That’s right. You heard me.
So basically, THS had a KICK ASS show last night. The color guard was frikin’ ON the money, almost the entire show…and the band only went up .5 points, and the guard’s score dropped an entire point. At chapters.
Time to get up on my soapbox here. I have a big problem with judges critiquing show design at chapter championships. (For those of you not versed in band-lingo, chapter championships for Tournament of Bands is like the semifinals of the marching season.) It’s one thing to critique things like drill formations being too tight (which, coincidentally, is what the visual judges reamed us on last night) at the beginning of the season, but to put one of the visual scores in fucking BOX TWO at CHAPTERS is completely unnecessary. Critique at chapters should be about execution of a show, not about design, because we have one week (two this year, for some odd reason) between chapters and ACC’s (finals). Two weeks. That is most definitely not enough time to re-write the color guard’s drill for the ENTIRE show. And you know what? It happens every effin’ year. Every single year, there is a judge at chapters who wants the design staff to change something in their show the week before ACC’s.
Ok, I’m stepping down now.
(paper update: I am now officially on the 14th page…woohoo!)
