trumpet blower88

So, as many of you are aware, DCI Finals will be held in southern California. Now, thats not far at all from my nice litle town of Phoenix and I'm planning on taking a litle road trip to go see it.

I've only got one question though, seeing as how I've never been to a DCI show (as an audience member) I havn't the slightest idea of how much it would cost to get into a show of this caliber, with decent seats. So how much money should I expect to be saving over the next year to be able to affor such a thing? I looked for this years ticket prices online, and couldn't find anything.

Thanks!

hkfan736

Well, until August 30, 2006, there is a package deal you can purchase that gets you the same seat three nights in a row for the Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals. Depending on how good the seats you want are, it can cost $250, $165, or $125. This deal is apparently only on 'til the 30th. They are going to sell individual night tickets later for I don't know how much. I'm in So.Cal. myself, so I'm going to go too. How often are they out here on the West Coast?

trumpet blower88

Well, I've only been involved with DCI the past 4 years or so, unless I'm having a brain fart I don't think they've had the finals in California since I've been in the DCI world, but with so many big corps (Blue Devils, SCV, ect.) I can't imagin that it is too rare to have finals over there.

bandman

The link below the Rose bowl image gives you information about buying tickets for next year's championship. YES!!! I will be there.

$250 for quarterfinals, semifinals and finals.
$165 for quarterfinals, semifinals and finals.
$125 for quarterfinals, semifinals and finals.




http://dci.org/news/news.cfm?news_id...e-79867437b815

Vessehune

I've been into Drum Corps since 92. I don't know if there has ever been a finals West of Kansas City!! Maybe somewhere in Texas, but I don't think ever on the west coast.

bandman

Denver and Kansas City are the two sites most west (unless I missed one). I'm going to make a prediction now that next season the top two corps will be SCV and Diablo Azul!

Here is a list of all past champions and the city where the championships were held that season:

2005 The Cadets Foxboro 99.150
2004 The Cavaliers Denver 98.700
2003 Blue Devils Orlando 98.80
2002 The Cavaliers Madison 99.15
2001 The Cavaliers Buffalo 98.35
2000 The Cavaliers College Park 97.65
2000 The Cadets College Park 97.65
1999 Santa Clara Vanguard Madison 98.40
1999 Blue Devils Madison 98.40
1998 The Cadets Orlando 98.40
1997 Blue Devils Orlando 98.40
1996 Blue Devils Orlando 97.40
1996 Phantom Regiment Orlando 97.40
1995 The Cavaliers Buffalo 98.30
1994 Blue Devils Boston 98.40
1993 The Cadets Jackson 97.40
1992 The Cavaliers Madison 97.50
1991 Star of Indiana Dallas 97.00
1990 Cadets of Bergen County Buffalo 97.70
1989 Santa Clara Vanguard Kansas City 98.80
1988 Madison Scouts Kansas City 97.10
1987 Garfield Cadets Madison 97.90
1986 Blue Devils Madison 98.40
1985 Garfield Cadets Madison 98.40
1984 Garfield Cadets Atlanta 98.00
1983 Garfield Cadets Miami 94.40
1982 Blue Devils Montreal 95.25
1981 Santa Clara Vanguard Montreal 94.00
1980 Blue Devils Birmingham 90.60
1979 Blue Devils Birmingham 93.55
1978 Santa Clara Vanguard Denver 91.55
1977 Blue Devils Denver 92.05
1976 Blue Devils Philadelphia 92.70
1975 Madison Scouts Philadelphia 92.50
1974 Santa Clara Vanguard Ithaca 89.50
1973 Santa Clara Vanguard Whitewater 88.65
1972 Kingsmen Whitewater 88.10

tpter1

hmmm...interersting post, bandman. I notice Cavies and Cadets tie for the record score...99.15

Derek Reaban

It's been years since I've thought about DCI finals scores before I opened this post. When I was marching in the 80s, there were two brothers that marched with the group that I was in (an Open class corps from Tucson – Sunset Regiment), and then when our season was over (typically in early July), they would join other groups for the rest of the summer (one on Baritone the other on Snare). They were both fantastic players.

One year (in 1986 I believe), the brother that played Baritone was marching with the Blue Devils and won the whole thing. The next year, his brother who was in the snare line for Santa Clara missed winning the title by one tenth of a point. Ouch!

Several years later we had gotten together to catch up, and I had forgotten how competitive these two used to be. We had planned on going to a movie as a big group, and had just found the times at the different theaters in the paper. Someone asked what time it was, and the brother that played snare said, “It’s 8PM”. The other brother, without missing a beat said, “Yeah. But your watch is a tenth of a second slow!”.

OUCH!

Those guys could be brutal.

bandman

I still say that the scores are a farce! During the past couple weeks they have been driven by politics. During the next couple days the big boys will put in that last special touch/change oping to put themselves over the top. Most corps make very few improvements/changes/redesigns during the two weeks prior to finals.

The score changes should have been in the 10ths of a point over the past week, with the big change coming at quarterfinals and semifinals. Those large changes at the last minute come because they actually make last minute changes to the drill, music, visual, or a combination of the three. Scores over the past few years have been artificially inflated to keep the interest of those of us who watch on line.

I don't care how many points a corps scores. I just care about the spread between two given corps and is that spread getting larger or smaller? That's the reason I scratch my head when a corps like SCV makes up 2 points on the field in 5 days. I won't say that it is impossible, I'll just say that a change in the spread that large is hard to understand.