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This is the registration thread for the Alliance of International Drum & Bugle Corps Associates World Tour II.

If you wish to participate, please read the Performance Rules (http://wikistates.outwardhosting.com/wiki/AIDBCA_World_Tour_Performance_Rules) and Tour Rules (http://wikistates.outwardhosting.com/wiki/AIDBCA_World_Tour_Tour_Rules), then post in this thread with the following information, for each corps you submit:

Corps name
Corps home city
Show title and description
Rank the five general captions (Auxiliary, Battery Percussion, Bugles, Marching & Maneuvering, Sideline Percussion) in order from strongest to weakest.

Registration will close midnight June 8, 2008. At that point, I will ask you to provide venues for contest sites for the tour, as outlined in the Tour Rules.

Remember: you can submit up to three corps.

Competitions will begin on June 15, and run every night for ten nights. Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals will run the next three nights after that, with the exact format to be determined at the close of registration, based on the level of participation.

Scorination will be done with a relatively jury-rigged system of Gnumeric spreadsheets, PHP scripts, and mySQL databases I have set up. The scores should be more realistic than in World Tour I, but the general principles will apply: scores will tend to increase over time (as they do in the real world), but with the occasional slippage--whether in a caption score or an overall score--to represent the fact that corps do indeed have off nights.

You can, as always, RP your corps' performances for a bonus based on the quality of your roleplay.

Although it's not really IC to use real-world music and artists, we go ahead and do so anyway just to make it easier to visualize the program.

If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask.

CURRENT ENTRANTS:

from Bluth Corporation:

Brigadiers
East Coast Highwaymen
Legion of the Red Shield


from Zwangzug:

Haydensky
Wild Foxen
Shadow Runners


from Taeshan:

The Fadron Gang
Hockey Playin' Nuts
CCR Part Deux


from Skibereen:

Hammerfest Anvils


from Arroza:

Kings of the New South

CORPS NAME: Brigadiers
HOME CITY: Newport Beach
SHOW TITLE: "Hungarian Rhythms"
SHOW DESCRIPTION: Music from Kodaly's "Hary Janos" and Bela Bartok's "Mikrokosmos"; drill featuring pulsating, geometric forms and more dance than equipment-work in the auxiliary
CAPTION RANKINGS:
Bugles
Battery Percussion
Marching & Maneuvering
Auxiliary
Sideline Percussion

CORPS NAME: East Coast Highwaymen
HOME CITY: Albemarle
SHOW TITLE: "Kind of Blue"
SHOW DESCRIPTION: "My Blue Heaven", "Blue Monday", "Deacon Blues", and "Kind of Blue"; traditional drill featuring box forms, Z-pulls, and sunbursts; auxiliary makes heavy use of blue flags
CAPTION RANKINGS:
Bugles
Sideline Percussion
Battery Percussion
Auxiliary
Marching & Maneuvering

CORPS NAME: Legion of the Red Shield
HOME CITY: Khlysty
SHOW TITLE: "Dunes and Deserts"
SHOW DESCRIPTION: Music from "Lawrence of Arabia"; free-flowing drill featuring abstract forms and elaborate Arabesque auxiliary costumes
CAPTION RANKINGS:
Battery Percussion
Auxiliary
Bugles
Marching & Maneuvering
Sideline Percussion

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Registration is now half over! Time's running out!

Corps Name: Haydensky
Home city: Elapinta
Show title: "Takeoff"
Show description: Music of John Williams (Raiders March, May The Force Be With You, Nimbus 2000). Extravagant formations and heavy use of equipment (more rifles this time around than flags) from auxiliary.
Caption rankings:
Marching and Maneuvering
Auxiliary
Sideline Percussion
Bugles
Battery Percussion

Corps Name: Wild Foxen
Home city: Bassabook
Show title: "Handlebars"
Show description: Music of George Handel (Sonata #3, Messiah part 1 #9). Mostly geometric shapes in marching.
Caption rankings:
Bugles
Auxiliary
Battery Percussion
Marching and Maneuvering
Sideline Percussion

