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DON'T BE THAT GUY!!!! For on the bus, "if you're not moving, you're wrong."

I like part of it has to be tradition. Those at the top know what to do, and how to do it year in and year out. It's just how the orginizations operate. Although for some odd reason finishing in second the year before doesn't seem to always help moving into first. That spot seems to be held by third and fourth place finishers, who have the best record for jumping up into first the next year. Odd occurrence, but it does help to fight the slotting arguments.

I have to say that the Cadets have to be the masters of the company front, hands down. The older folks can say what they will about it being the corps from BITD, but you can't top the Cadets. 1987, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2007, all perfect. '87 is the classic, '95 had the company front with the Iwo Jima flagraising, 00' just had the amazingness of that ending, 2007 was so intense with the way they were playing and held those intervals. So I have to go for '98 for pure perfection. I don't think you can find better foot timing across an ensemble at one moment than during that move.

This one is near impossible... So many great shows, classics... HM.... '87 SCV '89 Phantom '93 Star '95 Cadets '98 SCV '03 Cavies '06 Phantom BUT.... I have to pick '85 SCV. The raw explosion of Festive Overture, the impact-less emotion of Grover's Corner, Tender Land, and the Red Pony. It's all that is good and real about Santa Clara, a truly characteristic and classic show for them.

have to give it to Cadets '89, classic from them, One Day More, with the conflicting parts from the lines was just :lol: HM to '92 Scouts- the push in "funny" couldn't be done any better '94 SCV- Russian Sailor's Dance into Great Gate? I mean, come on.... '95 Phantom- Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and Capriccio Bohemian at the end, '97 Scouts- Pirate of Lake Mendota, need I say more? '00 BAC- pure BAC goodness, and Con Te Partiro (Time to Say Goodbye) was pure emotion '07 SCV- Church Windows, Daphnis et Chloe, enough said This is where the choices are going to get hard. Just too many great performances to choose from.

1.) 97 2.) 95 3.) 92, the push at the end is just too good 4.) 99 5.) 03

SCV '05. Russian Christmas Music all the way

99 Boston, has to be, 1st time in Finals, come on....

I'm surprised neither SCV '04 or '07 has come up yet. Both were perfect for the shows, '04 with the uniform change in the tunnel, and '07, with the huge exclamation point, the horn toast from the baritone player, and the pit quoting Clowns....

Have to go with Colts '07, just because of the launch back into finals for the first time since '01

Thanks for the clarification Matt. I wasn't sure why they did it, all I knew was that I liked it...

Don't know if that was their point. Just noticed that some of the parts were the same as the previous couple of years

To add another one, listen to Blue Knights from this past year... They did a lot of quoting from the 06 and 07 shows....

In SCVs 1998 show, at about the 6:35 mark, you can hear the main melody from Appalachian pop up for a few seconds.....

Actually, usually I think the directors fill out a form of where they want the cameras to go where, to pick up on the moments they think are the best for the show....

Phantom '95... maybe? Also Vanguard Cadets '09.

Add to this list SCV with Great Gate of Kiev, and Russian Christmas Music, Boston and Conquest, and then there's Phantom and anything done by Shostakovich that they've done in the past. Okay, I looked it up, and 32 corps in the past have played Appalachian Spring, but does that really mean that it's done? Isn't there always room to change and redo the piece in a way it hasn't been done yet... (SCV '09 anyone )

While Battlehymn was written in the Civil War, the particular arrangement they did was called Trooper's Battlehymn, written by a Mr. Gary Gilroy, taking the piece, and arranging it to become a tribute to Jim Jones and the Troopers.

Trooper's Battlehymn is the actual name of the piece, and they sounded really good doing it. Think they should be required to go at a slide by the reviewing box, get the full effect. Was kind of hoping that the Cadets would use the 05 uniforms, mess with the cameras when the drum major led the corps moving backwards...

They just announced the Colts, but didn't show any video from them on CNN. They just had the audio, while showing a marching band behind them prepping to go on.

During Phantom's show, right as the ADM jumps over the front sideline, you can see the judge step forward to get out of the way of the spear... And, when Will Pitts is stabbed, he hits the podium right on the bass drum hit At the end of Crown's show... the entire pit is rocking out in perfect time with the music and each other... In Trooper's show, the second piece, they end it by all going into poses, and one of the tuba players looks like he's puking into the horn next to him.

Okay, it's a delta, it's their corps logo, I get it... Phantom's is a chevron, just trying to point out that a chevron and delta are the same basic geometric shape.... Wow, these things get off-topic fast....

True, but the words work the same... and I'd rather not get into arguing symantics on this forum

You know that a chevoron means any two lines that form an equal angle, with the point at the top... Not just one corps logo

Does anyone no how it's possible for them to fall off the rods??? Weird that they've both been at the very end of something, you think that they break anytime, but they both fall off at the end...