DCI on ESPN2

The 2006 DCI Finals will be broadcasted on ESPN2 once again this year on Sept. 5th @ 8PM ET/ 5PM PT, but I strongly suggest you check local listings.

DCI Finals

From the http://www.dci.org website:

A night of upsets
By Michael Booboomike@dci.org8/13/2006 -- 12:34 AM CST
It was too close for comfort among the top three corps, but the Cavaliers won their seventh DCI title Saturday night in Madison by capturing the Jim Ott Best Brass Award, the Best Visual Award, and the Don Angelica Best General Effect Award. Phantom Regiment surprised Blue Devils in capturing its first Fred Sanford Best Percussion Award, but Blue Devils nailed down the George Zingali Best Color Guard Award.

The Cavaliers (1st-97.200) surprisingly placed third in general effect visual, a caption it had owned the rest of the week, took general effect music, visual performance and visual ensemble, music brass and music ensemble, and placed second in color guard and fourth in percussion.

Phantom Regiment (2nd-96.850) sprung into first in general effect visual and opened a .7 spread over the Cavaliers in percussion and a .3 spread over Blue Devils, its nearest competitor in the caption. Bluecoats, long a contender for the title, settled for third in percussion.

Blue Devils (3rd-96.550), after being undefeated until the San Antonio major event, slipped to third for the first time all season by placing fourth in brass and third in general effect music. However, the second place in general effect visual, visual performance and percussion kept the corps in the hunt until the end. One must remember that although BD placed third overall, the corps was .65 from winning the Championship outright.

Bluecoats (4th-93.175) have to be happy with moving up from sixth in Semifinals to fourth in Finals for the corps’ highest finish in history, passing up the Cadets and Santa Clara Vanguard. Bluecoats accomplished that task on the basis of third place finishes in music brass and music percussion and fourth place finishes in general effect music and music ensemble.

The Cadets (5th-93.075), defending Champions, fell just .1 under Bluecoats to slip one spot from Semifinals. A fourth place in general effect visual was one of the corps’ brightest spot.

Santa Clara Vanguard (6th-92.350) improved on its eighth place lowest placement ever from last year’s Finals.

Blue Knights (7th-90.125) passed up Carolina Crown (8th-89.975) on the basis of a 1.2 point advantage in music percussion.

Madison Scouts(9th-87.700) moved above Boston Crusaders (10th-87.325) by minor spreads in a number of captions, the corps’ weakest captions largely mirroring the weaker captions of Boston.

Glasssmen (11th-86.000) and Spirit (12th-84.825) finished off the finalist corps for 2006, only the second time that all corps in Finals were Finalists the year before, (1988 being the previous time).

Tonight's Performance line-up

Note: Central Time Zone

6:43 p.m. CT 1. Spirit from JSU
7:00 p.m. 2. Glassmen
7:17 p.m. 3. Madison Scouts
7:34 p.m. 4. Boston Crusaders
7:51 p.m. 5. Blue Knights
8:08 p.m. 6. Carolina Crown
Intermission (17 minutes)
8:42 p.m. 7. Bluecoats
8:59 p.m. 8. Santa Clara Vanguard
9:16 p.m. 9. The Cadets
9:33 p.m. 10. Phantom Regiment
9:50 p.m. 11. Blue Devils
10:07 p.m. 12. The Cavaliers

DCI Semifinals

Corps. 1-12 (aka the elite 12) will move onto the Championships tomorrow night. SCV has managed to squeeze by the Bluecoats in a very tight power struggle for 4th, each corps. (The Cadets, SCV, Bluecoats) with a very slim point difference. The Cavaliers have won both Quaterfinals and Semifinals, but the Blue Devils can still take it all home in the Championships. And don't count out Phantom Regiment too soon. Look back to their 1996 performance.

(DCI Major) DCI World Championships Division I Semifinals, Madison, WIAugust 11, 2006
1 The Cavaliers 97.875
2 Blue Devils 97.000
3 Phantom Regiment 96.825
4 The Cadets 93.625
5 Santa Clara Vanguard 93.550
6 Bluecoats 93.500
7 Carolina Crown 90.275
8 Blue Knights 89.350
9 Boston Crusaders 88.775
10 Madison Scouts 87.950
11 Glassmen 86.275
12 Spirit from JSU 85.275
13 Colts 83.050
14 Blue Stars 81.525
15 Crossmen 81.250
16 Capital Regiment 80.825
17 Mandarins 77.875

Here's the recap: http://www.dci.org/scores/recap_v2.cfm?event_id=838d35da-9fc4-4307-8dd1-cc4a763facd1

I apologize for my absence from the blog this week.

