Eleran Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Seriously? If nothing else epitomizes the current state of DCI's focus, that pretty much says it all: judging a show without specifically judging the brass, percussion or guard. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Dixon Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 1 minute ago, Eleran said: Seriously? If nothing else epitomizes the current state of DCI's focus, that pretty much says it all: judging a show without specifically judging the brass, percussion or guard. yeah - it's ridiculous. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2000Cadet Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 30 minutes ago, .dave. said: Not to take anything away from the Mandarins, but the show last night was missing the brass, percussion, and color guard. I wonder if that would have made a difference in the scoring? 19 minutes ago, Eleran said: Seriously? If nothing else epitomizes the current state of DCI's focus, that pretty much says it all: judging a show without specifically judging the brass, percussion or guard. 16 minutes ago, George Dixon said: yeah - it's ridiculous. It's fun. But people on that other show thread are calling it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappybara Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 54 minutes ago, .dave. said: Not to take anything away from the Mandarins, but the show last night was missing the brass, percussion, and color guard. I wonder if that would have made a difference in the scoring? I mean considering colorguard is one of Blue Stars' strongest captions, I think it's appropriate to take a little bit away from the Mandarins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandandl Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Back in the day, a procedure used to avoid bad housing situations and sudden cancellations went like this. When Dr. Cinzio was the director, Dr. Santo and his wife would drive the tour a day ahead of the corps stopping at each school to guarantee the reception and facility was ready for the corps, especially the gym, showers, and fields. Often these folks didn't get to see their kids perform; but almost rarely did the corps get blindsided like last night. When Dr. Santo became director, I split those duties with a few others for the same results. When Dr. Santo handed over the reins of directorship, the new director drove the tour himself before Spring Training even happened. Gradually the advance team went by the wayside. Perhaps next year it might be re-instated. We all know Doug and Scott have had more than enough to deal with this season. I had done a similar work for the Long Island Kingsmen when DCI was just beginning. The corps was being billeted in a Howard Johnson's through the sponsorship of a local businessman. We arrived in the town only to find three fire departments putting out the last ashes of the fire which destroyed the whole hotel before we came. I went to the local Catholic pastor, explained the plight. Despite the fact that he had only been assigned to the parish the previous week, he handed over the keys to the parish grammar school where we slept in classrooms that night. He arranged for the church ladies to cook a pancake breakfast for us; this was his first non-worship parish activity and what a memorable start. He also phoned the principal of the Catholic high school, his previous assignment, at our next stop on tour; there we were given keys to the CHS, a much better facility than the show sponsors had first arranged. Both schools were left spotless. But that was 1972; corps were smaller then, and corps didn't have to have props, electronics, and lawyers. Wish I could have had 50 spare hotel rooms to give the Cadets last night. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachDrumCorps Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 (edited) Cadets will not be appearing at the show in GA tonight. edit: to clarify, this is due to dropped housing/inability to secure new housing in the area in time. Edited July 11, 2018 by ZachDrumCorps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluzes Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Sorry to hear that. The staff and corps members must be really disappointed. Hang In there Cadets you have fans everywhere and I am sure your GA Fans and others will make a lot of noise about this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Dixon Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 So the housing would have been provided by the show sponsor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkrepps Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 1 hour ago, .dave. said: Not to take anything away from the Mandarins, but the show last night was missing the brass, percussion, and color guard. I wonder if that would have made a difference in the scoring? So who was on the field for the show? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barneveld Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 7 minutes ago, George Dixon said: So the housing would have been provided by the show sponsor? A show sponsor is supposed to provide housing ( somewhere between 12 to 24 hours, not sure the exact amount). Any housing above the required amount of time is the responsibility of the corps to aquire and pay for. Although I've seen in some cases the show sponsor would help a corps, if it was able to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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