Just look at the sheets. At Minnesota, BD did take all the main captions but look at where Crown was compared to it. Crown's brass book will be hard to top, their music analysis took first, and Percussion wasn't it's strongest BUT they achieved 4th. That's not that low honestly.
When looking visuals, as EVERYONE is saying. BD was cleaner and it's true. However, despite being as "dirty" as most are saying, Crown still managed to hold second is most captions. Plus their color guard has significantly improved this year. If they keep that improvement they'll be on BD's neck. With that we have music leaning towards Crown and visuals leaning towards BD. However, each corps is down the neck of the other.
The final case comes to General Effect. Crown took Music in the caption and BD took Visuals. So as much as people say BD is clean here and Crown is dirty. It's mid July and one corps strength is the others weakness. So by looking at the Regional stats it's still a toss up regardless of scores.
As far as the TOC and regular scores, especially this year, I'll look at them but they don't mean much. With the new score sheets scores are going to be everywhere and this event proved it. No offense but SCV dropping that much in percussion? Crown's colorguard dropping almost a full point? Just a lot of "Are you serious" moments that just happened over night?
This is what I summarized yesterday. Personal opinion but to me it makes sense.
I think the judges tried to place BD a little lower than Minnesota but then on a grass field Crown didn't look as clean so they had to lower them also. It's Phantom's home show but Cadet's Percussion is saving them from Phantom passing them. Put all that together and it explains the top 4 scores.
At the end of it, they're both close and have neat shows. How many people understand everything in Crown's show? Then you can't be mad about not understanding BD. Crown let out information to help people get it. BD just said figure it out and we'll help you. Can't wait for San Antonio to see the improvements they make towards DCI Finals.