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  1. So um, Machine from 06 would've been 2.5-3.5 (since it was barely in front of Faust) behind cadets this year, and potentially not in the top 7? Give me a break. Cadets probably would've edged out Faust, but by making statements like it being a 3 or 4 point gap, you just make yourself look silly. There is a difference between what you want it to be and what would actually happen.
  2. Oh, and on topic, I thought Madison 2000 was a sweet show, even if it did mark the beginning of the dark ages placement wise (well, at least the dark ages until this year).
  3. For my part, I thought La Mer was easily the single most boring production put on in the history of music.
  4. Sorry, I should've said "the performance captions," as in everything that falls under the "visual" section of the sheet (basically, not ge) and which is primarily based on how it is performed (look at the language on the sheets). Visual GE is not one of the performance captions, and it is by far the visual caption most focused on design (although obviously performance is a huge part of it). It just makes no sense to cherry pick design as the problem, while praising individual performance, when clearly design was the area in which the corps performed the most strongly, and performance captions is where it lost. So yes, while I agree design can make a difference in all the captions, the fact that the most design oriented caption was the strongest one makes it hard to swallow that design was the problem.
  5. You mentioned design. It was not the design part of the visual score that held them back. It was performance. You are saying "even though they won the part of visual that incorporates design, if their design was this much better, they would have won overall, so design must have been holding them back." That's about the equivalent of saying "they won drums, but if they had won by more, they would've won overall, so drums must be a weakness." It makes absolutely zero sense whatsoever. Find an original argument.
  6. That's your opinion. Your opinion has no basis on who actually wins; the judges' opinions do. Just cause you THOUGHT they shouldn't have won vis doesn't change the fact that they did win vis. You comments on 1996 are similarly absurd; they won (edit: came in second in) GE vis, and therefore their brassline didn't save anything. Your opinion is meaningless as to what actually determines who wins. So, the fact remains, talking about their "consistently poor visual program" causing them to lose every year is stupid in light of the last couple seasons. The absurdity of the examples you chose to use only further illustrates this point. As a side note, I thought it was absurd that they won GE vis last year too; it's still the fact that they did though.
  7. Every year, too under designed? For the zillionth time, they ####### WON GE VIS AT FINALS LAST YEAR. Being "under designed" obviously is not what kept them from winning. Get the #### over it and stop rehashing the same old ########.
  8. As long as it parallels the second half of last summer, that's fine by me :P
  9. As I recall (and a quick scan at corpsreps seemed to back up), Regiment was beating Cadets pretty solidly for the last month or so of last season. Perhaps you meant BD was beating Regiment up until finals?
  10. I'm actually encouraged by the recaps. Getting blown out in performance captions is a heck of a lot easier to fix than getting blown out in GE.
  11. Good technique on the field coupled with dirty forms from the stands.
  12. Oh yeah, the drill itself was horrible (same with 04 and, to a lesser extent, 03), but that wasn't because it was a bunch of standing still. It was just #### poor design that happened to still contain a ton of running around.
  13. "All park'n'play"??? Are you friggin' joking? Go watch the 02 and 03 dvds (especially 02, it was terrible designed but we were flying for almost the entire show) and see how much park and play you see outside of the ballads. Same with 04-06, although I didn't experience them firsthand. What, do you automatically equate less than stellar visual design (from 02-04) with standing still? What a load of uninformed horsecrap.
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