Tuesday June 8th

Well it is really warm today and we went from cold and needing the heat over the weekend to real hot and needing the airconditioner.

Well I was right about the competition for Hudson Valley over the weekend, ok so I thought it was CF&DA very similar just alittle less organized...

Same winners, same old songs, who cares...get some new corps, stop the nonsense...or just let them pay for their medals. Or you could just put names in a hat and draw for who gets the medal...that would be alot more exciting....

Well off to drum corps, and Holly has her class night...

Addendum 9:25pm, nice practice of the Crosstown Tornadoes tonight. Great marching all. Remember the more you practice the better you get. Rock step rules!!

well I got more of the scoop on this past weekends State meet for Hudson valley (which of course is run by all CT people and no one from New York. They really messed up on the judges and scoring. First they had two different people judging the same category (glocks I know for sure) and the score sheets were all messed up. Course it doesn't help that all of the board of this association never lifted a finger to help on last years competition so...(I know this as I was the Secretary for this association last year and handled the entire competition myself well with my lap top). They forgot to subtract for undertime, and so who knows who really won. Like I said put names in a hat...it is much more accurate...

Here is the other goof...they claim that if you win the state competition and then go on to compete at Northeastern and win then you are a north easter champ...now lets look at this...
CF&DA, Hudson Valley, and Mass state are all run by basically the same handful of very narrow minded people. The only association that in some way has remained pure is the GDACA. They will not allow any corps not from that area to join as they are in other assoc...go figure sounds like a plan. The corps that compete in the 3 assoc are all the same... Senior Competition ST Petes. only one no competition and they have discouraged other competitors...Jr Combination Prospect, WPDC OW and pretty much defunct Westbury. These corps have black balled any new corps that try to join as they may try and still their members...Senior Ancient There are several but not many that compete as a corps. And a few Jr Ancient corps. Now if these state competitions all 3 jur corps compete then each one represents a state... and ST Petes wins by default...How in God's Name can anyone consider these group champions....Give me a break... Oh and atleast one of Hudson Valleys duets and probably more has to be redone next month at an ID&Q in Cromwell because of the mess up in judging. That is a shame and a disgrace on the association...what did these groups get for the money they paid...probably not even comments on their performance that is helpful....