Corps name: Shadow Runners
Home city: Canbix
Show title: "Out of This World"
Show description: "Rocket Man," "Mars" (from "The Planets"), "Man on the Moon". Expansive marching, taking up the perimeters of the field.
Caption rankings:
Battery Percussion
Bugles
Marching and Maneuvering
Sideline Percussion
Auxiliary

Name-The Fadron Gang
HC-Fadron
ST-"Beach Bop"
SD-The music of the Beach Boys including "Kokomo", "God Only Knows, "Be True to your School", and "Good Vibrations"
Battery Percussion
Sideline Percussion
Bugles
Marching/Manuevering
Auxilary
(home Stadium) Fadron College Fieldhouse 25,000

Name-Hockey Playin' Nuts
HC-Gieron
ST-"Bug Mania"
SD-Songs of the Beatles including"Let It Be", "Hey Jude", "across the Universe", "Hard Days Night"
Bugles
Auxilary
Marching/Manuevering
Battery
Sideline
Home Stadia-Gieron Bank Stadium 123,000

Name-CCR Part Deux
HC-Blacklake
ST"CCR This"
SD-0Songs of CCR including"Someday Never Comes", "Who'll Stop the Rain", "Have You Ever Seen the Rain", and "Lodi"
Marching
Battery
Sideline
Bugles
Auxillary

Zwangzug: Live Wires was your lowest-placing corps, so it's not permitted to return until at least the next tour. Wild Foxen is, although you can enter an alternate corps in its place if you wish (or only enter two corps period).

Ah, my bad, I'd mentally transposed them. I'll edit my post more fully later: for now, Wild Foxen are in with the show formerly assigned to Sunset Storm (and corps 3 is pending).

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Just over 24 hours to go!

Corps Name: Kings of the New South
Home city: Vulcan
Show title: "Back to the Beginning"
Show description: Pre-Diaspora hip-hop, and metal music with a heavy influence on big-band, drum-line, and latin influenced songs and beats. The band will not religiously follow the source material, but will vary it to give it a more modern sound, and to keep from being monotonous. The Drums run this band with an iron fist, and it shows in the team's performances. The Drum Major might be one of the most talented man in the country, as he not only has to organize a band, but also do lyrics for some of the songs.

Songs (not inclusive, but a a good example of the songs played):
Entry Song: Celtic Frost - Oriental Masquerade (no, we don't know why they picked it either.)
Trick Daddy - Shut Up
Yung Wun - Tear It Up
Nas - Black Republicans
Young Zee - That's My Nigga Fo Real
E-40 - Do Ya Head Like This
Closer: Sepultura - Refuse, Resist (Drum Line Only)

Caption rankings:
Battery Percussion
Sideline Percussion
Marching and Maneuvering
Auxiliary
Bugles

Arroza: Just FYI, when I was in drum & bugle corps, anyone who called us a "band" got his ass beat. Big time. :D

Anyway, corps registration is now closed.

Since we have 11 corps, in order to meet the requirement of "Everyone does 10 shows/no more than 8 corps at a show", we will need a total of 20 show sites. 11 of those will be corps home shows. Countries will be assigned show sites roughly based on the number of corps they have entered.

Please post the stadiums you will be providing (the number you must provide is below). Remember, for the "Home shows" the stadium must be in or relatively near to the home city of the corps it is for.


Bluth Corporation - 6 total (3 home shows)
Zwangzug - 6 total (3 home shows)
Taeshan - 6 total (3 home shows)
Skibereen - 1 total (1 home show)
Arroza - 1 total (1 home show)


You must have your stadium list posted by midnight US CDT (GMT -5) June 15 or your corps will be removed from competition. That said, if your post is after that time but it's made before the first time I sign on after I wake up on the 15th, I'll let it slide.

