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Well, we are getting a new Food truck this year, I think 600k worth. Not that the old food truck was ever accused of having bad food or small quantities of food. I think that may help the corps, at least the A/C will keep old volunteers like me from totally burning out working there on hot days. I wonder if this one will just be called food truck or if they will find a cute name for it, the other trailers have names, but I think the food truck was Just "Food Truck ".

I got section 238 also.

I know SCV had cymbals and colts also, so you can make finals giving up a few perc spots for a cymbal line.

Ill have a badge for finals, but I like having a seat, I would like to see some shows not from the end zone. I think seeing the shows all season from the 20 on out, make you need to get good seats to at least one show and you see a whole new view of the show.

I still havn't heard from DCI. except for the receipt from when I purchased ;(

I am surprised that Dwight was announced. Last time I spoke with him he couldn't wait for the season to be over and to get a new director and I think he said several people who would make a good director. I am not sure if it was this thread or staff changes that I said PR had wanted him to stay but he had a life outside of corps. Jay is the more personaable Brother and the better speaker. He said that Dwight made all the tough decisions so the kids probably saw him making those choices. Dwight was sick at the end of the seasons and was a little grumpy, which the kids probably saw too. The announcement said he would be running the tour, so it seems this is not a full time position for him. Maybe it is a cost saving thing.

did that come text or email ?

The kids in PR liked the PC "Into the void" show. I gave a few of the kids Pacific Crest show shirts and they were highly desired by their friends. I think the most of the kids in the Regiment would be thrilled to see that show.

I think they had the people in mind, just hammering out details, though until the ink is signed things can always fall through

There is a difference between people leaving or just moving on and being replaced. Operstions manager is a tough job and probably not that well paying, you do it for a year or 2 get beat up then move on to something else. On the Corps Director job this year was it was filled by two very experienced volunteers that I am sure the board would have liked to keep for a long time, however corps directing is very time consuming and does not have near the security or benefits of a good school system teaching job. People with families have a tough time spending all summer on a bus. I am fairly certain that Jay and Dwight will be involved in Regiment leadership in some way for years to come so that is not a shift in leadership for the corps

There are some good points here about DC finance, however this has gone way off topic. Someone looking for actually info on staff changes would have to read a lot about peoples thoughts on DC finance before they would find info on new people coming to work for their favorite corps

For me the biggest phan reaction was this year at Allentown. We had started working the Chevron in at Newark, but I guess I was too lazy to climb up to the top of the bleachers to see how it looked. Then in Allentown the place we were at had no stands so the only people who could see how it looked were the folks in the scaffolds. That afternoon when we got ready to head to J Birney Crum the AC in my van died, I had 2 of the featured performers in my 120 degree van and of course instead of taking 32 minutes to get there like the GPS said it took us over an hour in our traveling sauna to get there. The kids had been complaining the quarantine room had been too cold that night and now they got the other extreme. I was really worried if they were going to be able to do a good job on their parts. Once at Allentown I was beat from just an hour in my steamroom and ran across the creek through the BAC party to the gas station to get a gatorade. On the way back I ran into a friend who was driving the Blue Devils prop truck. We had sailed across the Pacific on the same boat in 2019 so we talked a little about that but then he said "the one show that I really need to see live today is the Regiment" and that made me start feeling good about the show. I wanted to see exactly how the Chevron looked from up and see how the crowd reaction was. I had been in Allentown with the Regiment in 2019 and we were hanging onto our position for finals by the last shards of our fingernails then. PR has a loyal Phanbase but no one seemed excited about that 2019 show, though the kids pulled it off better than the show that had been written for them. This time everyone was looking forward to Phantom and it was a must see for a lot of the East Coast crowd. So I went up the hill to the field then up the hill to the top of the stands and made my way to the staff viewing area. this was on the 50 where the bleachers built into the hill ended and the steel bleachers began. It was just me, Tony and his wife JD and one person from the visual staff whose name escapes me. We got to the Chevron which was easy and clear to see from there and the entire stadium erupted the people above us, the people below us, the people on either side. From our vantage it was 2 minutes of Euphoria. It seemed everyone was going bonkers. When the show ended Tony asked me so what did you think I just said wow and gave a thumbs up. then people in the yellow DCI jackets came over and started congratulating JD and Tony thanking them for the show. I even got a handshake or two though my badge said something like extra badge # 13. I guess some of them mistakenly thought I knew something about drum corps and had something to do with the show. It was the best experience I have ever had watching a DCI show. I didn't have a stopwatch or a clicker to count how many were standing, but anyone who was there knows it was a special Euphoria that night. At finals I had to go in the "Bullpen" to watch the show. It is Awesome to be down on the field that close to the corps, but you can't really feel the crowd like we did in Atown, also you have a very limited view and you can only see maybe the first 3 rows of the crowd so you can't really judge the crowd reaction.

