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Wouldn't surprise me much at this point. Aside from Salem, Virginia has not had much luck staging shows for many years.

Anyone got any leads on where this show is going to take place (or if it's even still happening at this point)? Been listed as "TBD" on DCI's site for months, haven't seen any solid details on the participating corps' sites so far and this close to the season starting, that usually means that it's not happening and they just haven't taken it down yet.

Really nice to see this happening. The NFL Hall of Fame stadium got some fantastic upgrades a couple years ago: https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/2023/02/15/bluecoats-bringing-drum-corps-show-to-tom-benson-stadium-as-official-hof-event/69889971007/

It's back up finally. They've made a very sneaky adjustment to the layout- the schedule page now only shows 3 shows at a time to make it LOOK like the tour is longer since you have to scroll through 29 pages of shows rather than just 10 or 11 as before.

I overlooked that one.

Here's all the ones I've seen from last year that aren't back this year: Daphne AL Dover DE Kent OH Evansville IN Boise ID Renton WA Tri-Cities WA Camas WA Normal IL (O) White Lake MI (O) Sun Prairie WI (O) Corpus Christi TX Union City CA (O) Lawton OK Memphis TN Contrast that with only 9 new events: Western MI Dixon IL (O) Dover PA (O) Fairfield CT (O) Monroe LA Tomball TX Wichita Falls TX Syracuse NY Richmond VA (O)

For now. It's become custom for DCI to just use the previous season's templates for the initial schedule rollout and update venues as the season gets closer.

It's definitely off. It didn't show Troopers at their own home show in WY when I looked. On first glance, schedule definitely looks smaller overall and like a block of swiss cheese- lots of holes/TBDs. Not a single Pacific NW show, for instance. On the plus side, looks like there might be a return to NY with an event in/near Syracuse.

Schedule is live! https://www.dci.org/events?limit=10&viewMode=list&sort=startDate

That's my guess as well. DCI has been taking an "If it ain't broke don't fix it" approach for the last several years.

Hoo boy, that takes me back a few years!

If and when this actually gets done, that stadium would be about 15 minutes away from my house. Great location, right next to a Metra station and tons of parking.

I know a guy they can talk to if they want a giant sundial. 😄

LOL, so now they're a drum and bingo corps.

Meaning he's paying for the green donuts out of his own pocket? 😄

I don't think that hat has been removed from its owner's head in at least 20 years. 😆

What would even make you think that's an appropriate thing to say here???

For the attorney, if he's doing stuff that's illegal or unethical, it's certainly feasible to submit a complaint to their local state bar association for review. Wonder if anyone's thought to do that yet?

And yet that's somehow seen as a bad thing by some people...

Short version from what I read is that a guard staff member threatened to "dead-name" a non-binary guard member (ie refer to them by their former name) on a couple occasions during a rehearsal as punishment for mistakes the member had made. The member tried to address this with the guard caption head and corps director, who seemed to be pretty dismissive of the whole incident. The member ultimately left the corps during the season. As for context, dead-naming is considered extremely impolite when you're addressing trans/non-binary people- or really anybody who's changed their name at some point in their life. Just like you shouldn't call a married woman by their maiden name (unless you're saying "nee", "formerly" or something similar), it's generally not good etiquette to refer to a trans/NB person by a former name either.

So who had the idea to have a show in Delaware and NOT schedule Crossmen to be there? I know they've been based out of Texas for several years now but you'd think that would be a no-brainer based on their history.

Welp, cue the next round of "Drum corps is dead" memes...

I remember coming across this video a year or two ago and really liking it. Great energy and the vocalist absolutely kills it!

I'm going to be flooding Twitter with this.

Next year's Rose Bowl parade is also being cancelled: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-15/the-2021-rose-parade-is-canceled-blame-the-coronavirus