DrumLine Battle: Bluecoats vs Crossmen 

0:25 i don't know why but that part is so cool Middle School beach party duh duh duh duh flip flops

At 3:38, the Center snare goes mental! The groove is just too damn good.

It's not what you play. It's how you play it.

This is simply groovy vs technical. Both won in their own respects. The crossmen played a part meant to entertain, while the bluecoats played straight from their show.

I don't give a rip who won, this is drumming at it's finest.

I hate to say it because I really love the Bluecoats, but the Crossmen won this one for sure.

Noooo, the split fell apart. . .

dat cymbal line tho. killllling it.

Yeah i saw that tick center snare! 3:02

at 3:38 when the Bluecoats snare center started headbanging, it hyped me up!!

Coats killed it! Cleaner & more complicated. Hands down

3:31 foreshadow for the 2016 bluecoats snare feature?!?!?!?

Bluecoats never disappoint and always represent. BLOOOO

i love bluecoats but....crossmen killed it

I think the Crossmem beat the bluecoats tbh Plus the Crossman were wearing full uniform That got them so brownie points

Also, did anyone else notice crossmen's feature sounded like a college cadence?

Wait, the Crossmen had color guard. That's cheating.

Nothin better than clean rim shots

im sorry bluecoats... the split singles was so dirty.. not trying to down talk them b/c i know i could never do that

Vortex has seriously gotta be the most badass grove out there I can't get enough of it

Rip left quad... 3:57

Needs more cowbell.

I could tell when this was from because of Bloo's feature

It's very sad that players of this caliber have to resort to playing their show music for a drum line battle. This kind of show down was intended to feature "trek" music (cadence) so that more ensembles could be involved that perhaps did not have a strong wind program.

I cant say I respect an organization that shows up out of uniform plays with a met and plays with their instruments on stands, just comes off as snobby and them thinking theyre better.

Soooo many notes, in such small spacessss. 😱

Cymbal line was so sick.

Tocam de mais os caras vey... foda👌

Cymbals where kickin' some serious ass!

Even though I think Crossman won because they were a little more entertaining, The difficulty of the Blue Coats stuff is pretty crazy. Even playing the half notes that clean can be really difficult.

Just about all of the comments are people saying technical stuff is better, and other guys saying the Crossmen won with 10 replies of people telling them they're stupid and Bloo won. I'm not arguing i'm just pointing this out.

Thumbs up for the Richard Ramos hair wobble spectacular.

I got the jitters as soon as I heard 5:37

5:35 was the Bluecoats drum feature in their show that year

I've marched there before!

I don't think any drumline could touch them that year. Or any years after so far. Still the best in my books

Blue coats were amazing.

Nice choice starting out with vortex jesus

3:36 LMAO RICHARD

came back in time and is 1:52 something Broken City played this year?

Just a random trombone player passing through, nothing to see here.

Should've tried this with the bones line of 91.

When they count off, it sounds like they are saying "duck"

Hard to choose cuz i love Bluecoats this year but at the same time i like Crossmen this year too but since Crossmen had a better show in the battle, i had to go with Crossmen instead of Bluecoats but its a close battle though

I'm a huge sucker for the vortex

Why the f*ck do the bluecoats have their tech counting them off?? It's a drum battle, This isn't the lot!!

Lets go Blue Coats !!!!! my favs man...

Bluecoats crammed a ton of notes in there but I think Crossmen had more fun with it and that's what music's about.

Is that the alamo dome?

I wish more drum lines used crash cymbals these days. It just add so much to the sound. I hope corps start bringing them back

Bloo. Just clean!

The thing coats don’t have - cymbals and tambourine maidens ! if this were the 91 /92 cross-men line been long over for both lines

The thing is BC only was in DLB to get more reps on Vortex and the feature. Honestly if you are serious about DLB, you probably arent in the top 10. Fact.

I have a dumb question. Why don't the vibes ever play along with the drumline? To me the vibes seems like part of the percussion.

DEM BONES QUADS THOUGH

Think cross was more entertaining, but it is impressive that the coats have Jeffery Lebowski as their instructor.

LOL. Center snare at 3:37. :)

Coats!!!

lol damn i love the bluecoats but that split was rally dirty...im shocked hearing that from them haha

Mmmm, dem Crossmen cymbals.

Didn't bluecoats have 5 tenors?

Crossman won one!

blue coats for shure

Hmm...hotter tambourine players, Crossmen or Blue Devils...

The crossmen killed it here

I don't know if Bluecoat's played a warm up that was still clean it could have sounded like a cadence

Center snare 3:02

The Bluecoats obviously didn't care much about this. Their book was much more demanding and challenging. Not saying both aren't good drumlines, but this isn't a good way to compare.

I think the stuff Bloo did was a lot harder from a technical standpoint. I think the Crossmen were way more entertaining to watch though during this battle.

This is turning into WGI really fast, like jesus christ guys, save it for the winter.

CROSSMEN ABSOLUTELY KILLED!!!!

Damn

i dont get why people even considering Crossmen to win that battle. Fair to say that BC only playerd their wamrup vortex and the drumfeature but honestl...from a professional point of view BC totally smashed crossmen in difficulty and they where a bit cleaner. Crossmen would get a solid 93-95 points in DCI while BC scratch at the top of the shelf

Coats

Coats are wayyy cleaner, less funky, but cleaner for surr

this isnt even fair

Go bones!

BLOOOOO!

You know the Crossmen won when everyone feels the need to apologize to the blue coats for not being as good

I think the true battle is between Dynasty and Yamaha brands😂 I’m going with Dynasty🥁

although they were both pretty dirty, bluecoats won because they were cleaner, or less dirty. crossmen had little ticks and fuzzy spots everywhere even though they played more visually appealing licks.

Crossmen and it's not even close!

Bluecoats won I going to tell you this right now

Gotta give it to the cross

should of been done in the lot rather than the field, still pretty cool though.

Until you've learned and can play a lines music, don't say it's dirty or sloppy. Because they both are very good and have very difficult music to play.

327; ooo everybody

dut, dut, dut, dut, FLIP-FLOP

those perfect rimshots tho @.@

Bluecoats!

Bluecoats.

Blooo!!!!!

Blood won but the creativity goes to Crossmen

Sry bloo, but a warmup and your show-drumfeature..??? Really? No point from me!

Middle school beach party *dut* *dut* FLIP FLOPS

Lol blue coats were playing their warm up

Both of these lines were actually pretty dirty, unfortunately, but I do feel like Crossmen had the best sounding, cleaner beats. The Bluecoats just felt kind of all over the place

They win for the split 32's at 5:55 alone. Yeah a little dirty, but you never see that, or alternating 16th not flams, Bluecoats hands down, no contest!!

bluecoats have too much swag

CROSSMEN ALL DAY