score of 99.650. The Blue Devils are also the only corps to have crossed the 99-point threshold twice in DCI World Championship history, achieving a 99.050 in 2009, and a 99.650 in 2014. In the Blue Devils' 2017 program, voiceovers were used from a newly-discovered audio tape recording of the late former director Jerry Seawright addressing the crowd at the Blue Devils' first appearance as a drum and bugle corps in 1972. Sponsorship The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps is sponsored by BD Performing Arts, a 501(c)(3) musical organization. BD Performing Arts also sponsors the Blue Devils B, the Blue Devils C, the Blue Devils Open Class and A Class Winter Guards programs, the Diablo Wind Symphony, and BD Entertainment. In 2015, BD Performing Arts added the Blue Devils International Corps, a 97-member unit made up of alumni of the Blue Devils and 8 other DCI World Class corps. The corps spent more than a month traveling and performing in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Switzerland, concluding with 9 days and 15 performances of their show at the Basel Tattoo in Switzerland. A similar tour was planned for 2020, with stops in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the Basel Tattoo in Switzerland, but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Show summary (1972–2022) Source: Caption awards At the annual World Championship Finals, Drum Corps International (DCI) presents awards to the corps with the high average scores from prelims, semifinals, and finals in five captions. The Blue Devils have won these caption awards: Don Angelica Best General Effect Award 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2022 John Brazale Best Visual Performance Award 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 (tie), 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022 George Zingali Best Color Guard Award 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Jim Ott Best Brass Performance Award 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2022 Fred Sanford Best Percussion Performance Award 2007, 2009, 2012, 2015 Prior to 2000 and the adoption of the current scoring format, the Blue Devils won these captions: High General Effect Award 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1994 High Visual Award 1976, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 High Color Guard Award 1979 (tie), 1982, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999 High Brass Award 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984 (3 way tie), 1985