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

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 July 11, 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 July15, 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. I've made some changes to make it easier to post all the results (with 11 corps last time, World Tour II was quite a bear), but the backend should be essentially the same.

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
Legion of the Red Shield
Hallowed Ground


from Taeshan:

The Fadron Gang
Hockey Playin' Nuts
Tangles of My Heart


from Zwangzug:

Haydensky
Shadow Runners
Gridlockers


from Alliance Star:

Blue Wave

CORPS NAME: Brigadiers
HOME CITY: Newport Beach
SHOW TITLE: "The Moods of Shostakovich Part 1: Joy"
SHOW DESCRIPTION: An upbeat program featuring Shostakovich's "Festive Overture," Symphony No. 1, 2nd Movement, "The Gadfly," Introduction from "The Age of Gold," Piano Concerto No. 2, 1st Movement
CAPTION RANKINGS:
Bugles
Battery Percussion
Marching & Maneuvering
Auxiliary
Sideline Percussion

CORPS NAME: Legion of the Red Shield
HOME CITY: Khlysty
SHOW TITLE: "Salty!"
SHOW DESCRIPTION: Music of Blood, Sweat, and Tears, featuring "God Bless the Child," "And When I Die," "Sometimes in Winter," "You've Made Me So Very Happy," and "Smiling Phases"
CAPTION RANKINGS:
Battery Percussion
Auxiliary
Bugles
Marching & Maneuvering
Sideline Percussion

CORPS NAME: Hallowed Ground
HOME CITY: Markov
SHOW TITLE: "Christmas in July"
SHOW DESCRIPTION: "O Come O Come Emmanuel," "Carol of the Bells," "O Holy Night," "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," "Christmastime is Here/Linus and Lucy"
CAPTION RANKINGS:
Bugles
Marching & Maneuvering
Sideline Percussion
Auxiliary
Battery Percussion

(incidentally, Crown '03 was the only CC I've ever enjoyed)

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The Fadron Gang
Fadron
"Kiss My Ass"
Songs by KISS including "Rock and Roll all nite", "Psycho Circus", and "Lick it Up"
Sideline Percussion
Battery Percussion
Marching and Manuevering
Auxillary
Bugles

Hockey Playin' Nuts
Gieron
"Move Along"
Songs of the All American Rejects including "Swing Swing", " Dirty little Secret", " Move Along", and " It ends Tonight"
Bugles
Marching and Manuevering
Battery Percussion
Auxillary
Sideline Percussion

Tangles of my Heart
Ying Jing
"Stop"
Music of OneRepublic including " Stop and Stare", and but not limited to "Apologise"
Marching
Battery
Sideline
Bugles
Auxillary
***Official Taeshan Drum and Bugle Corps final Standings***
CCR Part Deux Restrictred from qualification
The Fadron Gang Advances
Tangles of My Heart Advances
Hockey Playin' Nuts
Angles And Demons
The Death Eaters
Charlie Bone Readers
Harry and the Weasleys
Taeshan City Hieghts
Alligator Crescents
The Rude Band
Eat My Potato
Gods Pottery
Chips and Beer
English Aviators
Flyin'

Corps Name: Haydensky
Home city: Elapinta
Show title: Countdown
Show description: "One," "Threes and Sevens", "Take Five". Metrical quality and technically precise marching, though as usual their musical ability is just a tad on the weak side.
Caption rankings:
Marching and Maneuvering
Auxiliary
Sideline Percussion
Bugles
Battery Percussion

Corps name: Shadow Runners
Home city: Canbix
Show title:
Show description: "Finnegan's Wake", "Danny Boy", "Red is the Rose": slow but expressive drill.
Caption rankings:
Battery Percussion
Bugles
Marching and Maneuvering
Sideline Percussion
Auxiliary

Corps name: Gridlockers
Home city: Slaite
Show title:
Show description: A considerable proportion of this corps is drawn from a nearby street-marching group, and it shows. Little to no innovation in the maneuvering category, and heavy on the brass sound. Oh, and music of Bob Dylan ("Like a Rolling Stone", "Blowin' in the Wind", "Mr. Tambourine Man")
Caption rankings:
Bugles
Sideline percussion
Auxiliary
Battery percussion
Marching and Maneuvering

Just a few days left!

