2015 Rankings (by most recent score)

[scottmkeen]

Gary, you are correct. The rule book states "Corps will appear in the order of their highest score during the regular season at DCA sanctioned contests, with the highest scoring corps appearing last."

[Spandy]

Gary, you are correct. The rule book states "Corps will appear in the order of their highest score during the regular season at DCA sanctioned contests, with the highest scoring corps appearing last."

Thanks Scott, I just checked that too. Here's the list in what would be current seeding order:

Rank - Latest Score - Date and Location of Latest Score (Change from, and date of previous score)

Open Class:

1 - 91.70 - Reading Buccaneers - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+2.50 - 8/15)

2 - 91.05 - Hawthorne Caballeros - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+1.90 - 8/15)

3 - 91.00 - Minnesota Brass - 8/22 St Peter MN (+0.10 - 8/21)

4 - 88.90 - Cadets² - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+1.30 - 8/15)

5 - 87.95 - Atlanta CV - 8/22 Rockmart GA (+7.25 - 8/1)

6 - 86.75 - Fusion Core - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+1.50 - 8/15)

7 - 86.40 - White Sabers - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+2.30 - 8/15)

8 - 81.95 - Long Island Sunrisers - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+1.60 - 8/2)

9 - 81.85 - Carolina Gold - 8/22 Rockmart GA (+5.35 - 8/1)

10- 79.85 - Connecticut Hurricanes - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+3.95 - 7/25)

11- 79.25 - Bushwackers - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+1.50 - 8/15)

12- 75.50 - Skyliners - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+0.85 - 8/15)

13- 74.95** - Kidsgrove Scouts - 7/25 Leicester England (+1.00 - 7/4)

Class A:

1 - 83.45 - Govenaires - 8/22 St Peter MN (+0.60 - 8/21)

2 - 76.40 - Alliance - 8/22 Rockmart GA (+3.85 - 8/1)

3 - 75.10 - Kilties - 8/22 St Peter MN (+0.30 - 8/21)

4 - 73.60 - Chops - 8/22 St Peter MN (+2.15 - 8/21)

5 - 69.55 - Cincinnati Tradition - 8/22 Rockmart GA (+11.80* - 8/3) High score 70.55 on 8/1

6 - 63.40 - Excelsior - 8/22 Clifton NJ (-3.90 - 8/2) High score 67.30 on 8/2

7 - 64.75 (0.2) - Erie Thunderbirds - 8/1 Racine WI

*score from a DCI show

**score from a DCUK/DCE show

[JoeDz]

Rank - Latest Score - Date and Location of Latest Score (Change from, and date of previous score)

Open Class:

1 - 91.70 - Reading Buccaneers - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+2.50 - 8/15)

2 - 91.05 - Hawthorne Caballeros - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+1.90 - 8/15)

3 - 91.00 - Minnesota Brass - 8/22 St Peter MN (+0.10 - 8/21)

4 - 88.90 - Cadets² - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+1.30 - 8/15)

5 - 87.95 - Atlanta CV - 8/22 Rockmart GA (+7.25 - 8/1)

6 - 86.75 - Fusion Core - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+1.50 - 8/15)

7 - 86.40 - White Sabers - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+2.30 - 8/15)

8 - 81.95 - Long Island Sunrisers - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+1.60 - 8/2)

9 - 81.85 - Carolina Gold - 8/22 Rockmart GA (+5.35 - 8/1)

10- 79.85 - Connecticut Hurricanes - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+3.95 - 7/25)

11- 79.25 - Bushwackers - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+1.50 - 8/15)

12- 75.50 - Skyliners - 8/22 Clifton NJ (+0.85 - 8/15)

13- 74.95** - Kidsgrove Scouts - 7/25 Leicester England (+1.00 - 7/4)

*score from a DCI show

**score from a DCUK/DCE show

Wow ! A 5.3 blanket covers the top 7 corps and 2.7 covers the next 4 (and Kidsgrove will be up higher than 13)..... so you can cover the 10 finalist and first two eliminated with only 8 points !!!!

