Bannedforlife Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 (edited) Disagree 100% here. Drill especially has been incredibly kind to marchers in the past 5 years or so. Designers are now designing shows with players' endurance in mind. They don't want to write anything too taxing for fear that it will cause dirt. Just look at Crown's 09 show and see how stationary players get when they have the melody. It's efficient and allows music to be clean without worrying about much sound getting lost in the feet. Back in the 90s and early 00s demand was a HUGE part of design. I mean, heck, the opening 2 minutes of Blue Devils' 2003 championship show has rotations and obliques at a velocity/tempo that 2014 BD wouldn't even bother attempting. I've marched some incredibly difficult drill myself, and I can attest that the demand is not the same as when I marched. When you're going at 190-210BPM for 4 and a half minutes straight with 3 hold sets, THAT is a marathon, and I played above the staff pretty much the entire time. One poster said he liked seeing a corps that struggles early in the season conquer their show by the end that is exactly the experience that I had. That being said, what I can say that should hopefully ameliorate some of the confusion/frustration about the scores is that when I marched the sheets were radically different. The new sheets are over one third GE with 40 possible points, 30 in visual, and 30 in music. The shows have changed since the time I marched because the criteria has changed. Honestly, for the corps that are doing it right, the sheets really do a service to the quality of the programs. Some corps are struggling to make the adaption and those productions usually leave me scratching my head. It will be interesting to see how each corps learns from this year and adapts their show designs to be more successful in the 2015 season. It's been one hell of a season. Edited August 10, 2014 by Bannedforlife Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWilliams Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 And the point of this is????? Is BD's score gonna down cause of this? How about congratulating ALL the corps on a magnificent season. BD deserved the score they got. And BLOO deserved to go past the Cadets. Calm down buddy. I like BD, I like BLOO. It was a question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWilliams Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 And the point of this is????? Is BD's score gonna down cause of this? How about congratulating ALL the corps on a magnificent season. BD deserved the score they got. And BLOO deserved to go past the Cadets. ... and if you hadn't noticed I congratulated all the corps earlier lolol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superOOk Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 First off, Congrats to BD. You should have won, no doubt. 99.65? Don't think it should have been near that high but that's my opinion. Those of you saying how classy it was that BD congratulated Bluecoats? It was, but I can tell you from experience that had the shoe been on the other foot and BD lost it would not have happened. You clearly never marched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummer5485 Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 And your experience was..............?? I beat them 3 times, and none of those times when standing next to them in retreat were what I would call "classy"/ Times may have changed, and I hope so. But as long at they keep wearing championship rings on the outside of their gloves I see BD as someone that only cares about winning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApathyJones Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 OK.. Just to stir the pot a little....why WAS BD congratulating Bluecoats a classy move? Trying to figure this one out...... Is congratulating someone for beating someone (while that someone else is standing right there) a classy move? Why bot congratulate Cadets for taking the bronze? And for the record, I think Bluecoats deserved the silver. Because it was their highest placement as a corps ever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummer5485 Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 You clearly never marched. ...ummm...do you see my signature? I did, for 3 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superOOk Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Calm down buddy. I like BD, I like BLOO. It was a question. Dude, don't say anything negative tonight. If you do, everyone assumes you are classless and are putting other corps down. WTF, seriously... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardlyworking Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 You clearly never marched. You clearly don't look at signatures. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kamarag Posted August 10, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 10, 2014 (edited) That being said, what I can say that should hopefully ameliorate some of the confusion/frustration about the scores is that when I marched the sheets were radically different. The new sheets are over one third GE with 40 possible points, 30 in visual, and 30 in music. The shows have changed since the time I marched because the criteria has changed. Honestly, for the corps that are doing it right, the sheets really do a service to the quality of the programs. Some corps are struggling to make the adaption and those productions usually leave me scratching my head. It will be interesting to see how each corps learns from this year and adapts their show designs to be more successful in the 2015 season. It's been one hell of a season. You can bet your ### that if the sheets changed to reward super high demand, the Blue Devils would put out a show so hard only they could achieve it. If the sheets rewarded baby throwing, no corps would throw a baby anywhere near as far, with as much accuracy, and with as much style as Devils would. You want to hate the game? Fine, I have no issue with that. But don't hate the guy who plays it better than you do. The fact that the Blue Devils have won 16 championships in five different decades under who knows how many judging systems proves that. Edited August 10, 2014 by Kamarag 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.