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  1. I loved the Blue Devil's show last year. This year the theme doesn't come across nearly as well. It's scattered, not layered and blended as perfectly as last year. Sure, it's clean now, but when everyone else cleans up with them, will the GE scores still hold up? To me SCV and Bluecoats have them beat in spades on GE.
  2. Yeah... The first time I noticed the coils had moved I was like... "When did they do that? Totally missed it!" That is brilliant design!
  3. Phantom has a nice, crowd pleasing show. The drill and horn books are better than past years. But this corps pioneered body movement years ago. Since then the Blue Devil's have mastered it. Most of the other corps are catching on now. But Phantom had almost none if it in this show. Lacking that extra level is going to kill them in the scores.
  4. However, refreshing the page got the audio/video back in sync.
  5. I find it interesting that while the feed lags, gets out of sync and such, the advertisements stream flawlessly.
  6. I actually had to sit down with this show and clock it for its elements, it disappointed me so much. What a great concept - Pink Floyd and Oz. But they've destroyed it. In the first six minutes of this show, this is what you will hear: 59 seconds of drum solo 57 seconds of horns and drums playing together (no distractions) 2 minutes and 16 seconds of narration By the end of the show, narration and music balances out, but by six minutes in I'm so disgusted I don't care anymore. (anyone following and checking me, if San Antonio comes up slightly different, know that I clocked an earlier show this year, not this one)
  7. First place, and for the last two years I've been accused of being a hater. I have to hand it to the Blue Devils this year. It's as if every complaint I've lodged against them for the last two years has been addressed. Drill-wise, this is a far more demanding show than they've done in the last two years. They are playing fast horn runs on the move instead of standing still, which puts them on level with Crown, they aren't using props to guide off of in the drill, they aren't talking to distraction (love getting the chance to really enjoy that horn line again!), and they are entertaining once again. Crown's horn line is clearly playing a more difficult horn book, and that is reflected in the brass score. But they are not executing the visual even on a level with Santa Clara. I don't care how difficult your show design is, if you have multiple captions that can't place higher than fourth because you can't pull them off clean, you don't deserve first place. If there is a corps ranking higher than their difficulty should allow, I think that corps is the Cadets more than anyone else. They are clean as can be though by doing something less challenging. If there's anything that really jumps out at me as off in the captions, it's the judge giving Cadets a 1st place across the board in GE. Blue Devils and Blue Coats both have far more impact overall than Cadets will ever hope to, no matter how clean they get.
  8. You'll have to wait for the woodwinds rule before we get Jethro Tull. That will probably come in 2016.
  9. Totally blown away by Bluecoats this year. Fantastic show in concept and execution. But the Blue Devils being entertaining with a really great show was a nice surprise as well. They are about halfway back to the corps I loved as my number one for decades. Biggest disappointment for me is the Colts. Was so looking forward to them when I heard that concept of blending Pink Floyd with The Wizard of Oz. But I get to enjoy very little of it due to that narrator constantly droning on over the music. The most talking in a show I think since the Cadets did the interview mid-field in 2008. I see a lot of complaints about Phantom, but at least there if you don't like the visuals you can close your eyes and enjoy the music. Not so the Colts. Worst show design I think I've ever seen from them.
  10. Thank you... Thought I was going to have to scold folks... No talk about soloists should ever take place without remembering Greg "Harpo" Blum. Got to see him live back in the day and he was just incredible. Kind of like Barry Sanders and the Detroit Lions. One of the best players ever playing for a lesser team. He was the first one of the DCI era to start drawing people into the stadiums early just to hear him play.
  11. I can see the cleaning coming in the drill already. It's looking a lot better. My real concern at this point is the guard. Are they going to be able to clean up all those drops. If they do, this show is a colorguard fan's dream. They are challenging themselves in the guard the same way Crown is with brass.
  12. So far, I've found their show a bit of a disappointment, not because it's bad, but because last year's was so good. Trying to avoid a let down the year following such a great show can be a bit of an occupational hazard. But I have no doubt it is still evolving and will get progressively better as the season wears on. As for the trombones, I can see two possible reasons for Santa Clara using them. Politically, to rub the rule in the face of DCI... "You voted for it, this is what you've welcomed to the field," <or> and I think the more likely reason; volume. There is far less distance for the air to travel through a trombone than a baritone before it reaches the audience. Therefore, it can produce a louder sound. I think they chose the trombones simply to make a louder opening statement with the lower range brass.
  13. It's a reference to the music that's being played at that moment: "The Sea and Sinbad's Ship."
  14. Yes please... Was hoping for more than just the pit...
  15. Trying to figure out what all those panels on the left side of the field added to the show, other than cluttering up the field.
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