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Cappybara

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  1. I'm about to take my yearly hibernation from DCP until next summer but I just wanted to say that this year overall for DCI was really incredible. Everything was so enjoyable from top to bottom, probably the strongest year of drum corps shows since 2014 for me. BD 2023 won't go down as my favorite BD show of all time, but it's certainly up there because of just how well rounded of a show it was both musically and visually. If they truly are going for a trilogy, I am very excited to see what the last piece of the puzzle is next season and how they will tie in elements from the first two segments into the last one!
  2. Should we return the favor and make this thread about the Bluecoats? An organization, that I may add, I have nothing but respect and admiration for. No pettiness here
  3. Whenever BD is given “good faith” criticism, somehow you are always in the thread. Weird coincidence
  4. I highly suggest you watch BD’s encore performance video uploaded to their YouTube channel to allow yourself to correct your grossly misinformed and incorrect assertions. Or don’t. DCP this season has taught me that it’s sometimes better to let people just be wrong
  5. Exactly! There is no doubt BD has a formula, anyone who is being objective admits that. But simplistic or easy… nope.
  6. I’ve lost hope of most (but not all) BD critics being remotely objective with their criticisms
  7. Exactly. DCI’s website crashes half the time once scores get posted. To pretend that interest in the activity wouldn’t decrease is just wishful thinking and not logical at all.
  8. I’m assuming you’re being a bit tongue-in-cheek with that last paragraph? Competitive inertia is very real, and the only corps who has maybe been able to buck it is BAC, but that was because they gained competitive inertia in 2017 from a series of championship caliber staff hires. And despite those hires, they have not been able to get the gold in the 5 years the staff has been together
  9. I think I may have read it in one of the Facebook groups I’m in, but it seems that the successor has already been chosen and DCI should, apparently, be in good hands. That’s just vague rumors though
  10. There’s no need to infantilize it, it’s still a valid model and suggestion. It’s just one that I think will greatly decrease the interest both marchers and audiences have for the activity, and therefore I simply don’t agree that it is the right model for DCI. And I completely agree with you that it would be nice to allow corps to make art without having to worry about certain things that competition introduces, particularly budget issues. And that is why I’m in full support of sharing winnings equally or basing it off of who travels the most. Financially, I am all for any move that promotes parity within DCI and allows corps that are struggling a bit more financially than others to have as many resources as possible for a good and safe member experience. Doing so would prolong the survival of this activity
  11. Then the brass and percussion captions become essentially useless. With the corps’ electronics influencing so much of the mix that gets relayed to the box, it would be nearly impossible for the brass and percussion judges to make an accurate and meaningful assessment of the hornlines and pit/drumlines. Pretty sure visual proficiency is also judged from the sideline (I could be wrong about this), so the quality of assessment of this caption would suffer as well.
  12. I didn’t hear about anyone else having this issue, nor did I. With that being the case, this wasn’t a Flo server issue and rather an issue with your ISP.
  13. I am totally on board with either sharing winnings equally or basing it on who traveled the furthest. Both of those things would help the survival of as many corps as possible. Scrapping the competitive aspect of DCI will be the swiftest action one can take to create the downfall of this activity. And before anyone says it, yes I know the COVID year happened and no, the actions of audiences during a once in a lifetime global pandemic is not representative of how this activity would continue if scores were eliminated for the rest of the activity’s existence
  14. That… does not sound like a good idea. Apart from there being no way of enforcing judges to not watch the shows or scores beforehand, the judges give much more accurate assessments with more reads. Familiarizing with a show, especially for the sideline judges, is important so they know where to be in order to get the most comprehensive sample of the skills being displayed as possible. Otherwise you get situations where the percussion judge is on side 1 and then has to sprint to side 2 to get a read on the drum break. If the purpose is to get more exciting scores, your suggestion works. If the goal is to get the most accurate scores, not so much.
  15. This has already been done at tournament of champions shows back when the G7 was still a thing. It didn’t do anything to change the results. The judges are smarter and more discerning than you think they are
  16. The Troopers badly need new colorguard techs Boston needs to get rid of whoever suggested them switch to those horns they used this year I think brass arranging could be improved at Cavies, though the arrangements this year could’ve just been the nature of the show I think a lot of corps this year showed they actually have some really good foundations set in place. Pacific Crest, Spirit of Atlanta, Colts, Phantom Regiment, Mandarins, and Cadets, all corps who are either newcomers or have had recent staff overhauls all showed that things are moving in the right direction and for them, I hope things stay as stable as possible
  17. For me, this was the strongest year of drum corps overall since 2014
  18. Sorry I let the pathological persistence suck me in again. Like a bird that keeps crashing into a window. Won’t happen again
  19. But what I’m saying is that the design portion of the visual caption (visual analysis) is what Bloo beat BD in. And they beat BD in guard at various points this season as well. To win proficiency against BD, a corps is going to need to hire instructors with the same level of visual expertise as BD. The body movement vocabulary and execution at BD is on a different plane of existence than other corps almost entirely due to their instructional staff, not design staff.
  20. Uh what? They quite literally took 2nd off the backs of their extremely strong visual performance tonight. Both in marching and design
  21. Congrats to Crown on a well deserved Ott and medal! Wish it was the silver but still a great season
  22. Oh sorry thought you were referring to tonight specifically
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