That was fun. I know quite a ton of good Texas bands that can be rated- I'll send you links if you want.

I'm interested and ready .. bring it lol

Okay, I will bring it :) I need to find our competitors. It could take up to 48 hours to find high quality videos of professionally made grand national or state final performances. I've almost exhausted all of YouTube's options.

@rhythmic - Please send the links. I am picky about the quality and type of performance. Ideally I'd like all videos to be Grand National prelims, semis, or finals performances, but I made an exception this past season with Avon and used their state finals performance. At least, it was in the same stadium as Grand Nationals.

Grand Nats only? Most of the videos I was about to get were from BOA San Antonio or UIL State Finals performances.

I'll still send them anyways so you can decide what you want- note that these are end-of-season videos. Some of these bands don't compete in BOA, or they do but they're focused on UIL State so they don't go to Grand Nationals (since UIL State is huge and arguably the most prestigious of state competitions). Additionally, some of these are bands that only compete in regional BOAs.

Okay, send them privately please. I am not opposed to having bands outside of BoA compete, as long as they can hang with the big boys :) You've seen how competitive this competition is.

..and it mustn't be just grand nats.. Ideally it would be nice, but it's not realistic. There just aren't enough high quality videos online of grand nats performances. I'd really like to do DCI competitions, too, but DCI rarely allows finals performances on YouTube (or similar sites).

I have a source with 36 DCI championships videos, all but one are from finals. Not sure of the quality is good enough, but it's out there

Seriously, cjbuckley!!?? Please send me the source in private.

okay, I'll do that ASAP

In honor of DCI finals coming up very soon, I've decided to change the competition this season. We'll be judging drum corps, and do to lack of videos, there only will be 3 match ups of 4 groups. As usual, the top 2 from each match up go on to compete during the final round. In addition, the highest scoring eliminated corps earns a spot in the final 7.

We'll also be using another video source. Thank you, cjbuckley1997, for the source. We'll be using One Drive. Follow the link and click on the video.

Please post in this thread what you will be judging, but of course, send me your scores privately. Let's keep it at 2 judges max per caption.

Match up No. 1

Blue Knights 2014 - https://onedrive.live.com/?id=23A10EAD8F9F485B!213&cid=23A10EAD8F9F485B&group=0

Phantom Regiment 2012 - https://onedrive.live.com/?id=23A10EAD8F9F485B!272&cid=23A10EAD8F9F485B&group=0 <---(Note: It's the second video from the left.)

Cavaliers 2011 - https://onedrive.live.com/?id=23A10EAD8F9F485B!252&cid=23A10EAD8F9F485B&group=0

Bluecoats 2013 - https://onedrive.live.com/?id=23A10EAD8F9F485B!211&cid=23A10EAD8F9F485B&group=0

I'm very excited. I hope you are, too. You have one week to judge. Have fun!

****THE SIGN UP SHEET****
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I've created this post to help keep track of the judges each match up. Remember that we'11 only have 2 judges max per caption. The Match up 1 Judges are....

Brass - corndogshuffle, cjbuckley1997 ***(CLOSED)***

Percussion - Mariachi, rhythmicthinking ***(CLOSED)***

Music Ensemble - Aaron0316, PKOmega64

Colorguard - liebling82

Visual Performance -

Visual Ensemble - Aaron0316

GE Music - FinalFantasy

GE Visuals - crowleylex, gcurrier ***(CLOSED)***

I want GE music

If this is a sign up sheet I'll take brass!

I suppose, you could call this the sign up sheet LOL... I'm changing the sign up sheet above. Thank you.

ge vis

I'm back to judge! I'll take the other GE V

Welcome back, Gary! Thanks, Lex! I've updated the "sign up sheet." All new judges, please take a look at what spots are available.

I'll do brass if it's still open

You may judge brass. You're the second judge, and brass is now closed. Try to have your scores in no later than next Wed. Thank You :)

i'd like one of the guard judge spots please