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  1. i calls them likes i sees them. been doin this too long to care about history or anybody else's opinion for that matter LOL. both shows are interesting and effective but arcadia overall has the clearer and more aesthetically appealing staging design, even if thematically it's kinda whatever. Carmel is cleaner atm. both have fairly persistent timing issues upstairs but arcadia has more of them + a higher proportion of obvious errors like drops. nevertheless i suspect design elements will put arcadia on top as long as they can narrow the performance gap a little bit in 3 weeks. obvious split in the captions at their recent contest b/w the what/how. easy to see why.
  2. yaaayy Marcus!! they're really going!! cmoooon gold!! fly fly fly! any medal will be nice for sure. C-ville may be hard to top but theyre not as Teflon as they first seemed, if mideast is accurate. woodlands should be good even for 2nd as long as they can keep w/in 3 pts of Avon lol. crazy that that's the standard this yr. for the record my top two are still avon/woodlands. rarely change my mind unless a unit doesnt improve like normal or looks like it has been entirely replaced by a new and much better guard lol. arcadia will likely make inroads in DA and the vocab half of IA (amazing designers, solid performers), but Avon/woodlands are the two that have the strongest doses of all 3 of the GE holy trinity of emotional, intellectual, and aesthetic effect. however still need to see woodlands from a proper upstairs angle, miiiight not get it until Dayton. grand oaks, 'nother cisd guard, wut wut! lol. kinda buried in the schedule as is normal w/ A class. Oaks is fab, should put up a decent fight for a medal, hopefully they've been working on the staging, think that'll be the biggest hurdle to the podium. love the aesthetic. skills of the performers are prob pretty close to gold medal level. ofc also hoping all 4 of Westlake, Bowie, azle, and flomo make finals.
  3. LOL these college dance routines are pitched at such a furious pace. they're really trying to cram in as many skills as possible, rack up those points. also everything is articulated with a sledgehammer. technically impressive but makes me appreciate the wider dynamic range of winter guards, tho their skills are much more basic. also, also!, funnnny seeing Travis Wall mentioned in the comments as the choreographer for OSU, isn't he canceled for grooming a student or something? making his comeback in the college scene lol. now's wgi's chance to get him on the cheap!! just only have him work with girls!!! he's no Kenneth MacMillan in terms of talent but who is??? gosh im getting excited for ballet again. i can't wait to see Mayerling in May!!!
  4. they're also using tarpons prelims score which was higher. coulda sworn it was "most recent score" but i guess not. so tw doesn't move up then, remains 4th in standings.
  5. LOL they're updating the standings right now over on WGI, but all the week 6 scores are listed as week 5 and incorrectly got an extra 1.5 points. oopsie!!
  6. welp i actually ended up being wrong about the rankings of the top tx guards dropping after this weekend. think y'all are right about the "brake pumping" on the scores. final standings will be released on Tues. grand oaks should still be 5th in A, Marcus will move up to 1st in open, if they're even going lol, why not Coppell too?? (that woulda been a huge shift from not even making semis last yr.) woodlands will actually move up w/ their 3-week old score into a 3rd place tie w/ Tarpon in world class. was really expecting all three of Carmel, fishers, and tarpon to squeak out 90s in finals w/ the double panels. maybe the fact that a few on the panel at mideast had seen tw kept the scores a little lower, two of those judges in particular gave some of the lowest scores at mideast. three weeks to go.
  7. for reference, Avon got like a 94.5 in 2019 at the last power regional, which was only a week or two before Dayton, not 3 weeks. so yes they will probably comfortably top their own record. fine w/ that. i like this one WAY more.
  8. 98.95 set by Avon in 2019. tho James Logan '05 is still *objectively* the best show in the class ever lol. in other news both Sac and Fuse overtake Paramount in the standings, close tho. my prediction of Fusion becoming the next new IW champ may come true a season sooner than i expected, helps that there isn't a Gaines show at the top of the mix this yr lol. we'll see, still kinda emotionally cold on Fusion's show but it's def fresher than the other two and has the best staging.
  9. arcadia is still trending higher than both of them!! didn't realize they had another contest today, they've been very active in wgi this season. obvious Gaines/Queen involvement, some stuff ive seen from those two before. actually hate that i can easily discern the designers like this, i consider it a judgment clouder. as a "sport" it should be more about the athletes on the floor. honestly doesn't always seem like it. last yr's result at the top of SW left a wee bit o' bad taste in my mouth. and im FAR from a tarpon fanboy.
  10. but it's thematic!!! the trudging along in our existences until we eventually die!!! lol
  11. their placement and score at Avon were already pretty twilight zone-ish honestly, at least as an upstairs judge. id have Fishers over Carmel, upstairs-wise.
  12. tarpon's score is actually roughly where you'd expect with the 1.5 to 2 point standard increase per week, tho likely will increase a little further in finals. with 3 weeks left even the best guards shouldn't be scoring much higher than a 93 this weekend. frankly think the scheduling shift this season has confused a lot of judges.
  13. grand oaks currently at 5th in A class which is fab. hoping they can fix the ensemble/DA stuff b/w now and Dayton. should easily be in finals at least. hopefully azle too, sitting just outside of finals in the standings. Westlake + Bowie at 11th and 13th in open. one more week of contests + one final update, some drops likely but not anything too drastic. ofc Dayton is an entirely new contest, standings disregarded. mainly just used for scheduling and by fans.
  14. hmmmm well unlike cy woods who's only on the current entries list, Marcus is still listed in the standings. most recent update has them 2nd in between Centerville and Noblesville. good sign for their attendance hopefully??? maybe not.
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