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Colts sure put on their big boy pants with this years show! I love it

True, but I still think it pales in comparison to their 2015, 2017, & 2018 championship shows.

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SUTA!

No. You're in Texas! 😉

Blue Devils Carolina Crown Bluecoats Santa Clara Vanguard Cavaliers Boston Crusaders Cadets Mandarins Blue Stars Phantom Regiment Blue Knights Crossmen Colts Spirit of Atlanta Madison Scouts The Academy Troopers Music City Pacific Crest Genesis Legends Spartans Seattle Cascades Gold Jersey Surf

Anyone want to take bets on whether they find some way to re-use those multi-colored neon light poles from a couple years ago?

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WORLD CLASS: Bluecoats SCV Music City Boston Blue Stars Cadets OPEN CLASS: Spartans Vanguard Cadets Legends Gold Southwind River City Rhythm

Then their website is incorrect. They went World Class in 2013. https://www.dci.org/news/oregon-crusaders-approved-as-world-class-corps posted from the DrumScorps app

OMG...I love Music City's new ending! Reappearance of Casey Jones in white, with a magnolia, walking into the light... amazing! posted from the DrumScorps app

Indeed. That kid giving the "come here" waggle with his finger was creepy I don't think it's a "come here" waggle. I seem to remember from the movie that the finger is the little boy's "imaginary" friend. posted from the DrumScorps app

Pioneer brass seems to be sacrificing power for better tone quality, which is a smart thing to do for them. In the past, they'd often overplay to make up for their small numbers & wouldn't sound very good. Their show this year may not be the most exciting, but I think it shows great promise for the future, if they can continue this trend and start attracting more members. posted from the DrumScorps app

What about the Most Improved Open Class Corps award? That's got to go to Gold, right?

Ra, the Egyptian sun God, I think posted from the DrumScorps app

To be fair, I believe that both Les Stentors and Impulse were originally scheduled to be on this part of the tour with these 4 corps. Stentors went inactive & Impulse decided to end their season at the open class Denver show and not go on the national tour

I know, we're in crazy times when SCV might win brass & Crown might win percussion... instead of the other way around posted from the DrumScorps app

The crowd response seemed to be stronger for Phantom than Blue Knights and stronger for Boston than Cavies. Honestly, can't say I disagree really. posted from the DrumScorps app

Good show from Legends. Noticeable step up from the previous 3 corps, each of whom who were decidedly better than last year. Not sure if the Legends show design is quite enough to be top 3 in Open Class this year though (I think Gold & especially Spartans will give them a run for their money). However, they certainly have a World Class horn line. Wow! posted from the DrumScorps app

Does anyone feel like the Scouts and the Blue Stars should just switch shows? I'm just teasing, of course. But the Scouts show looks like something that would be more fitting to the Blue Stars, and their Carpenter show would probably work for the Scouts better too.

Last time SCV beat BD was June 20, 2007 at the Bakersfield show. So it's been 11 years.

While I wouldn't say they "choked" per se at the end of the 2015 season, they certainly stalled out. They had been sitting in 7th all season long, ahead of Phantom and Madison. Yes, I know they had a flu outbreak which caused them to withdraw from Atlanta & Winston-Salem. But they still beat both Madison and Phantom after that. It wasn't until Finals week that those 2 corps both passed Cavaliers and knocked them into 9th Place.

I'm with Hostrauser on this one. I was very disappointed in the 2017 shows after such incredible years 2014-2016. The performance levels were great (for the most part) but the show designs just left me extremely "blah". The ONLY shows I have watched over and over again are SCV and Boston (and occasionally Bluecoats). Outside of those three, the only World Class shows I really liked were Mandarins, The Academy, & Colts. If those three had been in Finals instead of Blue Stars, Crossmen, & Madison, I might even have considered buying the Blu-ray.

I've been waiting for this for WEEKS! It was really hard to narrow this down. FAVORITES: 2006 - Faust (for me, it had the best combination of good storyline, great music, excellent drill design that was really clean, great guard, & most of all...emotion!) 2008 - Spartacus (just a GE monster...the most energized I have ever seen a Finals crowd) 1996 - A Defiant Heart (minimalism at its finest...the opener is my all-time favorite) 1989 - From the New World...Into a New Age 1993 - The Modern Imagination 2005 - Rhapsody 1991 - Phantom Voices 2007 - On Air 2003 - Harmonic Journey 2011 - Juliet Honorable Mentions: 2010 (Into the Light), 1994 (Songs for a Summer Night), 2012 (Turandot), 1990 (Dreams of Desire), & 1987 (Songs from the Winter Palace) just missed the top 10 LEAST FAVORITES (ie. the only Regiment shows I actually dislike): 2014 - Swan Lake (I hated this show SOOOO much...Flames....Flames, on the side of my face...) 2017 - Phantasm (I really thought Wes Cartwright would be a great fit for Regiment....boy, was I wrong!) Dishonorable Mention: The witch puppet monstrosity from 2013 (I really liked the rest of the show, though)

FAVORITES: 2013 - Magnificent 11 2014 - A People's House 2009 - Western Side Story 2011 - The Road Home 1985/1986 LEAST FAVORITE: 2005 - Gold Rush