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Alright, all aboard this for a few days until reality comes crashing back down.

I just listed 4 incredible shows, and was talking about how much I like them even regardless of some of the crazy stuff that happened in ONE performance of an incredible season.

Those two shows, on finals night (way moreso than the rest of the season), a few individuals in the hornlines decided to give more than their all. 98 mello section, 2000 trumpet section. It wasn't really like that for the season, that I can remember, they were just things that happened on those nights. I can listen to it with perspective and remember the hornlines for how they actually were. Other times this has happened would be 2000 Cavaliers, where they overhyped the hell out of the finals run and a tuba player in the 2003 Phantom Regiment show who plays so loud at times it sounds like wrong notes. All anomalies compared to the rest of the season.

I'm just the negative guy, remember? :-) That show was entertaining but some of the transitions were pretty terrible. The transition to start the drum break was pretty rough. Some of the guard transitions were pretty rough. Etc. I think they were given some serious nods for how entertaining the show was, and for the fact it had to do with the millenia. Also, much like my 98 comment, when I watch this show I ignore the hero(s).

Dirty because they were all over the field doing stuff that wasn't really done in the era. LoL I watch the horns because of the drill moments. I try to ignore the mello hero, though.

Not particularly. I think the sweet spot is something like 98 cadets. MUCH more guard integration. Quite a bit of dancing. Some incredible flag moments. They frame the field, they highlight moments, they have multiple responsibilities, the rifles were incredible. Point being, the late 90's are a bigger embodiment of what I think George means than something like 96 cadets.

I see a bad guard transition, followed by hard work with no lower body, followed by zero guard integration.

Do you want 1988? Because that's how you get 1988.

I don't currently have any concerns with the judges. I said Regiment gets the benefit of the doubt. I never said they shouldn't.

No. It was NS drill part deux.

That show got the benefit of the doubt. Would have been lower without it.

The irony being that people think this is some sort of win for Troopers. They are saddled by corps that are abashedly, light years better than they are. They don't come out from this looking better than they are, they come out looking way worse.

So the judge looks up from his sheet and he/she just saw Phantom Regiment, Crossmen, and BK. YOU DON'T THINK FOR A SECOND THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, all things being equalish, is given to Regiment? You cray.

No one could clean it in its current form, let alone making it longer.

So have they gotten rid of the 10,000 count follow the leader in a big arc, that goes on for days, during the drum break, that ends in a circle that also doesn't ever set? I only ask because they are fixing a couple terrible decisions like that, away from moving on up, in my eyes. They are dangerous right now, without even addressing that stuff, imagine if some common sense prevailed in the few areas like that they have in the show.

Yes, but as a troll, i'm not one of those people. I'll destroy them as well. PM me if you ever see any of that optimistic hogwash.

Good heavens. At least there is some realism from some people in here. I can hardly see through the hype cloud. It is not a full panel and it is a home show. If you put much stock into this score, you're going to have a bad time. Don't believe me? Go back to the hype train after the BAC victory. People lack perspective.

Depth is hard to explain, but you know it when you see it. Sure, it is hard to paint fruit, because it requires a working knowledge of the intricacies of painting. BUT, it is harder to draw less literal images, because it requires a part of the artistic experience that is indefinable. Madison's show is fruit. It is wonderful. It is well done. It is literal as hell. It requires a LOT of excellence and knowledge to put together. But that bowl of fruit isn't Edward Munch's The Scream.

Yep. And ScoJo was the one judging on finals night.

Considering this is on post #143 now, and as volatile as this discussion is, it is actually a pretty good sign that, for the most part, it hasn't gotten completely out of hand.

How can someone preach objectivity when they had children on staff very recently. If anything, that would remove A LOT of objectivity. Everyone's judgement is pretty equally clouded in this scenario.

One thing for sure, those kanstul horns are x1000% nicer than yamaha horns. I'm jealous those kids get to play on those horns.

Everything on the sheets ties into other sheets, so it would only make sense that the captions stay in the general area of each other, unless extreme circumstances pop up. Let's use an 8 person panel, for example. I have a great brass section. My brass section can play well, almost all the time. Because of this, they DIRECTLY influence the Visual Analysis Caption (simultaneous responsibility and achievement, baby!), the Visual Analysis caption DIRECTLY influences both General Effect (for obvious reasons) and Visual Proficiency. My brass also playing well correlates to the obvious Brass, and Music Analysis captions. When each caption connects to so many others, it is difficult for one caption to stand out against the others. Guard, for example, is INCREDIBLY overvalued in DCI. It effects 5 captions but the members aren't playing and their version of simultaneous responsibilities called the "triad" is even easier to design around.

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You don't have to worry about that anymore. That was the first week of the season and the Troopers haven't and won't sniff that pack again.