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Yup. And don't forget how gross/creepy people got towards the Bluecoats guard when they did Jagged Line. Now imagine they have money on the line. Or worse yet, performers get in on it - blowing a solo for cash.

One of my first memories from tour was standing in retreat at Giants Stadium next to the Cavaliers right after their three-peat and hearing some bitter old northeastern DCI "fans" shouting obscenities and homophobic slurs at them. Fast forward a few years, I walked by another "fan" urinating on one of their vehicles after they won in 2006.

Given that shows, equipment, uniforms, etc are already in production and the tours are set, I don't think they can change much for this season. My nightmare scenario is seeing a group go belly up mid tour like Teal Sound did.

The individual who suggested it may triple didn't provide a timeline. I don't want to try to guess exactly how much oil will go up, but it's not unreasonable to think it will jump if the conflict persists. I don't like repeating myself, but I think the real effects will felt be once the tankers currently at sea arrive and there aren't any more behind them.

It's also worth noting that the worst of the diesel impacts won't be felt for a month or two until the tankers currently at sea reach their destinations and nothing else can get out.

In real life, I teach economics and government. My kiddos are learning about economic shocks affecting aggregate supply, and one of the things that makes everything more expensive is rising fuel prices(More expensive to travel, more expensive to ship, more expensive to run the machines that make everything, you name it). Putting my Comparative Government teacher hat on (we study Iran as part of the curriculum), there is the potential that current events will be more than a momentary disruption. I'm curious (concerned) to know how bad can it get before a corps decides to pull the plug on the summer or if DCI does it for everyone, a la 2020?

There's a reason we said YEA stood for You Eat After. Those combined camps were the perfect opportunity for the top corps to poach vets.

My snarky side wants to say any YEA corps was treated like a feeder corps.

On this - when's the last time a feeder corps made D1/World class finals alongside the A corps?

If the word stodgy is in your vocabulary and you're not writing historical fiction, there's a reasonable chance that you are in fact stodgy.

The more experienced ones will. I wonder how this will affect younger instructors who have yet to learn judge speak.

Another way it could impact the activity - Competition Suite now offers an AI summary of judge commentary. This could facilitate parsing through comments, but it could also inadvertently steer staffs to fix some issues over others.

My hope is that it assists in non-instructional/creative capacities. Kitchen inventory management to minimize food waste(they're already pretty good at this), scheduling, securing housing, other logistics, etc.

You are absolutely entitled to your opinion. But when your opinion is seen as hostile to a substantial portion of the people participating in the sector your business exists within, don't be surprised when people don't want to do business with you. This is a free market and he did not have a monopoly. Consumers are free to seek comparable services from other producers whose values are more closely aligned with their own.

I'm not saying it should or shouldn't happen, but the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack has been inescapable. I'm confident someone will put it on the field.