Recap Roundup: DCI Minnesota

On Saturday, July 8, 10 World Class corps and four Open Class corps competed at the DCI Minnesota presented by the U.S. Marine Drum & Bugle Corps competition at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

The competitive ground of the DCI universe shook when Santa Clara Vanguard topped the Bluecoats for the first time since 2014.

In reading the following, keep in mind that the scores of the two general effect captions are counted for full value, without being averaged. However, each of the scores of the three visual and three music captions are first divided in half, with each of those half scores added for the total visual and total music scores. Two percussion judges were utilized for this event.

View the complete recap of World Class scores for this event.

View the complete recap of Open Class scores for this event.

World Class

Santa Clara Vanguard (1^st – 80.200) won the General Effect 1 sub-caption by 0.30, but lost General Effect 2 by 0.20, to score 0.10 under Bluecoats in total General Effect. While winning Visual Proficiency by 0.20, Vanguard fell to Bluecoats in Visual Analysis by 0.30, but took Color Guard from Bluecoats by 0.20, winning Total Visual by 0.05. SCV took 2^nd to Bluecoats in Brass by 0.20, but took Music Analysis by 0.20 and Percussion by 0.30, for an advantage in total Music over Bluecoats of 0.30, which was the bulk of the difference in the overall score advantage of a tenth of a point.

Bluecoats (2^nd – 80.100) placed no lower than 2^nd in any caption or sub-caption. High marks were first-place finishes in overall General Effect, as well as the Visual Analysis and Brass captions.

Phantom Regiment (3^rd – 74.900) placed 3^rd in both General Effect sub-captions, Visual Proficiency and Visual Analysis, Music Analysis, and Percussion. The corps took 4^th in Color Guard, Brass, and Music Analysis. Overall, Regiment bested the Blue Stars by a hefty 0.90 in total General Effect, 0.55 in total Visual, and 0.075 in total Music, adding up to the 1.525 total advantage over Blue Stars.

Blue Stars (4^th – 73.375) placed 3^rd in Color Guard, Brass, and Music Analysis, 4^th in Percussion, 5^th in total General Effect, and 5^th in Visual Proficiency and Visual Analysis.

Crossmen (5^th – 72.850) took 4^th in total General Effect, Visual Proficiency and Visual Analysis, and 5^th in Color Guard and all three Music captions.

Madison Scouts (6^th – 70.775) placed 6^th in total General Effect and all three Visual captions, 7^th in Brass and Music Analysis, and 8^th in Percussion.

The Academy (7^th – 68.750) took 6^th in Music Analysis, 8^th in Visual Analysis and Percussion, and 7^th in everything else.

Troopers (8^th – 67.400) finished 6^th in Brass, 7^th in Visual Analysis and Percussion, and 8^th in all other captions.

Genesis (9^th – 60.225) place 9^th in all captions.

Pioneer (10^th – 52.225) placed 10^th in all captions.

Open Class

Legends (1^st – 57.675) placed 1^st in all captions.

River City Rhythm (2^nd – 51.925) took 2^nd in all captions except for a 3^rd-place finish in Color Guard.

Colt Cadets (3^rd – 47.575) took 2^nd in Color Guard, 3^rd in total General Effect, Visual Proficiency, and Visual Analysis, and 4^th in all three Music captions.

Shadow (4^th – 45.900) placed 3^rd in all three Music Captions and 4^th in all other captions.