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While we wait, I'll just point out that BK is .7 behind Cadets.

Well this went downhill fast.

Whichever way is goes, 13th place this year will be the best non-finalist show ever.

No.

Thanks for the answer. I'm not sure I'm buying what you're selling right now, but I'm a dedicated high-cam viewer so I may try multi-cam next show and see how I feel then.

Can someone please explain to me how BD is winning Visual Analysis? I'm asking genuinely, I really do not understand why this drill is winning.

Anyone else have terrible audio right now?

Completely agree. Without some pretty major changes, their overall visual score is going to kill them.

Oh! I hadn't realized I'd be hearing The Gurl With the Flaxen Hair tonight. This piece is beautiful no matter who's playing it. Go Incognito!

Love the percussion writing in this ballad. Very interesting.

Crowns uniforms sure look strange... :)

Jesus, that's beautiful.

I really like the hints of moonlight sonata in the ballad. Also, not a fan of singing generally, but at least she sound great!

Doesn't really match the show though, lol.

That would be reminiscent :)

That was a Great transition into Nessun Dorma, which sounds wonderful, of course.

Not sure if someone has already mentioned this, but in 2014, the blue stars scored 9th in GE and got 4th in guard on finals night(only .1 behind third place).

If there has ever been a show which deserved a perfect 100 from judges, it is the 1993 Cadets of Bergen County. (:

That's true. I sometimes forget how subjective DCI judging is, so it's very possible that judges on Saturday just enjoyed the Cavies more than the judges on Thursday(or vice versa) P.s. I'm not complaining about this, subjectivity in judging is unavoidable in an activity like this.

That's a somewhat fair argument, but I wouldn't consider it to be exactly the same situation because you're comparing a regional to 2 TOC's, which, generally speaking, have yielded favorable results to The Cadets this season. (And TOC results tend to be weird.) Considering that the spread between Cadets and Cavies is nearly the same when comparing Allentown to DCI prelims, I think it's fair to regard the TOC's(Buffalo and Massillon) as anomalies in an overall view of the season.

Im generally in agreement with you about The Cadets(and basically all scores from 4-12) being too low when compared to other years. That being said, although scores DO matter, it is pretty much pointless to imply that The Cadets show is "only marginally better than the Blue Stars in 2010" because you simply cannot compare two shows, judged by different judges 6 years apart from each other. What is interesting, in my opinion, is the increase in the gap between the Cavies and The Cadets over the course of championships. The Cadets were .262 ahead of the Cavies in prelims and by finals they ended up 1.262 behind the Cavies(1.524 total movement by Cavies). I'm not saying that the Cavies didn't deserve 5th place, but I do not think that the margin should have spread that much in just 3 days.

Have you ever tried cherry kaopectate? I get ###### when they run out of vanilla.

I'm really glad someone said this. I really have no dog in this argument about Hop(other than the fact that I'm tired of hearing about it), but this situation is definitely not something to be happy about.

Everyone

Hey, So I've been hearing a lot of rumors(and reviews on glass door) about George Hopkins. Does anyone know if any of this is true? /sarcasm