If the rankings for the World Class corps was sketchy, the Open Class (Div. II/III) rankings are very shaky. While 20 corps marched in June, only five corps performed in more than two shows. My current rankings are:
1. Blue Devils B
2. Jersey Surf
3. Vanguard Cadets
4. Teal Sound
5. Revolution
6. Citations
7. Velvet Knights
8. Yamato
9. Gold
10. Impulse
11. 7th Regiment
12. Spartans
13. Colt Cadets
14. Raiders
15. Mystikal
16. Incognito
17. Dutch Boy
18. Racine Scouts
19. Blue Devils C
20. Targets
The average high score for the month was a very respectable 61.923, with the top eight corps above the average. The hardest working corps this month was the Colt Cadets, who performed in six shows, followed by Revolution, who marched in five.
In terms of the year-on-year improvement rankings, the Open Class corps did much better than the World Class corps.
1. Citations +9.95
2. 7th Regiment +9.65
3. Velvet Knights +9.05
4. Racine Scouts + 8.20
5. Mystikal +6.55
6. Gold +5.65
7. Revolution +5.60
8. Targets +5.20
9. Dutch Boy +4.95
10. Jersey Surf +4.55
11. Blue Devils B +3.20
12. Teal Sound +2.55
13. Vanguard Cadets +2.05
14. Colt Cadets +1.20
15. Impulse +0.65
16. Blue Devils C -3.30
17. Spartans -10.75
Three corps (Incognito, Raiders, and Yamato) are not included in these rankings: Incognito, because it's a first-year corps; Raiders, because they didn't do any shows in June 2007; and Yamato, because they were inactive last year.
The average year-on-year improvement was +3.82; last June, the year-on-year improvement had been +5.96. Still, it's very pleasing to see fifteen of the seventeen corps coming in with strong improvements over last year's efforts. The big surprise, of course, is the Spartans, who have really dropped in comparison to last year. We'll have to see how well they can recover in July.
Update: One more set of "improvement" rankings, this being 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.
1. Revolution 11.60
2. Racine Scouts 9.00
3. Colt Cadets 6.10
4. Blue Devils B 4.60
5. Dutch Boy 3.60
6. Incognito 3.20
7. Targets 2.75
8. 7th Regiment 1.90
9. Citations 1.40
10. Impulse 1.30
11. Velvet Knights 1.20
12. Raiders 0.90
13. Jersey Surf 0.70 (tie)
13. Vanguard Cadets 0.70 (tie)
15. Blue Devils C 0.00 (tie)
15. Mystikal 0.00 (tie)
15. Spartans 0.00 (tie)
15. Teal Sound 0.00 (tie)
15. Yamato 0.00 (tie)
The average improvement in June was 2.493 points for the Open Class corps. The rankings for the last five should be taken with a huge grain of salt. As mentioned above, most of these corps have not performed in very many shows (e.g., Blue Devils C, which did only one show in June). This type of ranking will become more meaningful as July progresses.
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