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Listen, Mr. Fart… i DO get triggered. About important things, like abuse, and man’s inhumanity to man. Disagreeing with you, responding to your snark, is NOT being triggered. People with REAL triggers don’t throw that word around carelessly. One thing i DON’T get triggered about is drum corps. Especially as a BD fan. If they win, great! The sun will come up the next day and i can enjoy another year of supporting a great organization. If they don’t win, the sun will still come up that Sunday, and i can look forward to supporting a corps hell bent on winning in 2024.

Maybe your comments just aren’t funny?

I can never accurately guess where they are going, and usually am so far off the mark!

I think i love you!

Again, a claim based on YOUR metrics. I seem to recall unanimous agreement and popularity for Metamorph. With Ghostlight right behind.

Yes. It should have won. And there were parts of it that i even liked,

I was going to let this go, but it was insulting, so i figured i would explain. i loved Bluecoats since many, many years ago when they played Funny Valentine. Tilt was such as big step away from that, it seemed so unexpected and random to me, and I wasn’t receptive. And i am not a fan of dystopian stuff, angst, or doom and gloom. I get enough of that in real life. Drum corps, to me, is an escape. I like uplifting, happy, beautiful stuff. ARTISTIC stuff. But i can still appreciate what I don’t care for. maybe i am a BETTER drum corps fan because of that?

Another case of hyperbole. I didn’t care for Tilt, and neither did the people sitting around me. We all had different reasons as to why.

I’m not! 😂😂

If that is your opinion, that’s cool. I am sorry you feel that way i do get your perspective. But it still isn’t fact.

I think everyone here understands how excited everyone would be if BD gets beaten. I would be excited for whoever beats them, because that will mean they EARNED it and that’s all i care about. That the best should win, regardless of what happened last year, or last decade. That DOESN’T mean that BD needs to change how they do things. i guess you just want to use an applause meter from now on, in which case all of the shrieking teenage girls will ensure that whoever has the cutest guy chucking a rifle will win.

Never mind

Maybe we aren’t engaging with your premise because we do not agree! It is NOT a requirement, or even necessary, for a show to appeal to the masses. Never was a requirement, hopefully will never BE a requirement. I have followed SCV since 1975, and i disliked Babylon intensely. I didn’t relate to anyone saying they found it enjoyable, appealing, or easy to understand. I thought it was dark, gloomy, and depressing. But the music was great, the percussion stellar, and the guard was top notch. And i never once thought that SCV should care what i thought about it

Repeating yourself isn’t going to help your cause. The implication is that you are right and we just don’t get it. Which couldn’t be further from the truth. We get your point but many disagree. and, boiled down, your point seems to be that the ONLY way for this to be FAIR is to find some way to penalize or handicap BD so all of the other corps have a chance. I wonder how the MM in BAC, Bloo, and Crown would feel if they knew that their fans think the only way they can win is to kneecap their biggest competition.

If that issue you present is “fact”, then your facts are wrong, because I don’t have a problem with anyone winning 60% of the time if the people paid to judge give them the highest scores. I remember back when the Cavaliers and Cadets were winning every year, thinking that the Devs may never win again. But i never thought the Cavs and Cadets were being unjustly rewarded.

No kidding?

This whole thread disturbs me. People complaining that BD wouldn’t win if they were coerced or forced to change up their style and/or music? With the instructors and member talent in this organization, i believe they could come up with another undefeated season if they were told to do a whole show using nursery rhyme songs!

Love em or hate em, when you ask someone to go to a corps show, invariably they will ask “will BD be there?”.

He LITERALLY offered the scenario of Phantom as a corps who MUST play some classical music every year!

Flo is very good at listening to suggestions for where they should have their cameras during a show. Email them with some suggestions about where they should be looking and at what point in the show. They have cue cards from the corps themselves on what they should key on, but, outside of that, they don’t really know the shows.

I ave to believe that is at least part of the plan. They are already posing all around the field. It would be a missed opportunity if they didn’t expand on that.

maybe something along these lines?

This! I hadn’t even considered the emotional toll this week must have taken on them. 😔 If anyone can get them back in the groove, it’s ScoJo and team!

If there was ever a year when a crown set is required, this is it. The whole story is about a crown!

I doubt your wish will be fulfilled anytime soon. BD seems to have made a conscious decision a while back to perform uplifting, upbeat, positive shows, and I don’t envision whipping post fitting into that scheme!