Popular Post skywhopper Posted August 24, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted August 24, 2013 So I got to fooling around with making animated gifs out of the coolest drill moves from this year, and I decided I'd go all out and do all the finalists (plus Troopers). What other moves do you like from this season? Crown Blue Devils (I actually like the rotating box better but it wasn't shown at all in the Semis VOD.) Cadets Vanguard (The circles merging into a giant ellipse was my favorite, but these things have a 10 second limit when you make them at imgflip.com.) Bluecoats Phantom Cavaliers Boston Madison Blue Knights Spirit Blue Stars Troopers 26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NR_Ohiobando Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 (edited) Madison drill writers really should take lessons from SCV regarding how to correctly make an well done Fleur set. The spacing in Madison Fleurs has been pretty inconsistent for a while. (Nice job including Troopers as well!) Edited August 24, 2013 by NR_Ohiobando Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDStaffAlum Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Great post! I honestly don't think any of the drill comes even close to comparing with what the Cavies were doing early 2000s, but still some pretty cool moves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Cartwright Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 There were a bunch of cool moves this year, but I think Crown's entire show was visually the most entertaining I saw this year! Agreed with BDStaffAlum about Cavies in the early 2000's, but still some cool things happening more recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob9965 Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 I liked Academy's contra thing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Pretty incredible, Skywhopper! I'm going to have fun watching this thread over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctortelco Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 The purpose of the drill is to present the horn line- Drill Writing 101 So many of today's drills fail at that basic premise. It may be a neat formation and is visually pleasing, however if it doesn't present the horn line the drill is a failure. The Crossmen had some neat drill moves this year however the drill was an overall failure when it came to presenting the horn line. A great example of that was 27th Lancers drill back in 1980. The hottest drill move during that period was figure rotation. The 27th Lancers lead in that involution. Their show was full of rotating drill. However in all of it's artistic glory the horns with the melody ended up in the wrong place. I think that was the difference between 1st and the 2nd place they received at finals. The Blue Devils drill lacked the artistic flash that the 27th Lancers had, but their show presented the horns incredibly well. I would recommend watching both shows on YouTube and comparing those shows and notice the presentation of the horn lines. All of that being said to really judge the coolest move this season it would be nice to hear the music in context to see if the drill met it's basic purpose. Scott Smith 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Question: In Crown's pyramid, the center line on the 50 becomes the left hypotenuse and left base of the triangle. The big gaps between the numbers 1, 2, and 3 appears not to be the result of a difficult pass through but, rather, appears to be too few "dots" to make the line work as the others do. Could this simply be the result of a great design and not enough MM's in the horn line to pull it off? Maybe I'm over-thinking it but, when I watch this beauty, I constantly feel like the left line is "too thin". More "dots" would have looked better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Whoa... pretty cool stuff, Sky ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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