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Jeff Ream

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    Marched, taught, watched, cheered
  • Your Favorite Corps
    Westshoremen
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    1992 Crossmen
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    2016
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    Mechanicsburg PA

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  1. no, I'm not misreading it. this site in 22 years is littered with it. and other places too. hell i'm on a podcast where i've had to dispel that notion on multiple occasions. and yes many in the activity bounce between multiple roles. the activity is beyond incestuous. but any judge trying to go rogue and set policy on their own doesn't last long. and i do think to a point the judges have a little input....after all, they're the ones having to interpret whats given to them.
  2. by the time regional assignments are made, they pretty much know who is working finals week. the only case i know of someone being off finals when expected to be wa sa few years ago for a family situation. Pretty much if you work Atlanta/Crown weekend, San Antonio and Allentown, you're working Indy. and judges schedules are set in the winter because they have to give their availability that early.
  3. there have been rumors of stuff like this for eons. some is myth and some isn't.
  4. exactly. so as i said above, the corps vote on it. the judges don't just go and decide how things are to be done by themselves
  5. because in the end, as you state, the corps vote on it. so if they didn't like the system in place, they'd try to change it. too many on here continue to espouse the view the judges dictate what is judged, and thats simply not true. Sure they may recommend changes to the sheets, but in the end the corps control if it happens or not. the judging community doesn't act in a blind vacuum with no oversight. Even when Cesario began his push a decade ago, it still had to be voted on and approved by the corps. and by and large, whats being done today is a result of his push which IMO, has made the on field product more engaging to the fan base as well as the score sheets.
  6. and drum judges aren't afraid to make a call. but with how the math is done, one caption's impacted on the overall is less likely to be a huge blow unless it's GE. Everyone loved to pile on Prosperie in 19 for calling the show in BD's favor, while totally ignoring the 3rd place (with a sub box in 4th) guard scores Bloo got.
  7. everyone raves about 04, and they should. but without 03 there is no 04, and 03 was awesome also
  8. yeah that it wasn't at an official corps function surprised me it made it this far. going after the individual fine. but how the corps can be looped in unless stuff happened at rehearsals, performances or on tour is surprising. Sure they could have fired the guy i guess is the angle they are going with.
  9. Crown in 13's percussion was i believe 6th,it was a concern all summer it could cost them the show. as for winning drums and not making finals.....the section would have be so incredible to have a shot, and given the depth of top lines now, not seeing it. i'd hope the percussion for that corps would boost MA and GE too. and yes arranging has changed for inside. the trick is making it work for the overwhelming majority of outside shows all summer and still inside for the end.
  10. here's where i can see DCI's stance. this supposedly happened at a corps party right? not an official corps function? So how was DCi responsible.
  11. they aren't. anyone on amusic sheet has a music background, and effect is always a person with a visual background and a music background, and thats doubled for the major shows
  12. even on old effect sheets, visual and audio blended together. its called audio visual coordination. there's old effect tapes online where music guys discuss visual on effect. yes over time, some changes were made that seemed to lessen the emphasis of brass and percussion. slowly that trend started to reverse itself when the skeleton of the current system now in place was first adapted and also added guard to be an actual sheet that counted. it boggles me that for 28 years, it wasn't part of the total score. and yes as i said, on the various music ensemble and MA sheets, there were definite issues based on the judges background. however with more and more emphsis on folks with music degrees on that sheet, and making the sheet more of an overall package sheet, it has gotten better. and yes visual has gained a lot more influence. IMO, scoring should always have been 50/50. my beef is less with the split and more on the commentary. on a music sheet, if you don't refence physical and environmental demands, you're crucified. however rarely if every do you hear musical demands mentioned on the visual side. that to me is the biggest flaw in the system. as for DCA sheets...no offense, it was basically the same sheet, just a idfferent header and that goofy ### "communication" sheet. that was just GE speak added on top of the other GE sheet. DCA's system had been flawed since that was added and field visual removed. as far as cost fr those corps.....at championships effect was doubled. you had the three music sheets and 2 visual sheet. only cost added is an extra visual person.that won't be a deal breaker, especially as you see the lineups at the shows....they'll bring in more fans.
  13. still the best top to bottom drum corps, show and performance i have ever seen
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