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Question, my last caption changes were on July 5th, but it's still saying I've changed captions in the last week. Please advise.

Congratulations, Matt. Clovis East is an up an coming program and, really, all of the Clovis schools (Clovis, Clovis West, Clovis East, Buchanan) have a long tradition of great music programs. After all, long time program coordinator for the Blue Devils (and now with the Madison Scouts) Ramiro Barrera used to be the band director at Clovis West, and Santa Clara Vanguard brass arranger Key Poulan used to be the band director at Buchanan. Good luck at Reyburn, and I expect to see you guys beating Kastner Intermediate at band reviews soon.

All of the great moves previously mentioned, plus these that I didn't see listed: 1990 Cadets - "Z-Pull Fake-out" Last minute of show, they start the z-pull, slam on the brakes, then throw it in reverse at full speed. 1996 Madison Scouts - "Swirling wedge 360" Last minute of show, right after the final batch of sop soloists. Corps forms a wedge, marches forward four counts, diagonally forward four counts and then... the "insides" of the wedge go this way and that until eveyone's facing backfield, then finishes with a full corp 180 (towards the inside, with each half turning towards the other) before blasting full speed into the final drill set. One of the more under appreciated drill moves ever, IMO. 2004 Santa Clara Vanguard - "Rippling company front" Towards the end of Scheherazade... Horizontal lines racing back field, criss-crossing each other, then an abrupt 180 into the full company front that "ripples" from the ends to the center.

Of course not. There's nothing to just maintaining a list of scores and then sorting them in descending order. My rankings take into consideration ALL performances for the entire week (Thursday through Wednesday). Thus, the corps that are at the top of my rankings are the ones that performed the best over the course of the whole week, not just the corps that scored high at the most recent show. Here's how it works... Every corps gets a score for every day. On days corps don't perform, they get a "ghost score" of their previous score (real or ghost) plus (usually, but not always) 0.500. Real scores (bolded below) are weighted 200%, ghost scores (italicized below) only 100%. So, for Glory of Polaris: THR 7/3 - 79.523 (Wednesday 7/2 rating of 79.023 + 0.500) FRI 7/4 - 80.648 (DENVER, CO - prelims) SAT 7/5 - 79.100 (DENVER, CO - finals) SUN 7/6 - 79.600 (Saturday 7/5 score of 79.100 + 0.500) MON 7/7 - 78.721 (CEDARBURG, WI) TUE 7/8 - 80.462 (MENOMONIE, WI) WED 7/9 - 81.159 (ST. PETER, MN) Thus, the formula is as follows: [(REAL SCORES * 2) + (GHOST SCORES)] / WEIGHT TOTAL = RANKING (rounded to the nearest thousandth) [ (80.648 + 79.100 + 78.721 + 80.462 + 81.159) * 2 + (79.523 + 79.600) ] / 12.0 = RANKING ( 800.180 + 159.123 ) / 12.0 = RANKING 959.303 / 12.0 = 79.942 Glory of Polaris's ranking for the past week was 79.942. Clear as mud?

I know! They were quite the... uh, revelation. Glory of Polaris had a slight rebound last night. Onward and upward!

