Bluth Corporation
30-11-2008, 22:57
This is the official registration thread for the Alliance of Drum & Bugle Corps Associates World Tour V. Registration will close midnight (US CDT) December 15, 2008.
Yes, we're back after a hiatus of a few months thanks to some serious computer problems I had. They're resolved, I've got all my scorination stuff back, and we're back in business.
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 December 15 and will run for ten 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.
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 fourteen corps from seven nations participating; let's see if we can't build on that this time. Tell your friends!
CURRENT ENTRANTS
from Myedvedeya:
The 41st Regiment Siberian Corps
Samba pa Ti
Karma Police
from Zwangzug:
Live Wires
Haydensky
Shadow Runners
from Svalyia:
The Element
from Bluth Corporation:
Brigadiers
Legion of the Red Shield
Hallowed Ground
from Taeshan:
The Fadron Gang
Hockey Playin' Nuts
Chips and Beer
from Alliance Star:
Blue Wave
from Novu Roma:
Lumenze
CURRENT STADIUMS:
from Myedvedeya:
Svalkovlosk Military Academy Band Grounds (The 41st Regiment Siberian Corps home show)
Moskva Samba Center (Samba pa Ti home show)
Pyotroveskovlad Imperial Stadion (Karma Police home show)
Svalkovlosk FC Stadion
Moskva Events Center
Pyotroveskovlad Convention Center
from Zwangzug:
Collegiate Colosseum (Live Wires home show)
Lioglade Park (Haydensky home show)
Urania Arena (Shadow Runners home show)
Polydome
Cheshire Field
Tarang County Field
from Svalyia:
The Ultradome (The Element home show)
Dramuer Field
from Bluth Corporation:
Vanguard Stadium (Brigadiers home show)
The Stadium at Khlysty (Legion of the Red Shield home show)
Solzhenitsyn Field (Hallowed Ground home show)
Havenco Bowl
Meerschaum Memorial Stadium
The Royer Coliseum
from Taeshan:
Fadron College Fieldhouse (The Fadron Gang home show)
Gieron Bank Stadium (Hockey Playin' Nuts home show)
X Island Metropark (Chips and Beer home show)
Blacklake Blues Ballpark
Fadron Pizza Field at Wonder Park
Atalantea Coliseum
from Alliance Star:
Constellation Stadium (Blue Wave home show)
North Star Airlines Dome
from Novu Roma:
Titan Colosseum (Lumenze home show)
Rex Bowl Stadium
Yes, we're back after a hiatus of a few months thanks to some serious computer problems I had. They're resolved, I've got all my scorination stuff back, and we're back in business.
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 December 15 and will run for ten 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.
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 fourteen corps from seven nations participating; let's see if we can't build on that this time. Tell your friends!
CURRENT ENTRANTS
from Myedvedeya:
The 41st Regiment Siberian Corps
Samba pa Ti
Karma Police
from Zwangzug:
Live Wires
Haydensky
Shadow Runners
from Svalyia:
The Element
from Bluth Corporation:
Brigadiers
Legion of the Red Shield
Hallowed Ground
from Taeshan:
The Fadron Gang
Hockey Playin' Nuts
Chips and Beer
from Alliance Star:
Blue Wave
from Novu Roma:
Lumenze
CURRENT STADIUMS:
from Myedvedeya:
Svalkovlosk Military Academy Band Grounds (The 41st Regiment Siberian Corps home show)
Moskva Samba Center (Samba pa Ti home show)
Pyotroveskovlad Imperial Stadion (Karma Police home show)
Svalkovlosk FC Stadion
Moskva Events Center
Pyotroveskovlad Convention Center
from Zwangzug:
Collegiate Colosseum (Live Wires home show)
Lioglade Park (Haydensky home show)
Urania Arena (Shadow Runners home show)
Polydome
Cheshire Field
Tarang County Field
from Svalyia:
The Ultradome (The Element home show)
Dramuer Field
from Bluth Corporation:
Vanguard Stadium (Brigadiers home show)
The Stadium at Khlysty (Legion of the Red Shield home show)
Solzhenitsyn Field (Hallowed Ground home show)
Havenco Bowl
Meerschaum Memorial Stadium
The Royer Coliseum
from Taeshan:
Fadron College Fieldhouse (The Fadron Gang home show)
Gieron Bank Stadium (Hockey Playin' Nuts home show)
X Island Metropark (Chips and Beer home show)
Blacklake Blues Ballpark
Fadron Pizza Field at Wonder Park
Atalantea Coliseum
from Alliance Star:
Constellation Stadium (Blue Wave home show)
North Star Airlines Dome
from Novu Roma:
Titan Colosseum (Lumenze home show)
Rex Bowl Stadium