Colegrass

DCI financially is run by people who are too old to realize that there are THOUSANDS of people on the internet that will pay REAL MONEY to see drum corps. This whole event not being streamed, in HD, is a complete failure of judgement.

How about... none of us will ever buy another ticket to anything ever again unless you livestream finals. Tonight. Welcome to Boycott-ville! And yes I speak for everyone. It's time to up the ante!

Yeah, forget the fact that they sound very good. Casella is great. The Cavaliers are great. Be thankful they're not using matched grip.

What's great about this show is that for the first minute or so of Carmen's appearance, you can forget about the rest of the corps entirely and enjoy the presentation of the story. The guard's role playing here is top of the line, and the periodic use of spoken words is really smart. You have to really listen for them, and they tell you just enough about what is going on without ever approaching the cheesiness of full corps singing, narration, or even "drumspeak" (which, as much as I love the Bluecoats this year, is pretty annoying and sounds like it's trying really hard to be cool). So Carmen is by no means a distraction. They integrate the guard as such so that it would turn your attention to what was happening in the guard at the time. And with the way I see it, any time a corps dosn't tell you where to look for important show events indicates a failure in the design of the show. (There are a few great examples of this being successful this year: Look at Bluecoats, like halfway through the show. The upper brass winds up into that little traingle on field-right, and the pauses while guesturing toward the guard on field-left while they do some cool flag work).

In my three years of Corps, all of them included a full summer of staff screaming with removed language governors. And you know, if that didn't work, we would certainly run until it did. It was really #### hard, and some people broke down because of it, but never at any point could it be considered abusive. Drum Corps is supposed to be hard, and if people can't deal with the reality of it, then most likely the activity was not meant for them. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. All I can say is that in corps, I was beaten into the ground, and I'm extremely grateful for it.

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Play whatever you want.

It is, without a doubt, a superball.