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  1. 1. Blue Devils - the end of their show was insane. 2. Cavaliers - They're very good at push-ups. At least three of them. 3. Bluecoats - Insane bari solo, great performance, awesome show. 4. Crown - Best show I've seen live ever. 5. Cadets - Herald trumpets are cool. 6. Phantom Regiment - Tunnel intro was sweet. 7. SCV - Awesome drill, best use of dissonant music in DCI since Star 93. 8. Blue Stars - Great hornline, some fun moments. 9. Boston Crusaders - Loved the side-stepping while playing move. 10. Madison - Hey, they're good again! 11. Blue Knights - I... I enjoyed a BK show? Wtf? 12. Glassmen - See BK I didn't see enough of the non-finalists corps to say something nice about them all, but I'm sure they're all very friendly people.
  2. Meh, the drop-off happened after '05 as far as I'm concerned. I don't think '06 was executed any better than 07, 09, or 2010 were. 2008 was better executed and performed than '06 and probably '05... Maybe even '04.
  3. Curvilinear drill died when Michael Gaines came on the scene. BD and BK still do it to a certain extent, but they're a dying breed. It's too hard to clean and it's more difficult to achieve the contrary motion that makes drill look harder than it actually is (i.e., two lines marching towards each other at a 6-to-5 looks hardere than a curvilinear form with everyone doing a reshape at ~6-to-5).
  4. Was it just my theater, or did anyone at the quarterfinals broadcast think the octave divider effect was too low on the video? I really couldn't hear the "trumpet" part in the theater, which I was pretty disappointed about because I loved the effect. The solo was still cool, but it kind of lost something without that synth part sitting on top of it.
  5. BECAUSE ELECTRONICS ARE EVIL1!!! DIDNT YOU KNOW THAT?????
  6. (this thread is originally from August 2009)
  7. Yeah, seriously. I remember seeing 2004 Finals from way up top ~25-30 yard line in Mile High, and I could barely hear anything. While clearly the dome messes with what we're used to as far as stadium acoustics, I've never really enjoyed seeing a drum corps show sitting outside of the 40s because you really can't hear much unless the stadium's really small or the corps is on your side of the field.
  8. Oh, and here's an official announcement from the Crossmen website: http://www.crossmen.org/crossmen-corps-director.html
  9. And this is exactly the freaking point. If you want to boo the director of the Met, you're booing someone who is being paid a large sum of money to put on a show for you. In drum corps you are booing 150 young adults who sacrificed upwards of $3000, countless hours of practice, and their entire summer to try and entertain you. While I'm not one of those people that thinks every corps deserves a standing ovation, I think booing - for whatever reason, at whatever time - is completely out of place at a drum corps show. I'm not saying you can't do it, but I will definitely think less of you for it. I wish I had been in the stands at finals so I could've confronted some of the boo-birds personally and asked them if they'd like to go down on the field and boo the members to their faces. You can say you're booing the design team, but that's not how it comes off, and the only people you're hurting are the members. Go on DCP, send an angry e-mail, just find some better avenue to express your displeasure.
  10. I feel inclined to point out that drum corps has never been a static activity as far as instrumentation has been concerned, so for you to say that people need to "stop changing the activity you love" is to appeal to a concept of the "correct instrumentation" which is completely subjective and to try and impose a freeze on development which is both impractical and impossible. That said, I don't really want woodwinds in drum corps either. But I recognize that this is just a personal preference and there's no real logical standing for me to say that George Hopkins is destroying "my" activity.
  11. That bari/filtered trumpet solo was one of the most bad*** solos I've seen in drum corps. Props to Coats. Great show.
  12. I can't begin to fathom that people feel self-important enough and think that drum corps is that big of a deal that they decide it's a good idea to boo a group of 150 16-21 year-olds for the show they were given to perform. Express your displeasure in other ways if you like: don't clap, go get a hot dog, whatever. I've just never understood the concept of booing. Yeah to a certain extent you are a customer and your opinion matters, but all booing does is devalue the sweat and tears the members put into their show, and I just don't think they deserve that.
  13. You're not on the field. You can't judge any of these captions. Music performance captions come down to the judges standing in front of the bell (or drum) of the performers and evaluating the consistency of playing across the line. While I agree that Crown has far and away the best ensemble brass sound in DCI, there's no way to know how clean they are at field level. I have a feeling that their massive amounts of field coverage probably leaves them more exposed than other corps. Percussion is pretty much the same. You might be able to argue GE scores persuasively but it always comes down to personal preference, and I think you could probably find people elsewhere that disagree with you.
  14. Yeah, they didn't show it at the quarters telecast but I found that out from one of my friends later. My bad.
  15. Just a few miles down the road from Praising Manor:
  16. Sorry to hear that. I was at the AMC Hoffman in Alexandria, VA. We missed the Troopers and part of Colts because the satellite signal was lost but the theater staff promised refunds and said any movie we wanted to see that night was on them. The feed came back halfway through Colts show and the video quality was excellent. They jacked up the volume right before Glassmen and the quality on that was amazing as well. If anything, the sound was almost too loud, which was definitely not the experience I expected after reading past reviews. It was a great time, and I would definitely go back again if I were given the opportunity. Sorry not everyone's experience was as good.
  17. So the surprise is that the drum major runs from Side 1 through the entire hornline to Side 2 where he's confronted by a group of guard members who grab him and throw him behind a mirror as they make the broken glass sound effect again. Pretty lame, although I love some of the music changes that have happened recently.
  18. 1. Carolina Crown 2. Blue Devils 3. Bluecoats 4. Blue Stars 5. Madison Scouts 6. Boston Crusaders 7. Madison Scouts 8. Cadets 9. Blue Knights 10. SCV 11. Phantom Regiment 12. Cavaliers
  19. I still think the average DCI fan is not of the highest intellect and therefore should not be trusted or given the responsibility of judging drum corps performances.
  20. I think the fact that SCV came in tied for sixteenth in fan appreciation in 1999 is more than enough conclusive proof that we should not let fans decide who wins.
  21. 1. Blue Devils (98.95) 2. Bluecoats 3. Cavaliers 4. Carolina Crown 5. Cadets 6. Blue Stars 7. Santa Clara Vanguard 8. Phantom Regiment 9. Boston Crusaders 10. Madison Scouts 11. Blue Knights 12. Glassmen (86.65)
  22. You know, the last three minutes of their show are pretty straightforward, loud, fast, fun, jazz. I can't believe that people aren't entertained by it. The first 5-6 minutes? Fine. I can kind of understand that. But I think some people are just blindly bashing.
  23. Yikes. 10th in Music GE at Allentown, beaten by Mandarins and Teal Sound.
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