Color guard's gone green.
Everyone is recycling!
Brands mattered, as units rolled out "what brung'em" to floors worldwide. Styles, themes, approaches, palettes, even sequels made the just-completed season feel familiar. It was the breathtaking levels of quality performance that distinguished finalists from competitors, and medalists from the rest.
It's that performance of the performer that makes for a highly distinguished group of 32 guards here today, as well. From regional units to the world class elite guards, I've had a whale of a personal season watching, considering, and now parsing through them all to offer The 2009 Field&Floor Top 32 Color Guards.
Aimachi
Avon High School
Blessed Sacrament
Braddock Independent
Capella
Carmel High School
Centerville High School
Corona
First Flight
Flanagan High School
Francis Howell North High School
Interplay
James Logan High School
Kokomo High School
Legacy High School
Marian Catholic High School
Mechanisburg High School
Milford (OH) High School
Navarre High School
North by Northwest
Northeast Independent
Onyx
Opus 10
Pope High School
Rhapsody Winterguard
Salem Blue
Santa Clara Vanguard
State of Art
Trumbull High School
Usurpation
Wind
Zydeco
YOUR personal faves NOT on this list? Do not despair. "Bubble guards," those units that offered moments and movements and mis en scene worth mentioning will be mentioned, right here, on THURSDAY. Today's list is 11 percent of the total draw; Thursday's list will be another 11 percent ... something like 30 guards. Good ones!
Read down a couple of posts to "Second Guess the Second Guesser;" you might win WGI DVDs of your choice! Now that you've seen the Top 32, you have 24 hours to enter.
Tomorrow: The Sweet 16.
