We’re a few hours away from Prelims. It has definitely been an exciting first season with the new FMA Circuit.
Let’s take a look at my predictions for Finals.

Division I

-Finals Prediction
Gold - Perception Drum & Bugle Corps
Silver – Shades of New Orleans
Bronze – Blue Deviled Eggs
4. Darkness
5. Marching Bureaucrats
6. Lambs of Destruction
7. Sapphire Sound
8. Resilience
9. The Stout Marchers
10. Cornhuskers Drum & Bugle Corps
11. Quiksilver
12. SoCal Arts

-Caption Winners
Winds: Shades of New Orleans
Percussion: Darkness
Color Guard: Perception Drum & Bugle Corps
Music GE: Perception Drum & Bugle Corps
Visual GE: Perception Drum & Bugle Corps

Division II

-Finals Prediction
Gold – Band Geeks
Silver – Carolina Cadets
Bronze – Infinity Sound Drum and Bugle Corps
4. Eclipse Drum Corps
5. Carolina’s Regiment
6. Clan Wallace
7. Flight
8. Cul-de-sac Cadets
9. Sabre Corps
10. Gold Sound
11. Eagle Regiment
12. Modern Antic


-Caption Winners
Winds: Carolina Cadets
Percussion: Carolina Cadets
Color Guard: Open All Knights
Music GE: Carolina Cadets
Visual GE: Band Geeks

Division III

-Finals Prediction
Gold – The Golden Knights
Silver – Bleu Raeders
Bronze – Mouversi In Avanti
4. Tiger Pride Regiment
5. BlueGrass Regiment
6. Santa Rosa Sound
7. Night Watch
8. Bluegrass Regiment
9. Nemesis
10. Gutwrencher Brigade
11. The Red Legion
12. Stardusters


-Caption Winners
Winds: Blue Horns
Percussion: Bleu Raeders
Color Guard: The Golden Knights
Music GE: The Golden Knights
Visual GE: The Golden Knights




This will definitely be an interesting finish to the season, particularly in Division III. I look forward to seeing how things pan out, and will have a Finals Aftermath post on Sunday.

Also, don’t forget to sign up for your local Combine. We’re already fast approaching Season 2, so things will begin to pick up soon with their involvement in the shaping of the Drum Corps Circuit.

Good luck to all of the corps, and I hope the fans enjoy this amazing weekend of competition.



(I wanted to go way more in depth with my predictions, but I was having computer/internet trouble last night so I had to scrap that in order to make sure this was posted in time. Sorry guys.)

I'm excited for Finals. If Eagle Regiment gets 11th, it will be just like in FMA 1.0 season 1!
Although, we had a 65.720 at finals that season. It would be interesting to get to that again. But its not looking that way right now.

Hopefully Glory Cadets prove you wrong...

It was tough trying to decide between Glory Cadets and SoCal Arts. Originally I did have ya'll in 12th, and possibly looking at 11th(maybe a bit of a stretch, but you never know). I'm very interested in seeing how that battle plays out.

Hoping Sapphire Sound exceeds expectations. We've been grinding with music practice, just hoping it's enough...

same prediction i have for my group! :]

carolinas regiment intends to take percussion

My internet has been screwed up with long spells of no connection.

I would not be surprized to fall to 6th

hope tiger pride proves you wrong and takes the bronze medal

mins away

Tomorrow will certainly be interesting...tied for 12th tonight...

whoa - filled into 11th, maybe safe maybe not

That was a real surprise! I applaud you and your group, Novak. If the gap stays the same, what do the rules dictate? Higher music scores go on to finals? Or the winner of more captions?

I'm not sure. I checked the captions, and I think we split those pretty evenly too.

Wow, my drum corps jumped to 9th =D This is going to be an interesting two days coming up!

WOW! I had no idea that I would take all but one caption tonight!

Maybe we will see a revision of these predictions soon?

I've just had a lot of fun:) I've already met my goal to make semis, so anything else is a big bonus!

SoCal Arts and Glory Cadets TIED for 12th place! O the drama!!!

I wonder what will happen if they tie tomorrow?

I think they both go through if they tie. I could be very wrong though.