denverjohn

I've been listening the APDs and one thing that's been gnawing at me is the introduction of performing units. If one is speaking of the group in the 3rd person in a narrative fashion, it is totally proper to refer to The Phantom Regiment, The Cadets, The Cavaliers, and The Blue Devils. When one "addresses" the group directly, as in the invitation to take the field, it is incorrect to use the article "the". For example, Cadets (all of you members), you(plural) may take the field in competition. not: THE Cadets, you make take the field. The announcer is in fact addressing the members. PS- Same goes for THE Cavaliers. PSS- I realize these groups have copyright rules for the manner in which the organization is listed in official literature, etc. Additional pet peeve: "2 soldiers (or Troopers) were injured." NOT: 2 Troops were injured. Troop is a singular noun which indicates a plural number of soldiers contained within. Anyone else noticing this?

I have a suggestion. Why don't we post several versions of an anti-amp/anti-narration/fan-friendly line-up? Then we could list them in a poll for 2 or 3 days. Then the poll-winning line-up could be used so that we would not split up our votes. For example: Poll: 1) LancerFi's lineup 2) denverjohn's lineup 3) sexyguardcap's lineup (I don't know how to do the poll thing but maybe someone else could take on this job in a day or 2, so everyone has time to suggest a lineup and then vote on one of those) Here's my suggestion: 1st) Blue Devils 2nd) The Cadets 3rd) Bluecoats 4th) Boston Crusaders 5th) Carolina Crown 6th) Cavaliers 7th) Madison Scouts 8th) Phantom Regiment

Can anyone provide a link to a re-cap of the European show(s). I'd love to see the scores sheets, captions, judges names, etc.

We usually pulled out of an overnight location with our favorite traveling music by "Chase".

He was using a 2-valve G which he hadn't touched for about 20 years.

Just flew back to Denver today from attending both nights in Orlando and I'm very much in agreement with you and LancerFi. Some interesting results with the 2 judge percussion slates. On Friday night, Perc1 & Perc2 scores and averaging resulted in a tie between BD and SCV in perc before being added to the rest of music. Also, even though numbers varied quite a bit, the stars aligned to result in adding and averaging equaling a tie in overall percussion for the NEXT 5 CORPS! (prior to adding with the other music scores). Also, regarding TROOP. (bias- step-niece marching her first year) They have recently been benefitting (justly so) from percussion numbers above the numbers of corps ranking above them overall. (Kiwanis, Pioneer, Southwind) Last night Perc Judge #1.(Griffin) had them above Kiwis, Southwind and Scades in both Technique and Musicality. Perc. Judge #2(Webb) had them dead LAST in both of those sub-captions. I realize that one is primarily reading battery and the other, pit , but there is also supposed to be sampling and reading of both by both judges. Averaging of the two judges resulted in a percussion total next to LAST in placement only .1 above Kiwis. I love the boost they have recently been enjoying but fear for the gravitation of all scores toward the median overall rank and placement. I hope judges will maintain the integrity of superior captions and sub-captions. (ie. Etobicoke & Velvet Knights Percussion).

Boston played! They did not talk! Thank you!

Interesting that for a while recently corps were punished for not having a cohesive show theme or motif. But you can get away with having selections totally divorced from one another as long as you give it a sense of philisophical credulity by naming it something as esoteric as "Juxtaposition" or "Our Favorite Things"