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Troopers - it's the only show that brings the crowd to it's feet - more than once. The sunburst is the best that it's ever been! No one sells a show better this season than Troop!

Never cared much for a BK show, and this one doesn't do anything for me either. Michael Boo seemed to like the tambourine feature, I didn't think it added anything to the show, and you couldn't hear them (I was in Denver last week, sitting close, and couldn't hear the tams live either)

Check out this forum: http://www.drumcorpsplanet.com/forums/index.php/topic/153432-the-night-after-the-day-before/

Jim, I cried as I read this! Thank you for sharing. You said what I am sure we all feel and don't quite have the words; And you're right,no one else would begin to understand who hasn't been a part of it in some way.

Clock parts and gears; juggling balls; lessons on balancing and other amazing feats - C.O.D. from Wyoming

Thanks Kevin, you were awesome tonight!

:worthy: :worthy: Finally!

Seriously???

That's BD taking advantage of judges no longer using the tick judging system.

Make that 8 out of 22 - Troopers are from Wyoming. This year Troopers members all had to meet in Indianapolis for their move-in all days. By July they also traveled back west to host their own show in Casper, and then went to the Denver show (even though it essentially was rained out) and then headed back east. I guess if Troopers can do an east to west and back east again tour, other corps could do something similar, even if it's just going as far as Denver or Salt Lake City.

Did Brandt Crocker just sound somewhat underwhelmed (less enthusiastic) when announcing Blue Devils just now?

Ahem...but the Troopers DO NOT wear cowboy hats!

The Troopers DM "Death Walk" is my favorite part of the retreat! And this year's DM does it better than most I have seen. a few years ago DCI staff told the Trooper staff to tell the DM to speed it up going on for retreat. The response given was that it was up to the DM to decide he wanted to do. In other words - no one on the staff was going to agree to a break in tradition and the DM kept with the tradition. And really, with a sidearm and a saber - who is going to mess with the Troopers DM?

Many people have said that Troop needs to bring back the show elements that work, such as the sunburst. For years they were told be be innovative. So this year, they started out trying to do both. For anyone who saw the show before Minneapolis, Troop started the show with a 2-minute drum/pit number and during that number horn line and color guard did a modified sunburst, no one noticed it because they were watching the drum line and the judges hated it! (and the scores showed it) so Troop staff redesigned the show to please the judges and the scores started going up. But they lost the sunburst (tradition) and the opening drum number (innovation) hopefully by San Antonio they will have a new closer. As they do more cleaning there is optimism from all the kids in the corps. The sunburst should make a reappearance. The one thing no one seems to be saying (or noticing) is that those marching with Troop want to be there. If they didn't, they would go somewhere else. It's not like they are all with Troop because no one else would take them. Members in this year's Troop are passionate about the show, the music and being Troopers. As long as kids want to be a Trooper, the corps will live on, no matter where they place in competitions - and it has all this time. I don't see that changing anytime soon.

...Because...?