Gibbles

Or... DCI could handle it like they always have. If they can't find you a school site, they put you up in a hotel. This isn't a new thing by any stretch of the imagination.

Given that their site crashes every year from people just refreshing a page full of text scores, I doubt they want all those people tuning into a video feed, lol!

This is a new, novel thread of discussion that we should definitely engage in for many, many pages. In fact, this concept is so new and unique that I believe we should devote many different spinoff threads to this exciting, fresh topic. The end.

Yep, having performing groups like drum corps stay overnight at your school is a legal minefield in a lot of places now. For many districts it is easier to just say "no" than try to figure out a way to make sure their ##### are covered.

So if a corps gets screwed out of their housing facility because previous corps burned the school, they should be forced to pay for hotels out of their own pocket? How about the corps that burned the school pays for their housing instead?

What is it with the hashes? When I marched I remember there being this time of day, usually right at the beginning of the evening block, when the sun was situated just right that you couldn't see anything. Not the painted yardlines, not the hashes... nothing. We still marched our drill. It probably wasn't quite as clean as it normally was when we could see them, but nobody died and we could certainly march our show. Maybe they should put in more time during visual block, lol.

I dunno, with all due respect to PR I doubt there is much of an existing rivalry between a corps that has won a championship 12 times and a corps that has won a championship twice.

Yep, slow controlled breathing is the key. In through the nose, out through the mouth, long, deep breaths. Slow down your heart rate and bring your breathing under control.

Any drum corps is good drum corps.

Agreed. Well, duh, everyone has multiple responsibilities to take care of, since they all play and march, and using the entire field honestly is more a function of your size than your level achievement. It's what you do and how cleanly you do it that matters. It that regard I thought nobody really compared to the level of difficulty and execution in BDB's show. They started jazz running at 190 right out of the gate, had double-tonguing and 16th-note run features in the brass section, and spent a large majority of their show marching at tempos over 160. I didn't see that level of difficulty (and execution) on such a consistent level from anyone else in Open Class this year. SCVC did have a lot of straight-line sets, but BDB sure didn't. Dunno what show you were watching on finals day.