George Dixon

. Some of these Crown fans are just precious.

Oh please that NEVER happened. Hee hee

spin cycle was difficult visually Cadets Christmas show was not more difficult

The waltz section was 226. Just prior to the French horns. The closer wasn't.

Great post. I agree!

Oh gotcha. oops.

and Bucs would finish 20th or lower in DCI. Is there a point to this? It's really apples and oranges...

BLOO - we love you! This year was fantastic. I strongly believe it was your best corps EVER. I'm so excited by your strength across all captions - just keep building a little in each area. You can take it NEXT YEAR Another 0.1 or 0.2 from each judge. You guys are so strong and balanced it is scary. Keep going. Don't rest. Get better. It's right there for you. Take it. 2016.

Crowns percussion staff is FINE. Give it a year.

when is the last OTT? I know 2005 for sure. 2000 as well I believe... any more recent?

well she's got 12 years to go - so probably 10 or so... lol

you, young man, are ALWAYS a class act!

actually the two organizations are very close - all indications are he is very excited by their growth/success I would guess he is more disappointed for the members right now - the design let them down in the waning weeks. He needs to rethink the entire guard aspect and really push drill in a new direction next year they had a terrific season though - nothing to cry over!

I love Cadets. But I could hear issues on the feed that weren't there the night before. And you could see it in the kids faces in one spot in a close up. They had two significantly rough spots. These lines are so great, and there's such demand. that it comes down to mental at that point. They've done it a billion times. and then something just HAPPENS. Cadets line was GREAT. Just not tonight.

yup - that's why I FIXED IT :) COATS did very well tonight in drums. VERY.

except without that odd penalty they were really in second at prelims

they'll lose NEXT year but the thing is - someone needs to BEAT THEM Cadets could have - with a better design wrapped around magnificent brass and percussion Crown could have - with a better drum line Coats could have - with more caption strength - they have the balance of BD - just a tick or two behind in each caption So everyone roll up your sleeves and improve your weakness. Because BD frankly has NONE

I think if we had 2 more nights they might have won it all - they were moving up quickly. I loved them this year!

not really - they titled Crown/Cadets tonight. The only judge was GE who had scored BD higher earlier in the year and Crown (deserving) won GE

so the spread in drums cost Crown the title - .75 in raw score - yikes there's a reason we all felt any of 4 corps could win any given night - look at GE: 38.95 to 38.80 from 1st to 3rd with Cadets just a skip behind with 38.2 in 4th - WOW!!!

Congratulations BD - FANTASTIC finish this year. Your show grew so much the last 3 weeks! Well deserved win! Congratulations Crown - FANTASTIC year, your show grew and grew, crowd LOVED you and a wonderful season!

Congratulations Bluecoats. I've seen the future and it is BLOOO!

BD had an incredible run in drums tonight - well deserved. Frankly there were three, nah four, terrific lines this year!

congrats on the OTT award!!! :)

that wrap around crowd is the prettiest picture in a LONG TIME!!!