bandman28

Coats are ahead of where they were June 29th of 2010

Really good showing for coats tonight as it was a five man panel and captions tonight were visual heavy.

Accually, Cadets historicly used to come out a muddled hot mess visually and then was absoulutely wonderful by August.

DebbieTorchia hates Bluecoats as well.

Vincent Ohio at Warren High School. It was 1987 and I saw Spirit, Bluecoats, Phantom Regiment, and Florida Wave, I'm fuzzy on the smaller corps

Maybe completely unimportant, but Bloo started out 73.6in 2010, So they could be on par to medal, I also believe bluecoats have the ability to surge in the mid to late season, They have even passed corps during finals week, so I don't agree with if it isn't rewarded right off it won't go anywhere

got a banner to work woo hoo

boo is giving scores now http://cemserv.org/dcp/Bluecoats%20Banner.jpg

Why think its bluecoats that could get past? Coats have already beat Phantom head to head this season.

Magic of Orlando 12 seconds to the moon. 1996 Madison Scouts pirates 1997

Bluecoats 2008 Crown 2011

Star of Indiana 1990, that came out of nowhere.

1992 Glassmen or 87 Florida Wave

I hear Crowns guard caption head is up for hire

boston 90.2

in boos blog it just stated in old days you had to be a certain percentage chinese to march manderians, is that true? I thought they had to speak manderine chinese as at least a second language. excuse my typos

cascades 72.8

how many corps make semi's this year, i know it isn't the top 17

good points, thats why I threw it out there

I know this is not the judges first read of the shows, i'm just talking about using the world class criteria sooner in the season

Why wouldn't they want to, they love performing or they wouldn't be in Drum Corps to begin with. This is an opportunity for them to get to play in the dome under the lights for their shows to shine which is an opportunity most open class corps do not get.

I am a World Class Alum and as a band director in small schools I now have so much respect for what Open class does. Just a point for discussion.... Since it was common knowledge that OC would be competing in WC prelims, should they have been exposed to the WC sheets earlier in the season to help them better prepare. It has to be hard for these kids to see their scores dropping 20 plus points. Should we just have one sheet and let the scores fall where they fall? I am no way implying that there shouldn't be open class, they should have and need to have their own events, but should they be using world class sheets to prepare for WC prelims that for most will be their their last performance of the season?

Hey just something for discussion. Does anyone else feel that since it was common knowledge that all the Open/International class corps were going to compete in the WC prelims, that these corps should have been exposed to the WC sheets sooner. It has to be hard for these kids to see their scores drop 20 plus points over night. Should we just being using one sheet and let the scores fall where they fall? I am in no way saying eliminate the open and international classes. They deserve and need their own events, Just use the same sheets so they can prepare for WC prelims which for most will be their last performance of the season.

just food for thought, since it was common knowledge that open class corps were going to compete in WC prelims, to help them prepare, should they have been exposed to the WC sheets earlier in the season? It has to be hard for those kids to be seeing their scores down 20 plus points over night. Should all corps be on the same sheets now regardless of class and let the scores fall where they fall? I am certainly not saying eliminate the open/international class, still have their own events, just use the WC sheets so that they can better prepare for their WC prelim performance which for most of these corps will be their last of the season