Multiple Corps Auditions “Urban Legend”?

[KVG_DC]

2 hours ago, Brian Tuma said:

“People are saying.” 😂

Ah yes.  As someone about to grade another round of undergraduate essays, i'm steeling myself for the eventual... "Since the dawn of time, it has been known that..."

[IllianaLancerContra]

1 hour ago, cixelsyd said:

$500 for an audition?  That idea belongs in the revenue thread we had going last month.

Possibly includes travel to audition & back

[IllianaLancerContra]

29 minutes ago, KVG_DC said:

Ah yes.  As someone about to grade another round of undergraduate essays, i'm steeling myself for the eventual... "Since the dawn of time, it has been known that..."

I’m in lab finals week.  Have to decipher handwriting……ugh

[Brian Tuma]

1 hour ago, KVG_DC said:

Ah yes.  As someone about to grade another round of undergraduate essays, i'm steeling myself for the eventual... "Since the dawn of time, it has been known that..."

If I read another bio with “so and so comes to us with a wealth of experience” I may just lose it

[totaleefree]

1 hour ago, cixelsyd said:

$500 for an audition?  That idea belongs in the revenue thread we had going last month.

Pay for airfare, maybe hotel room for parents.  that is what I think they ment by $500 to audition

Edited November 29, 2023 by totaleefree

[Jnecker]

My son was at the Colts Audition this past weekend in Kansas City.  For him it was $80 per full camp.  They also have to join the "Red Zone", that is a 1 time $125 fee.  So for my son who drove from Des Moines with two others this first camp cost them $205 plus two tanka of gas.  So for someone Flying Inn I could see a tryout weekend cracking close to $500.  

But for a second camp my son is looking at only the $80 and tank of gas.

Just some info on cost for a finalist Corp from last year.

 

[cixelsyd]

3 hours ago, IllianaLancerContra said:

Possibly includes travel to audition & back

But this would be three auditions.  I figured with the likelihood of conflicting dates, only one or two could be in-person with the rest as video auditions.  And if video auditions go for $500 apiece, I am starting a corps tonight.

[Jeff Ream]

6 hours ago, contraguard05 said:

It's like the Douglas Adams quote on technology:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

i'm 54. i like what i see on the field the last few years more than what was on the field when i marched and taught from 89-01

[TOC]

12 hours ago, Jnecker said:

 They also have to join the "Red Zone", that is a 1 time $125 fee.  

There's a discussion about that fee waiting to take place.   Reads like a money grab to me.

[RiverCityAndTroopersFan]

55 minutes ago, TOC said:

There's a discussion about that fee waiting to take place.   Reads like a money grab to me.

Yeah. I was thinking of marching colts when I graduate HS but like I’d rather go do colt cadets for a year (I’m a WW learning trumpet) and then go do like Madison scouts or troopers