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Heh. I saw this coming from the moment he said Boston.

I loled at the full screen disclaimer at Blue Devils. Some interesting takes in the conjecture. Nothing too wild but there's some spicy in there that'll get comments. I could easily see Spirit be the beneficiary of the open spot in finals made by the absence of the Mandarins. But I wouldn't rule out Pac Crest at all, and it could be a good "fight for finals" year. I could see Cavies beating his projection easily. He admits that they're a wild card, and at the same time, he's not wrong about the 'finding the identity they want' still. I'm not sold on the 'year after a championship [unless you're BD]' thing for putting Boston where he does. Boston just seems too strong as an organization and design team. I don't think Boom was 'lightning in a bottle' in the sense they hit a show design that shot them forward as much as it was a culmination of the previous years working on a style foundation that would win. BD frankly, is a wild card for me. If they come out with another small increment evolution of their style, I could see them perhaps missing medals yet again. But they'll be really really hungry. If they come out with something fresh, they could break the activity again. Bloo and SCV make total sense for the front runners. What's fun this year with Bloo going West we're gonna see a LOT of early head to head at the top. And wonder where exactly Boston fits in that for a good while.

Presuming the parts were made in China I presumed tariffs would apply to the parts coming into the US at that point as also "goods made offshore." Pay the tariffs on the parts on import, then pay US labor to assemble. Or pay Chinese labor to assemble and then pay the tariffs on the horns on import was my reasoning. Unless parts are not under tariffs or have different tariffs for some reason.

Yeah. They’re still in callback camps right now. Winter and spring camps are when we’ll get the “they’re miles ahead of where they were at this point last year and poised to move way up” from….everyone.

If the parts were already made in China, I suspect the tariff costs are essentially the same. They’re just moving the assembly to where the parts are.

I'd agree with that. It didn't quite achieve the seamless start to end effect that Babylon had.

Ouroboros was fantastic. The ballad was like a dreamscape of sound and visual.

So. If a corps is planning on doing an "official release" on their social media platforms as many are doing now, yes they'll be constrained by sync rights. Otherwise, no they won't, unless the do edits to their video to cut portions like Tom Blair had to do sometimes for the DVDs

Chat GPT's LMM seems weighted to "shows most talked about" therefore leaving everything after 2022 off the list. They just haven't been talked about as much en masse yet as they've got fewer years of gabber on reddit and the like. For the same reason I suspect it's overly weighted to shows that finished in the top 6 (I've not gone and parsed placements for all these shows) It has some weird idea about the love/hate of a SHOW v. what I suspect was chatter about the corps. e.g. I don't recall people getting polarized over Felliniesque as a show or having love or hate responses as much as people were talking more about BD's dominance with the show. The show itself was actually pretty well recognized as entertaining and a BD move toward more crowd pleasers. Similarly Inferno as "divisive"? There was a fair bit of during the season chatter about it not coming together as they layered it, but once it was all there, I don't remember people being divisive about the show.

Woo! Future Open Corps in Indiana.

AI summary: "Hip is what it is" likely refers to the "hip joint," a crucial ball-and-socket joint connecting the leg to the torso, allowing movement like walking and jumping, made of the femur's head (ball) and the pelvis's acetabulum (socket), cushioned by cartilage, ligaments, and muscles. It's the body's largest weight-bearing joint, vital for stability and motion, but also prone to injury." I'm sure I'm not the only one who felt that, AI-bot...

Can’t wait for the Arlington Cowboys v Inglewood 49ers to play again.

Are they actually changing the name? I mean Kansas City, Kansas is a place.

Still wanna see them snake onto the field ala the Casey Jones train entry...

Raiders 2017. I mean come on...it's RIGHT THERE in the title. [it was a pretty cool show for them although those stages looked heavy moving on and off the field]

Hah! And an epic one post it was!

no...THIS is. May Gabe bork in peace!

Hah. that was fun. It dipped back into some shows from my hiatus from watching shows period but I did pretty ok. The 1 second game was tough.

I've never gotten inside info. @Terri Schehr tells me stories and @Chief Guns and I swap some tea. Occasionally someone tells me some tidbits about a corps' on the tour end of season show closer change plans but they're usually things everyone else already knows it seems.

People in high places like reading trash too. 😆

Grandpa shark...do do do do do... you know VK would HAVE to play this when the shark comes out now...

lol. its the offseason. DCP is always dead in the off season. The people who like to talk about the activity's creative side don't have new shows yet to talk about so all that remains is the 'behind the scenes' interested folk for the most part which spawns the threads we'e seen.

I think it's also a "proximity to experience" thing. As great as the rush of a season is done, when one is finally "done" there's a period of "well. that was hell. fun. but hell." Which also involves a time of mourning that its over and figuring out what comes next. Only after however many years that takes, is there the nostalgia that creates a lifelong fan. That's a default to establish around which some exceptions may occur. Like the "I'll become instructional staff for a few weeks each summer and keep having seasons" where one can't let go. And the darker side of "that was hell and I'll never look at it again" that never becomes nostalgia but rather a trauma.

Ah no. Time for BD to do that all Gordon Goodwin show as a tribute now.

Neat! Thanks for tracking these!