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Corps Name: Blue Wave [Logo (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/SWATguy528/blueWaveLogo-1.jpg)]
Home City: Saratoga, Pisces
Show Title: A Tribute to Frank Ticheli: "Joy (http://www.manhattanbeachmusic.com/audio/joy.mov)", "An American Elegy (http://www.manhattanbeachmusic.com/audio/an_american_elegy.mov)", "Joy Revisited (http://www.manhattanbeachmusic.com/audio/joy-revisited.mov)". (Noted: These are the overall MP3s pf the music, which have been cut down to the aloted timeframes.)
Rank the five general captions: Marching & Manuvering, Bugles, Battery Percussion, Sideline Percussion, Auxiliary.

(I would attempt to create drill charts, but it might be too little too late. Also, might be missing due to some IRL activity. Corps are alive in the Southeast, even without Magic of Orlando. </3)

No need to...the way it works is that each corps is assigned a score within a certain range at random, and the results for each night are then generated based on previous night's scores, but with enough flex room that placements can change, your score can occasionally drop, etc. When the scores are posted, you can role-play any aspect of your corps' performance (rehearsals, trip to the show, the quality of the housing site, warm-up, the performance itself, retreat, comments in the parking lot afterwards, etc.) and how well you do this can give you a bonus that is factored into the next night's score.

Taeshan: you still need to post caption rankings for Tangles of My Heart.

(I knew that. I just like writting drill. That's all. ^_^

Thanks a million.)

Heh...I write enough drill as it is for real groups...don't need to be doing it for fake ones too.

Less than 24 hours to go!

(I never get the chance. DX

Life and all.)

Corps registration is now closed.

It's now time to let us know which stadiums you'll be using. Since there are ten corps, and there can be no more than eight corps at a show, a total of twenty venues will be needed (two for each of the ten nights of the tour). Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals will continue to be held at Vanguard Stadium in Solzhenitsyn.

You must provide one stadium for each of the corps you have entered, in the city in which that corps is based (or a city relatively close to it, if no sufficient venue is available in that city), as that corps's "home show"--and you must state it as such when you post your stadium list. There are ten corps, so of the twenty venues, ten will be for home shows.

That means we need ten additional venues; I have split the number required among each of the participating countries based on the number of corps they have entered.


Bluth Corporation - 3 extra (6 total)
Taeshan - 3 extra (6 total)
Zwangzug - 3 extra (6 total)
Alliance Star - 1 extra (2 total)


The deadline for your stadium list will be midnight July 15, 2008.

CURRENT STADIUMS:

from Bluth Corporation:

Vanguard Stadium, Newport Beach (Brigadiers home show)
Solzhenitsyn Field, Velvet Rush (Hallowed Ground home show)
The Stadium at Khlysty, Khlysty (Legion of the Red Shield home show)
Harlaxton-Barr Stadium, Albemarle
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)
Melrosepark Stadium (Tangles of My Heart home show)
Atalantea Coliseum
Blacklake Blues Park
Docktown Memorial Stadium


from Zwangzug:

Lioglade Park (Haydensky home show)
Urania Arena (Shadow Runners home show)
Tarang County Field (Gridlockers home show)
Polydome
Cheshire Field
Isheam Stadium

Fadron Gang home-Fadron College Feildhouse
Hockey Playin' Nuts-Gieron Bank Stadium
Tangles of My Heart-Melrosepark Stadium
Atlantea Colliseum
Blacklake Blues Park
Docktown Memorial Stadium

Haydensky home show: Lioglade Park, Elapinta
Shadow Runners home show: Urania Arena, Canbix
Gridlockers home show: Tarang County Field, Slaite

Other venues:
Polydome, 102d
Cheshire Field, Bassabook
Isheam Stadium, Nuel

Alliance Star, we still need your stadium list.

So everyone knows ahead of time, finals format will be the same as last time: top eight by medal count advance to quarterfinals, top six scores from quarterfinals advance to semifinals, and top four scores from semifinals advance to finals.

(Sorry for being late.)

[Horseshoe Stadium] Dyson Memorial Field; Anapope, Leo
[Dome] Telestar Dome; Porthos, Capricorn

(There's no "Home" Stadium, just one located in a related city. Also, if you need more locations, just ask.)