What does this mean:
How does their decision affect the DCI community?
It is August and you are "considering a return for 2024"....? Realistically you have... 1-2 more months? That's to get kids. To get the staff you want, you probably have a couple weeks?
I don't think the shorter shows would reduce the cost at all. All the staff taking 10% pay cuts across the board?
Is this true? Very interesting if so...
Interesting topics covered there. It's not sustainable. It's not going back. Can't dial it down. The audiences demand more and more. We have to keep up with the Jones's. And unsaid: this activity and the reputation I've built through this activity are my ticket to lots of money.
The costs of the activity are skyrocketing.
Refusal to address this will contribute to the end of DCI as we know it, unless the power players in the activity (aka the ones getting rich, if not from drum corps, then from charging marching bands well into the 5 figures for their services) put a stop to it.
Expenses going up.
Staff and admin numbers are multiplying.
Corps admin and staff hire their friends with no open application process. (Ever seen a job vacancy posting for a caption head position?)
Certain egos act like they run the world and can do whatever they want.
Housing options going down.
Numbers of corps are shrinking.
The activity has limited time left.
Vanguard is making a decision to extend the life of their A corps to the maximum extent.
How many more years will that get them? idk