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This was just echo and rather muted sound from some mic on a camera somewhere relative to whichever one they were shooting from. it was terrible from a sound point of view.

But I do like the sentiment.

Oh now THAT would be fun.

Legit want Bloo to start their show whistling Sweet Georgia Brown before doing something bonkers again now.

Percussion assemble! Ok, which of you guys still have the knees to play a tenor feature while hanging upside-down? I'm looking at you in the green over there!

I'd say they could work on something that lets corps stay closer to their start points (with the option for a corps to opt to 'start out west' or even 'start out east' as we've seen. West corps would tour to end end up together in San Antonio. Midwest corps would tour to meet up in ???. East coast corps would tour to end up in Atlanta (Nashville?) Allentown would be the first meeting of everyone since it's reputed to be the moneymaker for DCI due to the affordability of the venue. Allentown would remain the week before Indy. The other regionals the week before Allentown (yes simultaneous big shows! call it "super Saturday" so we can all argue about comparing scores across shows!" the lead ups and mid weeks be the smaller shows. I'm sure that'd rankle feathers and cause realignment of show dates, but it also might resolve some of the zigs and zags. yes West corps have to cross the nation to get to Allentown still, but they don't have to leave anywhere East of San Antonio until the last two weeks of the season.

HornRank forums LIT UP when semis awards did not stream and everyone was on edge to see if they made finals or not. Music for all eventually streamed on their Facebook and blamed an "wifi problem" for Box5. Whatever Box5 was relying on WiFi to stream something to that many people for in the first place is sort of wild you'd think they'd have a dedicated hardwire for it. I was sort of on the fence about buying finals but noped out when I heard the refund policy in the instance of an issue was "a discount on a full season subscription next year" or something.

You just wanna see @Jurassic Lancer or @Terri Schehr have to get out there...

And actually...I've always thought if they can get the corps on board, have the corps instructional staff run some basics and stuff with the bands as a mini clinic. Or even just get the section heads from the corps doing it under some supervision. In my ancient bygone high school days we had a guard designer from Cavaliers and he was a minor celebrity when visiting because "oh man...an actual DCI guard member!" That would mean time away from corps time to clean, rest, etc. tho so... dunno how much they could get to make it worth it. Even observing a rehearsal of a corps with some 'informed commentary' on how and why they rehearse this way would be neat. I mean the efficiency of a Blue Devils rehearsal is amazing. We had a corps marcher march mello with our band joining after DCI finals and learning our show (which was considered highly developed for HS marching band) in a week. But the ethic of work, practice, continually perfecting her performance and spurring us to do so even running some things with sections or explaining things when our section wasn't being directly worked with entirely elevated our rehearsal efficiency that year.

Yeah doable. and frankly depending on when in July, a school might have their opener ready to go. Our timeline was regular practices in mid July doing basics and learning the opener drill. Then the last week was a camp where we'd learn pretty much all but the closer. Closer usually went on mid august as competitions would get started. But even before that, we'd have parade tunes learned for a June parade and show music in hand. So concert arcs and music stands if memorization wasn't clean would be entirely doable. Give the drum line and pit a feature to run on their own. Some guard work to show off, etc.

Yah. This means getting scholastic units to have enough of a show together during the summer though and taking the time out of instruction for their fall show to do this. The WGI model works to incorporate scholastic and non scholastic groups primarily because it's hyper regional and the activities have the same calendar. But most high school groups now do a fall season not a summer season. The days of summer nationals are long gone.

Salem, VA has a decent line up as well. I could do that one and combine it with some mountain vacation time....

Annapolis is back the day before with a stronger lineup though. Hmm.

Affordability probably being a big if. Housing availability for corps being a possible snag until connections are developed as well. No idea what lot logistics might end up looking like either. But yeah the local for visiting is great. If corps wanted to do a 'Sunday off' thing like the Riverwalk in San Antonio is, that has some potential too. Alternative vision for Nashville. If getting "everyone to one site" for regionals become financially untenable (not that wild of a scenario). Then West touring corps would do their thing in San Antonio while East touring corps would do their thing in Nashville. Atlanta and Stanford being the 'the other regionals'. Allentown being the place where everyone sees everyone the first time with Indy for the finals? Just spitballing here. I'd love a Nashville show.

There's always one or two that look like they're in their 40s somehow...hah

Oh man yeah. If they were that young and hopefully are able to retain a majority of those, they'll be in good shape. Two years under the same team and instruction bodes well for the designers to know what those kids can do and the instructors to get them there and beyond.

Also presents the question of "popular to whom?" us? (most of us here aren't spring chickens anymore.) Our parents? (seems to be a go to for 'see people don't recognize tunes anymore' for more than a few of us. The marchers? (licensing big bucks for current things in shows, and a fair few of the 'big buyers' of tickets being "I don't recognize any of these songs? Who is this Roan Chappel?")

Ooh. what if this is a "seventh ditch of the eight circle of hell" focus on Inferno?

But also, I'm envisioning a more sinister and sinuous version of their entry to the field the Casey Jones show had.

I could see the Cavies making a solid jump. Staff changes were last off season but that team has had a chance to work together after putting the 'safe but stabilizing' show on the field. Time for them to try things to climb.

Don't deny him the pleasure of being the countdown poster!

Buy Cheesefurters! peak Wisconsin.

Ok so this is camera filming a camera timing a folding? that's where my brain was because I know how to fold things already but...parsing the whole set up. Indian head waggle at the end was champ.

Thank you for your behind the scenes effort carrying the last 20 years forward. I'm sure Kevin's stewardship will continue this place!