Competition was hot in division 3 last season, as usual. Championships started on a nice, sunny Thursday as 124 talented drum corps waited their turn to show them what were made of and to really show the judges why they deserved a spot in Semifinals. While it may seem like who the top 3 corps were was the most important and intense competition in terms of making into finals, but that really wasn't the case. Only the top 50% can move on to semifinals, while the rest had to go home and wait until next season.
Here are the semifinals results and the descriptions of what their season was-
62nd place- Chop Inc, "Be Yourself"
61st- Madison Ram Band, "Fire and Ice"
60th- Light Brigade, "A New Life has Begun"
59th- Sinusoid DBC, "Filename"
58th- 728 Cadets, "D2D"
57th Capital Pride DBC, "It gets better, Promise"
56th- Brahman DC, "New"
55th- West Ranch Wildcats, "Gladiator"
54th- The Storm Dragons, "The Storm"
53rd- Technicolor DC, "Pigment"
52nd- Next Level DC, "Lit"
51st- The Wildcats, "Link's Awakening"
50th- All Trump Corps, "DCI in 3D"
49th- Toot Your Own Horns, "The Curse of Oak Island"
48th- Madison Sound, "."
47th- CHS Tigers DC, "The Times"
46th- Red Coats, "Around the World"
45th- Bandits DC, "Lord of the Rings"
44th- Iron Regiment, "1"
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42nd- Drum Crops, "Life of Corn"
41st- Blue Thunder, "Apocalypse Now"
40th- Tarpon Springs, "Quick Silver"
39th-Kansas City Crown, "Dat Boi"
38th- Eagle Batallion, "R3M3MB3R3RANC3"
37th- Vegas Crusaders, "The Young Victoria"
36th- Vangaurd Knights, Not competing.
35th-Taylor Corps, "Sacred"
34th- 100,000 Lakes, "Forward"
33rd- Ruim Angles, "Never Back Down"
32nd- Couchmen, "The Comfort Zone"
31st- Sky Ryders, "First Show"
30th- Yellow Stars, "Yellow World"
29th- Cadets of Hennepin County, "TIME"
28th- Cadet Jr, "Hall of the Hero"
27th- Spartans Drum Corp, "Fly!"
26th- Redcoats, "The Luck of the Irish"
CAMA GROUP
24th-Arizona King, "Swimming in the Clouds"
23rd- 007 Regiment, "Boom Rucca Rucca"
CAMA GROUP
21st- Capital Region Bugle Corps, "Misplaced Winter"
20-13 CAMA GROUPS
Now, onto finals. Place 12-6 were all CAMA groups, therefore will not be mentioned.

Our 5th place Drum Corps, under the direction of Ohmyjesus, was the Cobalt Cadets. Their show, "Between Angles and Demons," By Frank Tichelli was a great first show for them! A great reminder of the Cadets 2011. Earning a well deserved 5th place with a 74.910, welcome to FMA!

The 4th place winner, Nemesis, and their show, "Nemesis Greatest Hits," is a great veteran here at FMA, and the Drum Corps circuit. With a long history in doing phenomenal job in the drum corps circuit, they were definitely a crowd favorite. A great 75.830 show!

The bronze medal went to us over here at The Red Kingsmen, and our show, "9.11". Thanks to everybody for an amazing season!

Receiving the Silver Medal was the TSAC Vanguards and their show, "One Hundred", under the direction of Dabuttdino. This show was an amazing celebration to the national heritage's 100th year! The show had classic hits with a little twist of 2000's rock. A great crowd pleaser and a phenomenal judge pleaser, earning them a 80.615

And the gold medal, under the direction of Flash, is Flash!, and their show, "Mind Over Matter" With music from Gene Austin, Joseph Haydn, Twenty One Pilots and so much more. Flash had amazing season here in drum corps and have many more to come. With great discipline and staffing, flash earned a golden medal and great appreciation for seasons to come.

Have a great season 52 everybody! This'll probably be the only write up I do for season 51, but there will be many to look at! -Theamazing1

I find it really awesome that show names are rarely ever repeated in this game even though there are so many common themes in the marching arts. :-)

After all, we are all just the creative bunch, even us "old-timers". It just highlights our various ideas and thoughts.

Cool write-up Tyler. Look forward to more.

Thanks Jim :D

I really enjoyed this and I hope you do it again this time for division 3 drum corps or color guard or something but I did really enjoy this..... I also am wondering what a CAMA group is

they were groups that had no movement whatsoever, they basically took up space on the leaderboard. they did not return this season