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wvu80 last won the day on November 12 2011

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    Fan only; since 1980
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  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    Garfield Cadets 1987
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    The one coming up
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    West Virginia

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  1. Great shirt! I had to laugh at your quote, though. I can relate. 🤣
  2. HOLD: ===== Blue Devils. A Blue Chip stock, as it were. After being on top for so long it has nowhere to go but down but no matter the placement it's value is still there and the future looks bright. Carolina Crown: Quality everywhere. It won't take much for their show to fight for the top spot, all of the pieces are in place thanks to top notch management. Cadets: Great 5th place finish in 2023 except if the Vanguard had marched this year and achieved the same score from 2022 then Cadets would have finished...6th, same as last year. Mid pack is the prediction for next year, the same as the last two years. BUY: +++++ Mandarins were undervalued this season. I see their stock rising. (hey, I think I found their show theme for next year!) SELL: ----- Blue Stars - Top quality talent with questionable leadership. Whoever on the show design team that thought a alcohol/hallucinogen based show theme for an under-21 age drum corps was appropriate needs to go find an over-21 senior drum corps to work for. I'm not waiting around for next year's meth based show to figure out this ship ain't sailing. They will continue to sink until quality control change is made at the top. Better choices must be made. Santa Clara Vanguard - I had a large of amount of SCV blue chip stock from the past 5 years and their valuation went from ten billion to zero almost overnight. This actually happened with a real medical devices company the last few years BTW. Vanguard did not do the Bud Light drop through woke marketing and therefore I feel they may reorganize and rise again under a new label. Until then the old brand is dead and time moves on.
  3. lol I was thinking the same thing! The OP wants a vintage t-shirt from the early 2020's! Like you, I also have a Star of Indiana tee shirt I recently found in a drawer. It doesn't quite fit me any more. 😎
  4. I haven't seen it mentioned, did you notice the DCI World Championships banner did not have a year, 2023? Just the name of the event. ++++ I'd also like to know what people had as their favorite/best uniform. Make separate lists for marchers color guard if you wish. Color Guard - Blue Devils. I like that they created a uni which makes the women look female and the males look masculine, that's hard to do. I hate when corps put a frilly dress on a CG male and make him look feminine. Marchers, traditional - Cavaliers, Scouts. Both had a modern and clean visual effect on the field with a distinct connect to their roots. Marchers, non-traditional - By far Bloo. I usually hate green based uni's on a green football field but Bloo's use of color made formations easy to read. Blue Devils were also innovative with the pink sash early in the show somehow changing to the red based dual sashes later. Very visually effective and blended in perfectly with the show design and progression of the cutouts theme.
  5. +++++++ The Sunday Night Re-broadcast is now OVER +++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Any new observations? Comments?
  6. I think I know what you mean. Have the competition, but you're not allowed to keep score unless you're the grandmother of one of the participants. Brilliant! It sounds exactly like how little kid's soccer games are played. Everybody gets a trophy and all the parents go home happy! Related true story: I used to own a pee wee cheerleader and so off they went off to nationals and competed. There was a division for every possible combination of girls possible. Large, small, mixed, age, hair color... For the traditional end of the year banquet all the trophies were given out. One table had a huge amount of trophies and the label "National Champion" and had each girl's name engraved on it. National champions. What an accomplishment! But I was a bit confused. One of the cheer leader moms was just beaming over the National Champion trophies, she was so proud of the accomplishment the girls got in the Small Under 8 left handed blind in one Eye division! Being the idiot I am, I started a conversation with her: Wow, that's great! I didn't know our squad won National Champions. But I thought we finished fourth? Without hesitation and still smiling, she said and I swear this is true; she said "they're all national champions."
