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[quote name='scv9396' post='1428028' date='Jun 14 2006, 01:14 PM']I was coming back from lunch and I saw an SCV bus pull into a parking lot of a laundry mat. Bus stopped, and the members ran with clothes in hand to get a machine. I remember doing the same thing when I marched. Because if you didn't get a machine first you had the chance of not finishing and taking a bag of wet clothes back to the gym. I wanted to give the kids a memory/story to tell about, so I went and bought 10 pizzas and brought them to the mat. They were extremely excited and we talked for a few minutes. I plan to stop by the school and drop of bags of ice for the hornline. Ice is like candy on tour![/quote] Good show. You would have been my hero.

Actually, if you look at the scores, the first penalties ALL SUMMER last year were at Louisville on July 9th. Amazing that with all the timing problems corps have early in the season that none of them had a penalty for it. Also amazing that this just happens to be the first 'major' DCI event of the summer. Edit: I also took the time to look up the 2002 recaps, I looked as far as July 15th and the Cadets didn't have a single penalty. I used http://www.bknights.org/scores/scores.asp?...=2006&CorpsID=0 for the 2002 recaps and dci.org for the 2005 recaps. Feel free to browse those sites and try to find some facts that do not support the fact that penalties are not given until July.

Check out this thread http://www.drumcorpsplanet.com/forums//ind...showtopic=80108 for a much better idea of what they actually look like. I actually like the way they look in the brass video

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH The line on the sash lines up with the line on the pants. Call me crazy, but I actually kinda like it from this view

Tell us how you really feel :P

It's about 50/50 actually, which given the population of DCP is not surprising to me at least.

Interesting, I'm excited to see it in a few weeks :)

To be completely correct it is the Cadets AND some high school kids. You can hear the woodwinds. Cadillac is one of the songs that they play with the kids at their clinics throughout the summer.

When I marched Crown we had several people in the brassline that weren't primarily brass players. That was a completely different staff and we ended up coming in 16th place, but if you practice your tail off between now and auditions you might have a shot. Out of curiosity have you played any other instruments before? Again, it was a completely different staff, but when I marched they actually liked you to play something on both your primary instrument and the instrument you wanted to march so they could get a feel for how good of a musician you really were.

In a lot of cases, no, it's not. Not with the amount of time the corps currently have and the difficulties of the shows.

I don't think DCI publishes it's rules anywhere online for the world to see, but the last post on the previous page said the same thing I did. I know for a fact that it is true for overtime, and I'm about 95% sure it is true for undertime as well.

I thought that too, but I think it might just be the picture quality since it was converted from video.

Just for the record, there isn't a timing penalty until the first regional. I don't think there is even a timing judge at all before the first regional actually. I think the idea is to give the corps a little room for error for a while until they can get the timing right for their show. Some corps come out, and then they realize "Oh gosh, we are 30 seconds overtime!" this gives them time to get their act together and make any cuts necessary without dealing with a 5 point penalty for half of the season. It's possible that there is still some sort of penalty for being undertime at the early shows, but it seems to me that if there wasn't one for overtime there wouldn't be one for undertime either.

Those threads usually start soon after the first show. Don't worry, they are coming

That's .1 not good enough

No

I would hardly call being on "World's Funniest Videos" and "Skating with Celebrities" "dropping" ones career :P :P :P

By that point in the season you should be made of solid rock, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

Umm... my only complaint is that Phoebe is played by an all male corps...

Yes, I have had both. I'm part of the paying audience too, and I'm willing to give a big "F.U." to those who b**** and moan about what corps are or are not doing one the field because it wasn't so long ago that I was on the field and I remember what it's like. We were pushed to the limit every single day for 3 weeks of Spring Training and we came out without the last minute of our show on the field, and some of the stuff we did know was a little shaky. Had we tried to throw in that last minute of the show at the last minute (which is usually some of the hardest drill) people would have been falling all over each other and we probably would have fallen apart and sounded like complete s***. What do you want the staffs to do? Make the drill easier so that they can get everything on the field when you think it should be on the field? For me at least the end justifies the means. Yes, we should get our moneys worth. I pay my money to see some good drum corps, not to see 8 minutes of good drum corps and then 3:30 of pure crap that makes me forget how good the other 8 minutes were. Especially since the time spent throwing together that last bit of drill could have probably been spent making 10 minutes of the show look good. QUALITY not QUANTITY

My thoughts exactly. Sure, it looks fast and hectic, but it's from a constantly changing point of view, nothing at all like what the marcher actually sees while doing it (because the marcher would have something that he is focusing on, as opposed to just letting his eyes look straight ahead no matter where he is). I could make a home video that looked just as fast and hectic walking around campus. Home videos always have that sort of quality to them. I'm not saying their drill won't be amazing, I know better than to say that about the Cavaliers, but I'm taking this video for what it is, and that is a perspective of their drill that tells me very little about what it actually is going to look like to the audience. That being said I am still looking forward to seeing them live this summer, and I hope their drill is as awesome as some of you have deducted it will be from this small snippet of video.

We should also get a discount because if I see a corps in early July I'm not getting the same product as if I saw a corps in early August! Some of you are silly sometimes. First there are people complaining because corps release recordings of Winter Camps that don't sound very good. Their argument is that a corps shouldn't put something out there for the public to see if it's not at a certain level. Now there is this thread complaining because corps are trying to maintain a certain level of execellence at early shows. I personally would rather see 9:30 of some ok drum corps than 11:30 of crap that was thrown on the field in a rush to be "complete". By some of these arguments corps should not be allowed to make mid season changes because that's cheating the people who saw the show on the first night!

When I was a member I would have rather had a half full stadium go crazy than a full stadium that sat on their hands and whined and complained because we didn't have everything on the field when they thought we should have.

I would imagine their money bags full of millions of dollars they get to play a game helps take away some of the sting of being booed.

Several former members of the various corps he was making fun of said they thought it was funny. I didn't find it mean spirited in any way, and I would actually probably find the yowza thing a lot more mean spirited than this video. Unless you marched one of these corps and feel terribly offended by these impressions then I don't really see where you have a dog in this fight.