Jeff Ream Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Ghost said: What were the numbers when the DCI Finals were in Buffalo? not 30000+ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUARDLING Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Ghost said: What were the numbers when the DCI Finals were in Buffalo? nm Edited May 9, 2018 by GUARDLING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajlemm Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 How was it that I knew this was going to turn into a “how many attended finals in Montreal vs location X” thread? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daave Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 36 minutes ago, ajlemm said: How was it that I knew this was going to turn into a “how many attended finals in Montreal vs location X” thread? Because nearly every time it is brought up, that is exactly what happens. It's DCP and it's what we do. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 1 hour ago, ajlemm said: How was it that I knew this was going to turn into a “how many attended finals in Montreal vs location X” thread? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 I LOVE Canada ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandandl Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 4 hours ago, Ghost said: What were the numbers when the DCI Finals were in Buffalo? Buffalo hosted more than once. Which season? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim K Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 2 hours ago, ajlemm said: How was it that I knew this was going to turn into a “how many attended finals in Montreal vs location X” thread? The numbers at Montreal have been analyzed for years with no real conclusions. Often those who believe drum corps is on a downward spiral claim it was the glory days. Others say the numbers are skewed and we have no way of knowing paid seats as opposed to filled free seats. For this conversation, the attendance numbers would not matter as much as what percentage of the audience was Canadian and how many Canadian corps were there at the time. Remember, August and September are great times to visit Montreal, with perhaps the exception of the year it was so cold. I’m willing to bet many Americans extended vacations to see Montreal. If the majority of people who attended were Americans, this has little to no bearing on the health of drum corps in Canada. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigW Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 If you want to discuss the health of the activity in Canada, there's a few things in the equation that hurt it badly. 1: The lack of strong instrumental music education programs in Canadian schools. BITD when Corps members were trained pretty much through drum corps alone, Canadian corps did very well. As DCI corps began to go older with more well educated members in brass and percussion, the Canadian corps began to slide. Interestingly enough, Ontario and Quebec still seem to have solid Indoor guard circuits and teams. 2: Deaths/declines of the local support circuits (ODCA and FAMQ) didn't help. Quebec's location in particular made it an outlier. It was a major effort to tour South of the border. Tough enough to get to Montreal from here let alone Ville d'Quebec, Jonquiere, or the Saguenay area. 3: The intense competition in Quebec for a lot of the same kids caused corps to eat each other alive. I can direct you to a rather interesting article in English on that if one is so inclined. 4: The activity outgrew a lot of the traditional sponsors (Lions Clubs, Optimists, The Patros (Tim K might know about those!) Scouting et al) to manage the corps and pay their bills. It's a real shame Les Stentors evidently aren't coming down this year. I think it's been bad for the activity in general to lose any of the Canadian corps, in particular the ones from Quebec. Why? Maybe it's because they were so separated by language, culture, and geography, but they were a real source of different approaches to the activity, and they brought with them amazing, original, and brilliant ideas in design that opened a lot of eyes and were a heckuva lot of fun to watch and listen to regardless of where they placed. There's a lot of stuff and shenanigans from the old days I frankly don't miss. The corps from Canada, I do miss. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 3 hours ago, ajlemm said: How was it that I knew this was going to turn into a “how many attended finals in Montreal vs location X” thread? I just said not 30000+. I dont know the Buffalo numbers,off hand, tho i think it was posted here once before but it wasnt that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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