DCA June 2008 Rankings

DCA rankings in June don't mean much, considering that the season for the all-age corps doesn't get into full swing until July. Still, here are my current rankings:

1. Buccaneers
2. Minnesota Brass
3. Hurricanes
4. Caballeros
5. Bushwackers
6. CorpsVets
7. SoCal Dream
8. Kilties
9. Chops, Inc.
10. Governaires
11. Crusaders
12. Gulf Coast Sound
13. Frontier
14. Fusion Core

The average high score for the month was 67.436, with the top seven corps above the average. The hardest working corps was Minnesota Brass with four shows, followed by Chops, Inc. and the Governaires with three each.

In terms of the year-on-year improvement rankings (which compares the high scores from this June with the high scores from last June), most corps are doing better this year:

1. Minnesota Brass +8.887
2. Chops, Inc. +7.937
3. Governaires +4.237
4. Hurricanes +3.712
5. SoCal Dream +2.625
6. Gulf Coast Sound +1.000
7. CorpsVets +0.850
8. Kilties +0.762
9. Buccaneers -2.375
10. Bushwackers -2.538
11. Caballeros - 4.062
12. Frontier -7.000

The Crusaders and Fusion Core are not included in these rankings because they didn't compete in any competitions in June 2007.

The average year-on-year improvement was +1.170; in comparison, last June's year-on-year improvement average was +5.487. The difference between 2007 and 2008 is that, in 2007, there were three corps who had had double-digit increases over 2006's scores (CorpsVets, Kilties and Music City Legend) and only two corps with negative "improvements," whereas this year, as you can see, the numbers are down all around.

There is one other set of improvement rankings, this being for the year-to-date. Here, we're taking the maximum score obtained by a corps so far in June and subtracting the very first score they received for this year. The result is the amount of improvement in the score to date. All of the improvements are (by definition) positive. We will skip the six corps that had only one performance in June.

1. Chops, Inc. 7.250
2. Bushwackers 3.325
3. Minnesota Brass 3.250
4. SoCal Dream 2.125
5. Buccaneers 1.437
6. Kilties 0.525
7. Caballeros 0.313
8. Governaires 0.000

The average improvement for the month of June was 1.302 points.