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    Carolina Crown 2024

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    Innovation

    Coming back to this topic that my friend Karuna brought forward.  When I look across the activity .. unless you want a Bluecoats show.. I see pretty standard fare in visual and musical design. And when Crown tries to get too far outside their sweet spot it kinda flops. Yeah the brass choreo is a little stale. The guard work was under written last year and they could have executed more.  Percussion has really moved stylistically and it paid off.  Brass remains solid .. so with a new visual team .. we’ll see. I think with the new leadership there will continue to be some level of freshness .. maybe not necessarily innovation. 
     

    Word is they recruited well .. with Crown being a perc destination .. !!! Guard filled early too. I hear bigger props .. which is not a Crown tradition. Who knows but I’m excited to see what they bring out .. 👑

     

    Not too early to plan the NB hookup. 
     

    👑👑👑 Suite for sure. 

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    Carolina Crown 2023

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    What should they do next year .. story telling seems to have worked this year but you can’t do that every year. And anything in the philosophical realm didn’t seem to work in these past few years’ shows. Too many dots to connect … the keep it straightforward and not obtuse is definitely a carry forward .. let some of the drill set (not always moving) build over the season .. guard can handle more content .. just my 2¢ 

    It’s not Crown material but someone needs to put on Moulin Rouge. Done well it could be strong. 
     

    On to college football for me. I’ve gotta let DCI go for a minute. 👑

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    Carolina Crown 2023

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    15 minutes ago, NewArpege said:

    I’m not counting Crown out for 1st. Crazy things happen. If they tighten up and have a trick or two up their sleeve, they can squeak a win. 

    Whew .. that would be a very tight squeak. But I’m all in ..

    LET’s GO CROWN 

    👑🔥👑🔥👑🔥👑🔥👑

    👑🗡️👑🗡️👑🗡️👑🗡️👑

     

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    Carolina Crown 2023

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    9 minutes ago, TigerBaritone19 said:

    Think they beat Bloo tonight?

    More this year than in recent memory, this is gonna be about personal taste .. and analysis .. those fuzzy edges where it can go either way on any night. My 2¢

    Crown did what they needed to do we’ll see here soon .. 

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    Carolina Crown 2023

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    2 hours ago, Cappybara said:

    I have genuinely no idea, my only guess is they've just been doing a lot of shows + incorporating a lot of changes all in one go. Maybe 3-4 days of dedicated rehearsal is exactly what they need to tighten everything up 

    Yeah .. they looked off at NightBeat even. Atlanta they were on it.
    Idk. It’s weird .. the closer .. just isn’t clean .. and it’s not getting cleaner. I’ve seen it since Atlanta .. and perc.  ?!? 
    Guard is inconsistent. I’m not beating up on them they are undefeated .. but they’re getting chased pretty hard. Again atypical. Usually this is when they put the Blue Devil into high gear and sprint to gold. I don’t see that this year. 
     

    of course I’d prefer Crown 👑 take it all. 

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    Carolina Crown 2023

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    19 hours ago, craiga said:

    Just a reaction to all the comments last night about Boston and Crown numbers not be legit because we weren't on the same night as BD....

    Which is BS .. DCI even states Allentown is judged as one event.
    Let’s get Crown and BAC into Gold and Silver… or vice versa. But that would be an epic throw the baby moment.
    Given the scoring lately who the heck knows.  I’m expecting big numbers for Bloo and BAC tonight .. 🤡

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    Carolina Crown 2023

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    2 hours ago, Bneat said:

    ...I rechecked - and, that's NOT how the story is supposed to end at BAC. I kinda feel bad for the whale now. hmpf. 

    Vis Performance/Analysis is a place for growth. I truly wish the best for all members and have every belief in confidence that the staff are doing the right things re: member health/safety...but, I swear, those blanks in the drill are somethin. 

