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AlexL

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  1. You'd need Spirit and Academy to jump both Cadets and Phantom. That seems... unlikely.
  2. Good company to be in either way. That was a #### good show.
  3. Much as i hate to say it, i wouldnt be surprised to see the margins shrink back down once more corps come into play. The large competitive gap between Blue Stars and Blue Devils may have helped Stars float upward a bit.
  4. A rough check of past scores (i may have missed one) it appears this may be the earliest Blue Stars have hit 87 since returning to D1\WC
  5. Mandarins beating Cadets is huge. Is that a first for them? And im amazed how quickly blue stars went from neck and neck with cadets to 3.3 up
  6. Doesnt look like a good night for BK. On a night everyone else rose from san antonio, they dipped
  7. I had a connection on the way to kentucky that was supposed to go through detroit friday.. that was a mess. Kept getting delayed and delayed until i wouldve missed all my connections so i had to fly out (and through a different city) satrday
  8. If you're for the cadets, on one hand the margin to blue stars narrowed, on the other hand the margin to mandarins was slashed. Not sure how i'd feel in that situation
  9. You say like it has no effect when it generally does.
  10. 1 Boston Crusaders 80.800 2 Carolina Crown 80.650 3 Phantom Regiment 74.400 4 Spirit of Atlanta 73.150 5 Music City 66.450 6 Jersey Surf 64.650
  11. I never heard about that incident with crown. Wowza. The assembly\disassembly of some of these large props has always seemed concerning to me. Even if you got these props inspected by a professional engineer at the start of the season, every time they are disassembled, loaded, rolled down the highway, and assembled again is a chance for something to be done incorrectly, a part to be lost, stress to be introduced on the prop structure, etc. And then its assembled in a short period of time before a rehearsal day or show, leaving little (if any) time for a professional inspection, before -with some props- thousands of pounds of weight are put on the structure.
  12. Agreed. Dont mind new uniform styles that arent your typical marching uniform, but those need to convey the brand still.
  13. Another funny side effect the idiotic 'don't let kids transfer corps without a penalty' thing would have is a lot of kids just wouldnt turn out for lower placing corps. A lot of kids don't make their 'dream' corps and then go march somewhere else, hoping to build some skills and experience so they can go march where they really want to go. Year after year people advise kids who don't make their first shot to go somewhere. If they knew that marching somewhere would impede their ability to get to their goal, they'll just stay home and work on improving themselves some other way.
  14. They tightened up one form of transfer hardship waiver, but the overall trendline is in the 'making it easier to transfer' direction.
  15. Its funny you cite the NCAA, when if anything the NCAA is moving on a trend-line where players have more flexibility to transfer. Wouldnt surprise me if the transfer restrictions go away entirely within the next 10-15 years. Don't get me wrong, of course it sucks for the corps that loses a kid to a higher scoring corps. But when the kids only have a few years of eligibility and are paying thousands of dollars a year (as opposed to being given tens of thousands in scholarships, housing, training, etc) , it makes no sense to restrict them. Especially since there are a myriad of reasons one may want to change corps- they may want a different style of show, they may want a different staff (or to follow staff who changed corps), or they may want to take on a different skill level and be educated at a level that the corps theyre leaving may never be able to teach (And that isnt a bash on the corps that is being left. Every corps has its talent pool level and has to target its education towards that).
  16. Yeah, those old OT forums were the main reason i came on the site back in the day. Before i even marched! (And those OT forums were where i met two of the people who got me to where I ended up!) But then they hid those forums and they were restricted to members who requested access, which pretty much killed them. I had many thousands more posts, but likewise lost that count in one of the many reindexings. Miss what it was before that. The politics\current events forum is probably best gone, but its kind of sad to look down at those forums and see the most recent posts were months ago
  17. Blue Stars opening scores, since returning to D1\World 2019- 65.45 2018- 62.0 2017- 64.15 2016- 61.9 2015- 60.95 2014- 63.8 2013- 63.1 2012- 62.7 2011- 64.75 2010- 74.0 2009- 66.2 2008- 62.5 2007- 62.65 2006- 61.175 It probably doesnt mean anything, but i was curious so figured id post for others too.
  18. Something something cant compare year to year, but from a quick check that score from Blue Stars is the highest start since 2010.
  19. Is this based on any knowledge of what is in the actual story?
  20. https://twitter.com/Jaccii/status/1057696103200681984
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