crazymello

Brandt Crocker will be the first man to have his living head preserved in a jar (a la futurama) so he can announce forever.

Rondenero- "We like to call this feeling 'electric.'" Me in the theater- "So would DCP. They finally agree on something."

Those are literally the current latest scores.

The problem with scoring demand is that it's inclusion in the final score is obscure. The problem with defining demand is that there are too many categories of demand. My suggestion would be to have demand as a subcaption of every caption. So you can literally score the demand purely and execution purely then combine them. That way, also, neither of them could get anyone higher than a 50%. You need a good combination of both to win. Say for BD visual, They have a 15 in demand, but a perfect 20 in execution... well that would give them a 17.5. But if Cadets came in with a perfect 20 in visual demand (which can be defined... vis judges know what is hard and what isn't) but executed it like a pile of buttwhipe, then they could be literally awarded for their visual performance. (as opposed to an approximation thereof with an obscure "consideration" for demand)This may drop them to a really low score, like a 14, but their demand would still be there in a defined manner, bringing them to a 17. Yes, BD still won, but demand was not just thought about, but defined and added to the formula. This forces corps to push their members (which, isn't that one of the big purposes of this activity?) and not to take it past where their members can. Demand without performance gets a crappy reward, as does performance without demand. Also you can define demand much more effectively instead of evaluating it as a whole show. If they have hard music, but easy drill, then they get good music scores and bad vis scores. And as far as simultaneous marching and playing, that would be put in the playing demand. Because marching while playing sixteenth notes is a lot more likely to hurt the music than the drill. So the music captions can award the music while moving. And of course, they already did that for performance, because if you sound like crap while moving, then well... you sound like crap while moving.

Just when you thought they couldnt get any more obscure... they prove you wrong.

The crowd was pretty quiet in 2010, actually. Presumably because they were all bundled up trying to keep warm.

Puns are truly a lost art.

Crown, Cadets, and Troopers played "Somewhere" from West Side Story in 2009. Also, Cadets and troop were both playing WSS shows.

I dont understand the debate. I mean, he DID SAY that the cadence was lost. >_> I only saw the video as backup of that point, seeing as they clearly have not found it!

Michael Martin is with The Academy this year.

Depends on where in DCA you go....

Klesch arrangements with the martins at the helm would be interesting.

http://www.dci.org/news/view.cfm?news_id=3...80-7f59a96a2fb7 Apparently someone's trying to get one off the ground. I think as much needs to be done to support this as possible.

I mean, there is g8 stuff peeking it's head, but still. The biggest problems of the G8 thing involved exclusion. Like, jettisoning open class for example. this, however, is far more INCLUSIVE in nature, other than those few events, so I think we can put our smiles on.

"I'M TIRED OF THESE MOTHER ****ING TICKS ON THIS MOTHER ****ING FIELD!"