DIVISION I: 81.002 Shadow 80.905 Revelation 80.903 The Knights 80.846 Star of Jupiter 80.458 Corps of Unspecified Identity 80.305 Velour Knights 80.233 Tri-Color 80.225 Minnesota Madness 80.223 Kosmos 80.038 Baton Rouge Thunder (10th) 79.970 Nastalgia Vanguard 79.942 Glory of Polaris 79.816 Inferno 79.675 Inergy 79.660 Ohio Valley Thunder 79.578 Affinity 79.500 The Stud Bolts 79.389 River Valley Regiment 79.351 Motor City Marauders 79.338 Mavericks (20th) 79.279 Trumbull Golden Eagles 79.219 West Florida Kingsmen 79.061 Argonne Rebels 78.998 Corps Authorized 78.819 Magic of Mobile 78.792 The Eagles 78.607 Firebird 78.573 Great Lakers 78.415 Thunder of Brass 78.254 Etchglass (30th) 78.082 Oakland Skylarks 77.928 Fusaders 77.850 Star of Carolina 77.844 Liberty 77.309 Oregon Llama Vanguard 77.252 Rocky Mountain Thunder 76.979 Third Degree 76.845 El Gigante 76.845 Renegade Brigade 76.800 Northeast Marching Storm (40th) 76.791 Penguin Brigade 76.669 Bayou Brigade 76.583 Knights of Poseidon 76.203 Crystal Coast Pirates 75.526 Matador Regiment 75.515 Portal 75.438 Green Glory 75.208 Eastern Cadres 74.136 State of Art 73.078 Black Gold (50th) 72.937 Sunrise Surf 72.787 The Black Holes 72.559 Brilliante 72.262 The Black Saints 71.424 Titan Regiment 71.354 Blues Express DIVISION II: 78.283 Silhouette 78.203 Les Blanc Chevaliers 77.755 Authorized Cadets 77.741 VK Too 77.378 Emerald Regime 77.357 Dude, Where's My Corps? 77.179 Star of Hawaii 77.124 Blue Dynasty 76.981 Crusion 76.956 Storm Troopers (10th) 76.809 Nastalgia 76.333 Providence 75.894 Chipley Vanguard 75.752 Eeclypse 75.716 Pink Angels 75.672 Glory of Eden 75.277 Motor City Cadets 75.020 Magic of Mobile Cadets 74.741 Sun Prairie Swingers 74.374 Stardom (20th) 73.623 Ghost Riders 73.417 Carolina Sound 73.309 The Challengers 73.043 Phoenix 72.439 Winter Park Hurricanes 71.660 Avengers 71.288 Sunset Sound 67.742 Royal Squadron DIVISION III: 77.144 Cape Cod Regiment 76.224 Emerald Explorers 76.191 Shade 75.606 The Bolts 75.580 Nastalgia Percussion Ens. 75.408 Shockwave 75.124 Port Washington Lights 74.924 Lightning Corps 74.906 Cross 74.845 VK 3 (10th) 74.621 The Detroit City Council 74.303 Infinity 74.259 Ranger's Arrow 74.115 Burning Panthers 73.473 Kadence 73.397 Crimson Vanguard 72.625 Tarheel Storm 72.580 Big Red 72.337 Coal Valley Storm 72.286 Appalachian Vanguard (20th) 72.090 Tarheels 71.945 Supremacy 71.322 Blackhearts 70.023 Viper Brigade 69.469 Velocity

Tick tock...

My britches! They are falling off! Looks like both Glory of Music corps let their success in Denver go to their heads. Time for some rehearsal butt-kicking.

8two5 does absolutely awesome work. I just had him design two uniforms for me for my ensembles on FMB, and I'll probably ask him to update Glory of Polaris and Glory of Eden's uniforms--along with creating uniforms for my new D-III corps--for Season XI.

Indeed. You have to remember how BIG the western states are: Chicago is closer to Atlanta (717 miles) and New York City (790 miles) than Albuquerque is to San Diego (813 miles).

Cavaliers, Pacific Crest, Madison Scouts, Mandarins - not performing again until Saturday. Pioneer, The Academy - not performing for the rest of the week.

Agreed. I would think that a good number of DCPI Division I corps (at least) have one or more captions linked to a corps that performed at Louisville, so these recaps might have a significant impact on the DCP-I scores. Still no recaps.

