brassboy

Hmm, AdBlock Plus blocks the ads for me while I'm watching the High Camera feed.

Yeah I heard those sirens as well. Wonder if maybe there are doors open that aren't supposed to be?

Guess we'll see if OC was able to find a last-minute replacement for their "bathtub lady" featured dancer. And I hope the original performer is recovering well.

They dropped 1.4 in Total GE alone. Considering those are the scores that earn their full weight, it seems like those judges may have been a little over-ambitious yesterday.

I posted the link a couple pages back.

It would for me too if I hadn't heard them in person and found myself gobsmacked at how many quality issues there were--issues I rarely (if ever) associate with BD's hornline.

Sturgeon is a very familiar name to me. I think they've been judging for a while.

Yup.

Oh, the revised media policy specifically DOES allow YouTube links. So here you go, @Jason Harrison and @Ghost: https://youtu.be/wkCH-0KPvsU Skip ahead about 26 seconds to where the video jumps to the closer.

Are we allowed to post ShmooBoob links here? I can never keep track of the media policies.

THIS. It was either wait a week or so for DCW or spend money and dial the 976-phone number for the scores hotline.

Don't use their initials. Full name, year, and for the search filter, use "Last Hour." And then jump ahead about 25 seconds.

I’m pretty sure those are their alternates.

But Phantom and Mandarins have been sitting in 10th and 11th, respectively. I don’t quite follow your logic here.

One other thing I really wish they could do is mix in crowd reaction audio more. Right now I believe you can only hear whatever the field-facing mics can pick up from the audience. But for me, part of the excitement of watching drum corps is hearing the crowd go nuts during big hits or at the end of a show.

Love the idea, but clearly this just isn't possible for Flo to do on the fly in a live stream.

That was a 2 point jump for Spirit.

Mostly the same judges from the Mustang, OK show.

I think Cadets 2018 would match that field pretty well too.

I don't think they currently do. However, corps DO have a chance to fill out a form that helps Flo determine placement of their dedicated mics for pit speakers. This is especially important now as more corps have more than two stacks but Flo only has two mics for speakers.

Flo needs a dedicated microphone just to capture the horn snap in SCV's ballad. Mandarins now slides their rear backdrops apart like a curtain to reveal their first guard member just as the solo dancer "dies." A camera shot that captures this (with the dancer in the foreground and the guard reveal directly behind in the background) from head-on near field level would be pretty chilling. Every time Boston spells something out on the field, they need a high cam shot.

No, I instructed pre-electronics. But asking corps to fix their balance of electronics to acoustics is not the same as asking a corps to turn it louder to BE louder.

Do you have actual verification of this, or is this just hyperbole? In my 10 years instructing, I had never once heard a judge actually say a corps needed to be louder. What I HAVE heard is the need to make moments more effective by having more contrast. So if a line isn't very loud (either due to size or ability), then bring down the lower end of the dynamic range to create the illusion of actual volume. Sometimes this would be in the context of "Yes, you are not as loud as Corps B, but you can still be as effective."

Considering Spirit is actually at the Centerville, OH show that same evening, I'm guessing they're probably not doing the encore in WV. :)

Same as every other regional and championships: take placements from previous regional (in this case, Atlanta), reverse the order, then random draw within groups of 3 (1st-3rd, 4th-6th, etc.).