ftwdrummer

Good to see the marching band world has finally caught up to VK '92.

And also before...Naffier came back in 2011 and stayed through 2014.

You might want to glance at where those corps have been placing relative to Madison recently...

Double-duty since 2013.

Best guess: more all-female guards --> fewer options for male guard members --> more/better talent in the guard at Madison

...except Weber introduced the specific bent-leg style Vanguard uses when he came over. It would not surprise me if the same happened were he to go to Phantom. That was all I meant.

Wild speculation based on possibly misremembering things time... IIRC, Morris was put in charge of the corps by DCI to get the shop in order. Possible that he's stepping down as lead of Troop because they're using him as the fix-it guy again?

So, thoughts on this now that the two most-likely-to-be-picked Open Class corps are now touring California only?

If you think the 2016 show had better flow to it than 2018, you've blocked the "summer" movement out of your mind. Stretching a 90-second piece to three minutes by adding drum breaks does not flow. And I say that as a percussion guy.

I'm a yes here, with some thoughts on where the caps should be (in constrast to the numbers Chris assembled). By my math, simply scaling based on the maximum cost (new cap = ((old cap / 200) * 320) = 240 --> 250 over the course of the season) would put the effective purchasing power of the world class cap at where open class is currently. This makes the (admittedly simplistic) assumption that corps will spend the maximum on GE, and divide the rest of their cap evenly over remaining captions. If we instead take that assumption and apply those placements to the proposed costs, the World Class cap should instead be 265 --> 275. I'd propose going somewhere between those, say: World: 250 --> 265 Open: 220 --> 230 A: 190 --> 200

Clarification: when we say " Would only include Open Class corps that attended Championships every season on a rolling four-year basis, no regional corps," does that mean that if, say, SCVC missed championships next year, they wouldn't be included again until 2023?

Would Weber's visual style mesh with Phantom, though? Can't see Phantom in the bicycle step... There's another corps slightly closer to home for him, though...one he happened to be a member of...that already bicycle steps... I'm not saying Weber to Cavies is a definite. But I think Weber to Cavies would be a better fit than Weber to Phantom.

Eh, I could see Madison taking a crack at it

So...Vanguard '98?

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