Overall Guidelines |
The formalized Rules Proposal Form is the only tool of choice for rules change proposals.
 Download the Rules Proposal Form |
| 1.1 |
Any instructional member or corps director of an active drum corps (must have competed in a DCI sanctioned show) the previous summer or an active judge of a DCI accredited judging association may submit a rules proposal for review by the Rules Committee. |
| 1.2 |
The completed Rules Proposal Form must be signed by the sponsoring corps director or judging caption head. |
| 1.3 |
Rules change proposals may be submitted, reviewed and voted on annually. If a proposal is defeated at the Judges/Instructors caucus, it cannot be re-submitted for another two years from original date of submittal. The Rules Committee may override this wait period. |
| 1.4 |
Rules Change Proposals that are adopted which require judging field trials/judging system modifications shall be referred to the Judges/instructors Task Force for implementation and trial. These changes are subject to a new vote of adoption upon full evaluation by the task force. System changes may be submitted at the Instructor/Judges meeting in January for referral to the task force for a possible trial period during the summer. Any system changes will require a vote of adoption at the caucus following the trial period. Upon a successful vote, the change will then go to a vote of the DCI Board of Directors. |
| 1.5 |
The Rules Committee make up shall include One (1) Judge Administrator, One (1) member from the DCI Task Force elected by the Task Force, Five (5) additional members appointed by the Chairman of the Board of DCI selected from current Directors, Instructors and Judges. Each position will be selected by February 1st annually. |
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The Process |
| 2.1 |
June 1 - Rule Proposal form is mailed out to all corps and judges who will participate in the coming summer DCI tour. |
| 2.2 |
July - Rule Proposal form is handed out to all in attendance at the last DCI Regional competition. |
| 2.3 |
September 17 - Deadline for submitting Rule Change Proposals. The Rules Committee chairperson is responsible to receive all proposals, review for completeness (this portion is clerical - are all applicable questions answered, etc.) and prepare for distribution to the Rules Committee members. Incomplete proposals will be immediately returned to the proposer without any further review. Each proposal will be assigned to an individual member of the Rules committee to ensure that all questions/challenges are answered. This "coordinator" would contact the new rule proposer for any additional clarifications/information. |
| 2.4 |
October 1 - Rule coordinators will contact committees of DCI (ex Finance, marketing, promoters' task force, etc) for input on rule proposals. Rules Chairperson mails all rules proposals to DCI Task Force. |
| 2.5 |
November 1 - Task Force discusses and submits written opinion (including suggested implementation time line) on rule proposals to Rules Committee Chairperson who distributes opinions to appropriate coordinators. |
| 2.6 |
November 15 - Coordinators contact submitters with opinions of committees for changes and/or modifications of their rule proposals. |
| 2.7 |
December 1 - Rules Committee Coordinators return all assigned proposals along with research report and attachments to Chairperson. All complete proposals and attachments to be mailed out to the Rules Committee members for review. |
| 2.8 |
December 8 - The Rules Committee compiles opinions on the proposals for potential impact to the judges/judging system, logistics at shows/for sponsors, operational changes/DCI office and a recommended time frame/implementation plan. Rules proposals may be rejected by the committee on the basis of insufficient data/research or lack of clarity/definition to the proposal. This is to be used as a sanity checkpoint for the proposed rule change. |
| 2.9 |
December 15 - All reviewed/approved proposals to be distributed to judges, corps, directors, and instructional staff members for their review. |
| 2.10 |
Winter Instructor College - The task force will be responsible for leading the discussion, debate, & voting in the caption caucus meetings for advancement to the full instructor caucus. Each drum corps who competed in the previous summer's DCI tour in attendance will have one vote per caption in the caucus meetings. |
| 2.11 |
The Rules Committee will be responsible for leading the discussion, debate & voting in the full instructor caucus. At this final meeting of the college a vote will be taken by one member of each DCI member corps and each DCI Division II/III grand finalist corps to determine if the proposal shall be passed on to the Board of Directors. A simple majority vote of qualified votes at the college will pass the proposal on to a vote of the Board of Directors. |
| 2.12 |
Winter Board of Directors Meeting - The Rules Committee will be responsible for leading the discussion, debate & voting in the Board of Directors Meeting. Minutes and votes of the caption caucus meetings, the full instructor caucus, all attachments from DCI committees and final rule proposals will be available for the Board of Directors. |
| 2.13 |
Those proposals receiving a favorable majority vote of the Board of Directors will be scheduled for implementation based upon the recommended time frame/process as previously determined by the Rules Committee. A rule will be passed by a simple majority vote of the Board of Directors. |
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Download the Rules Proposal Form
This form can be submitted in one of three ways:
A. Via u.s. mail
DCI Rules Committee
PO Box 3129
Indianapolis, IN 46206
B. Via fax
Attn: DCI Rules Committee
317.713.0690
C. Via e-mail
dcirules@dci.org
The deadline for all proposals is September 15, 2008 at 11:59 p.m.
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