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I think this season tour schedule looks good for a late season surge. In 22 we did ATL then did Huntington WV that Monday then we had 3 or 4 days in Newark Ohio where it was not 100 degrees, and a lot was accomplished improving the show before Allentown (we added the Chevron for one thing). For the rest of the season scores went up and we moved up a few spots from Atlanta until Finals. Last year 2023 we did ATL, then Huntington on that Mon (Which I thought was the best show of the season, though I may be biased since most of the time I saw it from the 10 or 20 yard line and that day the sponsor invited me up to where the judges were on the 50) . Then we went to a spot in PA which was a good practice for 1 day then we went up to Boston. There was an incident with one of the staff busses (no injuries) but it seemed to get everything out of sync. One good thing was that a lot of the members had time after PR performed and were able to come back and watch Boston do their home show which I think is a neat thing. However the show did not improve as much as our competitors shows improved from Huntington until finals. Some people say the show didn't have room to grow after ATL but I am sure the lost practice times going up to Boston did not help the scores. Anyway for 23 after ATL the Huntington show is on a Wens and that gives PR 3 or 4 days to beef up their show where it will be cooler (not in Texas) with fresh mountain air before Huntington Then going to Allentown I think we will have a pretty nice practice facility there. Hopefully they will not be plagued with rain that last week and the Corps will be at its absolute best going into finals. I have a lot of faith in the design team and I think that they will be doing great things with the show design and continue PRs climb aback to the top echelon of DCI

Newark was the home of the Crossmen in the late 90's. Don't know what kind of an impression they left there but that area may be ripe for a show

The DCI show and a practice day are still listed on the stadium schedule. I hope that is is something legit happening there that day and not changed for something that DCI had any control over. • 28th (Sunday) – Farragut Farmers Market (9 AM – 1 PM) • 29th (Monday) – DCI Band Practice Day (All Day) • 30th (Tuesday) – DCI Band Competition (All Day) August 2024 • 2nd (Friday) – Annapolis Rotary Crab Feast (5 PM – 8 PM) • 4 th (Sunday) – Farragut Farmers Market (9 AM – 1 PM)

It would be cool if they could move it to SeaGull Stadiumin Salisbury only a little more than an hour from Annapolis and easy access to Philly from there. I am not sure if the stadium is big enough as it was designed primarily for lacrosse I donated a lot of money (for me ) to building this, so I have to promote it every chance I get.

She is not going to be the director, I think that Corps manager was a title created just to keep her on staff. Last year she was special advisor to the director.

They figure that the Blue Devils can spend and get good lawyers, So it would be a waste of their time

I am pretty sure that wearing the old uniforms at retreat was a one last time deal. I am pretty sure when they got those out and fitted someone knew that it was the end. The time and money it took for that is not something you do if you are trying to save a budget for next season.

Somehow I stumbled my way into 3 Bronze stars while I was in Iraq. One of the times Steve Rondinaro interviewed me once I came back. I cannot find that video, however this was the video that led to having that video later. If you volunteer with Phantom Regiment I somehow trap people and make them watch this. I was so far removed from Drum Corps at the time, that I didn't realize that it was the drum corps guy who interviewed me until a year or 2 later when I saw something DCI then went back and saw this, I really wish I had the interview about Iraq.

A few months back I was able to look at a lot of the case papers online, maybe the paywall wasn't working correctly. What i remember reading was that 2 times the plaintiff asked to go to settlement conference. Then when the defense wanted to depose the plaintiff, they (plaintiff )did not show up The plaintiff claimed she was too ill to travel the NJ for the deposition. The defense said they would go to I think it was Mass where the plaintiff lived for the deposition. The vibe that I got was that the plaintiff was saying settle with me now or all this stuff will come out in court, then they even added a line about George Hopkins. I think maybe Cadets have already been dragged through the mud enough so it wouldn't really be any great bombshell exposed, or Cadets didn't have money to settle so they surprised the suing attorneys by letting go to trial. The attorney taking the case makes his living suing truck companies after accidents, Drum Corps might have trucks, but they are very different from large commercial trucking firms. I am not a legal expert and I cannot access that info now, and this is based on what I remember reading, and what stuck out to me. I know nothing about anything that went on at Garfield parties in the 80's .

You know you could sell 1 and support 5 drum corps for 3 or 4 years. It could change the face of DCI

Where can i look this up at ?

I thought it was kind of interesting. In 2022 at DCI I won a tour of the tornado center in Norman OK. The director of the center is a DCI fan and is the official DCI meteorologist. I wasn't able to do it last year but theis year I plan on taking a break from the tour in OK and seeing how they track tornadoes and such

they are looking for assistants which means they probably have leads in place. Most corps havn't finalized admins yet and housing is pretty fluid for the tour. Sometimes you find out about housing within 48 hours of heading that way.

I did it for a couple years, it was cool, one good thing was I sat next to several board members and was able to pick their brains and figure our what they did right in building a Corps. I have been disappointed the last 3 years that Phantom Regiment has not been there. Somehow I wound up touring with PR and have had to miss the closest show to my house. I think that the crown club seats are a great option.

I thought the thread was about the Blue Vanguard Regiment Cadets.