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  1. 7 hours ago, Terri Schehr said:

    Selling US Bands really had to hurt. 

    It did, but in addition to the lawsuits facing YEA, band directors on the Atlantic seaboard were getting really fed up with the way USBands was being run (a lot had to do with scheduling and last-minute, poorly communicated changes from the stories I have heard first-hand). The NESBA gained more bands in Massachusetts, a group of band directors in Maryland started up their own circuit (MMBA) to get away from USBands, and I believe Cavalcade picked up some groups, too.

    I think USBands has started to recover under the Blue Devils' leadership, but damage was definitely done to the circuit's reputation.

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  2. 5 hours ago, 2muchcoffeeman said:

    Granted, it's hard to see evidence for your assertion on the surface. Bloo is a riot of unconventional thinking. Crown has blown people's minds several times this decade. There is no other word for Mandarins this year than creative.

    But if I follow you correctly, your diagnosis is more directed at the creativity of method, not at the content of the performances. BD has mastered the method, and thus need only apply the thinnest of new washes over the top each season to collect another gold medal. Surely this can't be what the visionaries had in mind in the 1980s when the tick system was abolished. It's worth thinking about.

    Thank you, this is exactly what I was trying to communicate. My argument is not that "there is no creativity in drum corps any more." My argument is that "wild" shows (like Bluecoats this season) cannot and will not ever win in the current system.

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  3. Heh, I realize now there is a potential confusing contradiction in my story: I claim to have not participated as a spectator in the 2023 DCI season yet I reference 2023 shows.

    Clarification: I watched the Finals performances of the three medalists on The Site That Shall Not Be Named. This is the first year in over 30 that I have not spent any money supporting DCI.

  4. 12 minutes ago, Barneveld said:

    Welcome Back!!

    For those of us with severe cases of CRS (can't remember ####), could you remind us how you get your results?

    Please and Thank You!!

    Blood tests, endoscopies, CT scans, MRIs, PET scans. I've had them all.

    Oh, did you mean the drum corps scores? I enter the results into a spreadsheet loaded with formulas (formulae? forumulai? formica?). Only Wed-Sat scores are considered. The formulas compare the results against prior scoring margins to determine if the scores are progressing in a reasonable fashion of if they are jumping all over the place. Dampening or boosting factors are added to specific shows if they calculate significantly above or below other recent shows. Daily progressions are then calculated to give every corps a score for that day, even if they did not perform. Then I add a dash of magic (or bs, depending on your opinion) to get the final results, and extrapolate the weekly rating forward to guesstimate a season-ending score.

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  5. 4 hours ago, LabMaster said:

    The reason they hold off on music announcements is because of not having the needed rights to the tunes.

    Baloney. That was true 15-20 years ago, when obtaining all of the mandatory rights and coordination licenses was still a fairly new industry, but not anymore. I can assure you that many of the "heavy hitters" started asking for this season's rights before last season was even concluded. And I doubt any of the Top 6 had any unresolved licensing issues after about March of this year. At the latest.

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  6. 1 minute ago, college-phan said:

    Filings from 2021, so data from 2020. Not a good picture of the current situation, but I’d say it’s quite indicative.

    https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237073438

    A million in the hole for 2020, the lost year. I've heard that it was higher than that at the end of 2022. I have an anonymous source that says they've whittled that debt down to about $500K, but touring in 2023 would have ballooned it back up to at least $1.5 million.

  7. DCP-I began in the winter of 2004, started by an Executive Director with a dream and several corps/players helping to fulfill that dream. The very first shows in the history of DCP-I were on March 1st, 2004. A total of 34 corps competed that day in either San Diego, CA, Willingboro, NJ, or Whitewater, WI. The first winners were The Gladiators, Phantasma and Buena Vista.

    Twenty-nine seasons (2 per year in most years) later, the final DCP-I season took place in the summer of 2019, culminating in that season's championships in Seattle, WA. The final DCP-I champions were Quiksilver (World), Sparrow Regiment (Open), and Nastalgia Percussion Ensemble (A). During the twenty-nine seasons of DCP-I, over 100 different corps won a medal in any of the three competitive classes.

    Over the fifteen year run, participation waxed and waned. The COVID-19 pandemic and loss of the 2020 and 2021 competitive DCI seasons were the final nail in the coffin for our fun little side activity. After a couple of years of inactivity and server changes, the amount of work required to bring the custom DCP-I code and databases up to current standards and bring the game online again is simply too big of a demand.

    We thank all of the players and Administrators who put forth their time and effort into this game over the years. Executive Directors and administrators of the circuit included:

    STEVE BURSTALL (DCP user: sburstall) - Founder, Executive Director seasons 1-6
    JEFF HINTON (DCP user: CincinnatiGloryMello) - Executive Director seasons 7-15
    MATT BRIDDELL (DCP user: Galen) - Executive Director seasons 16-23
    KEVIN POGUE (DCP user: hostrauser) - Executive Director seasons 24-29
    JOHN DONOVAN (DCP user: JohnD) - Drum Corps Planet owner / system administrator / developer

    Drum Corps Planet International (DCP-I): 2004-2019

  8. Thank you, everyone. I am 45, about to turn 46, so I dutifully went in for my first ever colonoscopy last week... and they found colorectal cancer.

    I'm young(ish), I feel fine, I'm not showing any advanced symptoms, so we are hopeful that it was discovered early and the treatments will be (relatively) straightforward. I have a lower-body MRI on Thursday and then we meet with the oncology team 8/1 to formulate the plan of attack, so to speak.

    I will accept any thoughts or prayers from any religion or denomination. :innocent:

    Get your check-ups, folks.

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