Bluth Corporation
01-08-2008, 17:23
This is the official registration thread for the Alliance of Drum & Bugle Corps Associates World Tour IV. Registration will close midnight (US CDT) August 15, 2008.
If you wish to register, please read the Tour Rules (http://wikistates.outwardhosting.com/wiki/AIDBCA_World_Tour_Tour_Rules) and Performance Rules (http://wikistates.outwardhosting.com/wiki/AIDBCA_World_Tour_Performance_Rules) (most of these rules are just for IC show and don't have any actual effect, although you can use the performance rules if you want to RP a penalty for your corps and we DO enforce the rule about your lowest-placing corps from the previous tour may not participate) and then post the following information below for each corps you are entering:
Corps name
Title and brief description of your corps' program
Your corps' home city
Ranking of the five general judging captions (Auxiliary, Battery Percussion, Bugles, Marching & Maneuvering, and Sideline Percussion) in order from your corps's strongest to weakest caption
Remember, you may submit up to three corps to the tour.
You will also need to post a list of twice as many stadiums as corps you are entering (so if you're entering three corps, you'll need to post six stadiums). Of these, at least one for each entered corps must be designated as that corps' particular home show, and must be located in or relatively near to that corps's home city.
Not all of the stadiums you enter will necessarily be used (although the home show ones will), but we need to have the pool to choose from.
Competitions will begin August 15 and will run for three nights; after that, there will be three nights for Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals to determine the final champion; the precise format will depend upon how many entries we have.
The scoring will be done with a PHP/mySQL setup I've written and refined over the past few tours. No one's complained about the results it's produced so far, although if you have any suggestions over the course of this tour please bring them up and I'll consider implementing them for the next tour.
As before, corps will initially be seeded based on their placing in the last World Tour (based on the corps' individual placement, independent of where other corps from that country ended up); corps that did not participate in the last World Tour will be seeded last, in random order. This will be used solely for determination of initial scores.
Although there is no guarantee that the highest-seeded corps will have the highest initial score and so forth for the rest, the algorithm I use to generate initial scores biases the random numbers in that direction. And of course, after the first contest the seedings don't affect the scores at all.
If you really want to I can explain the workings of it in-depth.
As always, you can RP your corps' performance for a bonus.
As many of you know, I am in real life an instructor for a high school marching band program. Our second band camp begins this Sunday, so I will be gone from Sunday afternoon until next Saturday afternoon (August 9). If you register in that time span, I will update the registration list with your entries as soon as I return. Additionally, if someone could perform an occasional bump every couple of days or so on this thread, I'd greatly appreciate it.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I'll be more than happy to answer, and if you ask while I'm gone I'm sure the participants in previous tours can help you out as well.
Although it's not strictly in-character to use real-world music for our drum & bugle corps shows, we typically do it anyway just to make it easier to visualize the programs.
Last time we had ten corps from four nations participating; let's see if we can't build on that this time. Tell your friends!
CURRENT ENTRANTS
from Bluth Corporation:
Brigadiers
Legion of the Red Shield
Lasersound
from Taeshan:
The Fadron Gang
Hockey Playin' Nuts
Angels and Demons
from Sarleneska:
The Imperial Guards
Last Minute
from Gernish:
The Ghost Sword Regiment
from Alliance Star:
The Silver Knights
from Zwangzug:
Gridlockers
Haydensky
Fractals
from Cotenshire:
Royal Officer Corps of King William V
CURRENT STADIUMS
from Bluth Corporation:
Vanguard Stadium, Newport Beach (Brigadiers home show)
The Stadium at Khlysty, Khlysty (Legion of the Red Shield home show)
Meerschaum Memorial Stadium, Hary Janos (Lasersound home show)
Solzhenitsyn Field, Velvet Rush
The Royer Coliseum, Trapper John
Lipscomb Bowl, Alameche
from Taeshan:
Fadron College Fieldhouse (The Fadron Gang home show)
Gieron Bank Stadium (Hockey Playin' Nuts home show)
Capetown Arena (Angels and Demons home show)
Atalantea Stadium
Docktown Memorial Stadium
Blacklake Blues Ballpark
from Sarleneska:
Imperial Gardens (The Imperial Guards home show)
Sirenki Field (Last Minute home show)
National Stadium
Namienki Field
from Gernish:
The Crest of the Guard, Madlin (The Ghost Sword Regiment home show)
The Citadel at Toledo, Toledo
from Alliance Star:
Telestar Dome (The Silver Knights home show)
Capital Stadium
from Zwangzug:
Tarang County Field (Gridlockers home show)
Lioglade Park (Haydensky home show)
Polydome (Fractals home show)
Cheshire Field
Collegiate Colosseum
Newzone Center
from Cotenshire:
Royal Stadium of William IV (Royal Officer Corps of King William V home show)
St. Alfons Hippodrome
If you wish to register, please read the Tour Rules (http://wikistates.outwardhosting.com/wiki/AIDBCA_World_Tour_Tour_Rules) and Performance Rules (http://wikistates.outwardhosting.com/wiki/AIDBCA_World_Tour_Performance_Rules) (most of these rules are just for IC show and don't have any actual effect, although you can use the performance rules if you want to RP a penalty for your corps and we DO enforce the rule about your lowest-placing corps from the previous tour may not participate) and then post the following information below for each corps you are entering:
Corps name
Title and brief description of your corps' program
Your corps' home city
Ranking of the five general judging captions (Auxiliary, Battery Percussion, Bugles, Marching & Maneuvering, and Sideline Percussion) in order from your corps's strongest to weakest caption
Remember, you may submit up to three corps to the tour.
