Hoschton, GA - July 11, 2018

[BRASSO]

5 minutes ago, Liahona said:

Bluecoats lead on Boston is beginning to shrink...ever so slightly

 Yup.. the trend lines are looking good. Boston closed the gap with Bluecoats to 1.3 points. 

 

Edited July 12, 2018 by BRASSO

[MikeN]

Sorry to keep raving about OC, but that was Guardians first ever win against an OC lineup! All of the kids tonight were saying afterward  they felt this was a special performance - I’m glad for once the judges agreed.

Mike

[MikeRapp]

5 minutes ago, Liahona said:

Bluecoats lead on Boston is beginning to shrink...ever so slightly

As I said earlier, margins have to shrink as scores climb closer to 100. It’s the nature of a closed scoring system.

[Terri Schehr]

1 minute ago, MikeRapp said:

As I said earlier, margins have to shrink as scores climb closer to 100. It’s the nature of a closed scoring system.

Yeah, they get bunched up.  

Today is one month until finals. 

[NCWVUFAN]

1 month....wow

 

[Terri Schehr]

Just now, NCWVUFAN said:

1 month....wow

 

I know.  It goes by quickly... Saturday is a week until SA, then Atlanta, then Allentown, then boom...Indy. 

[Liahona]

11 minutes ago, oldbandguy said:

Nice job Bloo perc!!! and with Prosperie as as judge!!!!!

yet they overachieved their book...but JP is tough

[BRASSO]

20 minutes ago, MikeRapp said:

As I said earlier, margins have to shrink as scores climb closer to 100. It’s the nature of a closed scoring system.

  Not really. Corps have even made up over 3 point spreads... with all Corps scores in the high 80's,  8 days out from Championships. Some Corps in the 90's, will have the scores go down in Championships, thus increasing the spread margins even at Championships.. Happens all the time too. The" margins " are a function of judge evaluations not any math theories that somehow have you convinced that  " margins have to shrink ". Not when there are hundreds of examples over the years where the margins did not shrink at all among the competiing Corps when all " the scores climb closer to 100 ". Oftentimes, the spread margins will even increase among similar tier Corps... even as BOTH Corps scores go up and BOTH " get closer to 100", from earlier in the season. This also happens all the time too. Once again, a function of performances and judge evaluations, not math theory.

Edited July 12, 2018 by BRASSO

[Ghost]

34 minutes ago, NCWVUFAN said:

Bloo has had a couple days to practice, hope they grew some points :)

Boston's last show was on the 8th.  They did cut into the Bluecoats lead around 4/10, but I'm anxious and was hoping for them to get a little closer.   The percussion section seems to drop a little when Jeff P. is judging.  

[MikeRapp]

12 hours ago, Beau R said:

My name is Beau Rowell and I'm a Board member of Friends of Spirit, Inc., which operates the Spirit of Atlanta Drum & Bugle Corps.

With respect to housing for Cadets for the Hoschton, GA show, both Spirit and Cadets were caught off guard about the loss of Woodland HS as a housing site for the Cadets, only learning about it last night during the Valdosta, GA show.  We are very thankful to the staff at Cairo High School, who made their facilities available at the last minute for Cadets.  Further, we understand Cadet's decision to not attend the Hoschton show at Mill Creek HS due to the distances between Cairo HS and Mill Creek HS.

Here are the facts surrounding Woodland HS as a housing site for Cadets for the Hoschton show:

• the Friends of Spirit team dealt with a particular individual at Woodland, who had confirmed to us in writing in May that Woodland could house Cadets on July 10/11
• during the Valdosta show last night is when it became known that Woodland HS wasn't available as a housing site for Cadets
• Friends of Spirit has learned in the last couple hours that the individual we were dealing with on housing suddenly no longer works for Woodland and, prior to his departure from Woodland, apparently didn't follow proper procedures to officially request that the school be used as a housing site for July 10/11, despite telling us otherwise
• as a result the Woodland school administration was not aware of the Cadets' arrival for July 10/11
• we do not know at this time if other events are occurring at Woodland today, but it's likely that football practice or other activities could have been a conflict
• Woodland did try to make it work but were not able to make arrangements at the last minute

Securing housing sites is a big challenge for all DCI drum corps. Please know that the principal at Woodland High School is NOT the person to be blamed this situation. As you now know, the principal did not "back out" and in fact did all they could to try to make it work. From Woodland's perspective, they learned that Cadets would be arriving with only about six hours notice. 

Hopefully you now understand this situation.  We respectfully ask that you not bombard Principal Ellis and blame her for Woodland not being available for Cadets.  Sending her derogatory letters will not help this situation, and in fact could be problematic long term for Spirit, which held spring training at Woodland. We've worked diligently at developing positive relationships with school districts in the greater Atlanta area. Let's please not undermine the foundations built by blaming the wrong person for this situation.

Thank you.

Thank you for taking the time to respond, and for trying to solve this crisis while also managing all the other stuff related to the show. Best of luck for the remainder of 2018.