Peel Paint Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 In total percussion, five corps including SCV were separated by only 0.5 (which gets divided in half in determining total score). You think SCV had it rough, Cavies were 4th and 6th in the two percussion subcaptions and yet that was only good enough for 7th overall in percussion... but like SCV, they're giving up almost nothing there in total score to their peer group. JJP obviously thought these five drumlines were very, very close overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skywhopper Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I think it's a combination of JJ being more willing to place corps a little crazy, and just the cramped nature of a 40-corps prelims scoring stack. I mean, consider their performance order against their scores: Boston, okay, 9.0/8.9 Cavies, better, 9.2/9.2 Bluecoats, better, but we gotta leave room for five more corps... 9.4/9.4 SCV, uh oh, not quite up to Bloo, but better than Cavies... 9.3/9.3 is the only option. After that, who knows. Not a big worry, though, Allan K will be able to spread things out a little better on Finals night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InspaDave Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 What I find more surprising than SCV in 5th is Crown's drums in 3rd. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiodb Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I think the top six lines are pretty closely matched....and if I had to pick a winner last night, it would be Bluecoats. After that, the gap between 6th and 7th should be of Grand Canyon magnitude. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Dixon Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 FWIW I placed them Cadets BD SCV Bluecoats Crown Etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hostrauser Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I never saw Pipitone near the pit. EVER. The entire night. Any time the battery was on camera (not even close-ups, wide overhead shots too) JJ was chasing the snares or the tenors. Every corps for five hours. That's MY explanation for why the drum scores are whack-a-doodle. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catan Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I never saw Pipitone near the pit. EVER. The entire night. Any time the battery was on camera (not even close-ups, wide overhead shots too) JJ was chasing the snares or the tenors. Every corps for five hours. That's MY explanation for why the drum scores are whack-a-doodle. I was there live (quite close to the field) and I saw him in front of the pit all the time. He usually stood on the left side of the DM podium, right next to it, and was hard to spot sometimes. But believe me, he was running back and forth between battery and pit for the entire day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDBassCreature Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Anybody else watching the theater feed notice JJ during BD's big drum break? He was doing the body work with them! It was a little hard to see because he was tucked up behind the pit, but he was literally holding up the mic to capture the sound, and doing the body work complete with the two hops to the side at the end. I started laughing, turned to my friend and said, "well I know who's winning drums tonight." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbandguy Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I never saw Pipitone near the pit. EVER. The entire night. Any time the battery was on camera (not even close-ups, wide overhead shots too) JJ was chasing the snares or the tenors. Every corps for five hours. That's MY explanation for why the drum scores are whack-a-doodle. It was very obvious to me that JJ had really done his homework in terms of knowing where to be on the field for each of the last group of lines. He spent MUCH time in front of the pits with each corps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skywhopper Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I think the top six lines are pretty closely matched....and if I had to pick a winner last night, it would be Bluecoats. After that, the gap between 6th and 7th should be of Grand Canyon magnitude. aka The Great Divide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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