Hard to believe that talk about the 2011 season has already begun!  A general information meeting was held one evening during Band Camp and the staff was THRILLED to see so many UDCG members interested in Delazure!!!!  The calendar has tentative dates posted and more details are being worked out each week. More to come soon! 

It is hard to believe that the 2010 Delazure season has officially come to an end.  The journey began nearly 7 months ago with Friday night dance classes which rolled into the first camp weekend with the designers.  Before we knew it the team was off and running taking on the Rochester WGI Regional, numerous local shows, the South Brunswick WGI Regional, the big dance in Dayton at the WGI World Championships and then finishing up with the local TIA season this past weekend at the TIA All-Chapter Championships in Wildwood, NJ.  Amoung the many accomplishments of the season, Delazure completed the TIA season with an undefeated record!

Despite Mother Nature's attempts to slow us down, Delazure triumphed as they made the trek to Rochester NY.

Friday morning the team loaded up and headed North.  With thanks to contacts up in Rochester, we secured rehearsal space for Friday night at the Rochester Sports Garden.  The facility was very friendly and accommodating.  After stretching out the kinks of being in a car for 7 hours, Delazure opened up the floor on the indoor soccer field and got to work.  After a few hours of great work we piled back into the cars and headed to the hotel to get some rest.

Up again the next morning for a "Power-Hour" rehearsal at a local middle school, Delazure spent the morning preparing for their prelims performance.  At 2:42pm the team took the floor and put out a good run.  The crowd was reserved, which always makes performing more difficult, but Delazure held on for a solid run.  By the time we had cleared the floor, folded and rolled the equipment, the prelims scores were posted.  Phil & Rah followed the contest organizers as they walked down the hall to post scores.  With 7 teams in the class, only 4 would advance to finals.  The first round of posted scores included the first four performers.  Delazure earned a 67.7, which automatically put them in finals mathematically based on the other 3 scores posted.  By the conclusion of prelims, Delazure's number held them to a solid second place to Express of Jamestown (71.1).

Once we knew we would be performing in finals, the team loaded up again and returned to the Rochester Sports Garden for another "power-hour" rehearsal.  This gave us just enough time to touch on a few tricky spots from the prelims performance.  With confidence oozing from them, Delazure returned to Gates Chili HS for their finals performance at 8pm.  As they walked off the floor everyone knew it was a better run than prelims.   Feeling like they had earned a solid second place finish, Delazure was now on to the the worst part of the evening begins....waiting for retreat/awards.  The wait was finally over as they began to announce the results for Independent A Class.  The night's results prove that every run is important and you just never know what is going to happen.  The staff is very proud to announce that not only did the score go up nearly 2 points to a 69.6, but Delazure had managed to overtake Express of Jamestown and came out the 2010 WGI Rochester Regional CHAMPIONS! 

The team celebrated back at the hotel with pizza & a video session to watch their finals performance.  After a good night's sleep we piled pack into the vans and headed home to Newark.  Although it was a long seven hours to drive up (and back) it was agreed all around that it was a trip well worth making!

Next up, this Saturday (2/27/10) Delazure will be competing at the Field Of View home show in Ridley, NJ.  We would also like to send out Congratulations to our friends at Field of View (from West Chester) for their victory in the Independent Open Class at the Rochester Regional! 

Due to the massive snow storm that started the month of February, the WGI Pittsburgh Regional was canceled.  This weekend Delazure venturing north and headed to the WGI Rochester Regional.  We have been lucky enough to secure rehearsal space in Rochester for both Friday night and Saturday morning.  The team will be leaving Newark Friday @ 11:30am to make the 6 hour drive north.  We will post updates and scores as best we can over the weekend.

It wouldn't be the Penncrest Show without snow!  Although it didn't snow on show day, it certainly snowed plenty leading up to it.  With back to back major snow storms, the east coast was basically shut down for the week of Feb. 8-12th.  Unfortunately this meant many schools unable to rehearse and having to drop out of shows for the weekend.  Delazure pulled it back together after being away for 2 full weeks without rehearsal, had a strong rehearsal Friday night and headed to Penncrest on Satuday.  Due to Music Major auditions at the University on Saturday, we were unable to have a rehearsal prior to departure but the team took it all in stride.  We arrived at Penncrest shortly after the start of the show and took advantage of the breaks in the show to get out on the gym floor and spin.  Most of the changes and details from Friday night's rehearsal stuck and the team gave a great performance pulling in a 72.8 and another first place victory for the season.  Great job coming back from the unscheduled "mid-winter break" (aka. Snowmageddon).