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Just randomly googled this poem and came right here to DCP. Hadn't seen a good translation on here. It's bonkers. Before there was dada, there was dada (german wordplay where "da" means "there" and german grammar makes the sentence is mirrored) Dada is an ancient (or antique) four-legged crossbow walking a doggy. Dada has swing (or vibes or something) more powerful than a hundred primeval forests. Sometimes dada looks like a person made of turf with eyes made of worm-holed apples. Yet dada is every day more beautiful than the previous. Dada is a rose with a rose in its buttonhole. *sighs* remember when narration was a hot topic? And it was cheating to not wear a jacket and hat for half the show?

I don't know what it's about either, I definitely noticed how much worse every corps, even the corps that won, looked in 2015

Yeah, but when Cadets do grand finale fireworks for closer drill, it almost always looks pretty good. The thing is with corps like Crown and Cadets who make it a point that their show is hard, it usually looks really hard. It looks like a bunch of kids struggling to hang on to the show. I also sometimes watch that sort of drill (BD does or doesn't use drill? I don't know for sure) and it looks like some guy on pyware thinks something looks cool on the computer, but there is such a disconnect. For example, when Crown's drill this year (and previous years) wants to do a pinwheel pattern in a block or something, every member follows that pattern except two or three groups, like the drill writer wanted to do this cool thing on pyware but "oh crap, there are like, six guys leftover that I don't know what to do with". Or the drill writer wants to do his really cool 3D drill, but especially this year, it was just so ugly and...well...thrown in there? It takes me out of it. Sometimes I think there are mistakes in the drill that they just left in there, like kids switched dots and no one noticed.

Zing! Ha Yeah giving the soloists their best night on whatever they release has always bothered me. On field electronics wouldn't be a rewardable risk if there's the possibility of a negative outcome. On that note (heyo!) DCI really ought to consider at least regulating or limiting electronics and prop use, even frequent/mid-season uniform changes, more strictly. You know that's coming out of the kids' fees.

Whoa whoa hang on...let's not kid ourselves, this is the dirtiest Crown has been since I can remember, maybe since pre horse show. But also shows are more difficult than before, more pieces to throw together, which is its own problem. I think DCI may have dodged a bullet having this show first on the dvd.

Dang DCI is never going back online with that shtuff.

Kudos to that player who picked up the helmet and hid it behind him, one handing his horn. Super pro

Is the on field mic singing a new rule this year? Or have people done it before? Or have people not done it this much before? I'm lost

idk mang, like I said, probably every TOC show I've observed is heavily skewed, both up and down in placements as well as broad and narrow in spreads. TOC numbers are always always wacky compared to the regionals and regular ordered shows (when these shows take place immediately around the date of a TOC show) where most of the big boys show up. Performance order as an excuse is lame if we're talking about going on last or second to last, but just the evidence shows TOC shows basically don't count. It's not a stretch to think, for example, BD going on first and Cadets going on last with Madison or Phantom somewhere in between does produce a recap sheet inconsistent with the rest of the season, consistently.

Why do they even bother with the TOC performance order? Every year, every TOC show just has bunk recaps because of the jumbled performance order.

The more valid comparisons might be last Saturday to this Saturday. TOC shows are notoriously inconsistent score-wise.

I think it's a combination of Copland fatigue and hammy/predictable design, which in ways go hand in hand. The comparisons to 09 crown and vanguard are totally valid considering there are nearly identical builds and moments going on. Maybe people don't like the narration not because it is lecture-like but because it's delivered with a hefty side of cheese and appears to be lip-synched, and the jazz is square. There's also an unusual amount of false hype coming from Hop and the organization about changes and whatnot and now the tarps seem to be borderline tasteless. The sound bytes are really mundane and formulaic ("and now here's the stock market crash part"..."happy days are here again"..."a day that will live in infamy") and the whole production, while executed very well, feels so hackneyed even for Cadets.

Eh, Allentown was tight last year and then the next night's TOC it opened up, last year's SA regional and subsequent Round Rock TOC did something similar. 12's Minneapolis regional had tightish spreads which were all bent out of shape the next night at Rockford and bent back pretty faithfully at normal shows. Charlotte TOC is always messed up, don't even want to get into the 2011 TOC wackiness. It's hard for judges to call it like they see it, as much as we'd like to think they could, when relevant competition is spread out in an evening.

Yeah but the TOC scores the last few years have been so consistently wacky and unreliable relative to the scores that come from normal shows and Saturday nights throughout the season. Shame that the first night everyone meets up competitors perform hours apart.

Someone should make this list for 2009, 2010, and 2012