You will also need to post a list of twice as many stadiums as corps you are entering (so if you're entering three corps, you'll need to post six stadiums). Of these, at least one for each entered corps must be designated as that corps' particular home show, and must be located in or relatively near to that corps's home city.
Not all of the stadiums you enter will necessarily be used (although the home show ones will), but we need to have the pool to choose from.
Competitions will begin August 15 and will run for three nights; after that, there will be three nights for Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals to determine the final champion; the precise format will depend upon how many entries we have.
The scoring will be done with a PHP/mySQL setup I've written and refined over the past few tours. No one's complained about the results it's produced so far, although if you have any suggestions over the course of this tour please bring them up and I'll consider implementing them for the next tour.
As before, corps will initially be seeded based on their placing in the last World Tour (based on the corps' individual placement, independent of where other corps from that country ended up); corps that did not participate in the last World Tour will be seeded last, in random order. This will be used solely for determination of initial scores.
Although there is no guarantee that the highest-seeded corps will have the highest initial score and so forth for the rest, the algorithm I use to generate initial scores biases the random numbers in that direction. And of course, after the first contest the seedings don't affect the scores at all.
If you really want to I can explain the workings of it in-depth.
As always, you can RP your corps' performance for a bonus.
As many of you know, I am in real life an instructor for a high school marching band program. Our second band camp begins this Sunday, so I will be gone from Sunday afternoon until next Saturday afternoon (August 9). If you register in that time span, I will update the registration list with your entries as soon as I return. Additionally, if someone could perform an occasional bump every couple of days or so on this thread, I'd greatly appreciate it.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I'll be more than happy to answer, and if you ask while I'm gone I'm sure the participants in previous tours can help you out as well.
Although it's not strictly in-character to use real-world music for our drum & bugle corps shows, we typically do it anyway just to make it easier to visualize the programs.
Last time we had ten corps from four nations participating; let's see if we can't build on that this time. Tell your friends!
CURRENT ENTRANTS
from Bluth Corporation:
Brigadiers
Legion of the Red Shield
Lasersound
from Taeshan:
The Fadron Gang
Hockey Playin' Nuts
Angels and Demons
from Sarleneska:
The Imperial Guards
Last Minute
from Gernish:
The Ghost Sword Regiment
from Alliance Star:
The Silver Knights
from Zwangzug:
Gridlockers
Haydensky
Fractals
from Cotenshire:
Royal Officer Corps of King William V
CURRENT STADIUMS
from Bluth Corporation:
Vanguard Stadium, Newport Beach (Brigadiers home show)
The Stadium at Khlysty, Khlysty (Legion of the Red Shield home show)
Meerschaum Memorial Stadium, Hary Janos (Lasersound home show)
Solzhenitsyn Field, Velvet Rush
The Royer Coliseum, Trapper John
Lipscomb Bowl, Alameche
from Taeshan:
Fadron College Fieldhouse (The Fadron Gang home show)
Gieron Bank Stadium (Hockey Playin' Nuts home show)
Capetown Arena (Angels and Demons home show)
Atalantea Stadium
Docktown Memorial Stadium
Blacklake Blues Ballpark
from Sarleneska:
Imperial Gardens (The Imperial Guards home show)
Sirenki Field (Last Minute home show)
National Stadium
Namienki Field
from Gernish:
The Crest of the Guard, Madlin (The Ghost Sword Regiment home show)
The Citadel at Toledo, Toledo
from Alliance Star:
Telestar Dome (The Silver Knights home show)
Capital Stadium
from Zwangzug:
Tarang County Field (Gridlockers home show)
Lioglade Park (Haydensky home show)
Polydome (Fractals home show)
Cheshire Field
Collegiate Colosseum
Newzone Center
from Cotenshire:
Royal Stadium of William IV (Royal Officer Corps of King William V home show)
St. Alfons Hippodrome