DCI World Championship Semifinals

Here are the results of DCI World Championship Semifinals. One more exciting night which is usually the best night, DCI Finals is the culmination of countless hours, sweat, and tears.

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Place	Corps		Score
World Class
1	The Cadets		97.800
2	Blue Devils		97.300
3	The Cavaliers		96.900
4	Carolina Crown		95.650
5	Phantom Regiment		93.950
6	Santa Clara Vanguard		92.200
7	Bluecoats		91.600
8	Boston Crusaders		90.350
9	Blue Knights		89.400
10	Madison Scouts		88.350
11	Blue Stars		87.000
12	Spirit of Atlanta		86.550
13	Glassmen		83.400
14	Troopers		83.200
15	The Academy		82.650
16	Colts		82.250
17	Crossmen		81.050
18	Pacific Crest		77.750
19	Blue Devils B		76.450
20	Teal Sound		75.750
21	Mandarins		75.700
22	Oregon Crusaders		75.150
23	Vanguard Cadets		72.850
24	Cascades		72.200
25	Jersey Surf		71.350

Corps Scramble for top spot at marathon Prelims Competition
By Laura Danielson Friday, August 12, 2011 - 2:08 AM

The Cadets

In a scramble for the 2011 Drum Corps International World Championship title, the Cadets came out on top Thursday, Aug. 11, prevailing over the Blue Devils by half a point at the World Championship Prelims. The Cadets received top honors with their score of 97.35 over 40 other corps from all divisions in this unprecedented “all-skate” drum corps competition that pitted World, Open and International Class corps against each other for the very first time.

Kicking off bright and early at 9 a.m., the event came to a close more than 14 hours later.

The corps with the top 25 scores from Thursday’s Prelims will move one step closer to the 2011 top prize at the Semifinals scheduled for Friday, Aug. 12.

Moments after the final scores were announced at Lucas Oil Stadium, Cadets director George Hopkins explained that winning a championship is the hopeful result of all his corps’ hard work, but not the goal. Rather, “it's about doing a great job and going for a level of excellence that's ridiculous and unbelievable,” he said.

Hopkins is cautious but confident in his corps’ ability to prevail in the final two days of the 2011 season. “The Blue Devils are serious business and the Cavaliers are great,” he said. “I will say on our behalf, though, we've been great for a week now. We've been great every day, day after day after day.”

Blue Devils

Ben Pouncey, Cadets drum major, remarked that the corps’ goal was to set the bar high and improve every day of competition. According to Pouncey, winning was great but does not affect the corps’ actions. “We’ll still be getting up in the morning and going after it tomorrow,” he said.
       
Blue Devils snare drummer Matt Keown said his corps’ performance, which earned a 96.85 for second place, “felt amazing” because the corps has been anxiously awaiting the last shows of the season. “We have only a few rehearsal days to get better in time for this final push,” he said.

Trailing only four tenths of a point behind were the Cavaliers (3rd, 96.45), whose drum major Brandon Cave joined the ranks of Green Machine corps members who perform upside down as part of their eccentric “XtroardinarY” production.

“I think I might be the first person in the history of mankind to have conducted upside down,” joked Cave, who was assisted by his fellow drum major Andrew Rhebergen up on his podium on the 50-yard line. Rhebergen said they have been working on the trick for two weeks and finally unveiled it at the Prelims.