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That would seem a little desperate to me, and it would undoubtedly fall short of Spartacus. They can't rely on just killing people to do well.

Granted, it is far from every corps using electronics in this way.

That's exactly it. A fight song/alma mater represents a whole school. A corps song represents just the corps itself. A drum corps exists wholly for itself.

The whole parade IS the main event.

A drum corps doesn't perform in a half time show or play a fight song to pump up the football team. Drum corps is always its own main event.

I don't know where you got this information, but it's not true. Edit: I mean I guess it could be closer to 17. 19 is closer to 17 than 20.

Notice how it's the most popular and high scoring corps that seem to recycle source music. Out of curiosity, what did you think about the Glassmen, Blue Knights, Colts, and Boston Crusaders who all used mostly unused music in 2009.

Well retaining 100 members from last season is easier said than done. I'd say the corps I marched in was about half if not over half rookies and we make finals regularly.

I'm not quite sure how a thread about visual warm-up segued to BD '09...

I think the offense really comes in when ignorant people make the assumption that a drum corps is a high school marching band.

The only corps I think might have been underrated is Phantom Regiment. From watching finals live, I thought they were superior to Blue Stars. All the other rankings I agree with completely.

52 is actually a remarkably low number of rookies.

Most of that rep is modern symphonic music and Beethoven is anyone's game.

I did include a disclaimer didn't I?