brassboy

Every new rule proposal this year was either shot down or withdrawn, WITH the exception of the proposed change to show length. And even that rule was amended to basically make no real change.

Huge stands but looks fairly empty right now. 😔

Welcome everyone from the DeKalb thread! Currently Golden Empire is performing.

At least now the pit being shifted 10 yards makes a lot more sense to me.

That opening soloist is SO good.

Uh, guys...my sugar cubes are playing music at me... 😵

Looks like they're still working out some full ensemble timing issues. But this is so much stronger than their debut performance.

I'm glad they're at least cutting intermission shorter to get back on the original schedule.

And have that ONE section where a coil came undone and it's just sort of straightened out.

The last one they say is the Colts headquarters. The first one was an actual house.

Normally when they lasso it at the end, it stops rotating, which to me makes it make sense that they'd let it spin the whole show. For whatever reason, the sun didn't stop spinning at the end of tonight's performance.

Or at LEAST make it a Wilhelm Scream.

Oh, at their show premiere I saw online, their battery came down front and integrated within the pit for that final push. Guess it didn't work out logistically.

Which DeKalb already did--about 15 minutes.

Interesting choice not to put their horns down after their final cutoff.

Bloo could do this idea justice.

Colors seem about normal to me.

UGH...once again Flo, the HIGH CAMERA IS NOT MEANT TO ZOOM IN FOR TIGHT SHOTS.

I always cringe at a hot mic. What are we gonna hear that we aren't supposed to hear?

Wondered the same thing. Sometimes it feels like Mandarins don’t get the respect they’ve earned as consistent finalists for the last 3 years.

I didn’t see a topic here for tonight’s California show yet. If I overlooked it, Mods please delete this! Debut for the Blue Knights! Lineup & Times All times PT and subject to change 7:00 PM Gates Open 7:50 PM Welcome & National Anthem 8:00 PM Spirit of Sunnyvale - San Jose, CA 8:15 PM Golden Empire - Bakersfield, CA 8:30 PM Gold - San Diego, CA 8:45 PM Blue Devils B - Concord, CA 9:00 PM Intermission 9:20 PM Pacific Crest - Diamond Bar, CA 9:37 PM Mandarins - Sacramento, CA 9:54 PM Blue Knights - Denver, CO 10:11 PM Blue Devils - Concord, CA 10:36 PM Scores Announced

Interesting. Look at every other show and it’s 17 minutes. I think this early east coast show was an exception, maybe since it was a short lineup.

The multi-watch schedule for Friday, July 7:

It doesn’t help that the sun was setting behind all the corps, and Flo’s crew hasn’t yet seemed to figure out the right exposure for backlight like that AND how to update it throughout the night as the lighting changes.

Oh they upped it to 18 this year? Because every show is still using 17 minute slots for each world corps.