From Monday-Friday updates to this list may be slow; I am a high school marching band instructor, and our one of our band camps is this upcoming week. I'll be bringing a laptop with me since I have various band-related work I need to do on it (drill, music, handouts), and if I get a chance I'll sign in and update this list, but no guarantees. I will be back the afternoon of Saturday the 14th, though, so I'll be here to update the list before the end of stadium registration, if nothing else.

CURRENT STADIUMS:

from Bluth Corporation:

Vanguard Stadium, Newport Beach (Brigadiers home show)
Harlaxton-Barr Stadium, Albemarle (East Coast Highwaymen home show)
The Stadium at Khlysty, Khlysty (Legion of the Red Shield home show)
Solzhenitsyn Field, Velvet Rush
The Royer Coliseum, Trapper John
Lipscomb Bowl, Alameche


from Taeshan:

Fadron College Fieldhouse (Fadron Gang home show)
Gieron Bank Stadium (Hockey Playin' Nuts home show)
Blacklake Blues Ballpark (CCR Part Deux home show)
Atlantea Coliseum
Docktown Memorial Stadium
X Island Metropark


from Arroza:

Government Park, Atalanta (Kings of the New South home show)


from Zwangzug:

O'Hare Stadium, Arlington (Haydensky home show)
Cheshire Field, Bassbarook (Wild Foxen home show)
Urania Arena, Canbix (Shadow Runners home show)
Polydome, 102d
Tarang County Field, Slaite
Schuldt Stadium, Belpub


from Skibereen:

The Den, New Dublin (Hammerfest Anvils home show)

BRIGADIERS HOME SHOW: Vanguard Stadium, Newport Beach
EAST COAST HIGHWAYMEN HOME SHOW: Harlaxton-Barr Stadium, Albemarle
LEGION OF THE RED SHIELD HOME SHOW: The Stadium at Khlysty, Khlysty

Other venues provided:
Solzhenitsyn Field, Velvet Rush
The Royer Coliseum, Trapper John
Lipscomb Bowl, Alameche

Quarterfinals/Semifinals/Finals will be held at Vanguard Stadium in Newport Beach, same as last time.

Fadron Gang Home Stadium-Fadron College Fieldhouse 25,000
Hockey Playin' nuts Home Stadium-Gieron Bank Stadium 123,000
CCR Part Deux Home-Blacklake Blues Ballpark

Nuetral Fields
Atlantea Collesium-590,000
Docktown Memorial Stadium-490,000
X Island Metropark-200,000

Fadron Gang Home Stadium-Fadron College Fieldhouse 25,000
Hockey Playin' nuts Home Stadium-Gieron Bank Stadium 123,000
CCR Part Deux Home-Blacklake Blues Ballpark

Nuetral Fields
Atlantea Collesium-590,000
Docktown Memorial Stadium-490,000
X Island Metropark-200,000

Home Stadia: Government Park - Atalanta, Capitol District (53,000)

OOC: Interesting. I always considered groups like the FAMU or Southern's band to be quite happy to be called a band, and not a corps, as that name has a militatistic tinge to it. I'm equate our entry as equivalent to a great black college band, but more polished and stripped doen to remove instruments that aren't legal.

OOC: Interesting. I always considered groups like the FAMU or Southern's band to be quite happy to be called a band, and not a corps, as that name has a militatistic tinge to it. I'm equate our entry as equivalent to a great black college band, but more polished and stripped doen to remove instruments that aren't legal.

Yes, college and high school marching bands can be called "bands" just fine, because that's what they are: marching bands.

Drum & bugle corps are drum & bugle corps, and marching bands are marching bands :D They're separate activities with separate histories, and only recently have they begun to overlap at all (some, including myself, would say too much overlap already).

Haydensky home show: O'Hare Stadium, Arlington
Wild Foxen home show: Cheshire Field, Bassabook
Shadow Runners home show: Urania Arena, Canbix

Other venues:

Polydome, 102d
Tarang County Field, Slaite
Schuldt Stadium, Belpub

Location of cities (http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/8271/dbc2kx4.jpg)

Just over 24 hours left to post your stadiums or you're cut from the tour!

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