DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 10:36pmOrdinals Placement. This number represents the total ranking from each caption. If tonight had ended up in a tie, the corps with the lower ordinal number would have won the World Title.

Phantom Regiment:
General Effect - 2nd Place
Visual - 3rd Place
Music - 1st Place
Ordinal Ranking: 6

Blue Devils:
General Effect - 1st Place
Visual - 1st Place
Music - 4th Place
Ordinal Ranking: 6

After Ordinal Rankings, the next tie-breaker goes to Judge's Preference. Whomever comes out with the most 1st Place rankings in all the subcaptions becomes the World Champion.

Phantom Regiment 1st Place Preferences: 13
Blue Devils 1st Place Preferences: 11

Even after all the ties and all of this stupid math, Spartacus still conquers all!!!!!!!!!
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 10:23pmHow close was it????

Blue Devils had a near perfect score in General Effect Visual. General Effect Visual is judged by two judges, two subcaptions each, who average their scores together to get the actual General Effect Visual score. The Blue Devils were giving perfect 10 scores except for the subcaption of General Effect Visual Performance. They were giving a 9.90 in that subcaption. If the Blue Devils pull off that one tenth of a point, they would be World Championships. How insane is that?!?!
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 10:19pmPhantom Regiment sweeps General Effect Music (Two judges), Music Ensemble, and Percussion (Two Judges).
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 10:17pmMargins between Regiment and Blue Devils:

General Effect - Blue Devils (.050)
Visual - Blue Devils (.650)
Music - Phantom Regiment (.725)
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 10:16pm- Phantom 0.05 below Blue Devils in GE
- Phantom 3rd overall in Visual 0.65 below Blue Devils who swept all but one Visual subcaption
- Phantom sweeps all but one Music subcaption to come out 0.725 ahead of Blue Devils who were 4th
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 10:15pmEdit:
General Effect - Blue Devils
Visual - Blue Devils
Music - Phantom Regiment
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 10:13pmThe Blue Devils must be cursed. Blue Devils B, their Open Class corps, loses the Open Class Title by five hundreths of a point. Tonight, the Blue Devils World Class corps loses the World Title by two hundreths of a point.
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 10:06pmTwo hundreths of a point. That is the smallest margin of victory at DCI Finals in History! The recaps will be very interesting to dissect.
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 10:04pmThis is Phantom Regiment's first outright World Championship but second overall title. In a bit of irony, their only other title was in 1996 because they tied with the Blue Devils on Finals night. There was not a tie-breaker rule in place back then, so both corps were considered Co-Champions.
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 10:02pmPeople were shouting I AM SPARTACUS right before 2nd place was announced. From the way Brandt Crocker was announcing 2nd Place, I knew that Regiment had won.

"Capturing the Silver Medal.....with..a..score..98.100...."

The crowd response was massive and I have a feeling that those shuttle buses taking people from Bloomington to Indianapolis will be tipping over tonight!
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:57pm1st Place:
98.125 - Phantom Regiment!!!!!!!!!!
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:56pmXenon: Spartacus has killed the Devil!!!
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:56pmThe crowd has lost it. I AM SPARTACUS!!!!!!!
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:56pm2nd Place:
98.100 - Blue Devils
DCI World Championships 8/9/08 9:55pmXenon: Come on.... Come on....
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:55pmGreat ovation for The Cavaliers.
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:54pmHere we go..................
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:54pm3rd Place:
97.325 - The Cavaliers
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:54pmLongest ovation so far.

DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:54pm4th Place:
96.800 - Carolina Crown

Great ovation for them!
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:53pm5th Place:
94.750 - The Cadets
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:52pm6th Place:
93.175 - Bluecoats

Bloooooooooooooooooooooooo
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:52pm7th Place:
93.025 - Santa Clara Vanguard

The crowd is shocked!!!!!!
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:51pm8th Place:
90.425 - Blue Stars

Nice ovation for BS.
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:50pm9th Place:
88.250 - Blue Knights
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:49pm10 Place:
87.275 - Boston Crusaders
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:48pm11 Place:
87.200 - Glassmen

DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:48pm12th place:
85.225 - Madison Scouts
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:48pmSpirit of Disney Award - Phantom Regiment
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:47pmReport is that retreat is "nowhere near being done". Stay tuned, friends!
DCI World Championships 8/9/08 9:45pmXenon: This is Daniel Sanchez checking in; that was Daniel Valdez (Danpod) below.

The suspense is a killer, isn't it?
DCI 2008 World Championships 8/9/08 9:45pm
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