ThirdValvesAreForWimps

Crown will have to sizzle to stay ahead of The Cavaliers.

My little brothers laid it down tonight!

2002.

The Cavaliers’ brass line is LIT!

Okay, peeps! Ready for the finest Cavaliers brass line since 2002?

Is that estrogen?

...and that’s sad. The design team did their brass line a huge disservice.

It’s a big middle finger to Hop and it doesn’t work.

I say the same about the Madison Scouts.

Maybe The Cadets’ design team will “do better” next year.

Catch Crown? That’s the wrong question. Can The Cavaliers catch Vanguard?

92.050!

Anyone there live?

I explain drum corps judging to newbies thusly: “Whoever performs the most difficult show the cleanest wins.”

Yes. I heard them live earlier this evening and they kicked it up several notches.

I was high up and on the 50 in Centerville and yes, Blue Devils won brass fair and square; percussion too. The Bluecoats are terrific this year but their brass book isn’t as hard as the Blue Devils’ brass book.

I’m blown away. The Blue Devils are unbelievable.

Centerville gets weaker every year. We are all happy to witness the Blue Devils and Bluecoats in their battle royale but the rest of the field won’t make Finals.

Tonight will be epic. I’ll be in row GG!

If you’re wondering how The Cadets beat both the Blue Stars and Blue Knights in brass, look at the content score. The brass book is more difficult, pure and simple. With that being said, The Cadets are still dirty with respect to performance.

The Cavaliers have an outside chance of medaling. It all depends on that outstanding brass line getting just a smidge cleaner....

When a corps’ content scores are lower than their achievement scores in the same caption, that corps has “peaked” in that caption.

...and their ears. The Cavaliers’ brass line is awesome this season.

We alumni are totally behind this effort.

Using the 1980 scoring system Crown would be undefeated because brass used to be worth 25 points and the GE scores were broken up by brass, percussion, and visual. Unfortunately the GE caption is totally different now and brass is only worth 20 points.