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Cappybara

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  1. Sorry, you’re right, the members should be studying and playing their instruments on the buses, not taking some down time to relax after long days of rehearsal. There is a right way and a wrong way to express things. You need to realize there is a generational gap and things are expressed very differently nowadays than they were back when you marched. Today’s generation has very little tolerance for BS and are actually willing to stand up for themselves. If they felt like they were being mistreated or let down, they would express that. But instead, their ire is directed towards some of the alums who make a clown of themselves on social media and pass it off as frustration.
  2. What a great line up! Here before that guy complains about there only being 4 corps in this show
  3. The things people do for attention. Imagine being a current member and seeing this sentiment expressed by an alum It isn’t uncommon to see current Madison members on Reddit express that they feel like a good chunk of the older alum base is toxic. Not hard to see why.
  4. Thought those things called jokes were supposed to be funny. Love it when people who don’t have a lick of humor in their body attempt to make a joke and then act like other people are the stupid ones when it falls flat. Besides, what about this thread made you think a joke was appropriate?
  5. I love seeing Cadets punch above their weight in percussion! Huge win over BD, congrats!
  6. 4 way tie for 12th would certainly make Retreat blocks interesting
  7. There isn't exactly anything that can be done to address it, though I'd love to hear suggestions. BD 2014 and Cavies 2002, and Cadets 2005 were probably not anywhere close to "perfection" that their scores suggest, but the numbers management just lead to those scores. There really isn't a system that allows corps to be ranked in a precise way (the current system allows us to have both ordinals and actual scoring margins) without some wonky numbers occurring as a result. Unless you're suggesting judges should artificially depress scores of the lower placing corps to make them make the higher scoring corps have scores that make more "blue collar sense"
  8. I'll be honest, if BD doesn't take the Zingali this year, I will be surprised. But I agree BD going home without the Ott or Sanford is a real possibility.
  9. Unless the percussion line magically cleans up their very, very difficult and exposed book, I doubt it. Even brass is not really a guarantee this season, and they have some work to do in visual proficiency as well
  10. To me, anything south of Fredericksburg, Virginia is the south. Coming from someone who has been in the DMV his entire life but went to school at a couple Virginia state schools
  11. I will repeat what someone else asked: What is the point? What are you trying to achieve repeating the same thing over and over? Validation on your points that you clearly aren't receiving? Getting a rise out of people? Using DCP as your personal diary? I already know which of the 3 applies to @MarimbaManiac, so what about you?
  12. Indeed. You have filled about 10 pages worth of the same thing over and over in the past week.
  13. The thing that makes me doubt that any of the top 4 can pull off a miracle is that BD is very handily winning GE. In the years that BD has lost, a show has outdone them in that caption while also outdoing them in a performance caption here and there. BD's dominance in GE this season tells me that the odds of a hail mary is very, very low unless some major changes are coming to the shows of any or all of the corps in the top 2-4
  14. I rarely go out of my way to understand a show theme anymore. It's not worth the effort, I just choose my favorite musical books nowadays. Even the visual is so secondary to me because staging has become the name of the game to the point that visual programs aren't really anything that special in my eyes
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