After a long day, The Cadets edged out the Blue Devils to take 1st place in DCI Prelims. The Cadets scored a 97.35 over BD’s 96.85, a half point (.5) ahead, which may not seem like much but it is a game of tenths and one hundredths of a point. The real difference showed up in the Visual Performance caption where The Cadets were .8 points ahead of the Blue Devils (3rd in the caption) and .4 ahead of Carolina Crown which placed 2nd. That was interesting because the rest of the Visual caption was clearly won by the Blue Devils.
The biggest surprise of the night relating to percussion? The Academy placed 15th overall, but their percussion section placed 10th beating the likes of the Blue Knights and the Madison Scouts.
How did the rest of the Percussion sections fare?
- 19.6 — Blue Devils
- 19.3 — The Cavaliers
- 19.0 — The Cadets
- 18.8 — Santa Clara Vanguard
- 18.7 — Bluecoats
- 18.6 — Phantom Regiment
- 18.3 — Carolina Crown
- 18.2 — Blue Stars
- 17.8 — Boston Crusaders
- 17.1 — The Academy
- 17.0 — Blue Knights
- 16.9 — Spirit of Atlanta
Percussion Performance: Allan Kristensen
Here are some other interesting items to take note:
- Three Open Class corps have earned their place among the 25 corps who will advance to the Semifinals on Friday – Blue Devils B, Oregon Crusaders and Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets.
- Carolina Crown won the Brass subcaption, beating out BD by .1 with a score of 19.5.
- In contrast to Crown, SCV placed 11th in the Brass subcaption.
- The Madison Scouts placed 10th overall, but 14th in percussion.
- Crown placed 4th overall, but 7th in percussion.
- No perfect scores in subcaptions, but several 9.9s. The corp with the most 9.9s tonight was The Cadets with five 9.9s.