Well, here are the scores for the Division I Quaterfinals. As you know, corps. 1-17 will advance to the Semifinals tomorrow night. I will keep you updated.

(DCI Major) DCI World Championships Quarterfinals, Madison, WI August 10, 2006
1 The Cavaliers 96.900
2 Blue Devils 96.525
3 Phantom Regiment 96.025
4 The Cadets 93.475
5 Bluecoats 92.975
6 Santa Clara Vanguard 92.375
7 Carolina Crown 89.675
8 Blue Knights 89.650
9 Boston Crusaders 89.325
10 Madison Scouts 88.250
11 Glassmen 88.125
12 Spirit from JSU 86.525
13 Colts 84.625
14 Crossmen 82.675
15 Blue Stars 82.225
16 Capital Regiment 81.925
17 Mandarins 78.375
18 Southwind 77.950
19 Seattle Cascades 75.525
20 The Magic 75.225
21 Pacific Crest 74.900
22 Esperanza 72.800
23 Pioneer 71.550

DCI Eastern Classic Day 2 @ Allentown, PA

(DCI Major) DCI Eastern Classic, Allentown, PAAugust 5, 2006
1 Blue Devils 95.550
2 Bluecoats 92.350
3 Santa Clara Vanguard 91.475
4 Carolina Crown 88.550
5 Blue Knights 88.350
6 Madison Scouts 86.750
7 Spirit from JSU 84.700
8 Crossmen 80.825
9 Southwind 76.150
10 Seattle Cascades 74.425
11 Pacific Crest 74.275

DCI Eastern Classic @ Allentown, PA

(DCI Major) DCI Eastern Classic, Allentown, PAAugust 4, 2006
1 The Cavaliers 95.575
2 Phantom Regiment 94.600
3 The Cadets 92.875
4 Boston Crusaders 87.925
5 Glassmen 85.550
6 Colts 83.300
7 Blue Stars 80.600
8 Capital Regiment 80.225
9 Mandarins 77.050
10 The Magic 74.950
11 Esperanza 72.850
12 Pioneer 69.875

Music in Motion @ East Rutherford, NJ

(DCI) MUSIC IN MOTION, East Rutherford, NJAugust 3, 2006
1 The Cavaliers 95.600
2 The Cadets 92.300
3 Carolina Crown 89.150
4 Madison Scouts 86.550
5 Crossmen 82.500
6 The Magic 76.600
7 Esperanza 73.650

East Coast Classic @ Lawrence, MA

(DCI) East Coast Classic, Lawrence, MAAugust 2, 2006
1 The Cavaliers 94.900
2 Boston Crusaders 88.450
3 Glassmen 86.600
4 Capital Regiment 79.550
5 Blue Stars 78.300
6 Pacific Crest 77.200
7 Southwind 76.550

Yesterday's Recap
Santa Clara Vanguard
GE- 36.2 Visual- 27 Music- 26.6
Madison Scouts
GE- 34.8 Visual- 25.4 Music- 26.45
Glassmen
GE- 34.4 Visual- 25.2 Music- 25.3
Spirit
GE- 34.2 Visual- 25.2 Music- 25.25
Colts
GE- 33.2 Visual- 24.6 Music- 24
Crossmen
GE- 32.8 Visual- 23.95 Music- 23.8
Capital Regiment
GE- 32 Visual- 23.85 Music- 22.85
Pacific Crest
GE- 30.4 Visual- 21.95 Music- 20.85

Phantom Regiment
GE- 37.3 Visual- 27.65 Music- 28.25
Boston Crusaders
GE- 35.7 Visual- 26.6 Music- 26.85
Blue Stars
GE- 31.5 Visual- 23.05 Music- 24.9
Southwind
GE- 32.3 Visual- 22.8 Music- 23.5
Seattle Cascades
GE- 32 Visual- 22.35 Music- 22.65
Magic
GE- 30.4 Visual- 22.2 Music- 23.25
Esperanza
GE- 29.7 Visual- 21.95 Music- 22.05

1 Week Left

(DCI) Drums Along the Mohawk, Rome, NYAugust 1, 2006
1 Phantom Regiment 93.200
2 Boston Crusaders 89.150
3 Blue Stars 79.450
4 Southwind 78.600
5 Seattle Cascades 77.000
6 The Magic 75.850
7 Esperanza 73.700

(DCI) Drum Corps in Fauquier, Warrenton, VAAugust 1, 2006
1 Santa Clara Vanguard 89.800
2 Madison Scouts 86.650
3 Glassmen 84.900
4 Spirit from JSU 84.650
5 Colts 81.800
6 Crossmen 80.550
7 Capital Regiment 78.700
8 Pacific Crest 73.200