Gantang

We can't discount the idea that becoming a co-ed corps alienated, severed the tie, or whatever other way you want to frame it, Madison Scouts who marched before the July 2019 decision. Many thought the name Madison Scouts should be shelved and the new iteration be named something else. Capitol Sound was the co-ed corps from Madison. If alumni have fallen by the wayside it must have been anticipated while conducting a cost-benefit analysis of adding girls. Did they consider the loss of support from the guys?

Judging for mistakes rather than using a subjective approach did make scores vary. A judge could follow the worst marcher, or player and Tick away for 12 1/2 minutes! Drops mattered, too. Instead of looking at individuals they only judge the big picture now.

If each judge gives a higher score to A than B, and B was scored higher than C, and C....D, the scores would average out, making corps A stay ahead of B, etc.

DCI has changed a lot in 15 years. Do you have a more recent example?

Would this not extend lower-tier corps scoring lower until lineups are altered based on certain placements at regional shows? A non-Finalist corps will go on earlier, which impacts their rehearsal time since every corps only gets 24 hours per day. If every corps starts rehearsing at 8 am but the previous season's 17th place corps has to eat by 4 pm to hit the starting line by 6 pm, while the last corps takes the field at 9:30, #17 will have far fewer rehearsal hours every show day. It seems like a corps has to come out smoking in the first week to make an impression on the judges, who it seems hold back numbers until later in the line-up.

My apologies. I don't visit DCP several times a day throughout the year. I have seen this question answered.

I've heard the term for years, but is there evidence that corps are grouped and that it's nearly impossible for a lower-tier corps to displace a higher-tier corps?

It's just a little bit of history repeating.

That is the similarity. Not doing full tours, losing often while being entertaining, etc. JS has been placing in the mid to low 20s for a decade, similar to Pioneer. The goal of winning wasn't pushed at Pioneer. It was a place for kids to cut their teeth in drum corps before they moved on.

In a word...Pioneer.

Then, they would not be viewing a donation to Cadets as a tax-deductible charitable donation. I make donations despite claiming the Standard Deduction because I know it's a gift (not under the IRS' definition. Those who do itemize and have deductions greater than the Standard do benefit by making additional donations. They usually make SIGNIFICANT donations to reduce the tax burden. Some of us are simply altruistic.

You are rare, especially in this activity. I expect that most of the people on here don't itemize since 90% of taxpayers claim the standard deduction. Thus, 90% of the people would see no tax benefit from donating to a charity, as cixelsyd suggested.

I didn't say they were! Where did you get that idea? cixelsyd wrote that "you can make tax-deductible donations directly." I disputed the ability to use a donation as a tax-deductible donation under the current IRS Code. Since you chimed in, do you take the Standard Deduction or Itemize?

The Standard Deduction of $13,850 for single filers and $27,700 for married filing separately has nearly eliminated the ability to deduct Charitable Donations. Unless those donations combined with every other Itemized Deductions amount to a greater dollar amount than the SD. Is anyone reading this using Itemized versus Standard Deductions and could lend some insight on this??

I wonder if this is the consensus of the alumni.