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  1. 23 hours ago, Chief Guns said:

    Oh boy! This forum from 2008-2013. For us BD fans, it was like the 300 against the Persians.

    Good times.  

    I loved that era so much. So many great shows with unique approaches and music that challenged me for the better. Through A Glass, Darkly, Cabaret Voltaire, and Constantly Risking Absurdity are still in my rotation to this day!

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  2. I just wanted to drop in and say I immensely enjoyed this year’s show. In fact, I’ve listened to the show several times today. The music really grabs me. It just makes me feel…satisfied.

    So I’m grateful to the performers AND the designers for coming up with and executing this show. Thank you!

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  3. On a different note, here’s to another amazing performance tonight and tomorrow, Blue Devils! You are performing an amazingly powerful and intricate show with the energy, passion, intensity, and finesse of professionals. I am amazed at what you’ve accomplished as an organization. Thank you for sharing your talents with us fans. We’re so very grateful!
     

    Put it all out there! Be in control, give it your all and have a blast!

     

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  4. 14 hours ago, NakedEye said:

    There appears to be about 15 rolls worth of blue tape on the field, so you KNOW it is going to be clean! 😜

    Wait! So they form the star out of nowhere, hold, then they march it at a diagonal while at the same time slowly collapsing the star. Then everybody starts doing different transitions, only to reform the star but with every member at a different position in the shape. And then they immediately continue marching the star diagonally (no X number of counts in a standstill) while simultaneously EXPANDING the star?

     That’s ridiculously impressive to me. I enjoyed this part before but I hadn’t noticed that much intricacy!

    Amazing!

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  5. 7 minutes ago, lawdn said:

    I think we are in agreement.  There will be outliers, some because a qualified judge honestly has a different view than their peers (which doesn’t make it wrong), maybe some be ause a newer judge made an honest mistake, and maybe some out of malice (and let us hope those get chastised or booted out if they can’t justify their numbers by the sheet). I just don’t think there can be a perfect human judging system, but for a niche activity, DCI’s system seems to get pretty good results overall.

    I agree with you, and I can’t seem to find the performance with the weird score, so I’m going to take it back for now, just in case I’m unintentionally spreading misinformation.

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  6. 8 minutes ago, brassboy said:

    If corps knew that each event was intended to be a "major regional event" then all corps would go. They deliberately split up corps between Atlanta and W/S because they no longer have a dome for Atlanta to allow for daytime performances that aren't in the sweltering heat of the south. Remember that in the previous paragraph of the same article where that wording came from, they specified that the average of the two scores from Atlanta and W/S would be used to determine Allentown. For corps that didn't attend Atlanta or W/S they didn't use their most recent score to fill in for that 4th show then. 

    I guess there is a presumption that the corps don’t know which shows are “regionals” that I don’t yet buy into. Also, it seems reasonable to me that they would make specific rules for ordering for Allentown and another set of rules for ordering in finals. 
     

    I guess we will see when DCI lists the ordering, but for now I find Barneveld’s understanding of the sentences correct.

  7. 3 minutes ago, brassboy said:

    The problem is the difference in interpreting "major regional event." As of 2022, I (and apparently many others) would argue that DCI Southeastern and W/S are treated as ONE major regional event, not two separate major events. This is where DCI isn't clear in their article.

    My thinking is as follows: If they were treating Atlanta and W/S as one event, they wouldn’t have spelled them out separately as one of 4 events in the first sentence. To me it’s clear the next sentence is referring to the previous relevant sentence when mentioning 4 events.

  8. I think Incident in Jazz is more difficult than a bunch of runs because of the listening and timing demands, along with the phrasing and attacks and what they are marching during all of that.

     I love the muted trumpet solo right at the beginning of that feature, too. It’s so well-phrased musically and it’s just a cool transition to the tuba feature. I hope the tubas have started cleaning up that feature so they can respond in kind to the solo!

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