HeWhoWaits
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I think it would be great to have them perform during the break that's part of the Big, Loud, and Live theater broadcast.
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On 7/23/2018 at 9:00 PM, hairbear said:
Up here in these parts, we say "Cincy". :)
But write it down as "Cinti"
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On 3/27/2018 at 5:27 PM, Terri Schehr said:
We got our replacement tickets today. Generally the same area as Hamilton. A row further up...
One row further up at Mason vs. Hamilton will put you the equivalent of about 8 rows higher viewing angle. The first row at Mason is a good 8-10 feet higher than the field.
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2 hours ago, larry p said:
They did change a little. They go by highest score no matter which class.
A change that DCI needs to implement for World Championship Preliminaries as well.
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1 hour ago, puntifex said:
The open class corps' scores will drop. They do every year. Spartans and Music City won't make it.
The drop off in scores is most pronounced for the lowest scoring corps. And both BDB (vs. OC Prelims and OC Finals) and Guardians (vs.OC Finals) had their scores go UP at WC Prelims last year.
The drop off also diminished significantly last year
- in 2015 the average OC score on Thursday was 93.38% of Tuesday Finals and 93.91% of Monday Prelims
- in 2016 those averages improved to 99.10% of Tuesday Finals and 97.61% of Monday Prelims - at 97.5% of their Finals scores, both Spartans and Music City would beat the best score achieved by Cascades this season.
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McCarty Street - just south of the stadium. Free - and easy access to I-70 when getting out of the lots is a nightmare.
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39 minutes ago, BlueStainGlass said:
I hate Indiana.Why does that small sliver have to be a different timezone....
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If most recent scoring order was unchanged in a single competition, Pioneer would be the last qualifier for Open Class Finals if they were added to the Prelims lineup.
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Just for fun:
9. 67.350 Guardians -- Oregon, IL 8/2 (-0.300 8/1)
10. 66.100 7th Regiment -- Oregon, IL 8/2 (-1.200 7/30)
**. 65.650 Pioneer - Annapolis, MD 8/1
11. 65.450 The Company -- Clifton, NJ 8/3 (-12.000 7/16*)
12. 64.000 Southwind -- Oregon, IL 8/2 (+0.650 7/29)
13. 63.000 Raiders -- Waukesha, WI 8/2 (+2.650 7/30)
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8 hours ago, Florida Sun said:
After watching many video\s of Company why the 12point drop in scoring ?There much better then that score from Clifton
Keep in mind that in addition to the differences in the scoring sheets between DCE/DCUK and DCI, this was the first performance by The Company following overseas travel AND their first performance using borrowed equipment.
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On 7/30/2017 at 2:55 AM, N.E. Brigand said:
Last year, the Prelims order was determined by the average of each corps' two best score during the last nine days. I'm going to guess that this year the review period actually starts with the Cape Girardeau show eleven days out, and does not include any shows with World Class corps (e.g. Nashville). Too late for me to start the running calculations tonight, but I'll catch up with that tomorrow or the next day.
Typically the prelims order is set by the average of the two scores from Friday and Saturday preceding Championships. For corps that do not perform on one of those dates, the most recent score prior to those shows is used.
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14 hours ago, Ediker said:
I believe there is something on the GE sheets that mentions connecting with the audience. Keeping heads/faces unobstructed allows the audience to see the performers' facial expressions and sometimes their personalities. Remember all of the winking soloists last year? It comes off better without a shako.
Most soloists take off whatever they are wearing on their head anyway, so the winking isn't affected by the corps wearing hats.
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5 hours ago, N.E. Brigand said:
We finally have a score for every corps. No Open Class corps perform on Friday, but on Saturday there are shows in Massachusetts, Michigan, and Texas.
I believe your listing should indicate that Heat Wave's season was complete in 12th (after their performance Wednesday and prior to that of Guardians last night).
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Thanks for the pictures and report CBD.
Interesting note from looking at the pictures - there sure was a lot of red on the field last night. Only Legends lacked the color in uniforms and/or guard flags.
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4 hours ago, N.E. Brigand said:
Updated to show the Tri-Cities results. Note the spread between Golden State and the others at this, their last meeting, as it will help to give a sense of how Columbians and Battalion would stack up against the California corps when Golden State sees them again later this week.
Steph Curry and Kevin Durant are now marching DCI?
(You also missed changing the date to 7/10 for the Tri-Cities show.)
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My previous experience in Southwest Ohio and in Indiana (two areas with strong interest in HS marching band) - very full theaters with enthusiastic audiences.
My experience this year in Eastern North Carolina (not familiar with the local interest, but the closest band I'm familiar with from BOA is over an hour away and local bands haven't done well at state competitions in recent years) - pretty sparse attendance and the only corps that got a strong response was Crown, which had a group of alums in the house.
This limited sample seems to support the correlation between a strong HS band presence in the area and interest in the DCI theater experience.
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Why not Grant Field?
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Do you want pizza every day?
Pizza, no.
Waffles, on the other hand...
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In addition to the data on average age for each corps, some other interesting numbers would be number of years marching DCI and number of years with current corps.
I have heard (anecdotally) that BD leads DCI in "rook-outs" - rookies with the corps during their age-out year. It would be interesting to compare reality to perception in the activity.
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GUARDLING, on 27 Jul 2016 - 2:09 PM, said
...We put way to much weight on the actual number versus the actual spreads...
At least part of the point in garfield's post is that since the NUMBERS for each placement seem to move at the same rate year by year, the SPREAD between any given placements also moves accordingly.
If Nth place grows by rate x and (N+1)th place grows by rate y, the spread between Nth and (N+1)th will vary by some ratio of x and y.
The only "variable" in this scenario is the identity of the corps in Nth and (N+1)th places.
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Maybe the only way to assess these shows against each other is to go back and observe each one using the old tick system. It would be an interesting exercise.
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Dark horse pick - Shadow to be the third highest scoring Wisconsin corps in Indianapolis.
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If the shirt causes the 2nd place finish, how can you NOT go with Pioneer just to mess with the cosmos?
And appearing at DCI championships...
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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The group is performing during one of the other intermissions - why couldn't it be this one instead?