drillking

I agree with the Park and Bark with the Blue team then as well - and I agree with some of the cleanliness issues as well. Having said that - design is always left out. It is the white elephant in the room which everyone seems to dodge. It is also part of the sheets. A clean performance is the goal for every group so the intent of the show is communicated to the audience. The cleanliness also highlights the design - it acts like a magnifying glass for each and every group. If a performance number is higher than a design number - or even close - not actually a totally good thing. Did not mean to tick anyone off - there is white elephant there - that's all

So if we are going to continue with this line of reasoning......let's REALLy talk design then as well. Is standing still part of the sheets. Is there a great deal of planning with CO2? Is there a degree of talent with standing still. SHould a show flow or stop and go through out the performance and often when the music clearly dictates movement....... SHould there be ANy level thinking outside of the box displayed in the design???? We should really discuss every aspect of the sheets then if we keep going this way. Failure to do so would just short change the truth...... The Bucs prepare to win each year and do not plan to beat other corps. They do heir own thing and do not look in the rear view mirror. They look at what they have and aim push the bar higher. What they do off of the field is equally as important as what they do at each and every rehearsal. Folks - they won again and earned it. If you have a problem with it - look at how they did it - it was a demanding, well paced, musically written (meaning the visual matched the music WITH movement), tension/release drill design 101 aspects, fantastic perc book written musically to enhance the story line and yet be featured ONLY when appropriate . . .advanced planning with follow through plans. . . you get the idea. The judges look at all of the sheets and the criteria on them. Biased people have a tendency to ignore them.......reality is reality. Design and planning is Design and planning.......the off season is extremely important. Congratulations 2010 Buccaneers on your earned Championship and setting a couple of more records.

I was wondering about that last year - When Hurricanes won Guard and another group won @ finals I believe.........

Spoken like a true staffer of any corps . . . . . . just "sayin"

WCU didn't start until Sunday evening -

SAXOPHONES

Jeff - I was just respoding to that particular point - I agree 100% with the knowledge requirement. NJA did/does not have a music ed background. I am glad to hear they are making the needed changes. Ed

Umm - not to be disrespectful but up to 2003 NJA has had a number of non music majors and non "working toward " a music degreed person judging many, many, many shows. In fact we "experienced" a string of 4 shows in a row in 2001 with a plumber, UPS driver, Mailman and a nightwatchmen judging music captions. All of them marched but were never music majors...... Just sayin - so if something changed in the last several years, I apologize -