Plan9 Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Oh no doubt, and I'm not suggesting Crown should, or is, resting on their laurels. The most dangerous place to be is out in front, because you literally have everyone chasing you: it makes groups behind you hungrier, more motivated to improve on the practice field every day. Especially after tonight, where BD opened up the percussion spread, and beat them in Vis Analysis (sure, but .1, but every tenth counts). I still think that Blue Devils might have a better designed program, and when/if they can clean the dirt out of it w/out watering it down, it will be a VERY interesting race down the stretch! No matter who wins, this seems to be the most exciting season in quite awhile! Could it be possible that if BD cleans up in August and pulls it out Finals week, that fans will revel in their underdog/come-from-behind Rocky-esque win?!?! Greenie for you Sir! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flammaster Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 That still doesn't mean they can't win it all. Cadets did it 3 in a row while BD won percussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxingfred Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 (edited) Blue Devils won DCI in 1980 and had a Sh!tty drum line! Which is funny because, That was the drum line that made this brass player appreciate and love marching percussion! BD's percussion was 2.3 behind the top drum line! Edited July 14, 2013 by boxingfred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsubone Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Luckily, they aren't too far behind. You can be a 5th place line at Finals, and only be .5 away from winning. Luckily percussion is divided in half for the final score, so percussion alone could just be a small score blip for Crown. I doubt they're just going to let the drums coast by though. I'm sure they'll be working just as hard if not harder than the rest of the corps. With so many less in the percussion, no one can hide mistakes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perc2100 Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Luckily, they aren't too far behind. You can be a 5th place line at Finals, and only be .5 away from winning. Luckily percussion is divided in half for the final score, so percussion alone could just be a small score blip for Crown. I doubt they're just going to let the drums coast by though. I'm sure they'll be working just as hard if not harder than the rest of the corps. With so many less in the percussion, no one can hide mistakes It's oddly fascinating to me that Crown's low-achieving percussion section doesn't seem to be affecting their Music Ensemble scores too much (I guess one could argue they'd be winning Ensemble by more if Crown's percussion was doing better) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffe77 Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Well Crown was last in Percussion tonight at TOC with a 16.0 score. Now ranked 8th in DCI. Yikes. Hope this was due to a bad night because if this keeps up, Crown may not win this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Obviously a problem tonight... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KPinCAL Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I think their line costs them a title this year- the other lines are SO much better... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Check this out, though: Even if Blue Devils beat Crown by a FULL POINT in Ensemble AND a FULL POINT in percussion, with current spreads in the rest of the subcaption Crown STILL wins by .35! It's funny to see the smallish spreads in the rest of the subs, and with a full point spread in TWO captions Crown is still in a more comfortable overall spreads than Phantom in 2008 Crazy! look at tonight's recap 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie1223 Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 man their staff must really be feeling the heat... yikes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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