Severe weather puts early end to OC Prelims
For the first time in eight years, a DCI World Championship event was canceled due to severe weather. The Open Class Prelims came to a halt on Monday, 8th August after only two corps had performed at Ames Field in Michigan City - Indiana.
Although the event was scheduled to feature 18 Open and International Class corps, only Spirit of Newark/New Jersey and Blue Saints took the field before storm clouds rolled in and rain and lightning caused a delay in the action.
Open class coordinator David Eddleman explained that DCI's weather policy is to postpone a show for one hour and then reevaluate the situation, extending the delay as necessary.
Monday's rain delay was announced at 5 PM, then extended an additional hour at 6 PM. "We determined that if we could start the show by 7.30 PM we could get it in by about midnight tonight", Eddleman said. He further explained that the show was cancelled at 7 PM when it became clear a 7.30 PM step off would not be possible.
"Pushing the show back any later would mean it would not get done until after midnight. Rather than put the corps through having to get back to their housing sites in the wee hours of the morning and being back for the Finals show tomorrow, we decided to just move the entire show to Tuesday," he said.
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