Mark in AZ

I also tremendously enjoyed Vanguard's show this year. Reconfirmed my personal feeling that SCV is my favorite corps of all time (no connection other than as a fan). It almost made me forget the bottle dance... Keep up the great work!!

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Ain't going to happen...high schools and colleges will be back in session especially in the West. Of course I remember the days when there used to be drum corps shows all the way through Labor Day weekend. And the shows started on Memorial Day weekend. Ahhhh, the good old days.

Good luck to the Blue Stars!!

I firmly endorse these surprises, but in the realm of (semi) reality.... SCV doing the bottle dance and Troopers doing the sunburst.

Finals or not, I think that Academy gets a big nod for recovering from the sophmore swoon... I'm pulling for them in a big way.

Awesome news!!!

Latest that I have courtesy of Academy's Twitter account is that they are 30 minutes behind due to the rain delay.

I can't remember the exact date of the change from ticks to the current system, but I think it was sometime in the 80's. Now, we just have to give the judges the "impression" that the company front is good rather than having them stand in front of the corps counting errors.

Company fronts become much more prevalent when the tick system went away. Think of how many ticks you would get when you have 50-100 corps members right in front of the judge trying to keep in step and in a straight line...true suicide back in the day of ticks.

I think that this is good year. I can't remember the last time that I liked all the top shows. I was so-so with Cadets until last night. The kicked some a** last night especially on M&M.

I heard that a lot of corps are dealing with kids being out with the flu. Many of the corps last night had holes. It seemed to affect the Glassman the most from what I noticed.

Congratulations to Academy guard. I remember the first year in World, everyone was talking about how the guard was holding the corps back. This is a great drum corp example of not letting anything hold you down. Also, another shout out to the whole corps, the staff and especially Mark Richardson for coming back from a less than successful sophmore outing in World to this year where they are back in the mix for finals. It makes me realize that this Corps has staying power.

Way to go Academy!!! In the 80's by Atlanta. Academy is back