charlie1223

I didn't hate it during the season. I hated it before the season.

I really love the Cadets show! Best use of narration in drum corps ever.

I think the reason it was avoided was because of the rag-tag look it would actually give even if it was historically accurate.

That looks WAY better than the grandmother-house curtains they had before!

Can they break a record if they don't win every caption? (If SCV wins drums)

It is live, it's just not amplified. Whatever, I don't want to be attacked over this...

strange I can't send you a pm?

To everyone :), What I said does NOT take away from the Cadets amazing performance or the Narrators engaging professional performance. And I think all the comments attacking me here prove what a great job this young man is doing! I give him the utmost respect for his ability to engage the audience through his demeanor and presence. Please continue to enjoy his performance even if you believe that it is his live voice amplified (which it is not). And I don't say this begrudgingly or out of ignorance. And I am really shocked about how defensive everyone seems to be about this....

It isn't a lie. Everything is sampled and his microphone is not real. It's his voice, and he performs it, but what comes through the speakers is from the sampler. I assure that my intention is not to do a disservice the performer and his corps. I merely stating a fact of the performance based on what was told to me from a first hand source and experience that I had when visiting a rehearsal. The narration is coming through the sampler.

I can assure you with 100% accuracy that what you hear is the sampler. He is not actually amplified. When you heard his "mic" not working it was actually the sampler not working. He may perform it live but it is not amplified and comes from the sampler.

His performance is lip-synced live! You never found it curious how the narrator sounds exactly the same, with the exact same inflections and space every single time? I don't mind that's its lip-synced because it is in fact his voice and he does a great job acting. However, it is lip-synced. :)

It says night beat on the video.

BD is awesome, amazing, entertaining, engaging, and deserve every tenth of their score!!! WOW!!!

except when it came to BD ofcourse.

Sure but then you have those two GE judges, with two different positions on all the corps, give BD EXACTLY the same score! Clearly BD's show is beyond indisputable as a GE monster.

Interested see how a big crowd in a big stadium reacts to cadets new ending.

close your eyes then :)

I think its poor taste that you didn't post twitter posts... Now what are you going to do?

You're right. I forgot where I was. :)

It started because of someone's opinion that Cadets had the worst feet tonight. I'm glad the judges thought differently, but wondering why it wasn't convincingly so.

Then there is no excuse!!

Probably...

Plus Cadet technique looks awful in grass... It's not something that the technique really lends itself too because of the higher steps needs to make it through tall grass.

I'm surprised and then not surprised and then disappointed. At first I was sure it was the design of the book. However seeing a 3 point spread between comp and performing makes me think its something else as well...

Cadets have been revamping, adding, changing (and ofcourse cleaning) much of their book recently. After getting dumped in the composition many shows this summer, it seems the changes they have made are paying off!