    Good news...I think...or, i've rationalized...good news is that the three blanks I spotted on Sat night were also present in the Crown. So...I have to believe that there is an expectation that those holes will be filled. They wouldn't have wrote a set with expected blanks in it, right? 🙂 Yea...so, seeing the holes in the end actually lifted my spirits. And again, this is a tough cookie to crumble, but, I saw the members trying to close them down at times, and other times not - which is never a good look. If the holes themselves didn't depress scores ever so slightly (which they shouldn't), then there is an argument for some of the slinky spacing that was going on as a result. 

    Overall - vis concept and design is a place where, I think the Crowns need to reevaluate. I think this package is, and will be deserved wherever the chips fall (1-4). But, when I look at the drill and staging, I do find a lack of crisp-ness to it...and I think it's more design that technique. A lot of the sets seem spaghetti strand-y (very official term btw), and there are times where I wonder why some of the development develops in the way it develops. Not that it's bad...just wonder why.  And I would say/will say this whether there's a medal, a ring, or neither.  And, who cares what I have to say, anyway!?!?!?! 🙂

    With .337 between the top four, there is no telling what will or won't make the difference between one judge in one sub-caption giving that edge....or not. Maybe 12 minutes of good spacing makes it all lock in. .337 can come down to an attack....a release....a roll....technique on a catch...

    The insignificance of what can make that difference is wildly significant! Ir feels like the wind ia behind the crown, and that's a great place to be. It's so weird to say, but, a week is a long-time - however, one week from right now, we'll have all the answers.

    Long Live the Crown.

    Was the boot off the horn soloist ? He’s one hole. 

    Carolina Crown 2023

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    Posted · Edited by BWise

    Me thinks the Crown dagger is a big drill and maybe too much change at this point. 
    I was talking to Grandpa. I think that silk can even be sparkly gold ?!?  
    They added four measures last night .. but it still does not feel 100% finished. 
     

    Guard doing choreo for the final counts is popular but dang I want apparatus full tilt on those final measures. 
     

    My 2¢ that’s worth 0¢

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    Carolina Crown 2023

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    8 hours ago, MadisonBandMan1 said:

    You know, it’s amazing how much they’ve changed in the last week and yet they have cleaned it *so much* that’s like the fourth new ending and it looks like it’s been in for a while. Makes me wonder how long all of these changes were being worked on in rehearsal before they went in in a show. 

    I think the changes have been in rehearsal for a while.  Crown set maybe pre Murfreesboro.. I would love to see a silk fill the Crown like Inferno but bigger. Fill the Crown. I also like the idea of the guard being the sword 🗡️ in the Crown. 

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    Carolina Crown 2023

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    22 minutes ago, NewArpege said:

    Haven’t loved a show this much since SCV in 2018!  
     

    Still think Crown has more room to improve, especially the section right before the end where they are stretched out to right field. The form isn’t clean as they bring it in and it’s so exposed that it’s noticeable.  If they reconfigured that form and brought it in closer, they’d also have more time to add visual drill going into that pulled cross moment. 

    And I’m also still waiting on something from the pulled apart round table. We talked about having images under before. They could have also made them tilt so corps could run on the angled table like BC did that year. 
     

    I think the guard still has more room for growth too.  Last night, there were a number of places they weren’t perfectly together.  If they click and stay close to BAC, it’s gonna be a nail-biter.


    Excited to see if they make any more changes or just clean this next week. 

    Almost exactly my thoughts .. I saw those guard glitches.. but they are in a great place. The guard running into the Crown feels rushed .. and I think there might be more there.  
    I had also hoped they would activate the table halves somehow.  They basically pull to the thirties and sit…. definitely tipping up would help but that’s a big change  .. 

    I like that there is room to clean and grow more .. the BAC show seems to be maxed out but .. and on Flo high cam the ocean flyover looks rushed and a bit “we gotta add something”. As friend told me .. they are over laying now. 
     

    Pretty good to be basically tied for 2nd. 

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