...1982 Phantom Regiment's "Spartacus" opener ...1987 Vanguard's "Russian Christmas Music" ...1988 Scouts' closer ...the last minute or so of both 1989 Vanguard and 1989 Phantom ...1990 Star's finale to "Belshazzar's Feast" ...1991 Star's disappearing/reappearing cross ...1991 Cavaliers' "christmas tree" drill in closer ...1991 Phantom's "Bacchanale" ...1992 Cavaliers' 10 bass drums in "Peterloo" ...1992 Blue Devils "When a Man Loves a Woman" ...1992 Scouts' "Funny" drum break ...1993 Cadets' drumline marching forward at different tempo than rest of corps at start of "Ballet Sacra" and the "Crown" drill in closer ...1993 Star's "Medea" finale ...1993 Phantom crab-walk during "Malambo"... still the best incarnation of this visual "gimmick" (if you want to call it that) ...1993 Blue Devils "everyone's a soloist!" during "Strawberry Soup" ...1993 Vanguard finale ...1994 Blue Devils... uh, entire frickin show ...1994 Vanguard's wonderful sop soloist at the end of the "Romance" ballad ...1995 Scouts' last two minutes when all you can hear is the crowd ...1995 Phantom's awesome power chord (what, 10-seconds, no fermata?) and pit cadenza leading into "2nd Piano Concerto" ...1995 Carolina Crown's "Stormworks" finale; welcome to the big leagues, kids ...1996 Phantom's "Intro to 4th Ballet Suite"; best three-minutes of brass writing DCI has ever seen ...1996 Scouts' sop soloist in opener, and that sick rotating wedge drill in the closer (last 30 seconds or so) ...1997 Cadets' ridiculous brass runs to start the show ...1998 Blue Devils' chorale to open the show; one of Downey's best "subtle" moments ...1999 Vanguard's build-up in "The Canyon" and collapsing Y-drill at the end of Barber part I ...1999 Scouts' big chords after the percussion feature ...1999 Boston Crusaders finale; wonderful solo guard toss to end the show ...1999 Colts finale; best 12th place show ever (IMO) ...2000 Cadets' finale, from the "show-off" section through the end ...2000 Boston Crusaders' "Conquest" tags in the finale ...2000 Phantom's "Transfigured Night"; oh, that soloist! ...2000 Scouts' "Taras Bulba" finale; am I the only person that liked this show, even with the drop-off in execution? ...2001 Vanguard's "Alarm"; genius opening ...2001 Phantom's "Festive"; again, love the energy in the closer even if the execution was lacking some ...2002 Cavaliers' "Harmony" section of Frameworks ...2002 Cadets' modulation at the end of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"; not sure you can dislike this and still call yourself a fan of drum corps ...2002 Blue Devils' ridiculous bass drum runs at the end of "Channel One" ...2002 Magic's wonderful drumming at the end of show; loved the jumping up in the air ...2003 Cadets' "Malaguena"; I'm sure I'll take oodles of heat for this, but this is my favorite version of Malaguena ...2003 Phantom's "Ostinato" finale; see also: Musical Effect 101 ...2003 Vanguard's drum break ...2004 Vanguard's "Scheherazade" finale; awesome musically, yes, but possibly the best designed segment of drill I've ever seen (no offense, Mr. Gaines) ...2004 Phantom's big "romantic chords" in finale ...2005 Cadets' "drumspeak"; yeah, yeah, I know... but man, listen to how TIGHT it is ...2005 Bluecoats' "Hajj"; best use of amplified vocals so far ...2006 Glassmen's dissonance progressing into silence to depict Beethoven's deafness ...2007 Phantom's "1000 Airplanes" opener, especially those first few big, descending brass chords from the low brass

H.Y.P.E. removed from the rankings due to inactivity for 2008. There was nothing I could find on their website about being inactive when I looked a week or two ago, so I included them until I heard otherwise.

Nope, but they're the defending champions until proven otherwise. As I said, the lack of quantity in Open Class performances (especially until the end of this month) makes Open Class rankings a bit more of a guessing game.

The TRIGLAV Drum and Bugle Corps from Nova Gorica, Slovenia will be debuting in Superior, WI this weekend their 2008 program: "Wine, Women and Song" Wine, Women and Song -- Dionysiaques (Florent Schmitt) -- Adagio from "Spartacus" (Aram Khachaturian) -- Bacchanale (Jacques Ibert)

1. Pacific Crest 2. Blue Stars 3. Crossmen

And now... special! Open Class Rankings included, too. Due to the smaller number of corps performances, these are a bit more subjective. Rankings include all show data between 6/30 and 7/6... Hostrauser's World Class DCI Rankings, Week 3: 7/7 82.625 Blue Devils 82.050 Cavaliers 80.700 The Cadets 80.325 Phantom Regiment 80.000 Santa Clara Vanguard 79.300 Carolina Crown 77.875 Bluecoats 76.225 Boston Crusaders 73.225 Glassmen 72.800 Blue Stars 72.775 Colts 72.175 Pacific Crest -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 72.150 Blue Knights 70.875 Crossmen 70.475 Spirit 70.200 Madison Scouts 69.000 The Academy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 68.400 Troopers 66.875 Mandarins 62.825 Pioneer Hostrauser's Open Class DCI Rankings, Week 3: 7/7 75.000 Memphis Sound 74.625 Blue Devils B 74.505 Jersey Surf 73.800 SCV Cadets 69.275 Revolution 68.700 Teal Sound 68.500 Oregon Crusaders 67.450 Citations 67.325 Velvet Knights 65.050 Yamato 62.925 Impulse 62.500 Gold 61.400 Dutch Boy 60.575 Colt Cadets 60.000 Spokane Thunder 58.525 7th Regiment 57.975 Raiders 57.600 Racine Scouts 57.575 Incognito 56.775 Mystikal 56.750 Spartans 55.900 Spirit of Newark 54.175 Legends 52.475 Blue Devils C 50.100 Targets

Glory of Polaris took Division I in Denver and Glory of Eden was 3rd in Division II (but only 0.20 out of 1st). This weekend couldn't have turned out much better! Our first DCPI Victory!

