Attendance records set across 2015 DCI season
This August, Drum Corps International once again recorded a record attendance figure at the DCI World Championship Finals, capping off a successful 2015 summer season that saw several additional new records set across the entire tour.
An estimated 330,000 spectators headed to 107 live events on the 53-day DCI Summer Tour. Tens of thousands of additional fans visited movie theaters throughout the United States and enjoyed viewing events in real-time on their personal computers and mobile devices via the newly launched DCI Live! streaming video platform.
Attendance at the DCI World Championship Finals on Saturday, 8th August, once again surpassed the most drum corps fans ever recorded at Lucas Oil Stadium, marking the third straight year that a new record has been set.
Additionally, attendance figures for the Thursday night Prelims and Friday night Semi Finals also set records for their respective days when compared across all seven years that World Championship events have been held in Indianapolis.
Figures for the 2015 Prelims, Semi Finals and Finals (including paid and complimentary tickets): Prelims Thursday 7,924, Semi Finals Friday 11,570 and Finals Saturday 24,638. Total attendance for the three-day series was 44,132, an increase of 12.9 percent over 2014.
Total paid attendance for Open Class World Championship events in Michigan City, Indiana (3rd-4th August) came in at 2,157, up from 1,581 in 2014.
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