CrownBariDad

Yes -- *somebody* (DCI or LOS) should have been in charge of "line communication". -- Letting folks know Express lines were open for those w/o bags. -- Trying to usher folks from the long line into the newly opened shorter lines at the East Gate. I forgot my CompSci queuing theory, but I think one line that splits into multiple service lines (the old bank tellers analogy) works better than several separate long lines. It breaks down when folks don't know there are shorter lines ahead and just assume their line is all they got.

I wish more folks would have been a little more skeptical and actually checked out the situation at the entrance.

Didn't Crown lose part of their design team to BAC around 6 years ago? It takes time to see the results or rebuild.

After the last standing ovation at Finals, I turned to The Wife and said "I don't really care how they score it, that show was FUN!"

OK -- After watching some of the DCI classic videos shown in LOS, let's say a corps marching its anniversary year does a throwback to those early years of unison drill. And let's say they march it to near perfection. (We'll ignore the music portion for now.) Would it score better (or the same) than more modern drill writing? I'm hoping the sheets allow for either style drill and give the proper credit for excellence of execution.

Ok thanks! I saw that but apparently skimmed too quickly thinking it was about the Corps more than the event.

I was hoping Blue Stars would do something with the cannons. Maybe compressed air shooting out streamers? Or is compressed air verboten?

Probably as good as we're going to get until DCI publishes something. Thanks!

Do you have a link to this info? I couldn't find anything official.

Going back to the original topic: Do you have a link for this? I found this in an old DCP thread. The numbers that I have match the ones posted back then. Just doing the LOS era. 2009 17,865 Indianapolis, IN 2010 15,765 Indianapolis, IN 2011 17,363 Indianapolis, IN 2012 17,820 Indianapolis, IN 2013 20,381 Indianapolis, IN 2014 21,378 Indianapolis, IN 2015 22,085 Indianapolis, IN 2016 22,200 Indianapolis, IN 2017 23,342 Indianapolis, IN I found a different count for 2015 -- 24,638 from DCI. I had thought I found the figures for 2019, but I was on my phone and lost the link. It'd be nice if DCI would follow other "Major Leagues" and post the attendance along with the "box scores". (Yeah, I know. They want to get scores out way faster than the final attendance count.) Anyway -- still looking for confirmation on the 2022 attendance. Thanks!

I seem to recall the video shown in LOS showed Bill Ives' name. I could be mistaken since I recognized him right off.

https://youtu.be/u6MutebER4k

Dan did a nice interview with Bill that was shown several times at LOS and promoting the offsite exhibit.

We REALLY wanted a 50th Yearbook. And I missed going to see Bill's Drum Corps history exhibit -- yes, it should have been in LOS not somewhere across the street. (He was sitting behind us at Finals, so we did have the chance to say Hey. Our streak is intact.)

Me, too. But The Wife is now teaching full time so it might be a solo trip next year. I am on the fence about that 8 hr drive. We'll see.

We were lucky. I think we got the same young lady all three times we were scanned in -- she even recognized us on Friday and Saturday. She knew how to read the tix from my Apple Wallet, but it did take a couple attempts to succeed. It did seem simpler and faster when scanning paper tickets in years past.

But you just ticked off the BD fans because BD is at the top already and can't move up. And now has to share 1st with Bloo and Boston. I know -- sometimes you just can't win even when trying to be nice.

24 in Pacific Crest's FB photo.

Plus many of the articles I've found only give 3-day totals.

I guess whatever DCI uses as "official".

What was the previous LOS record and the official new record? (Google is really useless since about 8-10 years ago. I want attendance; Google thinks I really want scores.) EDIT: Google now just points me back to this thread. Ugh!

OK -- New LOS record for Saturday, then?

New record for Saturday?

They announced Thursday's and Friday's crowds were record breaking. But, I didn't hear anything about Saturday. Someone here posted it was a sellout. Anymore info? Thanks?

Another one who seemed to just "appear" from out of nowhere when it's his time. We never think to check the horn line. He also is a great performer. Like I said to a fan sitting behind me -- I'd like to see where he is in the next 5 or so years.