  7. You're saying Blue Devils hasn't been anybody's favorite show since the last century?! 😵 That's rough, bro. 🤣
  8. Because the top corps are so phemoninal, I'd like to see the traditional system to determine Gold scrapped. Instead the top scoring corps is declared first overall. Any corps scoring within 10% of the winner is Gold. 15% is Silver, 20% is a Bronze medal. This system is used on the world stage with the FIM International Six Days Enduro, the toughest cross country race in the world where surviving with your body and bike intact is the goal for most normal pros. To earn a medal is a cherished lifelong achievement. I've brought this up in the past. NOBODY but me likes this idea. 😢
  9. This was my favorite as well. The Angels and Demons show was such a masterpiece. I've worn out the disc in my Blu-ray player with the number of times I've watched this show. I've put together a Home Theater with a purpose built speaker system so I can play drum corps shows and have it sound like you were there. My configuration had been up to 9 speakers this season but for Finals weekend I went with 7.4. That means 5 base speakers L/C/R, and a change from Klipsch with 6" woofers to LARGE side surrounds w/15" woofers and Front Height with 10" woofers. Everything is horn driven, meaning it takes horns to play horns. To calibrate this system to my ears and not to the standard room corrections software, I used Cadets 2011 show as my reference standard. I wanted to hear the dynamics, the CRACK of the snare line and even the subtleties of the pit. I wanted to hear the timbre (pronounced TAMber, as in tambourine) of each horn section and it had to be able to play LOUD without distortion. This setup gets pretty close to distortion-free drum corps level LOUD. I'm sure I've played the drum solo over a hundred times to fine-tune the sound to what I know it sounds like live! Back to the story: Cadets had my favorite show this season for a variety of reasons, all good. Nostalgia is first as I've loved Cadets shows ever since they burst onto the top of the heap in 1982. I can't stand the preachiness of Cadets shows from the last 12 years. "We can all do better." Yuck. Enter Cadets 2023. Great drill, source material that I enjoyed and corps arrangements very true to the originals. Drill was exciting where it needed to be, they had the best ballad of the year which included a gorgeous cornet solo which included a second cornet for a perfectly played duet. Then towards the end of the season, Cadets added narration which I thought was cringe. But you know what? As they neared finals they changed some of the phrases and timing to where it wasn't bad. In particular they changed a part which ruined the ballad talking over the playing "we are Atlas" (cringe) to a similar phrase just BEFORE the ballad, "we are immortal." Not bad. The solo was from a British Brass Band piece called "Immortal." The narration at that point in the show was timely and appropriate. When Cadets showed the openness to change (which I never thought they would) this entire production became my favorite show of the year. Thank you Cadets for a great show which improved every time I saw it. Aside from playing the notes on the field, Cadets taught me this year that sometimes to make things better, you have to let go of parts the past while returning to the parts of the past which worked, both on the field and in life. Thank you for bringing me back as a fan. My humble system:
  10. I presume you mean 5th highest 1st place. We know what you meant. Thanks for crunching the numbers.
  11. I very much understand it and have been involved a long time. This is what you said in your previous post on the subject: "Answer: they can’t except by judges who are not consistent and not fair and are definitely biased" If you truly understood then you would know why this is not a legitimate answer. It's a tired worn out excuse to explain why corps X lost (or gained) points. Just because a person has been around drum corps a long time does not mean they are more correct than anyone else. A person should be judged by the competency of their observation and not on how old they are. I remember this type of whining about the "unfair/biased" judges and "DCI politics" since near the beginning of DCI. This is nothing new, it was in the the Letters section of the news paper Drum Corps World. I rejected that false idea then of unfairness as I do now. No evidence, just complaining, which by the way, posters here are allowed to do.
  12. Because you don't know how the DCI scoring system works. If you understood, you would agree.
  13. I don't see Mandies or Phantom jumping Cadets tonight. Cadets had such an emotional show to go with great horns and percussion. The crowd seemed behind them. Edit: The Cadets changed into their formal wear for retreat. Class.
  14. OK Scouts, that brought a tear to my eye. You'll never walk alone,.
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