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I'm just sitting here thinking, what if the NFL didn't let teams announce their free agent signings until 2 weeks after the free agent period ended? You know who left what team, but you don't know where they've signed yet! I love this time of year in drum corps. Tuesday will be an interesting day.

Makes sense. I should have known known this. :::hanging head in shame:::::

And lowest cost for a stadium for a regional. I wonder why DCA stopped going there?

I’ll say it for the back for the room again…. GEORGE ZINGALI There is no Marc Sylvester, Jeff Sacktig, John V, Leon May, Tony Hall, John Sanchez, Jeff Gooch, Jeff Gentry and many many others without him.

BAC would hammer this! In the best of ways.

2022 PHANTOM REGIMENT PRESENTS... SUMMER OF POE. A modern take on Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe.

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I think you guys really don't take into account the money it takes to be a Top 5 and even Top 3 drum corps. It is not only about the show design and the staff. It is the tour and how well your tour and feed the kids, time sleeping on the floor, the money for food, travel, staff, props and everything else. Design and staff are a very important part of that equation, yes, but the current top 5 are what they are because of the money that they have compared to 6-10 and 11-15 etc (speaking very generally). And corps like Cavies have done a lot on very little money compared to the Top 5. And there are a few lower placing and even out of finals corps that have money (bingo especially) that don't place higher because they are not making the right design team, staff, tour financial decisions. Just my "two cents" based on helping run a few decent corps. = )

Sandi Rennick wrote the FE book when she and Paul were at Regiment.

Any thing Sandi Rennick writes.

From very good and reliable sources... This is NOT true.

Zingali.

I found a security camera photo.

I feel the same way about locked knee marching and locked knee jazz runs. Just so much of what is being taught is done for the sake of everybody looking the same and not proper technique. I teach around pulling (stretching) away from the ground and lengthening the legs and torso. My bones ache watching the fundamentals that are being taught. You should be a WGI movement judge. Your grasp of this is far better than a lot of people I judge local circuits with.

I always enjoy your guard/brass choreography related posts. Always spot on! And yes, Michael James is an inspiration to many!

Just a thought... Years back, the only two drum corps that had all-boy guards were the Cavaliers and Madison. Now, almost every drum corps has a significant numbers of young men in them. Even with indoor guard and marching band having young men in them, is there enough talented male guard members to go around to every drum corps and perform on a high level? I dunno. Possibly? It is certainly not a cultural thing at the Cavaliers. They are one of the most fraternal corps left.

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I hope I got this right. I went to each corps website and read bios, with the exception of Jay Murphy's which I relied on an old friend's memory. This is pretty cool.

These are the 2022 corps that have brass caption heads that are a part of the brass family tree that was started by Jim Prime and Donnie VanDoren at the Garfield Cadets in 1980. 10 out of 16 corps. Impressive! (updated)

Who moves up or down tonight? PLACE CORPS SCORE 1 Blue Devils 98.300 2 Bluecoats 96.975 2 Boston Crusaders 96.975 4 Carolina Crown 95.813 5 Santa Clara Vanguard 95.150 6 The Cadets 93.288 7 Blue Stars 92.250 8 The Cavaliers 91.863 9 Phantom Regiment 90.700 10 Mandarins 89.538 11 Colts 87.450 12 Troopers 87.425

They have certainly come a long way since April 2018 on the field.

Carolina Crown from pre-show to finish is like a ride at Epcot Center… it all makes sense now. From the pre show narration, QR code, everything! All that is missing are the 3-D glasses!!!

Scores?

amen

Pet Peeve... And I am not aiming this at any one group in particular. All these guards (with one or two exceptions) are HUGE! But when you have flags, rifles, sabers, and dancers ... you end up with no more than 12 flags spinning the thing that can be seen the best on the field. It makes your 40+ guard look... SMALL!