brassboy

I have no doubt that feedback regarding this change will be a hot topic among judges when they next convene, and I'm going to trust them to decide its fate over the opinions of us armchair judges.

Well clearly Plato is biased against one of them. 😜🙃

Someone will do a show based on the musical "Hadestown." Now, that's not REALLY a prediction so much as it's me putting that out into the universe and hoping some show designer will pick it up.

In case someone hasn't already answered this later in the thread, no. In 1989, Star of Indiana earned 6th place with a 95.30.

Almost across the board.

I’ve been wondering the same thing all season.

I do think DCI needs to be a little stricter about guidelines for who judges finals--mainly, they should have judged at least one regional OR have judged every World Class corps at least once. Orefice (who judges Visual Proficiency tomorrow at Finals) has never judged SCV, Cavies, Blue Knights, and Mandarins before. That's a LOT of corps to have a first-read on at DCI Finals. I'm not questioning that judge's ability, but none of those corps have ever gotten feedback of any kind from that particular judge.

BD and Bloo both had minor ensemble tears.

HUGE congrats to the Mandarins, who have broken the years-long bad luck streak of first-time finalists not returning to finals the following year. You've shown the world that last year was NOT a fluke, and I couldn't be happier for or prouder of you all! Enjoy the crap out of performing in finals tomorrow!

Couldn't agree more. It's just bad to arrange it so brass doubles a vocal solo.

Did Goliath's head fall off early? If so, that's two nights in a row that Goliath lost his head early (I'm pretty sure it popped off too early yesterday too, but it was hard to tell on the broadcast).

I mean, as of last night they're in 11th, Dan.

I tweeted at them about it during PC. Maybe they received it.

What's the purpose of disguising the male guard members as brass players for the first couple minutes of the show?

Usually that small. People doing the lot thing, which I just never understood.