I'm going to need a lot of jumps this season lol

Yeah Joe fed his groups some real good.food before their shows lol

A near 5 point lead is just nuts! Hope that gap closes up soon haha. On another note, I lost a quite a number of good rehearsal hours the past few days due to performing my final recital (finally a break!). Hoping to build up momentum just like last season haha

Im pretty sure hes been fundraising since hes been on the site, which he joined in season 30. Thats a long time lol. I think its safe to say we are looking at a new FMA dynasty if he continues to rehearse consistently

Could this be the first drum corps perfect 100?

He's also maxed out on influence.

Score should be based off max out on staff which a few of us have so I'm wondering where is show is at difficulty wise. Easier difficulty gets you early results but harder down the road, that being said 5pt spread hard to make up no matter how you slice it lol

I do have to say though I'm also impressed that while he may have been largely fundraising that whole time, it's not like this corps hasn't been on a steady incline! We've seen examples of corps that do nothing here then boom, but that's not really what he has done. He has been getting more and more competitive and right in that top 12.

I am thinking that if he hits 100 too soon, just like with guard, it may be hard for him to not rng bump back down into 2nd or even 3rd

The rest of the pack is catching up to guard folks.

With regards to what Gary said earlier, I’ve got maxed out staff and level 21 difficulty show.

Whats the best way to get GE points? They are really holding me back. Should I just rehearse the heck out of ensemble/ge?

Ya early season I don't pay much attention to anything but GE to get that high

Interesting Joe. Must have been perfectly balanced points to get you so far up!

I wonder Strad, though the first few times guards hit 100, they didn't go backwards. It took a few seasons.

The first few times caused Alex to add the slight rng to score gains!

TheHuman yeah i used to be in your position. Last season i tried a different approach and rehearsed only GE until i got around 19.5, then i just put all my energy into the individual captions the last two weeks. It worked out well, got into the top 5 for the first time and got my highest score ever. You should try to max out on ensemble and GE as soon as you can, and focus on all other things later

Either way it's good to see a different group come along and shake things up towards the top. It'll be interesting to see if they hold strong or fizzle out.

Also, his ensemble scores are low in comparison to what his GE is. Normally they go hand in hand.

At least the battle for silver looks to be getting tight lol

I like how I'm always starting with such low scores then have to slowly climb up in placements feelsbadman

We all.been there man! I find it felt good to climb all season! I loved jumping passed people. FeelsAmazingMan

Ya its better than when you watch people catching up to you! LOL

haha I know that feeling all too well. Many a time I have started out in 2nd or even 1st in percussion a couple times, only to end up 4 or 5th across the board.