They're up now. Crown topped Cadets in Brass and Guard.

Glory of Polaris finished 3rd in Division I and Glory of Eden finished 3rd in Division II in Denver. Both corps advanced to Finals. We are ecstatic!

I was hoping to attend this show, but now it looks like I will be unable to go. Prediction: 83.6 Blue Devils 81.2 Santa Clara Vanguard 80.8 Phantom Regiment 73.0 Pacific Crest 70.4 The Academy

Still no recaps.

Division I: 77.852 Shadow 77.662 The Knights 77.302 Tri-Color 76.688 Nastalgia Vanguard 76.465 Mavericks 76.402 Star of Jupiter 76.323 Affinity 76.248 Firebird 75.975 Velour Knights 75.862 Glory of Polaris (10th) 75.860 Rocky Mountain Thunder 75.857 Motor City Marauders ----------------------------------------------- 75.763 Corps of Unspecified Identity 75.730 Corps Authorized 75.354 River Valley Regiment 75.307 West Florida Kingsmen 75.092 Thunder of Brass 74.800 Ohio Valley Thunder 74.656 Brilliante 74.553 Argonne Rebels (20th) 74.550 Revelation 74.505 Minnesota Madness 74.431 Etchglass 74.271 Star of Carolina 74.214 Inferno 74.128 The Black Saints 73.967 Kosmos 73.918 Green Glory 73.906 El Gigante 73.878 State of Art (30th) 73.855 Renegade Brigade 73.807 Fusaders 73.738 The Black Holes 73.734 Black Gold 73.705 Sunrise Surf 73.582 Northeast Marching Storm 72.968 Knights of Poseidon 72.711 Matador Regiment 72.624 Baton Rouge Thunder 72.430 Bayou Brigade (40th) 72.235 Titan Regiment 72.063 Great Lakers 71.556 Inergy 71.550 Portal 71.530 Magic of Mobile 71.424 Trumbull Golden Eagles 71.418 Penguin Brigade 71.217 Oregon Llama Vanguard 71.157 Crystal Coast Pirates 71.035 Blues Express (50th) 70.798 Liberty 70.607 Third Degree 64.992 Oakland Skylarks Division II: 75.309 Dude, Where's My Corps? 75.171 Les Blanc Chevaliers 74.813 Silhouette 74.678 Authorized Cadets 74.387 Star of Hawaii 73.588 VK Too 73.231 Eeclypse 71.939 Magic of Mobile Cadets 71.824 Nastalgia 71.707 Ghost Riders (10th) 71.522 Emerald Regime 71.382 Blue Dynasty ----------------------------------------------- 71.165 Chipley Vanguard 71.090 Sun Prairie Swingers 71.059 Winter Park Hurricanes 71.045 Glory of Eden 70.962 Sunset Sound 70.953 Crusion 70.308 Avengers 69.788 Phoenix (20th) 69.619 Motor City Cadets 69.535 Stardom 69.399 Providence 69.009 Royal Squadron 68.878 Storm Troopers 68.710 The Challengers 67.659 Carolina Sound Division III: 73.265 Emerald Explorers 73.078 Cape Cod Regiment 72.846 Shade 72.452 The Detroit City Council 72.058 Nastalgia Percussion Ens. 71.745 VK 3 71.702 Burning Panthers 71.335 The Bolts 70.325 Shockwave 70.317 Infinity (10th) 70.169 Lightning Corps 70.006 Cross ----------------------------------------------- 69.878 Tarheel Storm 69.766 Kadence 69.051 Ranger's Arrow 69.037 Viper Brigade 69.033 Supremacy 68.513 Port Washington Lights 68.493 Crimson Vanguard 68.486 Tarheels (20th) 68.292 Appalachian Vanguard 67.837 Coal Valley Storm 67.818 Blackhearts 66.491 Big Red 66.450 Velocity

Well, I'm foregoing last nights scores, so you'll have mine shortly.