Then there are the people who stood up because the people in front of them stood up, and they just wanted to see the end of the show, but they weren't necessarily cheering, at least not with more than one minute left in the show

DCI put a theoretical guideline on starting an open class corps a few years ago. First thing was a viable board, probably with lawyers and business experience as well as community involvement. Then 50K just sitting around for an emergency, the part that killed a lot of would be corps was that they wanted them to do soundsport for a few years before competing as a corps. Working with a crew contemplating DCI these guidelines seemed near impossible. It is easier to start a DCA corps though fundraising and using school facilities is more difficult (everyone wants to help kids, schools dont want a bunch of 30 year olds spending the night at their school) but dca is pretty show up with at least 35 members buy hotel rooms and you are in class A. From experience I say don't burn bridges with local school band directors, fawn over your donors, respect your volunteers. The board needs to be able to react when the executive director or director does anything questionable, they need freedom and can't be micromanaged but the board needs to step in if they see their leader becoming George Hopkins I would also say make sure you keep open books, just because someone wants to see the books doesn't mean that they are accusing you of stealing, many would be donors want to see what your finances look like to see if you are worth supporting and want to make sure you are not a fly by night operation

Wow people have a lot of free time on their hands. To get really accurate we need to count how many people were standing and for how long, then decide if we want to use the raw number of people standing, or that number as a percentage of the crowd. So if PR had 20,000 people standing for 1 minute eighteen seconds, and Cadets had 11,000 people satnding for one minute and twentyone seconds, which is the bigger standing O. Or if on only had 89%% of the crowd standing for 2 minutes and the other had 94% standing for one minute and fiftyeight seconds, which was the bigger O. Be sure to count every person in every frame of the video to make sure you get an accurate count.

generally Corps directors run the corps anything above that Fundraiser and organizer it lets corps directors spend time with the corps, not spending all day handling donors which a CEO or executive Director would do.

I was in section 640 during semi's and there was not an empty seat to be had in the entire 600's on the performance side. During finals I went on the field for my corps then I found a seat in the end zone. I have had experience with kids taking seats during shows. Once my friend sitting next to me went to use the restroom and a kid with a badge just plopped into her seat. I had to forcefully get him to move so she could get back to her seat I expect to see shows from the 20 yard line when I am getting in with a DCI badge. We tell the kids to sit in the fringe areas. I know some do a hot seat with their friends and parents. they will sit in moms seat for a corps or two , then move to another seat of a party member when they leave and I have seen sitting on a lap before

Maybe sone horns, a few drums, a flag or two and probably some rifles/sabers

Forget about this score nonsense, the important thing that everybody wants to find out is if that one marcher from SCV will be out there with one symbol again tonight

After the kids who only known anything about drum w**** for 2 years told me he's been around DCI for over 40 years but the show was about. I really enjoyed the Pacific Crest show

Pacific Crest went on in front of us in Akron. So the kids watch the show from the sidelines. It was all they talked about in the van on the way to the next show. I think we had some major crop issues in 2019, and we have been having a lot of grief over props this year

Really liked Surfs show. Proud to support them every month

Looks like one of the single players is missing one cymbol that is driving me nuts

I just spoke with a Corps member today and his Corps was staying in a hotel for finals week. Is this a thing for DCI now or was that maybe just a generous alumni ? Thanks

Small corps problems, the drum line was about twice the size that it should have been in comparison to the horn line, however you want to give as many kids a chance to march as possible. And the writing realized that the drums were overpowering the horns and wrote it into the show. It was still a very good show