Skippy

Ummm, there's dci shows pretty much every night. Visit dci.org and check out the calender. If you were to set up predictions though, I would only do the large regionals because otherwise it would be far too much work.

That's big.

311, 7 Day Weekend, New Found Glory, American Horn Quartet, Androgen, Ardor, Armor For Sleep, Art Blakely and the Jazz Messengers, Audioslave, The Beatles, Ben Folds, Bob Marley, Boys Night Out, Brand New, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, The Darkness, Dashboard Confessional, Dave Matthews Band, David Bowie, Dimitri Shostakovich, Dream Theater, The Early November, Elefant, Fall Out Boy, Further Seems Forever, The Get Up Kids, Goldfinger, Green Day, Guns N' Roses, I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business, Incubus, Jaco Pastorius, Jethro Tull, Jimmy Eat World, Joe Satriani, Juliana Theory, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Bernstein, Less Than Jake, The Magictones, The Mars Volta, Matchbook Romance, Maynard Ferguson, Metallica, Midtown, Miles Davis, Minus Vince, Modest Mouse, MXPX, Nirvana, The Offspring, Pat Metheny, Pink Floyd, Queen, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reel Big Fish, Relient K, Rush, Samuel Barber, Sanatana, Saves The Day, Senses Fail, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Smashing Pumpkins, Something Corporate, The Starting Line, Story of the Year, Stuart Hamm, The Super Pineapples, Taking Back Sunday, Victor Wooten, Weather Report, Weezer, The Who, Wynton Marsalis... etc.

Oh, well in that case, DO learn horn.

Why would you predict this early? Some corps haven't even competed at all yet.

4 hours from Dallas to San Antonio? Wow, didn't know it took that long. I'm going to the Houston show the night before, and then driving up to San Antonio to check out all my friends at Crossmen.

Who I want to win: Santa Clara Vanguard - Their show this year is KILLER. Who will probably win: Blue Devils

Don't learn horn. If you were thinking of marching mellophone, then learn trumpet. Back in the day some corps used marching french horns, but not anymore.

I marched Crossmen 2004 on mellophone, and I tried out and and got a spot at Santa Clara Vanguard this year, but unfortunatly I was cut 6 months later in May. A hole opened up for a Crossmen mellophone this year, but I turned it down because I had already gotten settled with a job, and plus I'm really pushing to make all-state on french horn next year, and playing a different instrument all summer would only hurt that.

2001 = favorite scv show. I think someone needs to check out more of their shows. Any reason you picked that over the others? My favorite corps is indeed scv though, mainly for their music. Unlike some other corps (which shall remain nameless), I feel that every year these guys bring something fresh, and interesting to the table, yet while doing so, they never lose that clasiness or the "Santa Clara Style". Plus they are total badasses. My favorite dci show of all time would have to be SCV 1992.