George Dixon

FWIW I placed them Cadets BD SCV Bluecoats Crown Etc

What a cheerful thread for FINALS WEEK! Good grief

Epically wrong!

Cadets losing to Cavaliers in brass was CRAZY. Not even close. That entire caption was screwy last night.

Ok - sat on the 50 at the show IMO about a 0.5-0.8 point gap between Crown and Cadets (in brass) SCV (should have been) about another 0.5 back from Cadets - big gap there (in brass) Cavies (should have been) another 1 point (or more) back from SCV - HUGE gap there (in brass) BK had a lot of ensemble tears and the brass was pretty weak and ragged throughout, personally I would have put Crossmen way over them. Odd night of judging Would have had it: Crown 93.8ish Cadets 92.7ish SCV 91.0ish Cavaliers 87ish Crossmen 82ish BK 81ish Surf 76 or so Good night of drum corps though!

Rainy in the area but weather.com says it should clear out this afternoon Show temps in the 70's with just a chance of scattered t-storms Sounds promising

I'm still ###### about how rudely Cadets were treated in Pasadena in 2007

I agree with everything except the "I don't think anyone is missing that point" -- seems like several folks in this thread are saying they are just running around "for no point" "doesn't fit theme" -- but yup - most of us see the difficulty and the stretch they have in front of them the next 2 weeks. I personally think they will be unstoppable in the end UNLESS percussion drops too much to BD in tenths.

EXACTLY!!!!! Just like BD's scrambling around fits the DADA theme.

Go back and read the OP and their original post They set ups the discussion as a comparison of where they would place Crown compared to BD (and others) -- with Crown and BD tenths apart that's the comparison people will make And the BD "getting the hard time on these boards" comment is precious. Go to any show outside BD's home turf, the crowds can admire the technical excellence of BD but their not exactly throwing babies. DCP is just reflecting of that. Lucky for BD the judges continue to define "GE" as a design thing instead of an EFFECTIVENESS thing. Shows which don't connect with the audience shouldn't be dominating GE IMO.

To say they are "not marching very well" is a bit of an exaggeration - are we all THAT jaded? They march and look wonderful, but struggle in the interim marching It will get cleaner by finals but yes - BD will be CLEANER - but cleanest doesn't always win. BD was cleaner last year than Cadets, and we see what happened there... SIMULTANEOUS DEMAND still matters. Crown will end up winning Brass & GE Music. GE visual is a toss up. It will come down to drums. Crown should get out the hoses and try to make the drum line as clean and effective as possible. I still give the edge to Crown, more room to grow IMO.

it seems like a lot of people are missing the "super human" quality of all the super fast drill moves and amazing come out of no where stops and impacts fits their show theme VERY well They are "superhuman" drum corps gods. IMHO. Besides - it's darn FUN too. And COOL. DADA that.

closer at the top for sure! Go Crown! Cadets also seem to be closing the gap - from five points now down to 3 in 5 days... Bluecoats nipping at SCV

It's not over. And if if "it" was, it isn't all about "it" anyway - these kids still have an amazing 11 days ahead of them, and we get to go along for the ride!

in my view Crossmen will make finals... just has that IT factor will be close but personally give them the edge regardless, so excited for their great show this season!

Whatever dude. Geez.

CLASSIC.

oh please! I've lived there, half my family LIVES there, I GOT IT. It just wasn't very good. Reeked of shoe-string budget (in comparison to the last few) and was filled with leftist ideals, slow pacing, bad "dancing", terrible "drumming", weak transitions, very bad "pop" music for the most part. It just wasn't very good IMO Just because somebody doesn't like something, doesn't mean they need a users guide to it, or it went over their head. Same goes for drum corps :)

It was terrible, everyone at our "viewing party" was bored Pretty sad when they put so much time and effort into these things. I liked the beginning, but wow did it go down hill quick. To keep it on topic - yes I think a drum corps staff could do a better job than a movie director

NEWS FLASH The world doesn't revolve around YOU. Wahhhh! :)

been stupid AND around year after year, at some point it became "a tradition" annoying and rude - which the OP observed not cool In my opinion of course, G.

GE, guard and Brass.

Well we all have our own perceptions. I felt percussion gap was HUGE in Cadets favor, and Cadets should have won visual GE by a mile. Brass was a toss up, but visual Cadets were more impressive. Again IMO. I still can't get over the rude crowd. But that's another situation altogether. People getting drunk and stoned in the lot before hand didn't help matters.

It will happen in Allentown. Crown won't look back IMO.

But BD shouldn't have won in 2007. (IMO) Not the best corps on the field that year, not even CLOSE Judges just hated Cadets show The other way around works too - last year it was a love fest for Cadets show, but BD out performed them. It just didn't matter Sad situation really. When the designers determine the champion out-right. (edited for spelling)