[N.E. Brigand]

I say 6 corps break 90 before Championships!

Dunno.

Looking quickly over the previous ten seasons, it appears that this is the first year since 2005 that no corps had scored 90 by the third-last regular-season weekend of the season (meaning Aug. 15-16 for this year). And in 2005, Buccaneers had scored 89 way back on July 30, two weekends earlier than they did this year. In 2005, just four corps would reach 90 before Championships, the others being Bushwackers, Statesmen, and Brigadiers. In every other year 2006-2014, at least one, often two, and sometimes three corps had already scored 90 or better by three weeks out. In 2009, four corps had scored 90 by now, but the number would only rise to five before Championships. Only twice in the past ten years have six corps reached 90 before Championships (2007 and 2008). So that's what recent precedent says. What does this year foretell?

Two corps, Bucs and Cabs, are all but a lock to score 90 tomorrow. C2 is close enough that they comfortably should do so by next week. MBI has earned a regular-season 90 in every year since 2007, but this is the first season in that time that they've not yet had an official DCA score already, so we have no clear gauge. Still, maybe they'll come out tonight a higher score than any other corps this year has seen. (If not, they may not get a chance tomorrow, based on the forecast for St. Peter.) Fusion and Sabers would have to show a very fast rate of improvement since their last score to achieve 90 by Reading. CV would need to do astoundingly well, with tomorrow being their last pre-championship appearance (and dodging raindrops as well, although with better chance of a dry Saturday show than in Minnesota). Kidsgrove didn't reach 90 before DCA Finals in either 2010 or 2012, but who knows? Finally, Sunrisers' most recent score of 80.35 on Aug. 2, five weeks from championships, is actually better than what Bushwackers had on Aug. 3 last year (79.50), which was only four weeks from championships (because Labor Day was earlier). And Bush went on to earn a 90.10 on Aug. 23, improving more than ten points in just three weeks (before dropping a little at Championships).

To sum up: there are all sort of possibilities either way. It should be very interesting to watch!

Still not impossible, still not too likely.

However, it does appear just barely within the realm of possibility that eight corps could reach 90 in Finals.

As far as I can tell, that hasn't happened before in DCA (although there have been years in which seven corps scored 92 or better; I don't see that happening).

There is also the slight possibility that every Open Class corps will score at least 80 by Prelims, which hasn't happened since 2010. It depends on how much Sky can improve over the next two weeks.

And while Govenaires are highly unlikely to match White Sabers' score last year in Class A, they do have pretty good odds on beating their own best ever Finals score; they need only improve by more than 1.5 points from what they scored today.

Well, well. Fusion Core (89.90) and Kidsgrove Scouts (89.50) very nearly proved Dan's prediction correct.

Regarding the italicized possibility, it's not out of the question. Skyliners improved by 2.80 points in one week. If they can improve by 1.70 points this week (assuming no one else drops significantly)--which is, however, better than their average weekly improvement this year--every Open Class corps in Prelims will break 80, for the first time in five years. I think that would be a good thing.

As concerns the underlined possibility, of eight corps scoring 90 in Finals for the first time ever, that's now looking reasonably likely. Six corps (Bucs, Cabs, MBI, C2, Scouts, Fusion) appear to be locks to do so, and two others (CV and Sabers) are both close enough that they probably can make it.

[JoeDz]

Well, well. Fusion Core (89.90) and Kidsgrove Scouts (89.50) very nearly proved Dan's prediction correct.

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As concerns the underlined possibility, of eight corps scoring 90 in Finals for the first time ever, that's now looking reasonably likely. Six corps (Bucs, Cabs, MBI, C2, Scouts, Fusion) appear to be locks to do so, and two others (CV and Sabers) are both close enough that they probably can make it.

I agree......

In fact, if Sun has a great run to open the scoring of the top-9, it will put upward pressure on the scores, as what happened a few years back when the Alliance percussion performance was so good that the perc judge was starting with a higher than usual number for corps to follow.

