Precious Roy

They may say they don't invest in snow equipment due to its rarity -- but snow is not actually rare in north Georgia (or north Alabama, where I now live). Relatively infrequent? Sure. But we get some measurable snow most years than not. Since 1980, Atlanta has officially had measurable snow in 26 years, and not had measurable snow in 11 years.

And obviously, St. Louis was/is a fan!

Holy crap. How has nobody else mentioned that I-44 goes right past Broken Arrow?!

Connecticut is a fan! (Its even bloo!)

Tyler Matakevich is a fan!

That also works during football season, too.

And the club gains another member.

My ADD wife is going to have some issues with the beginning of BD's show when we go see them in Atlanta later this month. Its a bit too crazy for me, too.

(Annnnnnnnd, I've joined the "Cappybara -- nobody got my joke" club)

I think I just saw the Schehrs. Are they at this show?

I'd like to see the Phantom guard throw rifles off the side of the monkey bars, arc them up and over, and have them come down through the bars for the catch.

As Gru would say, "Light. Bulb." It just clicked for me, watching this video. For those of us that still have that "You have been to zero rehearsals and have no idea what you are doing, but you are being thrown into the drill for your first show" dream -- this Bloo show is a jazz singer's version of that dream! It all makes perfect sense now. (I now need to go through the SCV and Mandarins threads to see if there are similar insights).

A monthly subscription to Flo marching gets you access to Flo marching events, to be paid on a month by month basis. You can cancel at any time. $49.99/ month. A yearly subscription to Flo marching gets you a full year across the whole Flo universe, and it is paid in one lump sum. You can cancel for a partial, prorated, refund. But I don't think you end up saving anything versus what you would have paid if you had gone monthly in the first place. I forget what I paid for the yearly subscription. Something on the order of $120-140. I'll use it for their wrestling coverage, and my wife likes the singing competitions. Well worth the value for me.

I just wanted to say that I appreciate reviews like this that also include the impressions of "novice companions" and youngsters seeing a DCI show for the first time. Always interesting to get a perspective from those that don't know what the "sheets" say, or what constitutes "proper staging," etc. Entertainment value is in the eye of the beholder, and it doesn't necessarily take a 240 bpm whiplash drill, or the most prop or pit square footage, to be entertaining.

Probably not, because if they did it would probably go overtime and get a penalty.

OK, so, the tree props in Boston's show -- are they all leaning like that, in the same direction, because of the predominant sea breeze?

Then I gotta say... Roll Tide!

Downtown Tuscaloosa had never had a tornado, either. Until they had one. Downtown Salt Lake City had never had a tornado. Until they had one. Downtown Fort Worth had never had a tornado. Until they had one. Look -- I'm not saying that the city of St. Louis is going to have a tornado soon, or even within our lifetimes. But I can't say that it definitely won't. The lack of tornado there is due to "luck," rather than some mystical force that knows where the city boundaries are. And my point is that, if a tornado warning is issued for downtown St. Louis sometime in the future, I would hope that everyone there would take appropriate cover, rather than blow it off because "we don't get tornadoes here, because..."

Music City > Genesis, only because they played more Ozzie than Genesis did Metallica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_tornado_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_St._Louis_tornado Also, from: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/#Climatology:

Fellow Met. Penn State, '88. So, I'm allowed to be an internet expert (I'm just not allowed to speak officially or specifically).

This is not tornado season in St. Louis. That was a month or two ago. Plus, I hope you were just kidding about that "we don't get tornadoes in downtown" thing. Nobody gets tornadoes, until they get a tornado.

The storms were largely seabreeze induced. They are really not moving, just sort of sitting in place and raining themselves out. Sometimes that process takes 15 minutes. Sometimes it takes a couple hours. The real issue comes with the positive polarity lightning strikes that can come out of the anvil some distance away from the active storm updrafts. So, ongoing delays are more likely to be caused by an occasional lightning strike than the rain.

Is there still critique, or some other meeting between judges and corps show designers, either before or after a competition? Could this be a case where a first viewing judge scores them down a bit? But then input from Bluecoats suggests they should be scored as a Jazz ensemble (rather than more typical DCI percussion ensemble) would cause a relative bump up in scoring?

(Note to self -- there may be a market for "You are welcome to MY seat only until I GET BACK" seat cushions)