Gmello99 Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 If this goes through....not only are we eliminating 95 percent of open class. They would be setting up 3 separate divisions.....didn't we just do away with 3 divisions for the betterment of the activity? Also I have a major concern with the supposed "top 7" having two votes to everybody else's one or none. They would basically rule DCI without a care in the world. They get a couple corps to agree with them and they could pass anything and everything they want. I think if they want to take their ball and go elsewhere, the fine....don't let the door hit ya in the ### on your way out. I think a finals with everyone else would be fantastic and for the most part more entertaining than what I saw this past year. This could realistically kill about half the drum corps associated with DCI. I think separating yourself from the ones that feed you would be death to the 7. If the other open and world class corps band together, I see them coming out way better in the end because they will have stayed true to themselves and DCI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUARDLING Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Question...... Maybe it was said and I misssed it so if i did miss it im sorry for the repeat. Will the 7 have the same rules or a set of thier own.... or all the rules out the window..just wondering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPapiBass5 Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 GOD* brings two Top 7 corps to California, giving Cali fans more top corps God is bringing corps to Cali who knew? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemesiscorps Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Is anyone really surprised by all of this... really?DCW cites how we've seen this kind of "rhetoric" in relation to the formation of the combine. More recent examples would be the assassination of DCM, and the repeated acts of throwing Div. II/III/Open Class units under the bus for over a decade. I suspect that Scott Stewart is probably wondering what took this "G7" group so long. He boldly predicted this crap back in 1997. It seems that DCI's "chickens have come home to roost." I hope someone somewhere is prepared to pick up the pieces when this house of cards comes crashing down. Oh yea... back in 2004 I also recall people being ridiculed for suggesting that the "Tour of Champions" event would be a precursor to an elitist breakaway from the fold. How long have people been warning that several of the DCI power players were working an agenda toward an 8-9 member group of "super corps," and that anything beyond that select group was essentially dead weight that was consuming slices of the pie that could/should be reserved for the "top acts"? Oops! I guess those conspiracy theorists were right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 as of right now, the votes for "against it" are about equal to the combined total of "for it" and "undecided" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soccerguy315 Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 remember, you can voice your displeasure at the souvie booths and by booing. Summer 2010 is your chance to make sure these 7 corps know what you think about this proposal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPapiBass5 Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 who voted other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papasmurf Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Yup, all valid issues, but at least this is a start on something new. IMO, stagnation already exists, and this is a way to stir the pot. As people have already pointed out ("WHo decided the G7? PR was 9th last year! Why is CC already in with only 3 top 6 finishes?") the "top tier" concept will have to be malleable. Maybe in 3 years, it will be re-evaluated,and expandeD, contracted, or changed.If it works, then non-G7 corps will have more incentive to get into that group. I'd love to see a Top 12 so equally excellent that Semi Finals #12 has a legit shot at #1 the next night. I like to see REPEATED success rewarded. I like to see REPEATED failure punished. (You guessed it, I'm not a fan of "too big to fail.") BTW, how can excellence ever become stagnant? I'm never bored by excellence. I repeat, what's wrong with keeping a "top 7" as a part of the top 12 i.e. the way things are? You can find excellence becoming stagnant. This is an odd reference, but take comedy movies. Anchorman and Talladega Nights were largely found hilarious. Then Will Ferrell and crew kept making movies with the same style of humor, in Semi-Pro and Step Brothers (not as good of an example) and saw the same humor to be old and worn out. So along came a new style of humor - The Knocked Up, Superbad crew. They kept making movies that were hilarious, this time branching out a little more with movies like Juno, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. But then came along things like I Love You, Man, and fans started getting bored with the same style of humor. Along comes The Hangover. Which at this point in time is still funny, but I'm willing to bet that eventually Zach Galifakinakis and crew will get tired out, just like Will Ferrell, and Seth Rogen. Just a theory, but excellence can get tired and boring. Why would we have gone from Baroque, to Classical, to Romantic, to Impressionist, 20th century, and neoclassicism. People get tired of the same kind of excellence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamarag Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 * this sounds very similar to the Tour of Champions thing from a few years ago, which was GREAT for the fans and corps alike Great for the fans, yes. Great for the corps...debatable. I know quite a few kids who were corps members on that tour, and to a man, they hated it. Not sure what that has to do with all this G7 stuff, but there you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawker Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 as of right now, the votes for "against it" are about equal to the combined total of "for it" and "undecided" . . .with one vote for Terrance I. McGee. WordRider G7 HeAH! :throwupen: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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