2004 DCI Championships best-attended in 10 years
Paid attendance on Finals night (Saturday) at the DCI 2004 World Championships in Denver was 22,047, making it the best-attended World Championship Finals night in the last 10 years. Meanwhile, almost 50,000 people attended a World Championship week event (Division I Quarter Finals, Semi Finals, Finals and all Division II & III events).
Wayne Leide, DCI's operations director, said, "There are many ways to measure the success of Drum Corps International in fulfilling its mission. However, the focus often turns to the attendance figures on just that one night in August. It is very gratifying to see trends like 2002 Madison being higher than a very successful 1999 in Madison and 2003 Orlando far exceeding any previous Orlando event. Thus, going into 2004, we had high hopes. World Championships week in Denver went way beyond those expectations."
Approximately 5,000 non-paying individuals (corps members, volunteers, corporate partners, etc not participating that evening) also attended DCI events in 2004 during World Championships week. Paid attendance on finals night of World Championships through recent years:
1995, Buffalo: 19,100
1996, Orlando: 13,771
1997, Orlando: 13,773
1998, Orlando: 12,693
1999, Madison: 19,931
2000, College Park: 18,423
2001, Buffalo: 16,406
2002, Madison: 20,230
2003, Orlando: 18,865
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