bluecoats88 Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Ok. I may have the years wrongI marched in 79 and then was staff for two years. I just remember our corps being in shows that were all class A in the and Bluecoats were there. :) Well I understand from older Bluecoats that the corps competed in Class "A" in the late 70's. However, I do know that from 1980 on the corps only competed Class "A" in the 1981 US Open and was open class at every other show. And regarding being at class "A" shows. in 1986 we were at a class "A" or div II whatever it was called that year, and we even competed, however we competed as an open class corps. It is my understanding that the corps even requested performing in exhibition since we were in a different competetive level as the other corps but whoever was in charge made us compete, and I believe we won the show by at least 15 points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardguy89 Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Hey all, 2 of the corps I taught did well in open (although too briefly) L'Academie: won division III in '95 Top 21 division I in '96 Top 17 divison I in '97 Les Étoiles won division II in '96 Top 15 in division I the very same year (when div II & III could compete) Top 21 in '97 Top 17 in '98 I miss those 2 corps :( Later, Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiodb Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 The Blue Devils competed in their local circuit's class B in 1971, where shows were a couple of minutes shorter than open-class routines. I believe you could characterize their transition to open-class as "successful". :) Blue Knights competed in DCI's first class A championship in 1975. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piperguy Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 In 1976, my first year of Drum Corps, the Wausau Story won the class A championship. In both '77 and'78 we placed 24th in open class. Wow, was that really 30 years ago!!?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLHilberg Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 The Mandarins They were A60 (div III) when I was marching and even won a title with only 9 horns. Now theyre Div I. Ken H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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