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There is one major flaw in the method of throwing away the most "off" judge, because there will be scenarios where you cannot possibly objectively figure out who is the "off" judge. For example, what if the ordinals for three judges are 1, 5, and 9? Do you throw out the first place or the ninth place? Or if your three marching scores are 2, 3, 4? Or your four music judges (I know this would be ridiculous) are 1, 4, 6, 9? I know when we see a judge put Bell or Duncanville 10th in music, it's easy to say whoa that is obviously "off" from the other judges, but that might not always be the case. If you're going to have a throw-away system where you're not counting judges scores, pretty much the only fair way to do that is to throw out the high and low for everybody. A way to throw out high and low scores would be to add two music judges (five total) and two marching judges (four total) so after highs and low scores are thrown out for everybody in each caption, they'd still be weighted the same as they have it now. But you know there's no way UIL is going to pay for a nine-judge panel. EDIT: Looks like steeldrum was thinking the same way and beat me to it! oh well.

full prelims results: http://www.duncanville.k12.tx.us/band/2008%20Prelims.htm

Oh, wow. All right then! Somebody come forth and give us a recording! I'm digging up an old post, I know. Sorry I'm about 8 months behind. I marched at Coppell from 00-03 and the Tchaikovsky show was my senior year. I do actually have a CD that we made that fall, which included a live performance recording. Coppell 2003 Recording I'm not really sure what performance it is from. It's definitely not from the North Texas Championship, because we had made several changes to the show by the end of the season that aren't in this recording. Let's just say...by November we had added some more dynamic contrast...and subtracted a few notes.

Ray is awesome! Not only is he an amazing teacher, he's a blast! Good for him if he really is spirit's new brass caption head. What a lucky hornline!

Hopefully we'll see some of the West Texas bands, and probably some from New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. With the Flagstaff regional, the Southern California regional, and this new El Paso regional, the bands in the southwest have a lot more options than they've had before.

Given that the El Paso Regional is on the same day as the Arlington Regional, I doubt any of the bands from Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Houston, etc will make the trip out to El Paso. The only ones that could probably make that trip in under 10 hours are the San Antonio bands, but the drive up to Arlington is still a couple hours shorter.

so close! I can't believe they were one vote away from passing electronics. Something about electronics in drum corps just doesn't feel right to me. But it looks like even though it didn't pass this year, it's only a matter of time. And I have mixed feelings about the new 150 member limit. I guess we'll see how it turns out in 08.

Phantom 89 closer. listen closely. I find it kind of ironic. I would have yelled, "Judges, are you LISTENING"

I think they just haven't announced the actual selections yet. If they're playing what I've heard they're playing....it'll be interesting.

sorry i meant to put in a disclaimer. This was just the preliminary round of voting. The Board of Directors still has to vote tomorrow. It's still interesting to see how the directors voted.

Instructors' caucus voting results on the 2007 rules proposals 1/27/2007 -- 6:19 PM CST According to Gene Monterastelli, chairman of the DCI rules committee, the following proposals that were passed by the instructors

Here's the list from DCP for Div. 1, with musical selections that have been announced so far. Blue Knights (rumored) - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Dmitri Shostakovich) - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Dmitri Shostakovich) - Piano Concerto No. 10 (Dmitri Shostakovich) Bluecoats- Criminal Boston Crusaders - Latin music Cadets- This I Believe. Truth, Value, and the Personal Experience Called Drum Corps - Symphonic Movement (Vaclav Nelhybel) - more to be announced soon Cavaliers - Music of Billy Joel Colts- Equinox Music of -B

wrong. Now, I LOVE Phantom 89, it was absolutely incredible. Another year, and Phantom probably would have won, but there was a better corps that night. There was a reason the judges gave out the highest score in DCI history, which remained untouched for 13 years.

I saw it in summer of...02, i think? Right after they finished taking Broadway by storm and they were doing their first national tour. It's one of those things that you just have to experience first hand; the DVD's really don't do it a lot of justice (Kind of like drum corps itself. The recordings are great but just can't beat a live show). If I'm not completely imagining things, i think a while back they used to show it on PBS fairly often. blast! website

First day of classes for the semester tomorrow. What a nice extra looong winter break!