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    OFFICIAL DCI FINALS THREAD

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    I calculated crown's score if their percussion scored a perfect score and the rest of the caption scores remained the same. Here's what it looks like:

    GE: 38.95

    Visual: 28.95

    Music:

    Brass - 19.7

    Analysis - 19.7

    Percussion - 20.0*

    Music Total: 29.7

    Final Score: 97.6 ....and what would the final results look like?

    1st - Blue Devils 97.650

    2nd - Carolina Crown 97.600

    It wasn't all the percussions' fault. Visual held them back too.

    Math don't lie.

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    Carolina Crown 2015

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    This video has 278,000 views in roughly 52 hours. That's ~5,300 views an hour or 89 views a second. Is that even remotely possible?

    Actually 89 views per minute. Quite possible, given the 4000+ shares and the fact that lots of us can't stop playing it. I've probably played it a couple of dozen times already.

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    Achin' for Akron/Cinecast

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    FWIW the broadcast was fine where I saw it. Better than fine: I've seen the last two or three, and this was the first one where they seemed to have the sound mostly figured out. The Cavaliers use of the marimbas blew me away. I've really liked their split runs in the past and love how they showcase them this year. It's good to see some outside-of-the-box thinking with the pit. The Cadets seemed to be on another level from the others corps in executing their show at this early point in the season. But I'm going to reserve judgment on the platform until I see it live. From the high-cam it seems fine, but I wonder how it looks closer to the field.

    Mesa, Arizona

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    CC may be a bit dirty tonight (who wouldn't be)...but they have their best design ever...so I think the judges will love it and reward them with a 74+. I don't much care for predictions but my guess is that BD and CC will be within .5 of each other all the way to finals.

    Bump. Re-reading early season show threads. This deserves an award for prescience.

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    Can the Star of Indiana Model Work.....Again?

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    I seem to recall that part of the business model for Star of Indiana was that it obtained a good deal of its funding form the Star bus lines. So a lot of the Star 'start up' money was actually to get the Star bus lines up and running, which then helped fund the corps after that point. Pretty clever.

    Interestingly, the bus company outlasted the corps. http://www.charterstaramerica.com/charters/history.htm

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    Viewing Finals on Web

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    IPad, Roku are the next steps for the FN. Roku has a ton of niche channels and everyone on DCP would buy one of their devices if the Fan Network was added. And you don't have to wait for anyone else to accept your product....DCI can develop and add the channel themselves.

    By the way, is the encore typically shown to those who view the awards? Or does the stream cut off after announcing #1?

    According to the FAQ, the webcast lasts till 11:45 p.m. Encore's supposed to start at 11:25--so looks like the stream won't cut off till then.

    Judging bias

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    I got to see a little bit of this when Crown did the BOA Summer Symposium clinic from 2009-2012. There was usually a judging session, where the full corps would be on the field running movements of the show and a judging representative from DCI would be in the stands talking to band directors about how they judged it. There was a session for visual, one for music, one for GE, etc. Sometimes they would turn the speakers around so the corps could hear, or they would talk afterwards and we could hear what the judge was saying. It was absolutely fascinating, and I think it would be fantastic if DCI made that kind of content accessible to the general public. I can understand corps not wanting performance tapes to go out, since tapes are usually filled with (constructive) criticism—not exactly great publicity to hear someone picking apart everything wrong with your show, as useful as it is internally. However, I think it'd be totally possible to do a more neutral explanation from judges of how they judge, what things matter to them and what things don't, that kind of stuff.

    One possibility might be to provide the judges' tapes only for the winning captions at Finals, as extras on the DVD. So you would only hear what the brass judge had to say about the Jim Ott award-winner, etc. Those tapes, from finals, strictly for the caption winners, would presumably have very little by way of criticism, but would still be fascinating for us fans to hear.

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