Monday, August 10, 2015

DCI 2015 Etcetera

Stuff I learned from reading the DCI Live Blogs from Finals week, which I need to put down here because they answer some questions I had:

  • SCVC made ladder formations
  • Blue Saints had sleeves that looked like barber poles
  • Racine Scouts' artist was 14 years old and they added her element to the show because she wanted to join and had never spun before
  • Colts Cadets' Fire & Ice included a snowball fight and frostbite
  • That drum thing from Surosowan was a Balinese xylophone
  • Crossmen couldn't start their show without the bird calls because they take their visual cues from it
  • Michael Boo is funny. When asked if Phregiment's red feathers will give them a penalty, he responds, "That field will be cleaner than a baby hippo enjoying a hose bath at a zoo." HIPPO!
  • Cadets black uniforms were to accent the neon guard uniforms, because neon is the 10th element.
  • The guy on top of the last prop in Bluecoats' show is the same guy that jumped off of the last platform in TILT last year.
  • Asked what is the minimum age requirement, Boo says, "Birth". HA!
  • Crown's trumpet soloist is the character of the devil.
  • USMC's director is a Blue Devils alum.
  • Many of the Mandarins' CG already knew how to play brass, and they actually played on the field at the end.
  • That big gray ball was the stone that was the door of the tomb.
  • The creator of "Big Hero 6" comics is a HUGE drum corps fan who has named many of his characters after drum corps.
  • It was actually Trixie that died in the Colts show on semifinals night, but before that, it was the sailor guy.
  • The gold 50s are for the NFL's 50th anniversary, and all of the stadiums will have this.
  • Crown forms a question mark -- Heaven or Hell?
OK, I guess I'll go into official withdrawal now. Sigh.

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