Official DCI Semifinals Thread 2015

[BRASSO]

Congratulations are in order to the Colts tonite in ending their season with their Guard topping both Phantom Regiment, and the Madison Scouts.

[wilme861]

Can someone explain why there is one brass judge score and 2 percussion judge scores? It seems to me, looking at the recap, that you should make sure your percussion is strong before your brass because you get more points with percussion. At least that's what it looks like. Insight?

Percussion judges get averaged so no. Same weight as the single brass judge.

[84BDsop]

It is rare for the Friday night winner to not come out on top on Saturday...very rare...just look at the 30 years or more.

In years where there is a clear front runner that no one ever really comes close to consistently, I'd agree.

In a year like THIS one...where the "lead" changed #### near every show and the current 1-2 gap is 0.15?? No way...it's going to be decided by the performances tomorrow night...period.

Remember that Regiment was in 2nd to BD after 2008 semis 98.050 to 97.675...a difference of 0.375.

BD only went up by 0.05 on finals night, while Regiment improved 0.45....juuuust enough to nip BD.

Edited August 8, 2015 by 84BDsop

[BlueStainGlass]

PR was third in prelims in 2008.

Dcp where people miss the point and have to prove someone wrong

[27Socal]

This judging system is crap. Look at the execution drum score for Bluecoats. Kristensen had them 1st, Dunn had them 5th, with a 6 tenths difference. Were these two guys even in the same stadium? Maybe one of them was at the other music convention in town. This isn't right screwing with these hard working, dedicated kids like this. DCI really needs to go back to tics for the execution captions. This opinion system lets these clowns get away with this crap.

[FlamMan]

Can we all agree that this was a horrible way to announce the scores for the last block of Corps ?

It was a confused mess... disjointed, and bespeaks of a mickey mouse operation imo

This was no way to do this.

Oh well, we dinos are used to this by DCI lately( haha!)

Well, it is a MM operation. Small time and bush league. And for the love of God, please tell Crocker that its time to retire.

Edited August 8, 2015 by FlamMan

[Aké]

Whats the lowest a corps has placed that also got a caption award? I know PR 2010 Got High Percussion in 6th, is there anything lower than that?

[Jeremy.]

so just as an illustration of how 1 judge can swing things

Prelims visual analysis judge had Cadets behind BD (who was in 2nd) by 0.2

tonight's visual analysis judge (the lovely ex-27th member Debbie Torchia) had the Cadets behind BD (who were now in 1st) in visual analysis by 1.7pts

that's a swing of 1.5 points OVERNIGHT / and made a 0.75 difference in the final scores

this aligns closely with her history as a judge

as does George O's scoring

Guard

Thursday night Crown took guard over BD by 0.2 pts

Friday night with George O scoring, BD was over Crown by 0.1pts - again, closely following his judging history

So not as big a swing there - but still a 0.3 difference, amounting to .15 in final score

As always, it is quite interesting.

And people get at me for calling Torchia a BD Homer.

[Zerix]

What time do crossmen go on tomorrow

[ShortAndFast]

This judging system is crap. Look at the execution drum score for Bluecoats. Kristensen had them 1st, Dunn had them 5th, with a 6 tenths difference. Were these two guys even in the same stadium? Maybe one of them was at the other music convention in town. This isn't right screwing with these hard working, dedicated kids like this. DCI really needs to go back to tics for the execution captions. This opinion system lets these clowns get away with this crap.

One percussion judge is on the field, the other is in the box. Is it so surprising that they come up with different numbers when they look at different things?