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Anyone know what the attendance numbers were for Indy? I’m sure it’s been answered somewhere in the thread but I don’t wanna look😂

Currently at the moment you need probably 19.9s minimum from all judges to match, potentially exceed BD in GE, and the corps right beneath them weren’t some massive gap off away from them on the score sheets themselves when it comes to what they put out there, so even throwing point 15 out there sounds odd to me. Some folks are arguing every corps has gimmicks, and to a degree they’re not wrong, even BD. lots of semantics with the discussion as to what words define what GE truly is when it is discussed, even when referencing the word-for-word writing as rigid of the caption when there is room for interpretation obviously. Using words such as demand, clarity, gimmickry, cleanliness, variety, etc. mean different things to different people a lot of the time. As far as I’m concerned, 20’s on the sheets for GE that a corps earns could be earned in a multitude of ways by the sound of it! Personally, I never go into a show to see who has the most “effective” show, never have I said “**** that’s some GE right there!!” for any particular moment. I just go in trying to feel something, and that’s all I wanna get from any show from any corps, that’s all for me mainly.

I am usually an optimist, many folks will probably argue 2023 exceeded 2022 in terms of the overall quality of shows and corps, I feel the same will be true for 2024. For me personally, there hasn’t been a show for me that have really made an INSANE monumental impact for me since the 2010’s in the moment when watching live, although some shows definitely have great re-watchability and are fantastic earworms(bluecoats lately especially). Purely a personal take of course, I hope 2024 has that for me, I still think that corps will continue to get better next summer🫡

Oh yes I know, that’s why I said they did music GE in particular. I do think Crown will have a steady GE score this time around, especially when they were able to take one of the 4 judges away from BD, it bodes well.

The scenes where both characters are impaled are very similar, it’s a meme😂

2018, SCV’s hornline sent me to another plane of existence, haven’t had that replicated since live with any corps so I am indebted to them🙏🫡 while this corps isn’t as powerful as I imagine 2012-14 Crown was, never saw them live, I did appreciate all the little snippets and bits that you heard that remind you of ‘12-‘13 and ‘15-‘16 when I heard them live. Couldn’t say that about last year AT ALL…that’s the difference this year with Crown, plus I think the show subject is catered for them, the uniforms are quite cool, etc. etc. haha

Crownies must be very happy of the result tonight, GE music judge that gave them first happens to be one of my past HS band directors, every time I see his name on the sheets, usually music analysis, music GE, i know he will have a pretty favorable opinion for Crown🫡

For crown: have you not watched Shrek 3??? He should’ve gone for the head🙃🙃

It’s going 3/3 in my estimation, and they’re off to a great start with pulling ahead average wise as a corps that could beat them one night probably had too low of a prelims score to match their average if they get topped. The caption is theirs👀🎉🎉

If I were to have predicted Percussion tonight, which I did as the show was going on, I had Crown in 5th. Not that I know anything about percussion, just where I thought scores would go! Very pleased to see them 2nd overall in night 1 of course haha

Would be an early dub for ya! We’ll see if it sticks the next few days, I have no doubt there’s a lot of caption poaching amongst the corps on the score sheets tonight👀

Been a pleasure having you provide commentary!

Placement swaps, caption swaps are more likely than not in that range!

Nothing is set in stone at all between 5-7, all three of them had great runs and there’s gonna be plenty of discourse between where corps will end up! My pure “wants” rn would be: Phantom Cadets Mandarins but we’ll see!

To each their own!🫡🫡 I know there’s various corps that employ the *shimmering* visual eye catcher to their uniforms, notably Boston this year with their front of their uniforms simulating the ocean blue, which I thought was cool to see in Denton earlier this year, BD has done it various years, I personally don’t find myself ever disliking it!

Shows nowadays, not speaking aesthetically, but you know it where you hear it, could use more of that ✨sparkle✨ Phantom is known for being a “romantic” corps in their aura, the music they play etc. rose-colored glasses galore, I think it suits them! Also great job Phantom! Loved it in the theater, and at Denton earlier in the year, achieving more and more each performance!

My thoughts of all three, SOA is more carefree and brisk, but also quite emotional Crossmen’s is more ambitious musically and visually in regards to corps movement/drill PC’s is the most mature, theatrical imo

Haven’t really seen Spirit’s show until the theater showing today, and I can definitely see why they were a crowd favorite, their show flew by compared to Crossmen and it was a really enjoyable watch👀

Here in Texas, in a crowd that had a decent number of high schoolers, they had bought group tickets I imagine, they weren’t bad at all. Cheering for their own if they knew someone in the corps, that did happen, but the crowd was pretty subdued! I’ve had mostly decent experiences watching at the theater, 2019 being especially great ‘cause they finally turned the knob up on the audio system and you could definitely feel the weight of corps’ performances! That’s something I’m definitely gonna look out for this year and make sure, someway somehow that is replicated!

Good mindset to have. And yeah, I was quite surprised BD ended up slipping in percussion, it could all change later this week. Bloo taking percussion last year was not on many people’s bingo card, BD has been able to snag the top score in captions on finals night other corps won overall quite often. Even if I’m not a BD fan, these possibilities are always there. On the flip side, I like the tightness that we’re seeing not just with *X* corps and BD, but among the top 4 as a whole. Caption swaps are gonna be happening THROUGHOUT the weekend, and I think that’s pretty exciting to see. Maybe the most solidified caption out of any might be Cavies percussion at this point!! Quite the crazy season it’s been👀

Great job Cadets!! keep rounding into form, your demand is there, the impact you’re leaving on the audience is all there!! Can’t wait to hear these final performances!

Considering there was the need to place the 5-7 tier, since none of them performed yesterday, I believe the two shows definitely were two different things. BD and Bloo performed and the next closest corps to them is, Cavaliers? I think? Hard to say you can compare them both as one. it is great to see what close battles are going on between all these corps though, a deserving medalist at this point won’t be medaling, the margin between 5-7 is almost nothing, crazy to see!

Not taking shots at Bloo here, like their show, but I’d be surprised if either them(hornline+percussion) or their narration surpassed 100 db this year🙃

Didn’t even think about that, but yes, they will be at all the premier shows next year more than likely👀👀 for BD it didn’t necessarily equate to more shows during Broken Arrow/Texas Tour week. All they did was the Houston show and SA. I know this because they have skipped the DFW area for the past two years now🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

I meant to say that for ‘22. It was real difficult. I’m ok standing in front of the amp for this year’s narration strangely haha