be good enough entertainers to put people in the seats. Play to their own stengths, with or without the the flaming elephants.A corps will not be chasing scores in a system that says you will now have TO HAVE WHAT THE BIG BOYS HAVE
This sounded more betterer in my head,hope some one else gets my drift-
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Good stuff !
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I once asked Kenny,if doing Maleguana (sp), with a Scottish flare was doable.
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I like the changes.
WWBD
CHET
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That was the picture that beat me out,for the recruiting pamphlet! Dang!!!1
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Had plans to stop by and see my kilted family.
But alas, life stepped in and now it's not gonna happen!WWBD
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Not quite.
The last all male version of the Kilties was in 1997.
The 1998 Kilts featured girls in the guard and in 2000
the corps featured girls in all sections.
DCM Finlas in DeKalb, IL in 1997 was probably the last time that
3 all male corps competed in the same show. (Kilts, Madison and Cavies).
DCM Prelims in Toledo, OH in 1994 was probably the last time that 4 all male
corps competed in the same show. (Kilts, Madison, Cavies and Madison Jr.)
JC,99 was the we went co-ed. 98 was my 1st year and we were still all male.
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Madison,
As a destination,the Dells is only 40 mins. away. Beautiful area,lots of water parks.
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Does Racine even have the infrastructure to support such an endeavor? Hotels, rehearsal facilities etc?
Jeff, Racine itself has a few Good hotels,but Milwaukee is 15 mins away. And there are plenty of surrounding cities with hotels.
There are quite a few area high school in the area(a couple with Kiltie alum as band directors) for rehearsal sites.
The thing with Horlick is that it is listed as seating 5000. I'm taking that as being both sides of the field. So that might not be big enough.
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When the last Eastern Corps, came to Wis. it was tied into DCI Championships in Madison. As far as advertisement I do not know if DCI really participated with advertisement,for the Senior Show. I may be wrong. I do know that as soon as the show was over we had to load the sovie booth up and get the heck out, I'm not sure that we even allowed to set up in the stadium commons. Hardly any vendors ( if any at all) were set up to sell any food.
A friend of mine who bought tickets For DCI Finals, only happened to stumble across the Senior show.
Maybe DCI and DCA have come a lot further,but back then it wasn't a happy marriage,
I realize that DCI invites all age corps into their shows. Which is a good thing.
But would DCI be willing to help sponsor a DCA show?
It definitely would be worth checking into,if hasn't been done already.
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When the last Eastern Corps, came to Wis. it was tied into DCI Championships in Madison. As far as advertisement I do not know if DCI really participated with advertisement,for the Senior Show. I may be wrong. I do know that as soon as the show was over we had to load the sovie booth up and get the heck out, I'm not sure that we even allowed to set up in the stadium commons. Hardly any vendors ( if any at all) were set up to sell any food.
A friend of mine who bought tickets For DCI Finals, only happened to stumble across the Senior show.
Maybe DCI and DCA have come a lot further,but back then it wasn't a happy marriage,
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Here is an update...there are now over 100 members participating with the Blue Stars for this upcoming O'fest parade. Believe me you don't want to miss out. Come have fun with us. We have quality AND quantity.
or you can shuffle along with John Mayo & company.
The choice is yours.
I'd have to sign with the highest bidder.
Which will probably mean I'll be sitting at
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At least no ones complaining about my review so far lol
No argument here.
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Safe journeys and go wow the crowds !
Getting 1s t, 2nd , or whatever means nothing unless you give the crowd 100000
6 or so people(judges) do not equate to a season of fulfillment!
Do I get a amem!!!!!
Hot dogs are cheap they aint going up in price during intermission!
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To bad Govies and White Sabers aren't in Open, they would make top 10! Govies clearly should win being 5 points ahead and WS is clearly in second. I don't think anything will change that. It's to bad that they couldn't be moved up to Open.
Competing against the Govies for many years, I always thought (some times not to my self),how the hell did they beat us (Kilties). Always found them entertaining.... but.... This year I saw them in Racine. Believe me when I say, they are the real deal. As good as Brass was at that show,I was more entertained by the Govies.
And Larry P does a spot on imitation of R.Grupp....Standing for 99% of the time in the pit
Love ya Larry! Love ya Mr Grupp!Kilties have a good solid show. The only disadvantage they have, is they will not get that last weekend score.
Good luck to all, Remember it's all for the crowd.
OH YEAH GO MIDWEST!!!!!!
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I'm sure they'll understand English. Heck... when we were in Germany a few years back, a bunch of folks there spoke better English than we did.
I didn't speak in Japanese for the Inspires, and things went well.
Glad to see another International Corps!!. Fran when you mentioned the Inspires,it made me smile. I was walking in Uniform and was stopped by a Japanese GROUP . They were laughing and pointing to my Kilt.I was expecting the ,"What is under your kilt" I was about to answer the yet to be asked question,When a young lady stepped up and pointed at my sporran. She pointed at it and asked." does the Size of that indicate the size you are covering up."
I dang near burst out laughing,when she said you are wearing one of the bigger ones.Then I told her what the blue ribbon was for.
Sorry for the side trip.
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WWBD!
Right!!
Good bye,my Brother in Plaid.
Pioneer's DCI Membership Has Been Revoked
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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Roman has attended DCA for many many many years.
He has rented his buses out to Mid West corps ,in the past.
Disclaimer
this is not an endorsement for or against any thing.
Just stating the facts