America/Oh Canada

I really don't even know what to say about this. For being a corps with such a high age out rate you would expect a little more maturity.

I hope the BD organization releases some sort of statement.

I would love some input, as I couldn't make it to finals this year.

1. I wasn't so sure that it came from the BD block.
2. Who knows why they did that. They might have just been having some fun. It doesn't have to be because they're sore losers. If you listen to other mass brasses, there's a lot of crap coming from a lot of horns. As much as it sucks, not everyone takes it so seriously - ESPECIALLY on Finals night.
3. I'm surprised nobody mentioned the fact that when the Cavies got into their retreat block, they appeared a little..."absurd". Cracked me up. Plus, they were the only corps to troop Phantom and congratulate them/shake hands with them after being dismissed.

Moral of the story: don't be so quick in drawing conclusions about an organization.

That's just un-acceptable. I would expect much more of them...guess not. C'mon guys...

Hmm, I'm going to go out and ask if they got in any trouble, Not BD, I know everyone else was screwing around too. But did any of the high brass get in any trouble? And... Your probably not aloud to say, but what did the Cavvies block look like?

True. Crowns Guard was dancing around the whole time. Watching the smaller cavalier walking a tight rope on the yard line as they came on play "red light, green light".

When the Cavies came in, some of them were doing flips. Others were pretending to be walking a tight rope. It was fairly obvious. Also, I thought that the screamers were coming from the Bluecoats block, but who knows.

But seriously, for those of you not very familiar with Finals retreat, most corps have made it more of a tradition to screw around on the field because it's the last time that you're going to be with that group of people. Why NOT have fun? I mean, Crown even participated in the wave with the crowd before scores were announced. Scouts' basses hung out in the back end zone until they were forced to leave by a DCI official. ALL of the corps members were cheering for their respective corps when they showed the video montage. It was a big cluster, and that's what makes it finals retreat.

Quoted for truth.


However, last night I did see the director of BD in a 5-10 second interview on the Video on DCI.org's news article for Phantom's win and he seemed a bit bitter. I just went back to see it again for this discussion and its gone. Maybe when he basically brushed off the loss and said something similar to saying that they didn't need the win, because "We're the most decorated corps in Drum Corps International" he realized that may have seem a bit of a knee jerk, harsh reaction and he asked for them to take it down. That clip isn't on the video now.

forgive my ignorance, but what happened? ( i swear im not being stupid, but i didnt see anything.) maybe i just didn't watch the video enough

Listen right away, note when everyone is laughing, and the high brass is just screaming, and went past the cut off. Thats what were talking about, every corp was doing something like that, or randomly smashing notes out.

oh ok thanks for telling me.