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I'm generally anti-field prop, always have been, they don't bug me if they are carried or used by the guard unless they are used poorly or for too long

but stuff that a corps just plops on the field, yuck

Often, props are distracting and just that, a prop (as in crutch to prop up score) – a lazy GE grab, why couldn't you write it into the show another way? Should a corps get the same GE reward for running up a fixed prop as they would doing some killer drill for that 30 seconds, is the prop earning that GE and not the corps skills?

I also see field props as lazy, cheater drill marks, more point of references to mark drill from – like a giant dot sign post...now run to this one in 5 counts and now that one

Corps tend to over-use their prop, we made this cool prop so we have to have it out for ½ the show…never got some props, like all the flowers SCV rolled out on the field to just sit there, good show other than that…hate tarps too

do you mean the Red Poppies they used during their show titled, what was it?, oh yeah - The Red Poppy.

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Looking at this in a different way:

Best use of a female by an all male corps ( during a show)

Alice - Madison 71

Best use of balloons:

Skyriders - Wizard of Oz

Suncoast Sound - Vietnam Show

Blue Devils - Happy Days are Here Again

Best use of scaffolding

Skyriders - West Side Story

Best use of a bicycle on the field

Skyriders - Wizard of Oz

Best use of a backdrop

SCV - Great Gate

Suncoast Sound - Vietnam wall

Best use of a drop cloth

SVC - Phantom

Best use of a Hero / Villen

Sky - Wiz of Oz

Best use of an UNmicced voice

Sky- Wiz of Oz Bad Witch

Best use of mirrors on the field

Blue Devils

Best use of death on the field

Phantom - Sparticus

Bridgemen - Civil War

Best use of magic / slight of hand visuals

SCV- The wizard

SCV- the tunnel

Best sound effects

SCV-Miss Sagion

Edited by The Other Mike
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Looking at this in a different way:

Best use of a female by an all male corps ( during a show)

Alice - Madison 71

Best use of balloons:

Skyriders - Wizard of Oz

Suncoast Sound - Vietnam Show

Blue Devils - Happy Days are Here Again

Best use of scaffolding

Skyriders - West Side Story

Best use of a bicycle on the field

Skyriders - Wizard of Oz

Best use of a backdrop

SCV - Great Gate

Suncoast Sound - Vietnam wall

Best use of a drop cloth

SVC - Phantom

Best use of a Hero / Villen

Sky - Wiz of Oz

Best use of an UNmicced voice

Sky- Wiz of Oz Bad Witch

Best use of mirrors on the field

Blue Devils

Best use of death on the field

Phantom - Sparticus

Bridgemen - Civil War

Best use of magic / slight of hand visuals

SCV- The wizard

SCV- the tunnel

Best sound effects

SCV-Miss Sagion

Best gratuitous use of females in drumline

Velvet Knights Sex Cymbals

Edited by IllianaLancerContra
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Not drum corps, but I can't think of field props without thinking of Tarpon Springs High School. Their 2010 show had so much stuff on the field that you lose grasp of the fact that it's on a football field.

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Cadets 2005 - The Door

Crown 2007 - All of It.

Bluecoats 2007 - The "Lasers"

BD 2003 - Cymbal Rack

Magic of Orlando - All of it. Ever.

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Phantom 2009 - The Violin (tried way too hard to make a gripping story with it)

BD 2009 - The Chairs

BD 2010 - The Mirrors

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Props are dumb.

But in particular:

2002 Boston Crusaders

2005 Capital Regiment

2006 Capital Regiment

2007 Carolina Crown

2009 Phantom Regiment

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Best gratuitous use of females in drumline

Velvet Knights Sex Cymbals

SO TRUE

:worthy::worthy::worthy:

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Ummmm, two words - Bar Stools! :cry:

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…hate tarps too

Ok, but how cool would it be if a corps used a tarp with no markings of any kind (including yard lines, hashes, etc) and marched PERFECTLY every night?!?!? Tell me THAT wouldn't be awesome!!! :worthy:

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