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    Tour of Champions Chester- Official Thread 7/30

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

    Posted · Edited by Bobbie'

    Uniform change will be great for most fans and, although I prefer the traditional uniform, I give them credit for taking the risk. Key thing to remember is that crowd excitement might not necessarily translate to higher scores from the judges. We'll find out soon enough.

    Crowd excitement has never helped a corps get higher scores from the judges!

    BUT who cares, it's all about the excitement anyway!!!!

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    TOC Carolina - and the fan favorite will be?

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    This just in:

    Cavaliers will be performing in exhibition.

    "Tonight at the Winston-Salem, NC contest, The Cavaliers will perform in exhibition. As many members of the corps continue to recover from a recent illness, it is important that we take the necessary steps to get back to 100%, which will include tonight's non-scored performance.

    Thank you to the Cavalier Nation for your continued support!"

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    Coastal Surge has folded

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    We are good friends with the British percussionist and his family, and are trying very hard to patiently wait for Music City Legend to call back, but they have taken ALL afternoon without word.

    The window for either driving or flying these two kids to catch up with MCL is closing. Our BEST case scenario tomorrow is a 12 hour drive from Atlanta to Charlotte to Murfreesboro, and it's not improving. We're doing that to save these kids and their families the high price of last minute plane tickets.

    If you're with MCL, please ask Tom Grant or Keith Hall to provide an answer for these two kids, and as quickly as possible. They've already been through enough, emotionally, and dangling an answer is NOT okay.

    Are you sure you mean "Music City Legend"? I only ask because they were an all-age corps, but I can't find anything for them coming out this year.

    Maybe you mean Music City Drum and Bugle Corps?

    Coastal Surge has folded

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    Posted · Edited by Bobbie'

    Just posted from CS Facebook:

    Coastal Surge To all ...

    It is with a very heavy heart that I am reading all of these posts. As a member of the education team and a caption head, I can tell you that we are all devastated. The instructional staff was informed approximately 20 minutes before the membership so we are all feeling shocked and heart broken right now. I am confident that the administration will be open and willing to address all questions and concerns once the members have all left the spring training facility.

    I understand and appreciate the anger and frustration. I also share those feelings with you. However, if we could, let's please put a pause on those emotions momentarily and all be here to emotionally support these kids as they return home.

    It is my sincere hope that all the members of surge find corps homes and continue pursuing their dreams. As much as my own heart is breaking right now, I would do it all again for the opportunity to stand in front of these amazing kids for the 4 short weeks that we shared together. I know I speak for all caption heads and the entire educational team when I say that it has been our distinguished honor and pleasure to work with such amazing and talented students. You will always and forever be our little peanuts, our pumpkin pies, our tater tots, our storm troopers and our babies. Much love to all of you!!!!!

    Xoxoxo

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    Coastal Surge has folded

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    Posted · Edited by Bobbie'

    I feel terrible for all of those kids, but even more so for two of them who came over from England to march Coastal Surge. One is a good drummer who marched Surge last summer and could have gone "up the ladder" to another corps, so to speak, but decided to return to help build Surge and the other is a member of the guard. They marched together in a small corps in England and wanted to have the DCI experience. Welcome to America.

    What breaks my heart most of all about these kids from another country is what are they supposed to do now? Do they have a place to stay before their flights back to England, and are their flights from Indianapolis? I just hate to think what a change fee may be for their airfare to return home now.

    This happening within 2 weeks of what would have been their prelims performance in Michigan City and just days after their preview exhibition is just irresponsible.

    AND, I certainly hope no adult got paid for their experience since those kids did not get the experience they paid for.

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    Troopers 2015 vs Crown 2007

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    Posted · Edited by Bobbie'

    Back in my senior year of high school, there was a marching band that did a literal ripoff of Crown 2007. Drill, music, props, narration, all watered-down of course. This was just after I had returned from my first season of marching drum corps, and let me tell you, seeing that direct of a rip-off ###### me off royally.

    I just don't get that same effect with Wild Horses. And I'd like to think its not just because I'm an alumni...trust me, I've seen some other alumni raise the same concerns that you have. Honestly, I think while the themes are very similar, the execution and content of the show are different enough.

    8 different junior corps have done West Side Story shows. The cadets have done it multiple times by themselves. One thing they teach you in music history is that the greatest innovators in music are those who take the innovations and successes that came before them, and then add to it (example: Liszt was using 12-tone serialism in Faust 60-something years before Schoenberg got ahold of it).

    Just my 2 cents. Yes, there are lots of similarities, but there's also more than enough to make it original.

    Back in the day, most high school bands used to replicate drum corps shows. These days it seems that designers of drum corps are getting their ideas from high school bands OR winter guard that compete at Winter Guard Internationals Championships, since a lot of their judges gives the scores for Drum Corps International Championships.

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    Troopers 2015 vs Crown 2007

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    sooo.... probably saw from my Akron review but it's really disturbing to me how similar these two shows are. There are certainly things that are different but here are a few of the things I saw that were too uncanny to be coincidences..

    1) about 20 large white moving fence pieces that could be IDENTICAL to crown's in size/shape/color

    2) guard uniforms= tight, brown, furry leggings-- like they are the horses basically

    3) two wavy S-shaped lines of brass that merge into one while holding out long chord--

    4) guard choreography and staging in the opening (back field grouped together, pawing at the ground with their feet as if they were hooves)--- and closer with a group of 5 or 6 running across the front of the formation from left to right as in a horse race

    5) opening musical statement to set the scene

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    and honestly--- i loved both shows, Crown 07 and Troopers 15... i really really liked it. I was very impressed at the entire troopers production and found myself thoroughly entertained and wow-ed and stuff----- -- but have any of you ever seen such a direct copy of a show concept from a design standpoint? I mean--- 2007 wasn't that long ago---

    i dunno.. hadn't seen much on this

    27th Lancers 79-80

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    This is it! DCI Finals 2014

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    I'll be the first to claim that BD will break 100 tonight!

    LOL, especially since the judges have set it up for that.

    I'm betting that the 50% of the scores for the designers get all perfect, then they'll blame the members for not reaching 100.

    DCI has practically announced the record breaking score (with different judges sheets, sorta but not really) on their website.

    Thank goodness I gave up on who the judges pick a long time ago, and pick my own favorite "shows" BUT always love what the young people do with what they are given to do.

    The performers are great, it's the designs I usually question.

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