lowbrasswhole Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 Easy and clean usually wins out, unfortunately. It is really hard to come up with a number and criteria that bridges this gap...so it will always remain subjective. I will personally favor difficult vs. easy....but to a certain degree. We are talking about achievement in the end. How dirty? How hard? The cavies and blue devils are really great at masking their level of difficulty. It looks hard, and it sounds hard, but when you peel away levels and really look at what is going on, the real tough stuff visually is being performed by tacet playing members. Rarely is there tough music and tough visual demancds at the same time. In a sompetitive world, this is genius how they wrap it together and produce it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsreed Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 I think the "short bus" comment was added in jest. I can't believe someone would waste space in jest, would they? I did learn new busses hold 55 people while I remember our busses held 45 or so people, allowing for corps expansion up to 150 with only three busses. So DCI is increasing the number of performers based on new(er) bus sizes. Once again, you have to be rich and spend money on new busses (or drive an extra bus) to stay competitive. I think DCI should negotiaite a national bus contract for any interested parties. I have heard that a couple or few corps were considering negotiating a volume package, but haven't been involved with that aspect for a couple years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsreed Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 (edited) Why do people need to say silly things while corps are performing? Seems disrespectful to me. Edited July 23, 2007 by hsreed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawker Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Why do people need to say silly things while corps is performing? Seems disrespectful to me. Krystal's mom and those guys who are still wet and/or soaked beg to differ. ...but, yeah...I agree. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomnoise Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 "slotting" and "seeding" ... two terms I have heard steadily since the '70's. But I don't buy into the fact that either actually really happens. I believe if that were the case, it would only take a few simple spreadsheets to show trends year to year that would prove "slotting" or "seeding" and we could show collusion. Ranking and rating are the common terms. Ranking the corps in the correct order and rating them appropriately, given the rubric on the back of the sheets. These are the responsibilities of adjudicators. It does not require collusion, just reading the corps accurately. Note that this happens during the season, not year over year. On the subject of seeding - this is the process of using previous scores to set performance order. This is definitely used in DCI, but not year over year. Slotting is more subjective. GGarrrett doesn't buy it, I do. But I do not think it is a conspiracy. More like the way you know that Blue Knights will not be in the same league as Blue Devils. But again, your "slot" from a scoring perspective (IMO) is determined by the notes on the back of the sheet (Box 3, Box 4, Box 5). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomnoise Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 The problem is that there's no definition of an 8.0 or something similar. Actually, there is. It is printed on the back of the sheet and describes what type of performance gets a certain number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaddyt Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 I'm curious to know if Phantom has ever done Carmina Burana, and if not... why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoHmempho04 Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 They have not done it according to corpsreps.com. The last corps to do it was the Raiders in 2003 and Blue Stars in 2000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeN Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 I know that for a while there the Orff family was extremely reluctant to give arranging rights out for Carmina Burana - I don't know if that's changed in the last few years or not. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaddyt Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 So much of that piece has Phantom Regiment written all over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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