emc2 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 In the spirit of March Madness, I like it when someone or some group accepts the challenge and rises to the occasion - putting on their most inspired or improved performance to date, maxing out, doing everything they could with what they had to work with. Do any particular DCI FINALS performances come to mind where YOU WERE IN THE STANDS AS A FAN that made you take notice, like "whoa, that was on a completely different level for them". Feel free to comment if that inspired performance was also reflected in higher scores or placement. IMO I think Boston over the past several years has done a great job and are underrated as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 (edited) Phantom '08 is the obvious one, of course, but here's another... SCV '05. I didn't get to see them early season, but from judging the numbers and what was floating around, things were rough. Maybe that's all it was--poor reception of their scores translating into poor word-of-mouth. Clearly at some point late season they pulled it together. I also think the VANGUARD yell that year may have been the loudest of all time... ...but maybe that's just me looking back with rosy-tinted glasses Agree on this. SCV lit it up at Finals in 2005. Not their highest placing SCV Corps... far from it.... that year but they really won over the Crowd in Foxboro, Mass and among all the Corps in the Finals they were one of the favorites with their show performance on Finals Night. The crowd loved them and they got a rousing reception at the end of their show. They finished 8th that nite, but the crowd didn't care about any of that, as they had really sold the show. Edited March 23, 2012 by BRASSO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 IMO I think Boston over the past several years has done a great job and are underrated as well. The Boston Crusaders made tremendous strides from June to August of this past season I thought. By Finals Night, they really had picked it up a notch. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecoats88 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 how about Bluecoats 2006 - after semi's they were sitting in 6th behind two former champions The Cadets and SCV, and proceeded to smoke at finals and leap frog both to snag their highest finish (4th) to date. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcjordansc Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Phantom Regiment in 1981 and I do not believe it is even close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim K Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 (edited) I would have to vote for 1979's 27th Lancers.They had a disappointing 1978 season, some predicted they wouldn't make the top 12, though they pulled off a great effort in the finals, but at the beginning of 79, the show appeared to be barely finished, and it was not clean, a rarity for the Lancers back then, and many local fans predicted it would be too difficult a show to master and wrote them off (Boston area fans were tougher on drum corps than they are with sports teams, just ask anyone who marched with BAC, North Star, or 27th). As the season progressed, it was clear they were mastering the show and when August arrived, 27th was in fine form. Note from Saturday March 24th: I didn't read the original post as carefully as I should have; I saw in the stands in bold type andthought it meant seeing the show live. I did see 27th live in 1979, the performance closest to finals would have been the CYO Nationals in August,but I saw the finals performance live in the living room via PBS. DCP doesn't have a delete button, so I can't delete. Edited March 24, 2012 by Tim K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadets98 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 We aren't just talking about placement right? but actual perception of performance. What comes to mind for me is 1990 Star of Indiana. They just had a lot of extra fire that night that was not there the previous two nights. Another one is 1994 Cadets especially in percussion. These days, corps are so consistent that there usually isn't a "miracle" performance by a corps. Corps moving up placement wise have as much to do with "CI" than there actual performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 1993 SCV. Saw them in June and it was embarrassing. I was glad I had aged out the year before. I thought they might not even make finals. They were shockingly improved in Jackson. read Lee Rudnicki's short book Tale of a Drumline for some really funny stories from that year. That drum break deserves way more credit than it gets, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrlandoContraAlum Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Phantom '08 is the obvious one, of course, but here's another... SCV '05. I didn't get to see them early season, but from judging the numbers and what was floating around, things were rough. Maybe that's all it was--poor reception of their scores translating into poor word-of-mouth. Clearly at some point late season they pulled it together. I also think the VANGUARD yell that year may have been the loudest of all time... ...but maybe that's just me looking back with rosy-tinted glasses Agree on this. SCV lit it up at Finals in 2005. Not their highest placing SCV Corps... far from it.... that year but they really won over the Crowd in Foxboro, Mass and among all the Corps in the Finals they were one of the favorites with their show performance on Finals Night. The crowd loved them and they got a rousing reception at the end of their show. They finished 8th that nite, but the crowd didn't care about any of that, as they had really sold the show. Add me to the list. I had heard APDs from early in the year, and the show was rough. They tore it up at Finals though, a great show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrlandoContraAlum Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Although I am breaking the OP's rules in two ways (I was ON the field, and SEMIS was better...) but I have to nominate 89 Suncoast. We were a train wreck at the beginning of the year, with less than 40 horns and a LOT of holes. Scores reflected this: Hershey, PA 7/1 1 Cadets 76.7 2 Bluecoats 72.7 3 Crossmen 60.6 4 Dutch Boy 60.0 5 Florida Wave 57.4 6 Suncoast Sound 54.9 7 Ventures 43.8 Philadelphia, PA 7/2 1 Cadets 76.9 2 Bluecoats 71.7 3 Crossmen 63.7 4 Suncoast Sound 53.1 5 Florida Wave 52.1 6 Ventures 44.9 Compare that with our semifinals performance (easily our best of the year): Kansas City, MO Open Class Semi-Finals 1 Vanguard 98.2 2 Phantom Regiment 96.9 3 Cavaliers 94.8 4 Blue Devils 94.6 5 Cadets 94.4 6 Star of Indiana 93.3 7 Madison Scouts 92.9 8 Bluecoats 90.3 9 Suncoast Sound 90.2 10 Freelancers 87.4 11 Velvet Knights 86.3 12 Crossmen 85.8 13 Dutch Boy 85.5 14 Spirit of Atlanta 82.2 14 Sky Ryders 82.2 16 Blue Knights 81.2 17 Boston Crusaders 78.8 We passed corps that were 10 pointing us, and very nearly closed the almost 20 point gap to Bluecoats. At finals we had 43 horns (or something like that). Not too shabby... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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