"Ranking Corps"

[OldTwo]

In sports, the game is the same from year to year and team to team, so the team rosters, skill & fitness of the players and the quality of coaching/training are the big variables. In DC, all those things are factors, but there is another major variable as well: the show design (which is in turn inclusive of many different sub-factors working together ... or, not ....). It would be hard to throw that one into the mix and make any valid predictions pre-season, even if you had all kinds of data about the other variables.

[flashofthunder]

Sports scores are much more objective than drum corps shows throughout the season. Though there may be biased or unfair calls made by referees in sports games, the rankings are much more accurate than any drum corps rankings could be.

Unless all of the corps met every week and went head to head, there wouldn't be an accurate way to rank them. Differences in judges, differences in fields, and differences in overall climates make it very difficult to compare one corps score to another, especially if the shows they're competing in on the same night are 1,000 miles apart.

You pretty much have to wait for major regionals and finals to get an accurate indication of how the corps compete against each other.

[Tom Brace]

Corps that were rank?

I guess that would have been back in the wool uniform days. Those suckers got wet and then they'd starting stinking up the whole bus.

Thanks to the makers of polyester uniforms, corps are less rank than they used to be.