JimBurnell

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Been a couple of years since I've been on here, so apologies if I'm not doing this in the right place. I'm selling at face value one great seat for DCA prelims and finals: section 307 (upper deck), row I, seat 16. Right on the 50. A friend wanted to go with me so I bought another pair of seats (not as good, but what can you do?) Image showing where the seat is at https://share.icloud.com/photos/06d18vzmo9ge00wOePeIrGoxg If interested, please contact me at burnelljim@gmail.com ASAP. Thanks!

Did they sell premium parking this year? I can’t find any emails about it or find it in Eventbrite.

I haven’t missed a DCA Finals since 2000, either as a performer or a spectator. I bought tickets for next year before the show started today. As soon as I know for sure that next year’s finals will be streamed, I will be selling those tickets.

The Marching Millionaires (the high school band for the high school that owns the field).

I got directed to an almost empty parking lot right by the entrance... lots of parking. Are you sure you told them you have premium parking?

Anyone else watching the restream?

Did everyone get the memo that Box5 is rebroadcasting the show tonight?

I searched for an answer to this, but my search-fu (like kung-fu) failed me. Other than some minor mathematical details that don't matter when the numbers are added up, the DCI All-Age recaps break out in the same way as DCA sheets: Effect is 50% of score Effect - Visual judge gets 25% of final score 10% visual performance 10% visual design 5% visual communication Effect - Music judge gets 25% of final score 10% music performance 10% music repertoire/composition 5% music communication Visual is 20% of score Visual - Ensemble judge gets 10% of final score 5% design 5% excellence/performance Visual - Color Guard judge gets 10% of final score 5% composition 5% achievement Music is 30% of score Music - Brass judge gets 10% of final score 5% composition 5% excellence/performance Music - Percussion judge gets 10% of final score 5% composition 5% excellence/performance Music - Ensemble judge gets 10% of final scores 5% composition 5% excellence My questions: Are DCI judges scoring All Age corps using DCA sheets, or DCI sheets that break down the same way as DCA sheets but specify different judging criteria? Assuming that DCI judges use DCA sheets to score All Age corps, are "DCI All Age" scores also considered officially to be DCA scores, for historical and seeding purposes? I expected to find an answer to this here somewhere...if it's been covered, a link to the thread would be appreciated. Thanks!

Music City revised score was 65.55 https://twitter.com/CorpsScores/status/1017591475171885056

It turns out that’s only true if you’re using an iPhone or iPad to view them.

Final response: The only recap that had been updated was Finals. All recaps this season have been updated now.The "final decision" is 3 decimal places, standard rounding (0-4 round down, 5-9 round up) until they are able to update their site to allow for 4 decimals (to match the recap). They did qualify the decision with a "we may change our mind" comment.-Matt

...and now they're back to 3 digits, but the summary pages on DCI's site finally follow the same rounding algorithm (round up, so scores never end in a 2 or 7, only in a 0, 5, 5 or 8).

Got a VERY early morning (2:58am) reply from Matt. It appears that we may be going to 4-decimal scores! I checked this morning and recaps are showing 4 decimal places now. Here's his reply: Hi Jim,I've released an updated recap that has the full scores (out to 4 digits). The DCI site is still showing scores to 3 digits instead of 4. This requires a change on their side and I'll be discussing the change with them shortly.Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention. If you notice anything else, please don't hesitate to send me a message.-Matt

Should have checked, but given that the recaps are rounding up, I agree. It must be a bug in the software that displays the totaled scores. Matt's reply: Hey Jim,I'll definitely take a look at this. I know years ago, there was an issue in the software (where the Announcer sheet is printed) that was using Bankers rounding (it's the default rounding method in .NET). I thought we were careful with all other avenues when we do rounding, but we may have missed something.I'll get back to you as soon as I have more information.-Matt