Maestro767

First live show was 1999 DCI East in Allentown. SCV was unreal.

What say you?

http://www.pacific-crest.org/2012/11/tom-aungst-joins-percussion-staff/

Anyone using one of the hotspot devices I listed above?

I figured I would probably have to get something like the AT&T Elevate or the newest Verizon Jetpack. Thoughts?

No AT&T either, unfortunately.

Moving to a new house, where Comcast and Verizon are not available. No ground cables exist for any ISP, so I guess I'll be forced to use a Hotspot of some kind. Has anyone else used this for fan network broadcasts? Will it work or am I out of luck?

There's plenty of revenue. Profit is a different story.

I think the "everyone hates BD because they win" argument, while correct for a small minority of fans, is vastly overstated. The average fan attends shows to be entertained, and will give it up for an entertaining show, regardless which corps presents it. I love that BD has such talented members, I love BD for the high level of achievement the members attain every year. The shows are extremely well designed. But at the end of the day, the audience by-and-large does not reach the same level of excitement for the shows that they present. They do not produce an emotional response from most of the audience, the way corps like Phantom and Cadets do. It's kind of puzzling actually, to get to the end of a show that's designed so logically, and performed so incredibly well, and not have the urge to go crazy with excitement. But for a lot of people in the crowd, it just doesn't happen. And for the vast majority of those people, it's not because they have 14 championships.

What's up with the different 5-judge panels at different shows? Akron and Louisville had full panels. But the shows since then have been five judges. All have had two Effect judges and two Analysis judges. But the 5th judge has been different. AZ and NM shows had a Visual Proficiency judge (no Brass, Guard, or Perc). TN and MI shows had a Brass judge (no Visual Proficiency, Guard, or Perc). Why? Will there be some kind of rotation of the 5th judge at these smaller non-regional shows? Doesn't this skew the score towards a particular caption? (i.e. having a brass judge as part of the panel probably helps a corps like Crown at the Tennessee show, but had a Percussion judge been on the panel, it would have probably hurt them). If we're trying to save costs by flying fewer judges out to smaller shows, why not just have a 4 judge panel of Effect and Analysis only? At least that way, the overall score isn't skewed towards a particular caption that may be a strength or weakness for the competing corps. Am I missing something here?

I dunno. I think SCV surprises us and pulls out a win.

Right now, my Top 10, chronologically: 1987 SCV 1987 Cadets 1999 SCV 1999 Glassmen 1999 Cavaliers 2000 Cavaliers 2000 Blue Devils 2003 SCV 2004 Blue Devils 2004 SCV

Also don't forget that they were 4th in GE Visual at the first show.

Mine's working now, after I logged out and back in.

For what it's worth, on the Educational Staff list on the SCV website, Jeff Fiedler is listed as "Program Manager."