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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    Westshoremen 92, 95, 96, 97
  • Your Favorite Corps
    Cavies, SCV, Phantom, Bluecoats, Star of Indiana
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    To hard to choose
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    Several
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    Pennsylvania

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  1. I'm sorry, I just do not understand your thought process when you are saying it is limited/without. Perhaps the only thing limited and without is your perception? Just sayin! ;)
  2. Yes, I will jump on the band wagon too! Love this Bluecoats show, absolutely amazing!!! Way to go Blooooo.
  3. Ugh, this entire thread! However, I think Crowns brass line is more challenged and will be even better this year, IMO!
  4. Thanks for the live feed back, I miss marching and DCA so much! It would be great if DCA would have a live finals feed, I would have payed $$ for it, perhaps next year! :)
  5. Yes C2 was good but from what I saw the guard was a lot less clean than the rest of the corp and just did not hold up to the rest of the package. Buccs, MBI, Cabs, Corp Vets, Fusion, Empire all signifigantly better quality guards than C2. I do not know with out seeing the recap but I would guess C2s guard would be 7th at best and I am not even sure it held up to that. JMO
  6. Awesome and well deserved! They are a top notch Drum Corps! Way to go Buccs!
  7. I will admit that deep down inside I was pulling for Crown and thought it was the most innovative production I have ever seen! With that said, I also loved BD this year and though the show was a bit strange at first viewing, I grew to love it more with every viewing. The Apollo was beautiful and stunning and woven in throughout the production masterfully. The BD performers presented sheer excellence throughout the production and deserved the win! For me this activity is still about what these young people are able to accomplish, and this year was nothing short of amazing from one corps to the next for me. I have been watching Drum Corps for over 20 years and just like a prior poster in this thread my first exposure was the 1987 PBS broadcast, and I have been hooked ever since. :) Yes, there have been some bumpy years along the way that I have wondered whether or not I liked where the activity was heading, and the use of electronics took away the purity of what my perceptions of drum corps is/was. As the years have progressed with the use of electronics I think that most corps have struck a balance and are using them much better since their introduction and in allot of cases this year have enriched the production value of their shows with their utilization of them. To the OP, I can relate to what you are saying and although I was not ready to walk away from the activity, I was angry, disgruntled and in complete dismay over BD's win in 2010. I hated that show and still do! It offended all my senses (yes, it left a bad taste in my mouth) and made me squirm through the entire production. However, as much as I hated to admit it, the performers were the best on the field and deserved it. I realize that as much as I wanted any other corps to beat it, I would not be willing to throw the members under the bus to have another corps win who did not execute at that level, and unfortunately there was not another corps in 2010 that presented the level of excellence BD displayed IMO. The corps themselves have had a hand in designing the criteria for which they be judged and performance, excellence and achievement of the performers is paramount to the sheets in every caption. Right? Perhaps the system could use some tweaking, but I do think the judges are doing their best to interpret them. DCA is a different animal, and I marched a DCA corps for 4 years. I agree their is a mutual respect that exists between all the corps in DCA even with some heated rivalries, however I think DCI corps are the same in that respect. I was at the Pittsburgh show this year when Crossmen and Spirit were both playing for each other after the show. In closing, what we value and call entertainment is going to be different for all of us. I love what I saw this year in DCI and enjoyed almost every corps. I have to chuckle when I hear people on here say that these corps are loosing their identities when in fact what I saw was corp after corps for the most part getting back in touch with it! Crossmen this year was a throw back to the Crossmen of years past, look where it got them. I can remember Blue Knights being weird in the late 80's and 90's can you? Well Phantom, need I say more. I could go on and on! All the best, LJ
  8. Currently the #1 most shared Ireport of the day and the #3most viewed on CNN Ireport! Way to go everyone!
  9. Now the #1 most shared story on CNN Ireports! http://ireport.cnn.com/recent-updates.jspa?secondarySortBy=last24hours&sortBy=shared&sortOrder=2
  10. CNN often gives mention in the headline news of Ireports receiving attention. Here is to hoping, and we shall see where it goes as more folks log on to DCP.
  11. http://ireport.cnn.com/recent-updates.jspa?secondarySortBy=last24hours&sortBy=shared&sortOrder=2 It is now the 2nd most shared story of the day!
  12. It is now in the top 10 Ireports on CNN and the 3rd most shared story of the day, way to go everyone! Keep passing it along, and who knows. :)
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