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wilme861

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  1. Not to be too sarcastic here but umm...that is literally their only job.
  2. Yeah at every other competition, the judges have the ability to go back before submitting it all at the end to adjust their numbers. For Allentown, they could adjust the Friday corps until they submitted everything at the end of the show Friday. For Saturday, they had their Friday numbers to reference and could adjust just the Saturday corps scores throughout the night until they were done at the end to fit in with the Friday numbers. Are there some spots where maybe the judge "trapped" themselves into a smaller range than they would have liked? Yeah most likely but it is what it is. Most judges are experienced enough that it doesn't happen all the time. BOA judges have the same struggle at Super Regionals and Grand Nationals. They'll also run into this "problem" at Prelims and Semis as they release scores after each block of corps during the intermissions. So they can adjust the scores until that intermission then that block of corps has their scores locked in for the night.
  3. But yet the scoring still fell in line with the events of the week. Bluecoats and Boston met up in Lawrence with Boston winning by 0.3 pts. In Allentown, Boston was up 0.2 pts. Bluecoats and Cadets met up in Glassboro with Bluecoats winning by about 3 pts. At Allentown, Bluecoats were up about 3 pts over Cadets. Bluecoats performed Friday and Boston and Cadets on Saturday so the spreads stayed consistent over both nights.
  4. And yet the percussion judge themselves judged it all as if it was one competition. As people have said, things can and do change come Indy but DCI has their judges treat it as one competition and score it appropriately . People can say all they want about 2 different shows and 2 different nights etc... but DCI itself says otherwise.
  5. It's funny cause Cavaliers and Crown have been BY FAR the biggest topics of discussion this year with my percussion group chat (usually it's SCV and BD honestly). Cavies for just how good they've been (we knew they could be that good but impressed they actually got that good) and Crown for just how divisive the book is amongst us all. The more traditional fans aren't a big fan, while the rest of us see they have the content but it just has to be clean as hell to have a chance against some crazy good books this year. Free advertising for the Aged Out podcast guys on Youtube (Michael and Evan) as they just covered a Crown lot and Mike in particular did a great job of breaking down the Jackson book and style and what judges might be struggling with. These guys put out great content honestly, highly recommend for anyone looking for some percussion stuff to watch. But I've said it sooooo many times this season, what a year for percussion!
  6. In an ideal world yes, but this isn't an ideal world. Off nights happen all the time. I've personally had rough runs that were worse than the performance a week or more before that so just one night is nothing in the grand scheme of things.
  7. Yeah it's Allentown, Winston-Salem, Atlanta and San Antonio averaged together. Boston, Crown and Bluecoats were all very close though. It won't make a big difference anyways what order those top 4 go in though in Indy.
  8. Think it was their first "win" over BD in drums this year. I might be wrong but don't remember them beating them before. It'll all come down to the judge each night and their performance but they have the vehicle to impress in Indy. Jackson books just HAVE to be clean. He's the definition of high risk / high reward.
  9. Now that's a recap. Potentially 4+ corps winning the caption awards. Would love to see it if it happens come finals night.
  10. And Crown percussion was scored 3rd, above BD, Bluecoats and Cadets. Impressive showing from those guys. I still think it's Cavaliers or Boston for the Sanford but any of these top 6 are good enough to be Sanford winners most years.
  11. As I said, just let the design team cook. They know what they're doing. I'll admit, it's easy to say that when you actually know the crown is coming but still my point still stands 😂
  12. It's not separate. They judge the exact same sheet, it's just one set are judges that judge the visual captions as well and the other are judges that also judge the music captions. DCI judges don't judge both music and visual. So GE isn't "split" like it used to be. Instead of GE Visual, its now GE judged by a visual judge and the same with music.
  13. Just look at what Crown scores. The higher GE scores are the music judges 🤪
  14. Depends what you want to see. Ensemble is usually after dinner starting around 7pm or so on non-show days. Music and visual work is usually in the morning/afternoon. All of that changes during a show day, just depends on travel and show time.
  15. Well that doesn't bode well for 11 getting to 90...
  16. Usually, Crown rehearsals are always open to the public unless the venue itself doesn’t allow it (like BD a few weeks ago being on a military base).
  17. Would be interesting. I don’t ever see it happening just because of numbers management not because 12 isn’t deserving of a 90. Almost like percussion this year, it seems like 5+ groups should get 95 and above based on the books and talent this year (assuming good runs) but it won’t happen.
  18. Hopkins advocated for just using ordinals instead of scores. That didn't make it through the membership votes if it even made it that far into the process...
  19. I semi agree with him honestly. I wouldn't necessarily say it's HEAVILY impacting their scoring but it just seems like it does come into play at times. Now, its definitely more mixed than it has been in the past and definitely more staff based than corps location based. Crown is the obvious example of probably the most west coast style line in DCI now with Jackson, compared to a more east coast style of Cadets or Boston but most lines in DCI honestly seem to be more of a hybrid of both styles. I don't think its a secret that I'm a big fan of west coast "flowy" style of playing (love Jackson lines) so I'm not afraid to admit I will always be partial to that style but I also don't judge. Judges shouldn't have that "favoritism" I'll call it for one style over the other even though it seems like some judges definitely hit Crown harder than others. They'll beat Bluecoats one day then the very next be down a point to them the next from a different judge so it's just hard to attribute all of that to just a bad performance and not attribute any of it to a difference in how to judge that style of playing. I personally probably have Crown around 5th or so this year just based on everyone having a clean run (based off just the lot). I still think BD could win it if they get Cavie clean but again that might be my west coast bias coming into play.
  20. 100% there are kids that go to BD just because they want to win. I'm willing to bet though a large number of them also go because of that staff and to learn a BD show. I never marched BD or even auditioned but I would love to go back in time and do a year JUST because I want to learn a show like they teach it. So different from any other marching group I've ever been in. Just organic, let's figure this out and see what happens approach is so weird and mind boggling to me. Just to give a couple examples of some of my percussion friends from when we marched. One went to SCV as it was his dream to march there. One went to Cavaliers because he had a hard on for McIntosh (only one of us who got gold btw). One went to Phantom because of Renick. One marched Madison because it was local and he didn't feel he could make Phantom or Cavaliers. And last, one went to BD. Why? Because of a friend suggesting he would love playing there and the staff. Now this was the 2000s. Obviously my friend group isn't indicative of kids today and not meant to suggest it's the majority opinion. But just saying, not everyone cares about winning in these music "sports". I mean if you think DCI is bad, take a look at BOA... You have a much higher chance of being a DCI champion than you do of being a BOA champion.
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