Even without upward pressure from below, I see CV and WS as easily crossing 90 by a point or two.

VERY impressed by Scouts, I watched a bit of their Thursday practice at Passaic County Tech. Horns were crisp and over by the color guard, flags were spinning very together. They were focused !

[Dan Detweiler]

See y'all next week.

Signed-that cute little drum corps from the south.

Dan

Edited August 31, 2015 by Dan Detweiler

[dbriggs]

from Michael del Corso's feed

**** DCA All-Age Corps - Based on Newest Score ****
**** Final Regular Season Ranking ****

Open Class:
01 (01) - 94.20 (2) - Buccaneers
02 (02) - 93.55 (1) - Caballeros
03 (04) - 92.85 (2) - Cadets2
04 (03) - 91.00 (4) - Minnesota Brass
05 (06) - 89.90 (2) - Fusion Core
06 (NR) - 89.50 (1) - Kidsgrove Scouts
07 (07) - 88.60 (2) - White Sabers
08 (05) - 87.95 (3) - Atlanta CV
09 (08) - 84.20 (1) - Sunrisers
10 (09) - 83.85 (2) - Carolina Gold
11 (10) - 82.95 (1) - Hurricanes
12 (11) - 80.65 (2) - Bushwackers
13 (12) - 78.30 (1) - Skyliners

Class A:
01 (01) - 83.45 (4) - Govenaires
02 (02) - 76.40 (3) - Alliance
03 (03) - 75.10 (4) - Kilties
04 (04) - 73.60 (4) - Chops, Inc
05 (05) - 69.55 (3) - Cincinnati Tradition
06 (06) - 68.15 (2) - Erie Thunderbirds
07 (07) - 66.30 (1) - Excelsior

[JoeDz]

from Michael del Corso's feed

**** DCA All-Age Corps - Based on Newest Score ****

**** Final Regular Season Ranking ****

Open Class:

01 (01) - 94.20 (2) - Buccaneers

02 (02) - 93.55 (1) - Caballeros

03 (04) - 92.85 (2) - Cadets2

04 (03) - 91.00 (4) - Minnesota Brass

05 (06) - 89.90 (2) - Fusion Core

06 (NR) - 89.50 (1) - Kidsgrove Scouts

07 (07) - 88.60 (2) - White Sabers

08 (05) - 87.95 (3) - Atlanta CV

09 (08) - 84.20 (1) - Sunrisers

10 (09) - 83.85 (2) - Carolina Gold

11 (10) - 82.95 (1) - Hurricanes

12 (11) - 80.65 (2) - Bushwackers

13 (12) - 78.30 (1) - Skyliners

Class A:

01 (01) - 83.45 (4) - Govenaires

02 (02) - 76.40 (3) - Alliance

03 (03) - 75.10 (4) - Kilties

04 (04) - 73.60 (4) - Chops, Inc

05 (05) - 69.55 (3) - Cincinnati Tradition

06 (06) - 68.15 (2) - Erie Thunderbirds

07 (07) - 66.30 (1) - Excelsior

I don't know how important one or two slots might be, but it seems that Minn Brass, Govies, Kilties, and Chops at St. Peter, Minn and CV & Alliance at Rockmart, would benefit if those two contests were held a week later so that everybody gets their final score on the same weekend. All Class A have final date of 8/22 except Erie, but for CV and MB, it WOULD move them both up. Of course, preliminaries will take care of placement for finals

[LucyGuy66]

I think the only question left at this point in Open Class is who will catch the bouquet. Will it be Minnesota, Cadets 2 or the perennial bridesmaid Caballeros??? Always a bridesmaid never a bride.

[Fred Windish]

I don't see the 2015 DCA Champion already 'in the bag,' but looking at the top spots realistically, it does look like the overall winner will be from among 4 corps. From what I'm told about last night in Reading, Cadets2 have really come together and could surprise in Rochester.

The season is coming to boil now !