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Anyone wanna explain why Michael Turner is judging guard at finals? The only visual related caption he has judged all season is GE Visual and many corps to weren't even present at that competition. Seems like a weird time to give a judge a first read on a show 

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2 hours ago, BostonLUck said:

World Championship Finals — Saturday, August 11

General Effect 1: Kyle Miller & Tim Ochran
General Effect 2: Caleb Rothe & Richard Saucedo
Visual Performance: Robert Solomon
Visual Analysis: Jim Sturgeon
Color Guard: Michael Turner 
Music Brass: Chester Phillips???
Music Analysis: Darrin Davis & Chris Romanowski
Field Percussion: Allan Kristensen
Chief Judge: John Phillips

 

Does anyone else find this a bit odd? We've got Albert Lo on Prelims night, Paul McGarr (eh? equally odd) on Semis, but Chester Phillips on FINALS night? Now, don't get me wrong here, Chester is a fine trumpet player, but he's a visual guy - drill writer. Yes. He's an music educator, but he & his wife are known to be visual designers / educators. 

Also, the GE panel has all the heavy hitters on Prelims night, and then scattered the rest throughout Semis & Finals. Just a very, very odd lineup. Great to see Darrin Davis join the mix.

Thoughts?  Maybe it caught me off guard not seeing Albert Lo on Finals night, but things seem off. And as it's been point out already, Jeff Prosperie is MIA too. 

I don't know anything about him, but he's judged brass 6 times this year (and GE2 one time) most recently in Massilon. He didn't work as a visual judge this summer.

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11 minutes ago, Cappybara said:

Anyone wanna explain why Michael Turner is judging guard at finals? The only visual related caption he has judged all season is GE Visual and many corps to weren't even present at that competition. Seems like a weird time to give a judge a first read on a show 

I am pretty sure he judged guard recently and put Cadets over Boston

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18 minutes ago, DCI-86 said:

I am pretty sure he judged guard recently and put Cadets over Boston

Wait I just realized I was looking at Chester Phillips, Turner has judged guard plenty this season my bad

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31 minutes ago, DCI-86 said:

I am pretty sure he judged guard recently and put Cadets over Boston

-Scratch that, he only judged guard with both once- I guess we'll see what happens...

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I would like it better if the judge's names were not released at all. 

Not in this particular thread with these particular judges, but anytime a judge is accused of bias it devalues the achievement of the corps members.

/soapbox

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11 minutes ago, wvu80 said:

I would like it better if the judge's names were not released at all. 

Not in this particular thread with these particular judges, but anytime a judge is accused of bias it devalues the achievement of the corps members.

/soapbox

I think such secrecy would erode trust, which would devalue it to a greater extent.

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