N.E. Brigand Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 All four shows would be better, in my opinion, if they cut out their prerecorded voice. Also are Cadets amplifying the whole brass section? There were nine microphones aimed at the field between the 40s, and at times it sure sounded like the whole corps was being pumped thorugh the speakers. I thought, when DCI decided not to limit the use of brass amplification in the 2018 Januals, that there was a statement about how designers made assurances that they wouldn't abuse that tool. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 4 hours ago, kevingamin said: I don't have the best vantage point, but RHR is cooking with gas on the charts. Very Blue Devils with Johnny One Note and Since I Fell For You. posted from the DrumScorps app For a SoundSport group, Rogues Hollow Regiment, was pretty darn good, if still rough, and a great way to open the evening. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 The stadium is much smaller than Massillon's, but like Massillon a lot of the stands have a roof, and that meant overall the sound up top, where I was sitting, was painfully loud at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 2 hours ago, cfirwin3 said: Where's kevingamin? Once he got to the stands, he was sitting, coindentally, just a few spots over from me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfirwin3 Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 For the sake of discussion... Slotting means 2 different things to different people. A. Slotting means (to most) the application of a placement prior to adjudication (this is the misunderstood, nefarious definition... that actually isn't true). B. Slotting ACTUALLY means... drum roll... numbers management. Slotting is merely the unavoidable practice of comparison as numbers are being assigned. It's why we can't really compare (faithfully) numbers between different shows on the same night. And it's why scores will occasionally bounce a significant value from one night to the next while the placement order stays the same (especially when a high placing group takes an early performance time in a lineup). Okay... Now fight! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 23 minutes ago, Brass Lover said: I don't remember people babying David and telling him "You can beat Goliath, we believe in you!". Besides if sports has taught me anything hating Boston just makes them more powerful. In objective scored sports, the Red Sox win or lose by how many runners cross home plate. It would be an entirely different competition, however, if their ranking in the MLB season was determined by being subjectively evaluated on how well they sashay around the bases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Dixon Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 We are two shows in. Everybody needs to settle down lol the gaps we think we see now could open up or vanish a week from now then the first regional thing start to take shape so far I’d say almost all the corps have improved over last season - an amazing thing looking forward to watching things develop 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 3 minutes ago, cfirwin3 said: [...] B. Slotting ACTUALLY means... drum roll... numbers management. Slotting is merely the unavoidable practice of comparison as numbers are being assigned. It's why we can't really compare (faithfully) numbers between different shows on the same night. And it's why scores will occasionally bounce a significant value from one night to the next while the placement order stays the same (especially when a high placing group takes an early performance time in a lineup) Speaking of numbers management, I'll take this moment to say, as I do once or twice every year, that either early season scores and late season scores are determined using wildly different criteria, or, as I would argue, that early season scores are way too low. If you put Boston's or Bluecoats' shows from tonight in a time machine and dropped them into championship prelims in August, no way are they scoring behind a corps like, say, Legends, who will probably earn a number in the mid to high 70s that night. Which means that the "real" scores tonight are already in the low 80s: a top corps is improving by about 15 points in "real" quality over the course of a season. But no way can the judges manage distinctions that fine. So everybody starts out far below what they would earn for the exact same performance in August. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
queenanne_1536 Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 18 minutes ago, onionhead said: Lighten up Francis I will try. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 Anyway, I personally would have put Boston on top tonight. Bluecoats simultaneously move and play very little. Yes, that strategy worked out very well for SCV last year and BD the year before, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Still, all the shows were clearly rough drafts with much to be filled in. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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