1979 DCI World Championship Finals Awards Ceremony 

My brother was a baritone in 1980 Blue Stars. Their show was great. They were surprised they didnt place 12th. Instead 13.

Very well reasoned comments, yes, i was surprised as well.

As an alumnus of the Bridgemen my biasness will show here, he was absolutely right! 😉

+Connor Pack Absolutely. These historic broadcasts had lots of big time musical and artistic giants.

There were a lot more rules back in the day. Dropping equipment, Picking up grounded items, going under time, going over time, stepping on the front boundary lines. Timing penalties back in this time was 0.1 for every 3 seconds, IIRC. That’s what most of those are. Timing and dropped equipment.

+tommytimp Perhaps you were thinking of the Blue Team, as they certainly didn't 'keep it together'. If not, a history lesson may be in order.

+jdavis57 Winners always went crazy back then. Runners-up used to keep it together. The Phantom camp had been running all summer on the assumption that this would finally be their year. Too bad they tatrumed a little at the end.

So, that excused their not 'keeping it together'? This wasn't their first title. Show a little class. And trust me, no one in the Regiment camp 'assumed' anything, especially when it came to the inner workings of DCI. And I still don't see what you are referring to. Apparently you have never finished 2nd three years in a row. Easy to criticize, much harder to sympathize. Crickets? Figures.

Phantom was notorious in this era for being bad sports about the competitive results.

Apparently, Marcus, you have been misinformed, or you're just ignorant. Either way, you are completely incorrect.

Without question, the transformation has been intentional, not evolutionary. Thanks to the low-life, marxist G. Hopkins and all of the enablers around him who went along to get along. I am 100% right. It is there staring us right in the face as we allowed it to happen.

I agree that it lost it's uniqueness. It's only going to get worse.

Sometimes they were undisputed--like 82, 86, 76, 94. 1979 was not that year IMO. I think their brass is unbelievable, but that show is downright boring in every other respect.