CrunchyTenor Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Bellflower, CA Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 5:00 PM So Cal Classic Open Class Championship Bellflower H.S. Stadium 15301 S. McNab Ave. Bellflower, CA 90706 Performing Corps Line-up is in reverse order of appearance. Pacific Crest - Diamond Bar, CA Blue Devils B - Concord, CA Blue Devils C - Concord, CA City Sound - Long Beach, CA Gold - San Diego, CA Impulse - Buena Park, CA Vanguard Cadets - Santa Clara, CA Velvet Knights - Pasadena, CA Renegades - San Francisco, CA SoCal Dream - Huntington Beach, CA This is for California bragging rights in the Open Class. Can SCVC end BDB's streak? Can Gold make up any ground on the two front runners as they prepare for their first tour to Open Class Championships? Where does Impulse fit in the picture? Can Velvet Knights* gain any ground before their return to the Open Class tour? Plus Pacific Crest plays their farewell SoCal performance before joining the World Class tour, and the All-age Renegades and SoCal Dream finish their West Coast performance schedule before spending hours in the woodshed the rest of the month, and most of August, getting ready for the DCA championships over Labor Day weekend in Annapolis, MD. Anyone going to the show who can post the procedings to DCP, or tweet to someone who can repost? All this and more at the Bellflower Brawl! Garry in Vegas *Not to be confused with the Original Velvet Knights. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasgroh Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 ...from what I saw last nite at Mission Viejo, Open Class in California is solid! Of course BDB and SCVC are duking it out within tenths, then you have Gold, prepping for a nats run, with Impulse pushing *hard* at a point and change behind. VK is very respectable, City Sound is playing a musical book most would shy-away from and doing a great job. Renegades, with their best offering in years, and Dream with some cool Trekie counterpoint...well, you have the makings of quite a nice drum corps show. Oh, I neglected to mention Pacific Crest, always conscious of their leadership in SoCal drum corps by supporting these two Open Class shows, putting on *their* best offering ever; man they can play! I was surprised at the high-quality judging slate last night, it makes for a credible finale for the groups ending their seasons tonight; congrats to DCI on providing support for Open Class. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I realize that the current VK is not the staff of the VK from the 80's 90's; but isn't it the same charter/organization? Or is the current VK a "completely" different charter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumCorps Weather Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Completely different organization, Stu. The old corps would have to pay major fees to the IRS to ever start up again. Garry in Vegas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumCorps Weather Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I was just looking at the order of performance. Who dreamt this up? SCVC goes on second in Open Class? BDC and City Sound right before BDB? After closing to 0.15 last night, SCVC will probably drop about a point in the spread behind BDB. Look what happened in Minneapolis last night when Cavaliers went on third to last. They ended up passing Scouts and Spirit, almost pointing Scouts after being almost 2 points behind the night before. Show position does matter. Garry in Vegas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Completely different organization, Stu. The old corps would have to pay major fees to the IRS to ever start up again. Garry in Vegas Was the name Velvet Knights name sold to the new group; was the charter sold; is the new VK a tribute to the old group; or did the new group just hope that the VK name would carry some weight for a newly forming group? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I was just looking at the order of performance. Who dreamt this up? SCVC goes on second in Open Class? BDC and City Sound right before BDB? After closing to 0.15 last night, SCVC will probably drop about a point in the spread behind BDB. Look what happened in Minneapolis last night when Cavaliers went on third to last. They ended up passing Scouts and Spirit, almost pointing Scouts after being almost 2 points behind the night before. Show position does matter. Garry in Vegas Not trying to bring another thread discussion over to here, but since order performance placement "does" effect scoring it indicates the subjectivity within the system. While judges go by the "sheets" as much as they can, they cannot break their human perception issues because that perception certainly is effected by other corps performances within the general time-frame, daylight view vs. under the lights view, etc... This perception differential can therefore cause a slight point fluctuation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POSITIVenrgy Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Good luck to all tonight.....and a special shout-out to SCVC!!! Really love their show! Have only seen Pacific Crest at Stanford...but, wow! They were something to see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsubone Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Go SCVC!!!! Hope to see them do well, I expect to see a huge fight all of the way to DCI Finals. Can't wait to see what happens once OC gets into the mix as well. Is anyone there to report? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLD Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 (edited) I'm not sure that's the performance order. Need to go buy a program. It's been SoCal Dream, Renegades, and now BDc. Can I just say I love the Renegades - makes me think I'm not too old to march lulz. And BDc is pretty adorable. What? You were expecting technical analysis :) eta: performance order SoCal Dream Renegades Blue Devils C City Sound Velvet Knights Impulse Gold Vanguard Cadets Blue Devils B Pacific Crest Edited July 16, 2012 by CLD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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