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You are Right On! Did not think of that. Stupid me.

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My 'opinion' at Pasadena

Vanguard, like it but, liked last year better.

BD, since the brass line plays only about 50% of the entire show, not a fan.

Cavaliers, first piece, not so much, the rest I liked.

BK, way too much goo and their percussion book is annoying.

Mandarins, should have beat BK (IMO).

Academy, probably my least favorite show of theirs in the last 5 years.

Troopers, wow, what a completely different program for them

PC, IMO, their best show in a while. Was surprised that Troopers beat them. 

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6 hours ago, Rich Cline said:


DCI Rose Bowl showdown Review

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Flo Marching gets the "Booby" award again. Stream buffered 4 times and after intermision Multi-Cam was locked as High Cam through remainder of show.
Can't you guys get it together? That includes the DCI organization. What a bunch of amatuers, after How Many Years? of trying to stream the shows.

 1. Santa Clara Vanguard » 78.550
 2. Blue Devils » 78.150
 3. The Cavaliers » 75.850

Vanguard’s Saturday win was its fifth of the season and fourth against the Blue Devils, but the margin has continued to remain slim. At Clovis, SCV beat the Blue Devils by 0.65 points. The separation between SCV & BD at DCI Rose Bowl was just four tenths of a point. Blue Devils’ ability to keep things tight is attributed to a long stretch of rehearsal time since the corps’ last show six days ago, allowing the 18-time champion a chance to clean their show before heading north on the Northwest leg of their tour.

While I'm a huge fan of SCV and have wanted them to score higher over BD in the past, not this year. SCV set the bar so high with their 2018 show that even they cannot match last year's performance.

Head To Head Scores SCV vs BD 6-29-2018 Drum Corps at the Rose Bowl as follows:

General Effect
Santa Clara Vanguard leads Blue Devils in GE by (.60)

Visual Overall (SCV 23.950-BD 24.100) Blue Devils by (.150)
Visual Proficiency (SCV 16.200-BD 16.500) Blue Devils by (.3)
Visual Analysis (SCV 15.900-BD 16.000) Blue Devils by (.1)
Visual Color Guard (SCV15.800-BD 15.700) Santa Clara Vanguard by (.1)

Music Overall (SCV 23.200-BD 23.250) Blue Devils by (.05)
Music - Brass (SCV 15.300-BD 15.200) Santa Clara Vanguard by (.1)
Music - Analysis (SCV 15.700-BD 16.000) Blue Devils by (.3)
Music - Percussion (SCV 15.400-BD 15.300) Santa Clara Vanguard by (.1)

Vanguard had an small edge in general effect while Blue Devils lead in the visual and music captions

BD has cleaned a lot of their show since Moonlight Classic on 6-23-19 but still have a glaring error in the opening number where the high brass & low brass don't play together which sets the score in the judges mind how clean BD can play. (Almost sounds like the hornline is fighting itself at times). Great prop use, good field coverage and guard is an integral part of the show.

SCV has the more difficult music book but they rely heavily on either very talented solists to carry the bulk of the piece with ensemble backup or they standstill and "Park & Bark". Percussion is solid as usual. Drill stays mainly blocked up front in stationary formations with little field coverage outside their half circle of props. Guard does use the field and the bright contrast of the yellow against the corp's grey is striking, but...... this show in no way matches last year's "Babylon" or 2017's "Ouroboros".

Really enjoyed the Cavaliers show but it's clear they along with the other corps are making wholesale changes to the show to improve scores. Much improved over last year where they did not use the props effectively and were tripping over the tarps on the field.

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 4. Blue Knights » 72.900
 5. Mandarins » 71.850
 6. The Academy » 67.200

Not into the Blue Knights Show. Although they finished only (1.05) better than the Mandarins, the head-to-head matchup continues from last season.

Really liked the Mandarins show which is much improved brass from last show. They have some "screamer's" this year and the ensemble is playing well together.
Good field coverage and guard is working the field. I would like to seem them above the Blue Knights. Definitely the Mardarins are the most improved corps over the last 6 days.

Trailing is The Academy. Liked this corps since their 2017 production, "By a Hare". The Academy continues to show improvement and expect to see great things from this corps.

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 7. Troopers » 63.250
 8. Pacific Crest » 61.850
 9. Genesis » 58.150

Sadly, the Troopers have fallen to a new low. Pacific Crest, the host corps in Pasadena and making its first performance was only 1.4 behind Troopers in Music, Tied in Visual and 1.6 behind Troopers in General Effect.

