0.65 apart: what actually separated Boston Crusaders and Santa Clara Vanguard
Boston Crusaders held off Santa Clara Vanguard by 0.65 at Finals, and the largest share of that margin (0.3 weighted, 46% of it) came out of one caption: Color Guard. The piece argues that the difference between 4th and 5th was a verdict in Color Guard, not a verdict on the whole sheet.
This is a reading of the sheets rather than a report of an event. The rows it argues from are printed underneath it so the argument can be checked rather than taken.
The evidence
DCI World Championship Finals, August 8: Boston Crusaders 95.675 (4th), Santa Clara Vanguard 95.025 (5th). Margin 0.65. (the DCI Forge score archive)
Color Guard is the largest single contributor to the margin: 0.3 of the 0.65, weighted (x0.5 against the total). (the DCI Forge score archive)
Santa Clara Vanguard took Percussion back the other way, worth 0.175 weighted. The margin survived it. (the DCI Forge score archive)
How the numbers are weighted
General Effect counts twice. The two effect captions carry 40 of the 100 points and the six performance captions carry 60, so a tenth moved in effect is worth two tenths moved in percussion. Every weighted figure in this piece is scaled that way; the unweighted caption marks are printed as the recap prints them.