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Congratulations Troop! 21 years ago you were part of my "drumcorps education" when I was first introduced to the activity so I've been a fan ever since. Everyone is proud to see you back in the top 12! To Colts and Academy - you guys were awesome and I wish you could have made it too. Great job this season!

Brad - perhaps it's urban legend (no pun intended), but didn't you guys have a free day in New York in 87 where some of the members, because they were all wearing the same jackets (corps jackets), got mistaken for gang members by an actual New York street gang?

Nerd

I'm feeling more energy from G tonight than last night.

TROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!

Nice job Colts! Nice drill Little Boy!

I'm pulling for a 3 way tie between Academy, Colts, and the Troop!

Go for it! If you've got the playing chops, you can probably make it in anywhere you want. The lack of DCI level marching experience is probably no a big deal. You've got 4 years of high school marching and as long as you're not a complete timing incompetent clutz, they'll beat the marching into you anyway. Actually the biggest factor is going to be dedication and work ethic. Assuming you've got the playing chops aspect covered (which you sound fairly confident that you do), if you make it to all the camps and show up prepared, knowing what they've told you to know, and practiced what they've told you to practice, you're pretty much as good as in. No one's arms can handle the Euph in the beginning. Like I said - they'll beat that into you.

3 way tie?? :) That would be awesome!

That was me. You'd think that with an event named "Big, Loud and Live" they'd have a clue. We had to ask again cause they didn't turn it up enough the first time. I shoulda asked them to turn down the bass. You couldn't hear Madison at all due to the synth bass swallowing everything up. After they turned the volume up the second time the sound was much better though. I don't know if the problem with Madison was a theater sound balance issue or the corps' sound balance issue.

I've been rooting for the Troop (wore my Troop shirt to the broadcast) but was a little worried after seeing Colts perform tonight. I had thought that Colts might catch them tonight. I ache for whichever two corps take the 13th and 14th spot because I think all three (Troop, Colts and Academy) are finals material and all would deserve it.

I wouldn't say Bluecoats 95 was championship quality, but I would say that it was a defintely a top 6 design (top 4 in my opinion). They just didn't have the talent/instructional-staff to put them that high. I don't agree that Cadet's design was championship quality or even a better design than Bluecoats', but they had the potential talent to put it on top despite the level of design. (That's not to say that Cadet's design was bad - not by a long shot - just not championship quality). Maybe it's my personal bias kicking in. I dunno - it's all subjective anyway. edit: BTW - how do you know it was Bluecoats doing a show similar to Cadets? Maybe it was Cadets doing a similar show to Bluecoats. (If I recall, I think Bluecoats announced their show concept before Cadets that year - but I could be wrong).

Ken - I love the Bluecoats icon bubbles you have in your sig. You should be designing the artwork for the souvie tshirts 'n' such.

I think the top 3 were probably the worst top 3 of any finals that I've seen. But I think that skews peoples perceptions of the year as a whole. I thought from 4th place down were exceptionally entertaining. Other than the top 3, 2007 is one of my favorite years.

I realize this is a longshot but I was hoping to find someone who attended DCI North in Buffalo in 1993 AND bought the souvenir program AND still has it. As I recall, a photo of me was used on the page about the Bluecoats. If anyone out there has the program, I was hoping that I could either buy the program from them or have them scan a copy for me. Reply here or PM me. Thanks in advance!

I've got an extra copy of the 1991 CDs from the legacy collection if anyone i interested.

Use the zip code box. The PDF does not list all of the theaters.

Can you specify where the discrepancy is? I just looked at the recaps and they all add up correctly as far as I can tell.

At first I was like "Huh?" and then I laughed. I'm assuming the reason "Bluecoats = Gunther" is because BITD (you know - early 90s), the Bluecoats contra section (tubas to you noobs) had a neon orange crowbar named Gunther that they took to retreat (you know - back when they had retreat) and spiked into the ground. I'm not sure if the tradition still stands but I know that it lasted for quite awhile.

Actually Colts made their first appearance placing 12th at finals in 1993.

Shout out to Eric Krebs! Marched finals in 95 after being hit by a car that afternoon! If you watch Bluecoats 95 show, you can see the bandages on a snare drummers head. I personally think it was an elaborate conspiracy to get a boost in GE. I marched a couple shows with my middle finger bandaged.... meh.

I see your point and agree that you shouldn't risk permanent injury for a single drumcorps show. But it sounds to me that in this case there was no danger of rsiking further injury to her eyesight. I think the advice not to march was due to the fact that they didn't know if she would be able to handle the spatial orientation needed for the drill. As an aside - I marched with a girl who was blind in one eye.

I had several bad experiences with BD members when I was marching. I try to be objective and not let that experience influence my opinions, but I'm sure that it still does to some extent. It's stuff like that make people want to see BD lose. I like BDs show this year (there's the love part of my post).

Which two are the daughters?

BDs 07 show goes down as my least favorite. But I really like BDs show this year. I just think they are getting scored way higher than they should due to the lack of difficulty of the show (relatively speaking). I don't like Cadets show as much but Cadets clearly have a much more demanding show and are performing it well. They should be beating BD in my opinion. As I said earlier, I could literally hear horns bouncing around during BDs show. I didn't hear that with Cadets and their visual book is far more demanding.