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  1. 3 hours ago, Ghost said:

    I watch hours of sports year round, except the No Basketball Allowed league, but very seldom does the viewer actually hear what players are saying to each other.  No, I don't consider those comments real smack talk Cappy.    No profanity, nothing about anyone's sex life, parents, relatives, girl/boy friends, etc.  Just the shock and surprises that BD didn't win the Z.  Maybe a judge or two might be upset that they were told on DCP that they suck.

    But the quotes didn’t even say that. They all seemed to be right after performance (before scores) saying who they thought pulled it off. After, I saw nothing but congrats for BAC. What did you see?

  2. 4 hours ago, Cadevilina Crown said:

    Would be interesting to see what the World Championships would be like if they still used the averaged scores from all the regionals at Prelims and the scores achieved the previous night at Semis and Finals, but randomized the order in groups of 3 every night, just like the regionals do. Same goes for Open Class championships.

    I know BOA does something kinda similar by announcing the finalists in random order without scores and then setting the lineup in groups of 5-7, depending on the number of finalists.

    Yeah, let’s not announce scores and have a blind draw for performance order. 🤮

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  3. 27 minutes ago, jasgre2000 said:

    Yes, but it seems like that's the exception rather than the rule. The only reason a judge would change their score is if they didn't "leave enough room" to properly slot a corps that went on earlier in the night. I don't think there has ever been a corps that went on earlier than last that's ever got a perfect score, and under the current system there will likely never be one. That will effect every score going all the way down to 12th. If judges feel free to give a 10.0 to the last corps, but not to any earlier corps, that gives the corps going into finals in first place a huge advantage.

    This does effect every score going down to the bottom. For example, if you are judging the corps that goes 6th to last, you know that the highest score you can give is a 9.7 (since you have to leave 5 half points ahead of them to "leave room" for the remaining corps). This is why slotting happens.

    Why is it a “huge advantage?” They can still place above or below the corps before them. It would be a huge DISADVANTAGE if the best they could do was a tie at the top of the caption.

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  4. 29 minutes ago, 27Socal said:

    Looks like what did it for BD were the 3 judges who flip flopped from BC to BD since their last head to head.   Stone (GE1), Chumley (VA) and Sturgeon (Guard).  I think Stone was the most questionable, because all the other 3 GE judges had BC over BD.

    And? BD had two GE judges put them on top the night before. I thought the math had this panel overwhelmingly in favor of the boys in Canton?

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  5. 31 minutes ago, theonlyfizzle said:

    I don't see a lot of comments on Vanguard Achievements not only they won Sanford but they were the only Defending champs to have come back to win a medal the year after winning gold, in how long 2008 to 2009 phantom, 2011 to 2012 Cadets ect................. Fill the blanks. Congrats SCV on breaking that trend.

    You for got to say “other then the Blue Devils”

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  6. 13 minutes ago, cfirwin3 said:

    GE is hitting a ceiling.  Bloo got one perfect score in achievement tonight and there will be more by finals.  The spread will have to be maintained... so the real make-up (it looks to me) is for BD to place one spot higher in brass, percussion, or music analysis.

    This is where it gets scary for the Bluecoats. If GE scores tighten at all, they could slip to second, even if everything else stays where it is. The spread is just that close. If the Blue Devils win over just one GE judge (perhaps with a visual emphasis), it could be enough.

     

    i honestly think the winner of semis wins it all. Going on last at finals is a big advantage and allows you to max out in your best captions. Only .1 apart tonight, this could still go either way. What an exciting finish!!!

  7. 18 minutes ago, dureau said:

    i think to make everything equal, they should all be required to perform a certain number of times. And they all should be required to perform the same number of times. Take money out of it and make all things equal.

    No problem...as soon as they create as many early season shows in the West as they have elsewhere. Keep in mind during the first two weeks of the season, the West has shows only on the weekend available to them.

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  8. 6 hours ago, wvu80 said:

    That would be one of my all-time favorites, Blue Devils 1988.  What a horn show they had!

    Also the show I point to illustrate the visual impact that was lost with those dang gray and black uniforms in a large stadium.   They were phenomenal in small venues where you could see them up close and personal.

    YESSSSS!!  I am surprised by all of the gray I am seeing this year.

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  9. 3 hours ago, wvu80 said:

     

    We are at the point in the season where the interaction between the corps and audience is taken into account in the judging.

    It's hard to explain unless you've been to a final or two but by semis and finals the crowd collective seems to pick its favorite and gets behind them vocally.  Witness in 2008 a technically inferior Sparticus show vs BD that year which was carried over the finish line by the rabid audience response to the ending.

    Last night the crowd started spontaneously SINGING "Hey Jude" as the Bluecoats were exiting the field!  That was incredible and the kind of GE you can't get any other way.  You know the corps and Bloo's staff heard it, as well as the judges.  That has to make an impact.

    I wonder how this will play out in finals with the crowd singing?

    Maybe, though going back about 30 years, there was another corps with a tag ending that had the entire crowd clapping along as they played and exited the field. They won every show that year and took third at finals.

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  10. 11 hours ago, MikeRapp said:

    I don’t really get these BD fans who make this into some weird personal battle. It’s band. Why not just enjoy the shows? 

    Huh? Maybe I missed an earlier post, but the one you quoted was something about how great both shows were and they didn’t care who won.

     

    now, if you want to see some real nastiness, go to the DCI page post on this show. There is a lot of butthurt going on there.

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