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IIRC, they also ran it quasi-separate from Fan Network--ran it on a different server because Finals was a single-day purchase, and then way more people were willing to pay the price they offered it at than they thought so it was complete trash because they had wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more bandwidth demand than they'd planned for.

True, but he wanted to know why the sound then (when only one corps had Kevlar) was different from the sound now (when everyone does). That would seem to be a key culprit.

Difference in drum sound: probably mylar heads instead of Kevlar. To test if this is the case: watch Cavies 2010--the snares in that show switched to mylar for the second movement, and you can hear the difference from the rest of the show.

Crossmen 2009

Yes, per the video of retreat: (relevant shot of person in the Phantom block at 3:15)

can do!

yesplz

To be fair, he said consistently. And in some cases I can see his point? I'm still in the camp that 2010 is an intellectual exercise more than a show, and those aren't necessarily the most entertaining. And 2005 is obviously hit-or-miss (the music from that show is so, so good...and when you watch it instead of listening to it the show is so, so bad). Then again, my favorite BD shows 2005-present (when I started following the activity) are 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2017. So I may not be the best person to go off of.

>Implying that doesn't describe 90% of the threads here

Completely irrelevant, but...good Lord are the stars on that map in the wrong places. Badly so.

FTFY

If the Saturday night show is at BC, someone should tell DCI, as they currently have it listed in Lawrence. I hope it is BC--that'd be walking distance for me, as opposed to driving out to Lawrence.

Most notable example I can think of is the back half of Star '93

Eh...the cereal box shakos were pretty mockable. Apart from the ability to stash a growler in there, which seems helpful, tbh.

Well then. ####.

School is back in session the week before Labor Day. (Or at least it was when I was in school.) Plenty of time between the end of drum corps season. Summer band kicks off August 1, though, so you may run into issues sharing rehearsal space with the kids. Middle schools and/or non-competitive-band high schools might be an option, but those are also more likely to not be interested in the first place, to my way of thinking. If you really wanted to go insane, you could plausibly host multiple corps at the universities--off the top of my head, Rice has enough field space even outside of the football practice facilities, and you'd have more than enough housing (though they may want that closed to prep for student move-ins).

It's not that the Green Line has ended before it; they just took away the Green Line route that went closest to it because of how horribly designed the Newton Corner interchange on the turnpike is. (Source: just moved to Brighton two months ago and have been geeking out over the history of the Boston Elevated Railway/MTA/MBTA ever since. Still mildly bitter that they built the turnpike instead of the rapid transit extension along the Worcester route.)

It's almost...hear me out here...it's almost like you two are talking about two different things and refusing to acknowledge it.

Boston and Cavies. Pretty easily, truth be told. Cavies haven't had a great show since 2010, and some of them have been quite bad (looking at you, 2012, 2015, and 2017). And Boston's best output over that timeframe (2018) doesn't come up to the standards of the other two.

Have you considered that your issues are the fact that you're deliberately mis-using the service? FLO's inability to stream outside the US is an issue, yes. But it's likely that several of the issues you have with FLO have something to do with piping it through a VPN, too. And if we went with the Twitch setup you want we'd still have the same production issues you're complaining about.

Offhand: TROOP 2013 Also Troop 2016 XMen 2011 Troop 2011 PC 2012 Colts 2014 Colts 2015 Academy 2014 Academy 2017 Mandarins 2017 Music City 2018 PC 2019 Also SURF 2012, SURF 2013

To be fair, if there's anyone layering on the kitsch with that line, it's Copland in the original. It's not like Lincoln Portrait didn't have narration already.

Crossmen 2009. On second thought, that one's probably better off forgotten.

Not infallible...but it seems that given that he's better at judging than we are, and he was actually in a position to judge (unlike us), he might have a better read than we do and should be given the benefit of the doubt.

Thank you, Emily Litella