It seems to me that there have been more and more participating groups over the past few seasons! Last season it surpassed 700! I can't seem to figure out why because when I first started in season 9, things seemed to be declining... Any theories?

Well I know I came back since I remembered the first incarnation of the site and was bored so I decided to look it up again. I also got one of my friends to join. He is GreekGod.

It could also be that marching season just ended and people are looking for ways to keep it going.

I was gone for two seasons (end of 17, all of 18 and 19). I came back in season 20, I've just had more time.

I know several people from Kentucky just found out about FMA in August or so of this year and I did some encouraging on our forum to get people to participate over here.

Sites like this tend to get busier during marching band season.

Well considering there were only 31 division 3 drum corps there is a good chance that the participation is going back down.

That's only corps that competed today. Not every corps could get into a show today. Heck two of mine didn't and I'm a high influence D1 for everything. It was a crowded day and hosting day 1 is risky.

Yeah my marching band had no shows on the first or second days of competitions... and now there are 49 division 3 corps!

Well at least my corp is still leading div 3. It may not be by the 3 points I had earlier. The only group I have not in 1st is my guard and I didn't think they would be. I haven't found a good strategy for them yet.

Someone just posted the link to this site on reddit, thats how I ended up finding it.