[Carolina Crown 2019]

2 hours ago, nsxanax said:

What a difference a week makes. 

Hope has returned and Crown’s resurgence of late has raised expectations exponentially. Even the staunchest critics are likely to concede that CC’s in play, with the DCI world now focused on Indy.

As we wait impatiently for Thursday, thoughts tend to wander, if for no other reason than to ward off the obsession that can overtake hard core fans on finals week. In a bit of whimsy, I thought back to some of the epic finishes. There are many I’m sure, but [with a nod to showing my age], SCV ‘89 and Star ‘91 are, even after 3 decades, held in high regard.

So the question, for all you arm chair, show designers and GE gurus: if you could call an Aaron Rogers(esque) audible, for a Hail Mary maneuver/GE tweek/you name it, for Crown to implement on Saturday night, what would it be?

 

Brighter flags in the opener! There’s great flag work going on during the crazy drill move where the center guy doesn’t move, but you can’t see it. 

[The Cadets 2019]

2 minutes ago, chris ncsu said:

lol.  But not champion-ship level GE or visual performance. You could argue that they were still underscored in those, maybe enough to help them medal, but not win.

Incidentally, 2015 was one of the rare times (in the last 20 years) that Cadets won a regional.  San An.

I loved that show - one of my top 10 favorites. However, the guard staging left so much more to be desired. There are several places where you could almost 'feel' where guard should be located on the field to compliment a particular musical moment, but they weren't there. I think this hurt their GE score more than switching to black hurt their visual score...

[Carolina Crown 2019]

29 minutes ago, xandandl said:

Crown Cares, Surf's and Blue Stars food collections (for someone other than themselves) set the Class of the Activity.  The rest are too caught in narcissism.

Sooooo close to being a nice, constructive, positive comment.

[Carolina Crown 2019]

14 hours ago, nsxanax said:

Ditto with Inferno.

When a guard moment becomes a musical moment, you're doing it right.

[Carolina Crown 2019]

Does anyone else love the moment in the closer where the whole corps stops and goes silent, then the voices in unison say "MOVE!" - right before the bari feature? Almost seems like a nod to the fact that they're about to go nuts with that drill in the ending.

[Carolina Crown 2019]

5 minutes ago, geluf said:

They've still got a health spread between content and execution subcaptions in visual, so that bodes well for them.

The music subcaption spreads are much closer...which is interesting.

That’s how 2015 started too, isn't it? There were some rewrites mid season to add more meat. 

[Carolina Crown 2019]

We were there live last night, row 7 on the 50. The clarity and intonation in the first statement is something I've never heard anything remotely close to in 15 years of following the activity.

["That Was Wonderful! Boo!" Shows That Didn't Live Up]

9 hours ago, cixelsyd said:

Watering down brass charts is what lets me down.  Marveling at some impossible phrase all season, only to get to championships and discover my favorite highlight is gone.

For whatever reason, 2018 stands out as the year hornlines kept the best parts of their shows.  Change is good!

THIS!!!!!!!!! Crown '14. In the closer right after the crazy runs, they make a full corps form (a big "X" I think) that drifts right at half time and they start playing the big power chords. Early season the lower trumpets had an awesome descending 8th note line under the chords. Some time towards the end of July they cut it out and just gave them the power chords with the rest of the corps. It's soooo boring compared to the original.

 

[Carolina Crown 2017]

21 hours ago, gak27 said:

For sure there's Giannini's Third Symphony (think '82 and '83 SCV...) and London Bridge is Falling Down...

The London Bridge part is from the 4th movement of Ives' "Old Home Days".

[DCI Live On-Demand question]

Not working on the app still

Edit: good now

[Carolina Crown 2016]

Yes, I'm curious too. I like both endings

add me to the curious crowd.

[Carolina Crown 2016]

Yes and it's in Reddit

What sub?

[Warrensburg Wateringhole]

Did my feed just get quiet or did they add a LOT of dynamic contrast to the last push of the opener?

[Carolina Crown 2016]

Too late to jump on the "can I have the link?" stagecoach?

[Cadets 2016]

Well, I was refreshing his Facebook since 8 and never saw it - now it's not available :-/

[Cadets 2016]

Am I the only one not seeing the link on his Facebook yet?

[Carolina Crown 2016]

Are we looking at the same 2012 visual program? O_o

[Blue Knights 2016]

I was just thinking the other day when a corps is going to do Rouse music - Marian Catholic HS has done a lot of his music and it translates*very* well to the field.

[Where have the dynamics gone?]

See Cadets 2015 around the 3:30 mark.

[We Are Fixin To Go To Belton]

Nothing against The Academy, but any chance GE1 judge accidentally flipped his scores between them and Phantom? Everything would seem to make a lot more sense if those two scores were flipped in that caption.

[We Are Fixin To Go To Belton]

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[Fan Network 2014-2015?]

I just got this response when I asked about it: "The 2014 subscriptions will be available within the next 24 hours. We apologize for the gap in service. Thank you for supporting the DCI Fan Network."