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Blue Devils, or any competitive group, "performing" Dada is pretty much the definition of Disneyfied cheese. You can't "perform" Dada...and even if you could, it definitely wouldn't be for a score. That said, I love Disneyfied cheese. In fact, I am the proud owner of a Disneyland Annual Pass. Premium Pass at that! I even went to Disneyland after the theater event tonight.

Les Eclipse

Hm... "Wake up?" Just spitballing at this point.

Yes. And "Enough is Enough" is part of the Barbra Streisand disco era songbook. I don't know which was crappier. "Enough" or "Enough is Enough."

Hm... Spoolie? And the Rondo answer is Florida Wave. I miss them.

LOL! You're just a hot mess today, Kath. I happily step aside. Go for it, Brasso.

Geez Kathy! Hardly what I would call "easy," but my proud Midwestern roots are screaming "WAUSAU STORY!!!!!"

PR show is really, really cute. SCV show is not cute at all but is at least on par with PR's design. At least on par.

I wouldn't have had them in the top 3 since Winged Victory, so for me this feels just about right. I understand that they are technically proficient...arguably the MOST technically proficient corps of the last three or four years. But for my purposes, all corps can reach a baseline of satisfactory technical proficiency where all I'm looking for beyond that point is how it impacts me. Each of the last three or four years, there have been a handful of corps that have gotten to that level but far surpassed BD in their ability to entertain me. So like i said, 3rd or 4th seems just about right to me.

1. Madison Scouts 2. Phantom Regiment 3. Blue Stars 4. Santa Clara Vanguard 5. Boston 6. Cavaliers 7. Blue Knights 8. Bluecoats 9. Carolina Crown 10. Cadets 11. Glassmen 12 - 22 All Other World Class Corps 23. The 1979 Claremont High School Wolfpack Band (My alma mater. We were really good that year.) 24. The Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Super Bowl Halftime Show Featuring Miss Jackson's Booby 25 - 68. Really Any Other 43 Dreadful Super Bowl Halftime Shows 69. Stanford University Band's "Tribute to the OJ Simpson Trial." A highpoint in low class. (Though pretty funny.) 70. The Mariah Carey "Glitter" Album and Her Entire Line of Star Jewelry 71 - 99. - The First and Only Season of "Cop Rock" 100. The 2010 Blue Devils

Hoping someone can answer a few questions for me. The info on the Fan Network site is confusing. 1. Is the only difference between a Plus membership and a Premium SD membership that you get the 2010 DVD's with Premium? 2. The Premium SD membership says that you get "World Class Championship Performances." What is this? The Plus membership level says you get all live webcasts and all Video on Demand from 1974 to 2010, so I'm assuming the Championships webcast comes with the Plus membership. Thanks in advance.

And this kind of thinking pretty much defines esoteric. The fact is that I can set up a jarring tableau of my dog taking a dump on my front lawn, and a lot of what you said about Devil's show would apply to my dog's bowel movement. And having been to art school, I'm pretty confident I could get an excellent critique if I set it up well. But it's not entertaining. Shoot me now if I'm way outside of the bell curve, but I still want to be entertained by drum corps. Blue Devil's show THIS YEAR does not entertain me, and that would appear to describe the feelings of over half of the people who responded to this poll. So, in my opinion, no matter how well executed or ingeniously designed, it fails. Again, just my opinion...but the drum corps trifecta is superior execution, superior and innovative design, AND widely entertaining; and Devils do not hit on all three bases this year.

If I'm to be honest, me too. It's not that I rooted for BD to lose, but I did root for them to NOT win. And I'm not ashamed of that either. I didn't think they deserved it in 2008. I didn't think they deserved it in 2009. And I won't think they deserve it in 2010. I was a big fan of "Winged Victory" and past BD shows, but I am not a fan of their current chop-shop style (stealing someone else's description.

Well, I don't know what it'll do to corps' ability to prepare, but I do know that this seals it for me. I won't be there next year. School starts on 8/16, which means many faculty meetings on Thursday and Friday the week before. Honestly, I'm not that disappointed. I really can't adequately describe how much I hate that stadium.

I seriously doubt that there are enough of us who won't go back to LOS to force a move to another venue, though I am definitely one of those who will not return. My guess is that finals will continue to be viable at LOS just from parents, family, fans who will go no matter what, and locals. Really, I'm guessing that fewer than 10% of those of us who are vocally disappointed with LOS will actually choose to not return. Even I, being avowed today to not return, have to admit that there's a 25% chance I'll change my mind by June 2010.