Bluth Corporation
01-01-2009, 18:59
This is the official registration thread for the Alliance of Drum & Bugle Corps Associates World Tour VI. Registration will close midnight (US CDT) January 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 January 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.
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.
The tour wiki page is here (http://wikistates.outwardhosting.com/wiki/AIDBCA_World_Tour_VI).
Last time we had fifteen corps from seven countries participating; let's see if we can't build on that this time. Tell your friends!
CURRENT ENTRANTS
from Bluth Corporation:
Legion of the Red Shield
Brigadiers
Southern Sound
from Taeshan:
Chips and Beer
Hockey Playin' Nuts
CCR Part Deux
from Zwangzug:
Haydensky
Live Wires
Wild Foxen
CURRENT STADIUMS
from Bluth Corporation:
The Stadium at Khlysty (Legion of the Red Shield home show)
Vanguard Memorial Stadium (Brigadiers home show)
Farnsworth Field (Southern Sound home show)
The Royer Coliseum
Watchman's Memorial Coliseum
Titan Bowl
from Taeshan:
X Island Metropark (Chips and Beer home show)
Gieron Bank Stadium (Hockey Playin' Nuts home show)
Blacklake Blues Ballpark (CCR Part Deux home show)
Atalantea Stadium
Fadron College Fieldhouse
Fadron Pizza Field at Wonder Park
from Zwangzug:
Lioglade Park (Haydensky home show)
Collegiate Colosseum (Live Wires home show)
Cheshire Field (Wild Foxen home show)
Polydome
Tarang County Field
Newzone Center
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 January 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.
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.
The tour wiki page is here (http://wikistates.outwardhosting.com/wiki/AIDBCA_World_Tour_VI).
Last time we had fifteen corps from seven countries participating; let's see if we can't build on that this time. Tell your friends!
CURRENT ENTRANTS
from Bluth Corporation:
Legion of the Red Shield
Brigadiers
Southern Sound
from Taeshan:
Chips and Beer
Hockey Playin' Nuts
CCR Part Deux
from Zwangzug:
Haydensky
Live Wires
Wild Foxen
CURRENT STADIUMS
from Bluth Corporation:
The Stadium at Khlysty (Legion of the Red Shield home show)
Vanguard Memorial Stadium (Brigadiers home show)
Farnsworth Field (Southern Sound home show)
The Royer Coliseum
Watchman's Memorial Coliseum
Titan Bowl
from Taeshan:
X Island Metropark (Chips and Beer home show)
Gieron Bank Stadium (Hockey Playin' Nuts home show)
Blacklake Blues Ballpark (CCR Part Deux home show)
Atalantea Stadium
Fadron College Fieldhouse
Fadron Pizza Field at Wonder Park
from Zwangzug:
Lioglade Park (Haydensky home show)
Collegiate Colosseum (Live Wires home show)
Cheshire Field (Wild Foxen home show)
Polydome
Tarang County Field
Newzone Center