BRASSO Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Looking at several years of scores on http://www.fromthepressbox.com/ it's fun to see how quickly a corps with an enhanced or limiting program starts to affect the judges scores. Think of a corps that suddenly had a significant improvement in one year and watch how their score changed after the first few showings. The first couple of scores are often not reflective of their change in direction, but of where they finished the prior year. This works in reverse too. For example, In 2008, Phantom Regiment won DCI. In their first few competition appearances in June of the following season ( 2009 ) they were crushing Corps like Boston by over 6 points. However it was clear early on that Phantom's visual show was nowhere near as good as that of 2008 ( I liked the music however ). Phantom was finally caught by both Blue Stars and BAC that season and both topped Phantom at Finals in 2009. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madalumni Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 I predict the Lions will go another season not winning a playoff game Wow, you're really putting it out there on that one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStainGlass Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Wow, you're really putting it out there on that one! I did some research. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narrow Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Last Off-Season Prediction 1. Blue Devils 2. Cadets 3. Crown 4. Bluecoats 5. SCV 6. Blue Knights 7. Cavaliers 8. Boston Crusaders 9. Madison Scouts 10. Phantom Regiment 11. Blue Stars 12. Troopers 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjyaub Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Last Off-Season Prediction 1. Blue Devils 2. Cadets 3. Crown 4. Bluecoats 5. SCV 6. Blue Knights 7. Cavaliers 8. Boston Crusaders 9. Madison Scouts 10. Phantom Regiment 11. Blue Stars 12. Troopers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjyaub Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Last Off-Season Prediction 1. Blue Devils 2. Cadets 3. Crown 4. Bluecoats 5. SCV 6. Blue Knights 7. Cavaliers 8. Boston Crusaders 9. Madison Scouts 10. Phantom Regiment 11. Blue Stars 12. Troopers Sounds good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantombari1 Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 As usual I'll wait till I see all the corps once and I'll again predict placements accurately at a 98% clip. (Yawn) preseason picks get boring. Picking the bottom placements is the tricky part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjeffeory Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Last Off-Season Prediction 1. Blue Devils 2. Cadets 3. Crown 4. Bluecoats 5. SCV 6. Blue Knights 7. Cavaliers 8. Boston Crusaders 9. Madison Scouts 10. Phantom Regiment 11. Blue Stars 12. Troopers This is as good as any place to start.... Madison could go higher. Phantom could go higher. Cavaliers could go higher; I don't think they'll place 9th again. Boston Crusaders could be great too. I expect Troopers and Academy to be great. No idea about Crossmen or Blue Stars. Blue Stars can put out a great design. Actually, I'm thinking it's going to be a dog fight within all the "tiers" this year more than most other years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Last Off-Season Prediction 1. Blue Devils 2. Cadets 3. Crown 4. Bluecoats 5. SCV 6. Blue Knights 7. Cavaliers 8. Boston Crusaders 9. Madison Scouts 10. Phantom Regiment 11. Blue Stars 12. Troopers I don't see Phantom dropping like that. They were solid by Aug last year and really sold the show.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlejaw Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 I don't see Phantom dropping like that. They were solid by Aug last year and really sold the show.. Especially for the credit we (DCPers) weren't giving them early on in spring training. Sounded like we thought they were 10th last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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