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That's pretty cool.

Oh wow. I missed that! Yikes.

That's interesting. Has their guard ever been all male before? Or are you laking about the corps proper?

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He meant to quote me. I reclarified my thoughts, but still believe the new percussion team COULD be better long term with the other incoming additions as have been discussed on here. IMHO of course.

Oh you guys.. Does this make you feel better? "Cadets with major overhaul, bringing in big name team across the board. Huge upswing in brass and although percussion is a strong suit already, the music program could potentially get better collectively moving forward." Like Cappy said, silly season!!

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More moves than usual at the very top this year. Interesting Blue news all around and SCV changes will potentially make LARGE waves across the activity. It’s the silly season!

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I would assume everyone can see the corps using in ear monitors now? There are several since 2015.. Bluecoats started this years ago, even before Downside Up. BTW, suggesting someone is using a met is an ridiculous statement. If someone was using a met, it would blow up the ensemble timing since one group would have perfect time and the rest would still be reliant on field time and space.That makes NO SENSE. Thats just crazy talk if you know anything about timing on a. football field. LOL. In ears, BTW, are a perfectly legal way to allow designers to place soloists wherever they want on (or off) the field and for the music team to be able to have them play in time without trying to reinvent the wheel. As someone who plays professionally for a living, this is a good thing!! I'm sure brass guys would prefer not having players 100 yards apart, but if they designers are going to do it, then by all means, we should be using the technology available to help them achieve it. It's not cheating, btw. It's using technology to elevate the activity and move it forward. And I don't care how good of a teacher you are, if visual folks want total freedom, then music folks have to make it work somehow. IMHO, the loud speakers and goo are way worse than kid(s) using in-ears to help hear time from the pit when they are 60 yards away. But that's just me.. I don't care how they do it. Whether its a magic show, Cirque or DCI. Im more concerned with the entertainment than the man behind the curtain. It's still a game and if you choose not to play it, don't complain.

Had to double check to make sure I wasn’t on the BLOO thread.. tough crowd..

Agree with you. Will be a testament of whether they stay status quo and make the kids simply earn whatever performance level they can and leave it alone. Or, be world class designers and come up with solutions to improve the product. I'd like to think it's the second one. We all know BD will be doing that until Finals night...

Totally agree., But wouldn't you think this design team has what it takes to make changes with three weeks left to fix the show? They could change uniform color and add things, they could give them all a unique look, etc. Plenty you can do easily to pop better off the tarps than changing the whole show. I mean, they are still in it with everything you just mentioned, .7 back from first, with unreadable tarps at this point. That tells me that some tweaks and it just might be a possibility. I get its not a fan favorite again this year, but this is ridiculously talented corps that knows how to win , just like BD. In fact, more recently than BD to be fair.. They are defending champions with a historically good show in Babylon. They can finish just as well as BD, IF they make changes, as we both know that have to at this point. I'm just saying that you never know and should not count them out anymore than BD passing Bloo. Gaines, Toth and that design clearly team know what they are doing and I'd be shocked if they couldn't make real changes to the visual program and design that aren't noticeably better in the coming weeks. I'd be scared of both Cali corps at this point finishing 1 and 2 and making every Bloo fan livid in the process!

Yep I agree. I think GE Music could rise a bit and visual score proper if they adjust some things. But yeah, GE overall will keep them down. They’d have to win all music captions, be 3rd or higher in every caption and how Bd and Bloo get some 4th place. Crazier stuff has happened and it’s such a great design team, i have to think they can make changes to improve the program at this point being this close with lots to fix.

Most dangerous of all?? SCV.. nothing to lose, wining music and likely good changes coming to show. I’d be nervous behind me as much as in front. They are .7 back being 4th in all visual. If that goes up, and it will, even to 3rd, then what? We might have 3 corps within .3 on finals night! Exciting!!

Im with you. It seems they’ve set up the show visually to work 5 times this year in the domes. If the design is going to connect, we should see a bit of a jump in GE and visual tonight. If it’s the same as previous shows score and spread wise, then it’s gets clean and hope for an upset Finals Week!! Tonight’s panel is A team and will tell us if they have a shot with Vox Eversio. Musically, I think they can still catch some folks as the hornline is extremely talented and percussion may well 4 peat if they can keep it up. It wouldn’t be enough to win, but could they possibly sneak into 2nd this way? Maybe.. Hoping for the show to come alive in the SA dome and make some competitive headway tonight!!

SCV holding serve tonight. Crown will always be able to hold their own in Brass and MA, but have a hard climb to catch top 3 right now. Anything is possible, but no different than SCV catching fire and passing the Blue teams in the same fashion. Heckuva collection of corps this year! EVERYONE has upped their game and all of these kids are incredible!!

And remember it all works together. The better you can dance and do movement, the better your posture is and the better body control you have doing hard drill. Crown only looks that good in the drill becuase they have great movement people teaching there as well. Some corps just choose to use dance and movment as a more primary basis for their visual content as opposed to tradionally had drill That’s the crux of this whole discussion. It’s a choice and each are equally challenging.