Genesis rounded out the Pasadena World Class lineup with a score of 58.150, a slight improvement from last event.

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I have not seen Bluecoats or Boston since Detroit at Fathom events, but based on DCI scores from past 3 contests on 6-29-2019 it's begining to look like the following ranking of corps:

Place Corps                          Class     AVG.      MOST
                                                             LAST 3    RECENT
 1     Bluecoats                       WC     78.583   79.900
 2     Boston Crusaders         WC     77.100   78.350
 3     Santa Clara Vanguard  WC     76.617   78.550
 4     Carolina Crown              WC     76.433   78.300
 5     Blue Devils                      WC     74.800   78.150

Expect to see a lot of shifting in the above top 5 spots but I believe Bluecoats will "Gold Medal" with the best designed show.

 6     The Cavaliers                 WC     74.250   75.850
 7     The Cadets                     WC     73.383   74.450
 8     Blue Stars                       WC     71.667   73.950
 9     Mandarins                      WC     70.533   71.850
10    Crossmen                      WC     69.650   71.600

Next above group of 5 spots will also shift a lot

11    Spirit of Atlanta            WC     69.100   70.150
12    Phantom Regiment     WC     67.433   69.200
13    Colts                              WC     66.167   67.000
14    The Academy               WC     65.967   67.200
15    Madison Scouts          WC     64.117   65.200
16    Troopers                       WC     63.000   63.250
17    Music City                    WC     61.867   62.800

Places 11 thru 15 are tight and up for grabs, but the season is still early
Doubt if Troopers can make top 15 but, we'll see.

Best of luck to all.

I don't see the wholesale changes for the Cavaliers show. Just some additions. I mean, I've heard them 50 times. More changes to BDs show so far 

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4 minutes ago, Rocketman said:

My 'opinion' at Pasadena

Vanguard, like it but, liked last year better.

BD, since the brass line plays only about 50% of the entire show, not a fan.

Cavaliers, first piece, not so much, the rest I liked.

BK, way too much goo and their percussion book is annoying.

Mandarins, should have beat BK (IMO).

Academy, probably my least favorite show of theirs in the last 5 years.

Troopers, wow, what a completely different program for them

PC, IMO, their best show in a while. Was surprised that Troopers beat them. 

This!

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50 minutes ago, Rocketman said:

My 'opinion' at Pasadena

Vanguard, like it but, liked last year better.

BD, since the brass line plays only about 50% of the entire show, not a fan.

Cavaliers, first piece, not so much, the rest I liked.

BK, way too much goo and their percussion book is annoying.

Mandarins, should have beat BK (IMO).

Academy, probably my least favorite show of theirs in the last 5 years.

Troopers, wow, what a completely different program for them

PC, IMO, their best show in a while. Was surprised that Troopers beat them. 

Calling BK's percussion book annoying is easily the most controversial thing I've read on DCP today 

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4 hours ago, Cappybara said:

Calling BK's percussion book annoying is easily the most controversial thing I've read on DCP today 

Agreed! BK's percussion is aggressive, in your face, etc. Annoying...........**** no!

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On ‎6‎/‎30‎/‎2019 at 11:47 PM, Chief Guns said:

Agreed! BK's percussion is aggressive, in your face, etc. Annoying...........**** no!

Ok, lets try, 'lacks musicality' (IMO). Percussion that doesn't complement (IMO) what is happening brass wise, is annoying. This isn't a contest to see how many notes can be played in 11 1/2 minutes. If it was, they'd win.  For me, they were a distraction thus, ANNOYING!

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On 6/29/2019 at 5:00 PM, DrumManTx said:

Oh, ended a little sooner than I was expecting.  Still, some very nice stuff going on in there.  Nice job Vessel!

They only fielded about half the show. 😉

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Rocketman said:

Ok, lets try, 'lacks musicality' (IMO). Percussion that doesn't complement (IMO) what is happening brass wise, is annoying. This isn't a contest to see how many notes can be played in 11 1/2 minutes. If it was, they'd win.  For me, they were a distraction thus, ANNOYING!

I feel like we listened to different shows.

BK easily had one of the most enjoyable batteries to listen to in Pasadena, for me. The way the writing worked in out of the horns, especially in the opener, was quite musical.

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3 hours ago, LeftCoastCupcake said:

 

They only fielded about half the show. 😉

 

  

 

It was enjoyable!

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