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    The Staff Merry-go-round

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    11 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:

    Well, you have thought this through better than I. You win. 

    This is the equation and analysis that all corps should be doing. It is terrible business and ruins your reputation if you just go out and hire famous designers and then let them go the next year. The finances have to support your vision.

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    2023 DCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS

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    49 minutes ago, Cappybara said:

    There’s no need to infantilize it, it’s still a valid model and suggestion. It’s just one that I think will greatly decrease the interest both marchers and audiences have for the activity, and therefore I simply don’t agree that it is the right model for DCI. 
     

    And I completely agree with you that it would be nice to allow corps to make art without having to worry about certain things that competition introduces, particularly budget issues. And that is why I’m in full support of sharing winnings equally or basing it off of who travels the most. Financially, I am all for any move that promotes parity within DCI and allows corps that are struggling a bit more financially than others to have as many resources as possible for a good and safe member experience. Doing so would prolong the survival of this activity

    Isn’t that what Soundsport is for?

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    Madison Scouts 2024

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    37 minutes ago, Cappybara said:

    I’m assuming you’re being a bit tongue-in-cheek with that last paragraph? Competitive inertia is very real, and the only corps who has maybe been able to buck it is BAC, but that was because they gained competitive inertia in 2017 from a series of championship caliber staff hires. And despite those hires, they have not been able to get the gold in the 5 years the staff has been together

    They seem to have built a sustainable business model, though. With the hopefully temporary departure of SCV, the space near the top also got easier to occupy. Boston doesn’t appear to be borrowing money against next year’s receipts, which as we well know is a pretty certain path to bankruptcy.

    Madison Scouts 2024

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    This is just my own personal observation and it’s not based in anything but experience: it seems most of the design issues around Madison that are clearly not working are likely the result of budget pressures.

    Boston always had good designers but they didn’t have the money to fund the sort of commitment that it takes to be a perennial medal contender. This now includes huge props (and all the expenses that go with maintaining and shipping them) and concert level audio systems.

    It doesn’t take rocket science to understand that just hiring “better” designers isn’t likely to just change your show and performance quality.

    Hiring the educator staff that is now in place at Boston also came with changing and dramatically increasing budgets for training and design—literally committing to an entirely new and frankly scary level of finances. And if you aren’t making finals, your budget just got slashed.

    Is it realistic to expect Madison to compete with perennial medalist contending corps on a shoestring budget?

     

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    The Staff Merry-go-round

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    1 hour ago, TheOneWhoKnows said:

    Vanguard won’t be back and it’s time to release Rennick and Gaines.

    Gaines needs to go back to Cavies. Rennick can go be at troopers or help another corps elsewhere build up a percussion program. Though after this year everyone’s percussion was on fire sooooo

    Gosh I hope you are wrong. 

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